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O'Doherty-Naranjo explains that since moving to Jackson Heights in 2001, she has spent over 10 years as a community activist trying to build a sense of community via shared spaces and shared experiences. O'Doherty-Naranjo details the danger of traffic accidents involving schoolchildren along 34th Avenue and how the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to repurpose streets that suddenly had few vehicles traveling on them.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eO'Doherty-Naranjo explains that what began as a police-administered closure of three blocks expanded to a neighborhood-administered closure of 26 blocks, with volunteers moving barricades twice per day (once in the morning to close vehicular traffic and once in the evening to re-open vehicular traffic). O'Doherty-Naranjo describes the daily morning transition on 34th Avenue from cars to joggers, dog walkers, and children going to school.  Additionally, O'Doherty-Naranjo notes that the 34th Avenue open street has become in effect a neighborhood community center offering a variety of arts, educational, and recreational programs. During the interview, O'Doherty-Naranjo paused the recording to take down the barricades at 8:00 P.M.; she describes what she saw during her trip and discusses the uncertain future and funding for the 34th Avenue open street after 2021. O'Doherty-Naranjo also discusses her work during the pandemic starting the COVID Care Neighbor Network, through which she and her family set up a food pantry, made food deliveries, and provided other forms of aid to people in an around Jackson Heights.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/40470"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2021-10-12 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Nuala O'Doherty-Naranjo (Interviewee)","Bridget Bartolini (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Recorded as part of the 34th Avenue Open Street Oral History project."]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1968-2021 (temporal)","Jackson Heights, Queens, NY (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNuala O'Doherty-Naranjo is the co-founder of the 34th Avenue Open Streets Coalition, which starting in May 2020 organized the closing of a 1.3 mile length of 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights to vehicular traffic every day from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. Prior to co-founding the coalition, O'Doherty-Naranjo worked as a prosecutor in Manhattan and was president of the Jackson Heights Beautification Group. O'Doherty-Naranjo explains that since moving to Jackson Heights in 2001, she has spent over 10 years as a community activist trying to build a sense of community via shared spaces and shared experiences. O'Doherty-Naranjo details the danger of traffic accidents involving schoolchildren along 34th Avenue and how the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity to repurpose streets that suddenly had few vehicles traveling on them.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eO'Doherty-Naranjo explains that what began as a police-administered closure of three blocks expanded to a neighborhood-administered closure of 26 blocks, with volunteers moving barricades twice per day (once in the morning to close vehicular traffic and once in the evening to re-open vehicular traffic). O'Doherty-Naranjo describes the daily morning transition on 34th Avenue from cars to joggers, dog walkers, and children going to school. \u0026nbsp;Additionally, O'Doherty-Naranjo notes that the 34th Avenue open street has become in effect a neighborhood community center offering a variety of arts, educational, and recreational programs. During the interview, O'Doherty-Naranjo paused the recording to take down the barricades at 8:00 P.M.; she describes what she saw during her trip and discusses the uncertain future and funding for the 34th Avenue open street after 2021. O'Doherty-Naranjo also discusses her work during the pandemic starting the COVID Care Neighbor Network, through which she and her family set up a food pantry, made food deliveries, and provided other forms of aid to people in an around Jackson Heights.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Queens Public Library"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Queens Public Library"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/195/599/small/Five_Borough_Story_Project_JH_2021_269.jpg?1688650494","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Nuala_2021.10.12_Interview.mp3"]},"duration":3880.07184,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/195/599/small/Five_Borough_Story_Project_JH_2021_269.jpg?1688650494","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-queenslibrary.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/195/599/original/Nuala_2021.10.12_Interview.mp3?1688649937","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":3880.07184,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Full Transcript [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: This is Bridget Bartolini interviewing Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo. And today is October 12th, 2021. This interview is for the 34th Avenue Open Street Oral History project, and it will be archived with Queens Memory. So Nuala, thank you so much for doing this interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1.0,19.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh, I'm so excited to do this because I think this is a real moment in history for how we view our streets. And I'm glad that you are taking the time to record the history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=19.0,32.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Aw, thank you. Well, I was gonna start by asking about your background, but I just wanna ask, you say this is a real moment in history for how we think about streets. Why is that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=32.0,49.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Because for so long people thought streets were for cars and for traffic. And now I think people are really starting to think that streets are just part of our city for everyone to use, and not necessarily cars. I think that was true in the thirties and forties. Maybe even into the fifties when people would play stickball in streets; I'm too young to know about that. But it's a fundamental different view of the world when you think that streets aren't just for cars, they're for everyone, including pedestrians and families and anyone who wants to use it for any purpose.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=49.0,82.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. I agree, it's an exciting time. So if we could go back, could you tell me where and when you were born, and a little bit about your childhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=82.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Sure. So, I am the first born American in my family. My parents are Irish and like many immigrants, they moved around a lot. Went from Ireland to England, to Ireland, to the United States, you know, looking for opportunities. And I'm the fourth of five children. So when my parents came here, I'm the first one born here. I always kind of thought that, like, you were trying to find home. And even when we came to the United States, we moved around a lot. And so when I started my family, one of the things I really wanted them to feel like is that they were from somewhere. I guess, as any immigrant kid who bounced around a lot, you didn't feel like you were from anywhere. So, when my first kid was born, I moved to Jackson Heights and I'm like, my kids are gonna be from Jackson Heights. So my kids are half Irish, half Ecuadorian, and 100% Jackson Heights [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=96.0,152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: I love that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=152.0,153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. This is a neighborhood that has a mixture of everything. So, you know, whether they're half Irish, half Ecuadorian--my son's friend in school is half Chinese, half Ecuadorian. You get everything in the world here, which is what makes it so great. And there are great things about that, and there are struggles about that. When you have this great diversity, it means you've got great food and great experiences, but also means it's harder to build community because everyone has different touchstones and different basic ideas. Like you go back to kind of traditional Irish towns, the community was based around the church, cause everyone was Irish Catholic. But when you come to Jackson Heights, when you got Tibetan and Bengalis and Indians and Nepalese, and then kind of gentrifying Americans, you have Ecuadorians, Colombians, El Salvadorians, you know, all of South America, Central America, Mexico here, the Caribbean here, it's really hard to build community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=153.0,217.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And one of the things I've spent the last 10 plus years of my life doing is trying to build community. And I think to build community, you have to have places and spaces where people can come together and have joint experiences. And that's why I think the Open Street is so crucial, because it gives a kind of an equalized place for people to come together and have a shared experience, even if it's just walking the dog or doing their morning walks, and that build a sense of community. And that is so hard to do. And it's something that I've spent over a decade trying to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=217.0,256.