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In this interview Petrushka discusses what it was like to grow up in the neighborhood and going to the Kew Gardens Hills library when she was a child; she remembers how friendly the staff were, book sales the library held, and checking out many books.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eKew Gardens Hills has a large Orthodox Jewish population and Esther is a part of it. The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on the community as it has stopped so much of what holds them together - visiting friends’ houses for meals, going to synagogue, and celebrating holidays. She describes it as a really warm community where Judaism is the focus; she went an all Jewish girls school in Kew Gardens, and so she did not know much about the larger community growing up, or even how big Queens was, but now as a librarian and since college she is more exposed to other cultures in the area.\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/41062"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2021-03-05 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Tags"]},"value":{"en":["Queens College Alumni"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Esther Petrushka (Interviewee)","Asher MacInnis-Call (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["Interview recorded as part of the Memoir Writing Reflecting Our Experiences During a Pandemic project at the Kew Gardens Hill Library."]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1990s-2021 (temporal)","Kew Gardens, Kew Gardens Hills, 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\u003eAn interview with Esther Petrushka, a Children's Librarian with Queens Public Library, conducted by Asher MacInnis-Call, Assistant Community Library Manager at Queens Public Library, Kew Gardens Hills branch.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEsther Petrushka, 31, was born and raised in Kew Gardens Hills. In this interview Petrushka discusses what it was like to grow up in the neighborhood and going to the Kew Gardens Hills library when she was a child; she remembers how friendly the staff were, book sales the library held, and checking out many books.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eKew Gardens Hills has a large Orthodox Jewish population and Esther is a part of it. The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on the community as it has stopped so much of what holds them together - visiting friends\u0026rsquo; houses for meals, going to synagogue, and celebrating holidays. 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Excellent. So to start with, thank you for being here. Thank you for participating in this. Um, it's the Queens Memory Project Ambassador Program, and we're focusing specifically on stories of Kew Gardens Hills. Um, so to start, could you, um, say your name and spell it for me?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=0.0,18.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Sure. My name is Esther Petrushka E S T H E R - P E T R U S H K A.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=18.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Okay. So, um, this is an interview with Esther [stumbling] Petrushka.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=26.0,31.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Petrushka\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=31.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Petrushka, um, for the Queens Memory Project. Now that all the file-keeping all of the organizational things are out of the way. So this is really informal. It doesn't have to be a super-organized thing. If I ask you a question that you don't want to answer, you don't have to answer. Um, if, if you start kind of wandering in a different direction from the question, that's fine too. We're really just focused on trying to get stories about Kew Gardens Hills and what it's like to live there and what you've been up to. So there's, there's no right or wrong answer. There's no, like if I ask you a question, you're like, no, I'd rather not. We can move on. The other thing is, is once you get the transcript of this interview if you've said something and you're like, wait, I would like to redact that you can redact it. Um, so feel free to speak as, as honestly as you would like, um, knowing that in the future, if you're like, Oh, wait, I said a little too much about that. You don't have to worry about it. Okay. Um, so I'm just going to start with, um, asking how long you've lived in the neighborhood.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=35.0,106.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I have lived here my whole life, so 31 years.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=106.0,109.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Excellent. And has your family lived in Kew Gardens Hills for a long time?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=109.0,115.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah, I mean⁠—My parents moved here when they got married. So 38 years-ish before that, I don't know. I think they lived in Brooklyn before that, but then they came here when they got married.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=115.0,129.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Do you know why they chose Kew Gardens Hills?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=129.0,132.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't know. Maybe because they knew people here or it was a good community. I don't really know why they\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=132.0,139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [Crosstalk] That's fair. [Laughter] That's fair.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=139.0,141.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [Crosstalk] Chose the Kew Gardens Hills\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=141.0,142.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So since you've grown up here, what are some of your earliest memories you have about specifically the neighborhood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=142.0,154.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I just remember like my block, like being like this giant, like everyone knows everybody, you know, like we would have all the kids on the block would have like picnics and we would be in and out of each other's houses. That's like really like my earliest memories of just like running around, outside, playing with the neighborhood kids or the block kids.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=154.