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So I said, my kids, you know, I wanted them to have community. I have five kids and two grandkids, but my two older step kids came later, so I had three little kids and then I had two teenagers. So I went from zero to five kids in five years, nothing I'd ever recommend to anyone [laughter]. My last kid got outta diapers, I'm like, we're gonna go do something. And so I signed up to do a street cleaning. So we got up on Sunday morning, I got three kids fed, I got three kids dressed, I got diapers on them, I got out the door with the stroller. We get there. And of course my littlest one says, mommy, I gotta go to the bathroom [laughs]. At which point I took 'em all back home again. So I know how hard it is to participate in community. I mean, everyone's busy, everyone has their different family, jobs, all the stress. But it was something I really committed to doing. So for ten years I've been trying to build community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=256.0,320.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And even long before this Open Street, I ran a community organization and we did over a hundred events every year, just events trying to get people together to have shared experiences. So when the pandemic hit and we had this opportunity, I jumped on it. And I really think it's transformational for the neighborhood, and transformational for the city, maybe even the world, to kind of follow this as an example. If this diverse, mixed income, mixed culture community can come together to make this Open Street work, it can work anywhere in the world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=320.0,358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: But I really think that we were just kind of fortunate in the timing in a way. In this neighborhood, we've had a horrible history of traffic violence. As you know, traffic violence hurts most the youngest and oldest in our community. And the ones that got me shaking in my boots were the ones around school. We had a number of kids killed crossing the street to go to school. And in all of our local schools, the biggest safety issue was traffic safety. And I was on all the school boards, and PTA and SLTs and CECs and all the school groups. And the really only safety issue we had was traffic safety. And so long before Open Streets, I was working on how do we make it so that it's safe for our kids to go to school. And then in 2018 or 2019, I guess it was, I was a PTA president of a local school and every day our principal and the two vice principals had to go out at dismissal and direct traffic, because traffic was so outta control.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=358.0,427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So you gotta understand a bit of the context. In Jackson Heights, there are a bunch of schools because it's very residential a neighborhood, and they're all kind of along 34th Avenue. And Jackson Heights is between Flushing and Astoria, so the Grand Central Parkway kinda loops around us, and often there's traffic around LaGuardia Airport. And different computer programs, whether it's Waze or Google Maps, will tell drivers it is one minute faster to drive down 34th Avenue than to take other routes. And so cars would get off the highway and come down this residential street instead of going on Northern Boulevard or just staying on the highway. And so cars would do that. What the GPS programs wouldn't tell you is that you would then run into a series of schools, starting up with P.S. 150, P.S. 92, then 149, then 280, then 145 and 212 and 230 and then 398 and then 152. And it's just school after school after school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=427.0,495.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So if you unfortunately followed that GPS advice at, you know, 2:02 and you got off to go down 34th Avenue and hit school after school after school, you just ran into traffic jam after traffic jam. And many drivers think, Oh, I passed the school, I'm gonna be okay now. And then they hit another school. And they'd pass that school and they hit another school. And they'd pass that school and hit another school. And by the time they got to my son's middle school, I.S. 230, they were irate. And they would honk and scream--and this would be the principal directing traffic--curse out the principal in front of all the kids at dismissal, and just go berserk because they were so frustrated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=495.0,530.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So I, being the activist I am, went to DOT and said, \"I want a neighborhood-wide slow zone.\" So DOT, like any government agency, tried to shut me up and gave my school immediately a slow zone. Like, \"No, no, no, I don't want one for my school. I want one for the entire neighborhood.\" Cause there's school after school after school on this corridor. So it was one and a half miles. There were nine schools. I said, \"I want it for every school, not just my school.\" And they say, \"We don't know how to do that. We don't have a program for that.\" And I say, \"Well, we need to make one, because if we make it a neighborhood-wide slow zone, then the GPS program, so Google Maps and Waze, will tell people not to come down 34th Avenue. Because during school dismissal, it's chaos.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=530.0,574.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So while I was advocating for that, unfortunately tragedy struck. A young boy was exiting I.S. 145, which is the middle school right next to my son's middle school, and a school bus had double parked next to a car on 34th Avenue. So the kid, assuming there was a school bus parked there, ran across the avenue, but a Jeep four by four was trying to scoot by the school bus and pinned him, was actually on top of him. People had to pick up the car to get the kid out. And he's still not the same. And that tragedy really kind of got DOT to listen, and started talking about this idea of a neighborhood-wide slow zone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=574.0,617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And then of course, a pandemic struck [laughs]. You know, you never can plan things. A pandemic struck and then all those meetings stopped and halted. And we were all worried about the pandemic. And during that pandemic, Jim and I were working together on a bunch of issues--neighborhood bus reform, political campaigns. And during this time we were out and about, and because of COVID, people were nervous about walking too close together on the sidewalk. And we had one postage stamp-sized park, Travers Park, which originally was less than a block in size, didn't have a stitch of grass on it, and was tiny and was the only park we had. So, many members of the neighborhood ten years ago tried to make it bigger. And we closed one street, we made it a little bit bigger. And that was our only park in the neighborhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=617.0,667.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And so we're like, Okay, go play in the park cause of this pandemic. But then they said, Okay, you can't play on the playgrounds. So there was only left a park. Once you took the playground out, there was only [unclear] in the park. So there was no place to play. So people just naturally started walking in the street. The sidewalks were too small. You couldn't stay six feet apart. So they started walking in the street. There was no traffic. And so it became natural to walk in the middle of the street. And that's when we said, Why don't we just close the street? Right? We need more space. Let's close the street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=667.0,696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So, the city initially did it. They closed three blocks for us on a gray, early April day. It was gray and cold. And for a couple days they closed it, and it was miserable. They put cops everywhere, they put metal barricades up, and they were gray, cold days. And no one used it cause it didn't feel nice. Do you know what I mean? And so the city canceled the program and they said it was very expensive, we're not gonna do that again. I and a number of my neighbors got together and said, \"No, it's not that the program didn't work. You guys didn't do the program right.\" And one day I'm driving down the street and I see that Con Ed, our electrical supply company, was doing some work and they just closed the street with one cone. One little orange cone and the street was closed. And I'm like, we don't need all those cops. All we need are little barricades to stop the traffic. And we as a community will stop the people. So we held a protest. We closed one little block, one afternoon, got some press, made some noise, chalked the street up, and said, This will work. Let us do it. Don't let the police department do it; let neighborhoods do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=696.0,768.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So we convinced the mayor to try again. We pushed and pushed and pushed, and we convinced him to do it again. And this time he opened up a much bigger section and he didn't do it with the police department, he did it with just us. And that came about in a weird way. Basically at the time the city was looking for people who could handle these streets and it was going to either police departments or local businesses, or what we call BIDs, B-I-D, Business Improvement Districts. I happen to be friends with the lady who runs the Jackson Heights Business Improvement District on 82nd Street--it's all of two blocks long--and they called her and said, You wanna run this Open Street?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=768.0,811.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: She got the call when she was in my basement [laughs]. And she said no. I was with Jim, and we started jumping up and down. \"Don't say no! We need to do this!\" And she's like, \"I already told them no. I can't do that. It's too big of a job. I'm busy running my two blocks. There's no way I could do 26 blocks.\" So we asked her, I said, \"Well, who are they gonna call next?\" \"They're gonna call the precinct.\" So we called our friend Lillian Kowalski [phonetic], who happens to run the civilian part of the precinct. And we said, \"Lillian, the mayor's office is gonna call about doing Open Street. Just say yes.\" And she said, \"What do you mean?\" \"I mean, just say yes! They're gonna call you. Just say yes [laughs]. We'll take care of it.\" So initially, the initial Open Street was gonna be run by the local precinct with help, because we told them to say yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=811.0,860.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So that afternoon in my basement, we got on the phone and we started calling all these other neighborhood organizations and kind of said, \"Hey, we wanna start a coalition to open the street. We want it to be run here in the neighborhood.\" So that same day we got about seven or eight different organizations to sign on. And we called ourselves the 34th Avenue Open Street Coalition. We set up a Facebook page. Everyone does. And we said, \"We're gonna do this.\" And the city said, \"Okay, you can start pretty quickly.\" And they said, \"We'll give you barricades. You gotta do this.\" And we couldn't believe it. It sounded too good to be true. And then we're like, \"Holy crap. How do we do this?\" [Laughs] So we immediately got together and we got all the volunteers and all of our neighbors who've been working on building community over years and said, \"We've got this opportunity. We need you to step up and help.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=860.0,910.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So, 26 blocks, at least two barricades per block. It's like 50 barricades a day, we need to move twice a day at 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM. And initially it was really hard to get enough people. With myself, my kids [laughs], my neighbors, Jim, Jim's partner, all moving these barricades. But little by little, we built up all these neighbors who came out twice a day and put up and put down the barricades. And back in that time, I don't know if you remember this, but there used to be a 7:00 PM cheer, people who were cheering first responders and healthcare workers. So the eight o'clock came right after that cheer. So we'd have people kind of go to the cheer and then go out and move barricades. And we kind of recruited people who came out and cheered to become barricade people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=910.0,955.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And so we started doing it. We did it every morning. We did every night. We kinda thought we'll do this for a day or two, and then something's gonna happen and the city's gonna take over. Well, the city didn't take over for over 15 months [laughs]. Each day, those same volunteers got up at eight in the morning, put up barricades, and went at eight o'clock at night, like I'm gonna do tonight, and put back the barricades, day in and day out. So my son, who just went away to college, started at 16 and for well over a year, every day at 8PM, he'd go out and do what we call a sweep, go up and down the street, making sure all the barricades were put away. And on good days, if it was a nice pretty night, it'd be easy, that all the volunteers would come out and do it. But on a cold, wet, rainy night, he would do all of them himself [laughs]. He and I would have to do all of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=955.0,1001.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1001.0,1001.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It was a real commitment, but it's one of those things that we thought we could do it for a week. And then like, Well, maybe we could do it another week, maybe another week, another week. And it's been I think almost eighteen months [laughs] and we're still doing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1001.0,1015.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. Since May 1st of 2020, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1015.0,1019.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1019.0,1021.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: What was that like? You said you were expecting to hear from the city that they would be taking over. What was it like, that experience of waiting to hear from them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1021.0,1031.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I always thought they would just take a month or two, you know, that they would come and they would pay--I mean, this was meant be their program, they wanted to do this. We kind of assumed, you know, like the police department was gonna do it or, you know, the BID was gonna do it. But in reality, now the city does have employees who do it and the volunteers were better, so [laughs]. You gotta be careful what you wish for. The reality is it's hard for a city to come in and do such a neighborhood thing, because every neighborhood's different and it's really kind of by having the neighbors do it, it makes a better feel. And it makes it much more of a community. If your goal is to build community, like mine is, having volunteers [unclear] actually is a better solution than having paid employees do it. I'm glad to have to the paid employees, cause I got tired, but it really does take away something from the experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1031.0,1086.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: That's so interesting. So gosh, Nuala, there's like so many things I wanna ask you about. All right. So basically in the beginning, the city provided barricades and that was pretty much it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1086.0,1103.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yep. I mean, \"8:00 AM. 8:00 PM. Barricades. You do it.\" And we had no direction at all, like zero. [Laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1103.0,1113.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Okay. So you figured things out. And of course the coalition did such a good job of figuring things out and organizing volunteers that 34th Avenue has become recognized as the gold standard of Open Streets. And so what did you think when the 34th Avenue Open Street started getting so much praise and being lauded by the DOT and other places?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1113.0,1142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Well, I guess I have a very different perspective because I live on the Open Street and there are a lot of neighbors who are mad that their parking spaces are gone. So, I get beaten up daily on social media and called out. There was a protest this weekend against the Open Streets and they called my name in particular. You know, \"Why does Nuala get to close the streets?\" You know? So, I hear much more of the negative than the praise. So it's nice to hear that there is some praise. [Laughs]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1142.0,1169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. I definitely hear a lot of negative--like every time I go on social media, on the Jackson Heights Facebook group, there's a lot of complaints about the Open Street, but I guess the praise that I hear is more from people who I know who use the Open Street. And then also from outside the neighborhood, like in the media, it gets called a [crosstalk]--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1169.0,1195.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh, it's been a huge success. I mean, all you have to do is walk down it. It's kind of magical at 8:00 AM to watch how it changes from busy traffic and people honking into a sea of people and dog walkers and families going to school. I mean, it's just kind of magical. There's that transition period of about four minutes before it goes from busy street to joggers. And it's just fabulous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1195.0,1220.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Can you describe that experience? What it's like moving the barricades in the mornings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1220.0,1226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So when you go out first and you start, right, it's a little kind of scary cause there's cars honking and I mean, I wear an orange vest, and these cars are trying to whizz by you. And when you put the first barricade out, they're mad, cause they're like, I could go through a second ago and now I can't go through. And so those first few minutes when you're moving the barricades, there's still cars on the street and, you know, they're New Yorkers, so they honk at you, \"What are you doing? I'm trying to park. I'm trying to get through. I'm late for work.\" So there's that weird kind of two or three minutes where it's kind of dangerous and you're kind of like standing out in front of traffic and saying, \"Stop.\" [Laughs] But very quickly then it transforms into this quiet peacefulness. The joggers come first, cause they're faster, and then the dog walkers, and then the kids walking to school, and then the baby carriages, and then the seniors. And there's this kind of natural flow of the day now in which you see the entire community come out and use the streets in so many different ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1226.0,1289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: But I mean, it's funny because everyone uses the street different ways, and it's one of the reasons why I'm a real fan of not making cookie cutter ways of doing the street, of really kind of making sure that every neighborhood's street's different. Because we're really residential. So the biggest users of the street in the morning are first joggers and then it's the kids going to school and then it's the dog walkers. But everyone is different and every neighborhood's different. So other Open Streets are based on restaurants. Other Open Streets are based on businesses. This one's really a residential Open Street. So it's really based on kind of very mundane things like walking dogs and walking to school and those kind of things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1289.0,1334.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Wow. Yeah. That is pretty unique. Okay. Let's go back to when the coalition started. So it sounds like you set it up very quickly, basically that day you were in your basement with the director of the 82nd Street Business Improvement District. Then she got the call, and then you called the police precinct and told them to say yes. And then did you just immediately start calling organizations that you knew to sign onto this coalition?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1334.0,1368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1368.0,1369.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: How did you [crosstalk]--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1369.0,1372.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I mean, at the time I was part--so the co-founder, Jim Burke, he was the head of Queens Transportation Alternatives. I had run something called the Jackson Heights Beautification Group, the largest oldest, neighborhood organization. And so we called all the different people that we knew, cause this was a very active community, I mean, I had spent years building community, so I knew all the different groups. And we started calling all of them and just saying, \"Hey, we wanna do this. Will you sign on?\" And everyone kind of said, Yes [unclear]. There was a pandemic going on, so the idea of anything being able to go outside and see people just sounded like a luxury at the time [laughs]. And so everyone was dying to have some space. And that's what we were offering, some kind of safe space. And that's what everyone wanted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1372.0,1417.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Mm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1417.0,1419.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It was kind of this unique moment in time where everyone coalesced around this idea that we all had been bouncing off the walls in our apartments and were just dying to see each other, but in a safe place. And the big space, the Open Street gave them that space to see their neighbors without risking infection from COVID.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1419.0,1444.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: What was the experience of you and your family when the pandemic first hit New York City hard, like in March and April of 2020?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1444.0,1454.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It was a little chaotic. So I immediately formed something called COVID Care Neighborhood Network, which is a group of neighbors helping neighbors. Literally from the first day they kind of said, you know, you should check in on your neighbors, or you should not go out. This is way back when we weren't even wearing masks yet. So, it started with the Post-It note. I wrote a Post-It note that just kinda said, \"Dear neighbor, my name's Nuala. If you need anything, give me a call. Here's my cell phone number.\" It went from my one neighbor to all of my neighbors, and we started handing out flyers and we started something called COVID Care Neighbor Network. And we raised over a hundred thousand dollars and fed the [audio break] and kind of provided a lot of services for families during that crisis period.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1454.0,1503.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And most of that was done at the very beginning of the pandemic, where we delivered food to people who were too scared to go outside. So, my garage became a food pantry [laughs] and my youngest son became the head of production--well, we had a great title for him: we called him warehouse manager. He was warehouse manager [laughs], which is my garage. And my son who drove got to do all the deliveries. And we were making over a hundred deliveries a day, twice a week, to different families in the neighborhood. So, we did food deliveries. We picked up medicine. We did old ladies' laundry at one point, because you [unclear] the laundry rooms were closed. Like people were really scared.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1503.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I mean, around here, we live just near Elmhurst Hospital, which is like the epicenter of the epicenter. I remember the helicopters hovering over at Elmhurst Hospital, and I remember the day they brought the refrigerator truck to take care of the bodies. And it got so spookily quiet that the birds seemed really loud. The only thing you heard were birds chirpping and ambulance sirens. And there were ambulances from all over the country, like, you know, Ohio and Tennessee ambulances. I was actually one of the people driving around delivering food, and the only other car on the road would be ambulances, double parked, outside buildings. And my kids got to know the routine of it. Like, it would first be an ambulance, and the ambulance then wouldn't go away. And then a second ambulance would come, cause you need two people to verify a death. And then the coroner would come. And my kids would look out the window and comment on it. \"Mom, that ambulance isn't going away.\" \"Mom, a second ambulance is coming.\" \"Mom, the coroner came.\" And that was just looking out the window on my block. And that happened multiple times. So it was a really scary time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1553.0,1623.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. That happened on my block, too. Were your sons scared?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1623.0,1631.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh, they weren't in school and they're teenagers. They were more bored [laughs]. I have a bunch of very dry humored children. And I worked them to death. So we were running around the whole entire time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1631.0,1649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: How about you, Nuala? Were you scared?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1649.0,1652.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: No, actually. I was never scared. I mean, my sister is a research biologist and I think I had a pretty under good understanding of the virus from the very beginning. And I knew I was pretty young and healthy and didn't have any of the underlying conditions. And so I've always felt pretty safe and secure about it. I knew I could get sick. As you know, my co-founder Jim Burke got sick at the very beginning. And so I knew how painful it could be, and long-term. I mean, I think he still suffers side effects from it. But I never thought I'd die from it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1652.0,1689.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And I was kind of lucky in the fact that I didn't have in my immediate family, you know, any really elderly or disabled people. My brother-in-law was one of the actual first COVID patients to go in New York City on a ventilator and was actually on a vent for like 22 days. So I knew it was serious at the very beginning cause I, just as his family, held vigil. And he was pretty young, he was in his mid fifties, late fifties. But no, I was never scared. Maybe I should have been, but I wasn't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1689.0,1732.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: I was scared, not so much for myself, but for my parents and my husband's parents, who all live in Queens and are in their sixties. And I don't know how old you are, but you mentioned that you're a grandma. So it seems remarkable that you weren't afraid for yourself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1732.0,1759.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah, it never even occurred to me. But, you know, I'm pretty young and healthy. But my brother-in-law was only a few years older than my husband. He's probably 10 years older than me. And it did really hit him hard. He coded multiple times, he was on a vent a long time. I think he's one of--he was, like, patient 11 at Mount Sinai. COVID patient number 11, they treated.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1759.0,1783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1783.0,1785.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: But he recovered. And the first patients that I knew who died all had very severe underlying illnesses. So I guess I felt a little teflon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1785.0,1803.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And when we talked before, I think you told me that you drove some neighbors to the hospital, to the emergency room during that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1803.0,1812.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I did that. Right [laughs]. So, I ran this thing called COVID Care Neighborhood Network. So people were calling with all sorts of questions. I'm a lawyer by trade. So I was going around and doing power of attorneys for people who, like, both parents had COVID, and they're worried about their small children and who would take custody of the children. So, guardianship paperwork, and like literally in the middle of the night. I think one of the saddest things I did, I was exhausted at this point, and we had a lady who called for a meal. We were making some meals for people, too. And she called up and just said, \"I'm sick. My husband's sick. We'd really like--I can't cook. Can someone bring me food?\" And it was farther away than I should have gone in the neighborhood-wise, but we did it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1812.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: My daughter, who's a lovely cook, made all this food, and we drove it all the way out. I remember I got lost trying to find her. I was like, \"Why did we come out so far?\" And I was all cranky. And we delivered it. We finally found her, and she was so weak, she was sitting on a chair at the door cause she couldn't stand waiting for us. And I never saw her husband, but he had been sick and she was sick, and I gave her the food and went back. It was COVID, so you kind of just handed her a bag and left. And I got a call early the next morning and I was cursing, like, \"Why did I give my phone number? Why is this woman calling me at the crack of dawn?\" And it was that woman, cause she had asked for food the next day, telling me that she didn't need any more food and that her husband had died.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1860.0,1903.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So it was nice to know that he had this nice home-cooked meal before he died, and that we could give her a little bit of friendliness and neighborliness during those last hours of his life. But you know, to just hear her matter of factness saying, like, \"Don't bother, he passed,\" kind of made you think why you did it and what kept you going each and every day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1903.0,1934.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So, when another neighbor called--it's a long story, the neighbor was different, you know, a neighbor's friend of a neighbor. My old babysitter's friend called me and that her sister-in-law was a nurse in Ecuador and she had called her saying that a relative should go to the hospital, and he doesn't wanna go to the hospital because he knows if he calls 911, he'll go to Elmhurst Hospital. And at the time, there were helicopters [unclear] Elmhurst Hospital and all the refrigerator trucks at Elmhurst Hospital; everyone thought if you went to Elmhurst Hospital, you died. So, I talked to her about it and I said, \"He should go to the hospital.\" And they're like, \"Yes, but he doesn't wanna go to Elmhurst.\" So I knew my brother-in-law had been at Mount Sinai and they were doing a lot of good work there and I think he had just gotten off the vent there. So I knew they had a lot of experience with COVID. So I said I'd drive him to Mount Sinai.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1934.0,1986.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So of course I have no idea what I'm doing, right? So I grab some pillows and some handy wipes and a mask and gloves and get my minivan and we go over to his house. And for some reason I brought a bunch of inhalers, you know, the asthma inhalers, albuterol inhalers. And so I get him in the car and then they say, \"Well, his cousin's sick too, bring him.\" So I brought two of them. And just with all the stress of it, I got kind of lost going around, how to get to Mount Sinai. And you could see the guy looking at me going, like, \"Why didn't I just call the ambulance? \"And he's just sucking on the inhaler. And by the time we got to Mount Sinai--so I used to be a prosecutor, so I have a detective jacket. So my daughter very smartly said, \"Mom, wear the detective's jacket. [Laughs] It's kinda cool anyway. Wear the detective jacket.\" And I did. I kind of run out, I'm wearing the detective jacket, and I asked for the wheelchair. And so they give me the wheelchair and I get the first guy in the wheelchair, cause he was much worse off than his cousin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=1986.0,2045.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: And I bring him in and I answer the few questions. I really didn't know much about him cause he really couldn't speak at this point, he was breathing so poorly. And then they do this triage, and the triage took his blood pressure and just stopped the triage and said, \"Send him back in the emergency room.\" So they had me push him back into the back door of the emergency room, and I'll never forget what I saw. It was chaos. It was doctors wearing all sorts of kind of homemade contraptions to cover themselves up from COVID. People flailing, monitors beeping, naked people flailing on things. And they immediately went to work on him, right away. So I knew it was bad. And so I was glad I was able to bring him there. Cause I think he would've died at home had he not gone in.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2045.0,2094.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: His cousin was very different. I brought the cousin in next, and the cousin, they took his temperature, they did this, they were like, \"We'll admit you.\" But it was a calm procedure. The first guy was, \"Rush him back there now!\" [Laughs] But they both survived. But it's one of those memories, what I saw, and I was probably only back there for a minute or so, but I'll never forget that. It was just that chaos of that emergency room.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2094.0,2124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: That must have shaken you up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2124.0,2129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I think at that point, I mean, you heard on the news it was outta control, but I saw how outta control it was. Do you know what I mean? It's different to hear on the news it's outta control and to see it out of control.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2129.0,2141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. So with the COVID Care Neighborhood Network, it sounds like you were just making yourself available to do whatever people were asking for.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2141.0,2153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. [Laughs] We're still around, we still help people. It's neighbors helping neighbors, so whatever neighbors need, we try to help them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2153.0,2163.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And you said that it started with a Post-It note. Can you tell me more about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2163.0,2167.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: At the beginning of the pandemic, I mean the very, very beginning, they were like, \"Older people are more affected. You shouldn't go out.\" I mean, my kids were still going to school, but they kind of said, \"You can't go outside, but you should check on your neighbors.\" I'm like, well, how am I gonna check on my neighbors if I can't see my neighbors? And I'm like, my neighbors don't even know my phone number. So I put a Post-It note up with my phone number and just kind of said, \"Hey, if you need help, I'm your neighbor. This is my phone number.\" And then it went from that to where we put out a little flyer, and then we kind of passed the flyer around, and my phone number became the phone number--soon or later, got a Google number, but that phone number became the number that everyone in the neighborhood wouldd call if they needed help.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2167.0,2228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: I remember when we talked a while ago, you told me about a neighbor who needed help just getting down the stairs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2228.0,2237.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh yeah. I still talk to her. [Laughs] She's hilarious. So, this was actually before COVID. I had been, right at the very beginning of COVID, and I went to this neighbor's house and I met her, and she basically was in a walker. She wasn't always in a walker, but she'd had some procedure and she was in the walker. She lived on the first floor and she lived alone, so she'd been able to get around. She had long been living alone and was quite independent, even though she had some hearing issues. But this little procedure on her, I think it was her hip, really kind of made her rely on this walker. Although she was on the first floor, it was up three steps. And the issue was that she couldn't get the walker up and down the three steps.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2237.0,2292.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So all she really needed was help moving the walker up three steps, which sounds so silly, but she didn't know a neighbor, or didn't feel comfortable asking any neighbor to do it. So all she really needed was a nice neighbor that she'd call and kind of say, \"Hey, I'm going out shopping. Can you move my walker down the three steps?\" It was such a simple need and a simple ask, but yet had really stifled her and caused it so that she really became home-bound because of those three little steps. So it kind of shows you how a simple neighborly act can really change someone's life. And you can also remember that I was a mother of three teenagers who were endlessly playing on computer games and I wanted them to go out and do stuff. So I'd be like, \"Go help the neighbor move her walker down three steps,\" or \"Go help the neighbor do the laundry,\" or \"Go to CVS and pick up the neighbor's medicine.\" You can imagine my teenage children hate all the neighbors now [laughter] and have very interesting names for all the neighbors [laughs]. I can't repeat them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2292.0,2361.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: So your family must be pretty well known around the neighborhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2361.0,2371.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh yeah [laughs]. But my kids, if nothing else, are from Jackson Heights, do you know what I mean? They know Jackson Heights, they know their neighbors. And they might not always like it, but this is definitely their neighborhood. I hate to cut it short, but I do have to close the streets [move barricades] at 8pm [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2371.0,2391.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Oh, okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2391.0,2396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: We've got a little more time, but just so you know. And I can pick it up after that. I just kinda need that 20 minutes to close the streets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2396.0,2401.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"New Speaker: [INTERRUPTION]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2401.0,2402.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Okay. Looks like we're recording. All right. So we just paused our interview so that you could go and move barricades cause it was 8:00 PM.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2402.0,2414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Every night, 8:00 PM.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2414.0,2417.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: How was it just now when you were moving the barricades?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2417.0,2421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It's great. I mean, it's an October evening, so it's cool and fresh. One of my Indian neighbors, I met her and she gave me some Indian treats [laughs]. She always cooks for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2421.0,2433.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Aw, nice. So does she, like, go out at 8:00 PM to meet you on the street?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2433.0,2440.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. Yeah. She lives right there. So she always calls me right at eight, saying \"I've got something for you.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2440.0,2448.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: That's so sweet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2448.0,2449.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: She's probably in her seventies and it's just her and her husband and she loves to cook, and she's like, \"My husband says I'm trying to make him fat\" [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2449.0,2463.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Do you typically see a lot of people when you're moving the barricades?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2463.0,2467.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh yeah. And I get chided. Like, today I was a little late; I did it backwards today. I usually do it in a certain order. I did it backwards today and they're like, \"You're late.\" And I'm like, \"All right. I was two minutes later than usual.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2467.0,2479.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Aw, cause of our interview?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2479.0,2484.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. No, no, but I just came from a different direction. I mean, they're the regulars. So that guy walks his dog every night. There's another lady who's got--I dunno what her problem with her husband is; he tries to walk, he's got a wheelchair and he walks behind the wheelchair two blocks from his house every night. They walk to the school, which is two blocks away, and then at 8:00 PM exactly, they start walking back to their house. I see them every night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2484.0,2510.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Are you friendly with them too?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2510.0,2512.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. Yeah. I always invite them to whatever we're doing on the street. They never come, but I always invite them. And I know about the grandchildren [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2512.0,2523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Cool. And how many blocks do you do the barricades for?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2523.0,2527.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I usually do 90 [Street] to Junction Boulevard. So it's only five blocks, but because it's the end--so at the end we have extra barricades. So there're more barricades than usual at the end blocks, just to make sure all the cars stop, to kinda fortify the ends and around the schools more.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2527.0,2546.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. So how many barricades--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2546.0,2547.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So, 69th Street has a bunch of barricades because we fortify the school, and the one on 93rd Street. Also we [audio break] those at 9:00 PM cause we wanna park. But we have a soccer group that plays soccer at 69th Street every night until we basically close the barricade. 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So, the issues tonight are, all of our cosmos are dying. We gotta go in and trim them back, and the sunflowers, it's time to start cutting them down.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2578.0,2590.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Right. So the coalition also helps with gardening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2590.0,2596.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yep. We have 26 blocks of the median to garden. So we've got about five blocks that are doing well. And then another five blocks that really you can't do much with; there are bushes and trees and there's not much space to do anything. So we still have another ten blocks we gotta work on. And the goal is to get someone very local, like on that block or the next block over, to kind of take ownership of it, and be that that's their block and they take care of it. That way there isn't, you know, this huge lift to take care of them, because a neighbor's taking care of it. It's not that hard. You walk by it every day. You see what needs to be done. It's not a huge space. The biggest problem I have is that for me to go to 69th street, it's a mile down. 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So you were just at your office on 72nd and then you walked all the way to 90th and moved the barricades--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2643.0,2657.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: No, I'm the world's laziest person, I used my bike [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2657.0,2660.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Oh, okay. That's not lazy at all!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2660.0,2661.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I never walk up and down. I always ride my bike. It's a long walk; it's a mile! I'm lazy. It's a mile there, a mile back. I'm like, No, no, I'm riding my bike.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2661.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: That's quite far. And now you're going back to your office.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2670.0,2674.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2674.0,2676.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Mm. So, how many barricades total do you move? How many are you responsible for?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2676.0,2683.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I do 20 a day. So I have barricade muscles in my arms.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2683.0,2691.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: [Laughs] And you do it every morning. So it used to be at eight in the morning, but now it's seven in the morning, since they started--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2691.0,2697.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: We have to be done by 7:30. So we start about 7:15, 7:20. It's done by 7:30 for the kids to go to school. But I only do the night ones. I'm not much of a morning person. I'm not reliable enough. So I do the night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2697.0,2713.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2713.0,2715.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: But what the funny thing is, is that for 18 months now I wake up thinking about barricades. Like my first thought in the morning is, \"Did all the barricades go out?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2715.0,2725.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Do you go and check on them in the morning?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2725.0,2728.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: No, Jim's the morning guy, so he checks on the morning stuff. And then I'm the night person. Usually at night we have three people and we split the street up to three. Now, there are other volunteers who help other parts, but they kind of monitor their spot. So, that way, by doing that in thirds, it can be done in about seven to eight minutes. It takes them about eleven, but it should be done in seven to eight minutes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2728.0,2756.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Mmhm. So there are now volunteers and paid employees who move the barricades?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2756.0,2763.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yep. So, right now we have Hort [Horticultural Society of New York] employees who work mornings, seven days a week, but they're only here [until] December 31st. So, some people are volunteers, some people are employees. And the employees are meant to pick up trash and move the barricades. This is a temporary program under the pandemic with federal money with Bill de Blasio [then mayor of New York City]. So we don't know what's gonna happen on December 31st. We have a new mayor. So we don't know if it's a permanent thing or a temporary thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2763.0,2793.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Mm. When did this start?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2793.0,2799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: The Horts started over the summer. But they just kind of, they're still hiring people. So it's a federal funding program where the city's hiring a bunch of people as a stimulus program, so they give some to sanitation, they give some to parks. So what DOT did with their money is, they hired the Horts, which is the Horticultural Society of New York, to take employees to kind of take care of a clean up corps. So, cleaning up the city. Can you hold off? That's Jim calling me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2799.0,2835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Oh, sure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2835.0,2835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: [INTERRUPTION]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2835.0,2841.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Okay. Sorry about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2841.0,2843.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: So you said there are \"Hort\" employees, I thought that you said there are \"four\" employees. So there are--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2843.0,2849.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: No, no. no, Hort is the Horticultural Society of New York. Yeah. So, the city of New York gave a contract to the Horticultural Society of New York and they hired a thousand people citywide to take care of different things. And they sent some of them to 34th Avenue, the idea being that they're meant to help take care of the street. It's been a rough go, but, you know, they're helpful. The problem is that it's only till December 31st. So we can't give up on the volunteers because we have to go back to that model, we think, on January one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2849.0,2883.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Hmm. So how has that changed things for the volunteers when the Horts came?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2883.0,2891.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It's difficult. So the volunteers don't really know much about it yet. We've kind of been keeping it under wraps to see how the transition works. So during the summer we had something called SYEP employees, which were Summer Youth Employment kids who came in. But at the end it's for six weeks. So these people are here longer than six weeks, but they're really not permanent. So they're kind of temporary help. I'd really like to use them to do some bigger projects, but you know, it's the city government, so there's a contract. The federal money gives money to the city, the city gives it to DOT, DOT gives it to the Horticulture Society. You know, there's a lot of bureaucracy to go through, and it just doesn't--and then you kind of say what I need on my street, it doesn't kind of translate very easily. So, it's a process and we're working on it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2891.0,2948.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah, it's interesting, cause the first time I heard about those employees was, I just happened to run into Erick Modesto on the street and he told me that his cousin had been hired to help. And I was like, \"What? Like, she's getting paid?\" I had no idea that there were actual jobs. And I was like, that's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2948.0,2973.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. So the issue is, is what the city wants done is not necessarily what we need done. So there's a bit of conflict back and forth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2973.0,2984.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: How so?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2984.0,2985.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Well, because--I dunno if you've been to other Open Streets?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2985.0,2989.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Um, just a couple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2989.0,2992.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Right. So every street's different, and I think what really makes the street special is the programming--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2992.0,2998.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2998.0,2999.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It's the specialized programming. And so they don't really participate in the programming, which is what we really need, I think, help with. Do you know what I mean? Things like the gardening and the programming and that kind of stuff. And for that you really need kinda local people who know what they're doing and know the neighborhood and that kind of stuff. And so, I mean, some of the employees here are from Coney island, one guy's from Harlem. We did try to get them to hire more local people so that they would understand the neighborhood and what the neighborhood needs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=2999.0,3036.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. That's important. So yeah, thus far in the interview, we talked a bit about things the coalition does like moving barricades, and gardening a little bit. They also take care of cleaning the street and then you mentioned the programming, which is such a big part of what you do. So, can--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3036.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: It's huge. It's what makes it special. The programming [unclear]. It makes it special. So we have, on Tuesday, say it's Tuesday. Today we had gardening for elderly people in the morning. We had exercise--what was our exercise today? Today's Tuesday, we had salsa class. And then on Tuesday we also have an ESL class, a conversation class for people who wanna speak better English, which is all things people asked for. You know, someone came up and said, \"I'd really like to practice my English.\" So we started a class. Wednesday, tomorrow, we have a Zumba class. We have a slime-making class. We have a class for kids who speak Spanish at home, but don't know how to read and write it. So a lot of mothers asked for that. They said, \"I speak Spanish to my kid who doesn't know how to read or write it.\" Thursday, we have another ESL class, we have a yoga class, we have the races, which the kids love. And again, that was one, a kid wanted to run races, so we helped him run races. So every Thursday we do races. And then on Friday we have our family bike rides, and Saturday we do gardening, and Sunday we do art programming as well as folk dancing, Mexican folk dancing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3060.0,3145.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3145.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: So always there's something going on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3150.0,3152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yes. Every single day there are free programs for the community on 34th Avenue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3152.0,3159.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah. And then there's bigger things, like we've had the circus, we've had Off-Broadway [theater performance] come. So other days we have bigger events. But those bigger events we do in partnership with DOT or other people. 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Those things that you named were all artists who got the City Artists Corps grant?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3280.0,3286.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yep. They were all artist grants.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3286.0,3289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Wow. 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It's a street I drove down every once in a while [laughs]. That's it. Nothing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3353.0,3356.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And obviously you've been really connected to the neighborhood for a long time, so--","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3356.0,3368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Sure. But I mean, it was a street like any other street. I mean, it didn't mean anything different or special before then. My only connection to it was the tragedy of kids getting hit by cars on it, and how dangerous it was with kids being dismissed on it. So it went from this thing that I worried about to this great neighborhood treasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3368.0,3388.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Mm. I'm just writing that down. So you've mentioned that you have been working on building community for the past decade. Why did this desire to create these shared spaces start? 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You mentioned that being a child of immigrants and moving around a lot, you always felt like you were trying to find home and that you wanted your kids to feel that there's a place that they're rooted in, that they're from somewhere. When people ask you where you are from, how do you answer that question?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3478.0,3501.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh, I'm from Jackson Heights, a hundred percent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3501.0,3504.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Before you moved to Jackson Heights, was it hard to answer that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3504.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Oh, yeah. I mean, I didn't say anywhere, particularly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3510.0,3513.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Where you grow up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3513.0,3514.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: In different places. I was born in Indiana, moved to Upstate New York, went back to Indiana, moved to different places Upstate New York. Came to New York City to go to law school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3514.0,3529.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And what year was that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3529.0,3532.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Well, I was born in '68, so I moved back and forth. I went to law school in '93, so I moved to New York City in '93.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3532.0,3543.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And when did you move to Jackson Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3543.0,3546.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: 2001, when my daughter was born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3546.0,3551.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: What did you think of Jackson Heights when you moved here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3551.0,3557.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I guess I came here as an economic refugee from Astoria. Cause I wanted to buy a house, and every year I'd save and the price of a house would go up more and more and more. 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That's it [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3581.0,3588.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah. I think a lot of people know Jackson Heights for the food. 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So, I spent 23 years of my life trying to help people deal with very bad situations and try to find some justice in that, which is a very ethereal thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3618.0,3649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: But you don't do that anymore?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3649.0,3650.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Nope. 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So this is going back to 2004, probably.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3697.0,3743.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: When you started cleaning up the streets?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3743.0,3747.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3747.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And were you doing that, like, did you join a group when you started? 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The Jackson Heights Beautification Group.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3757.0,3758.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Which you then later became the president of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3758.0,3765.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3765.0,3770.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: And before you joined the Jackson Heights Beautification Group, were they doing a lot of public events?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3770.0,3778.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: No, it was much smaller. I kind of expanded it. The last year when I was president, we did over a hundred events in one year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3778.0,3787.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3787.0,3790.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: But nothing very big, just lots of little things. You know, have a local astronomer come out and show the kids the stars. Bringing a magician in to play with kids in the park. You know, all sorts of little things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3790.0,3804.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: How did you get the idea to start doing those public programs?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3804.0,3807.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: I just think the neighborhood need--I mean, again, to build community, you need places and spaces where people can come together and have joint experiences. So if everyone comes together and sees a magician, then they've all bonded in that way. A magician's a great thing because a magician can be any language, like a clown or a magician, you don't really need language. And since we have so many languages, that makes it easier. So I really tried to bring events in that kind of crossed over languages or cultural divides, whether it be an astronomer, a magician, those kind of things. But I am running into a hard stop at nine. So I don't know if you wanna finish this another day or--?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3807.0,3854.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Yeah, I would love to. Yes, I definitely would love to talk to you more. I feel there's much more to discuss. Thank you so much for your time today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3854.0,3867.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: No problem.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3867.0,3868.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: This is really interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3868.0,3869.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Okay. We'll talk again soon. Sorry, I have to go at nine though.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3869.0,3874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Okay. All right. Have a good night, Nuala.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3874.0,3875.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Nuala O'Doherty Naranjo: Talk to you later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3875.0,3875.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599/transcript/44922/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bridget Bartolini: Thank you again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/98277/file/195599#t=3875.0,3880.07184"}]}]}]}