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah, that's cool. I I've definitely seen that working in the neighborhood where, where the kids are kind of always running around with each other too. So I'm glad that's the thing that has continued. Now I know with⁠—nevermind the thought just went right out of my head. [laughter] That's always helpful for an interview. So how, how would you say that's changed from being a kid to now with that, like interconnectedness with the community?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=180.0,213.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't know if it's changed. Like, I mean - I don't know if it's like changed for the community. Like I still see the kids outside running around, like they're younger generation now. It's now more just like I have my friends in the neighborhood and we just, you know, I mean, not right now, but we used to, you know, we used to hang out together, you know, still going around the neighborhoods. I mean, when we were younger, we used to like, like in the teenage years we used to go to the parks around here and just like, hang out. Cause that was cool. Just like hanging out at the parks, but now we just go to each other's houses and like what we used to⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=213.0,257.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Back in the, before times\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=257.0,258.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Before times and just like, hang out and chill, go for walks, you know, stuff like that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=258.0,264.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Did you go to school in the neighborhood?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=264.0,266.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: It's Kew Gardens. I went to school in Kew Gardens. So like one neighborhood over. But a lot, almost every like girl went to school there, it was an all girls school. So everyone in the community went there basically.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=266.0,280.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Okay. Yeah. So you, it was the same group that you were spending time with in the, in the neighborhood that you were at school with?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=280.0,288.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah, pretty much.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=288.0,289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Okay. That's cool. Um, so you were talking about just hanging out in the neighborhood at like parks and stuff. What were some of your favorite places? And are they still there?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=289.0,301.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. I was a bit of a homebody. So people would, you know⁠— But I liked⁠—we would go to the parks, you know, like the public parks that are around, I would go to the library a lot. That was my favorite. That was my favorite place, you know, it's around the corner from my house. So I would go there all the time, like every day. So yeah, there's, I mean, it looks a little bit different now, but it's still the same, you would go to, like, we would just go to like the restaurants and, you know, eat dinner or lunch or whenever. So yeah, they're still pretty much all around.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=301.0,334.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Okay. So you brought the library up [crosstalk]⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=334.0,337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [crosstalk] Oh, yeah [sighing] I love the library.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=337.0,337.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: You brought it up. And especially since this, this project is tied into the library. I know the library is only a couple of years old now. What was the old library like? Compared to the new one?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=337.0,352.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I see it in my head sort of, but I mean, it was like physically it's pretty much the same size. It looked different. I just remember going and being like, do you have any new books? 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But I'm just trying, I'm like, I'm picturing it in my head and I can't like explain it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=373.0,381.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Oh, that's fine.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=381.0,384.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: But I mean, it was my favorite place. I would literally go there all the time. I would owe so much money in fines, so much money in fines. I remember all the staff there, like loving them, you know, like I knew who I was. I remember my mom was reminding me before I, 'cause I told her I was doing this. She was like, do you remember Ms. Z? I think her name was, she was a children's librarian when I'm like, I don't remember her, but I remember like the clerks who would like check out our books and stuff like, yeah, Mary, I think her name was Mary. She was the nicest lady and like all, just all of them were so nice. I remember once my brother wanted to watch Gladiator the movie and like, I don't know, it wasn't, I think this was when the library maybe had movies at the time. I don't remember. 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Yeah [laughter]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=437.0,445.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [Laughter] Well now you're with the library. So that, that makes sense. Are there any other like particular memories about staff or like programs you went to?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=445.0,458.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't really remember programs. I know my mom said she took me, I guess maybe by the time I could remember I was in school and stopped going to storytimes and stuff. I remember book sales from the library used to have book sales. Oh, I love that we would go and like, like they were like five or 10 cents, you know, for like paperbacks or whatever, a dollar for hard covers. I remember it actually is what started my love of romance novels because I was a little too young for them, but I think somehow a romance novel ended up in the wrong bin, I guess it ended up in the kids bin, so I just picked it up cause I'm like, I mean, it was one of those short Harlequin historicals or whatever. I'm like, Oh, this looks interesting. Cause I had been reading like, you know, I mean, YA fiction like it? So I just thought it was like young adult and I'm like, what is this? [laughter] You know, after I read it and that kind of was like, Oh, these are interesting. You know? So that kind of started my like love of romance novels. 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I'm sure you as a librarian also love hearing stories of people who had connected with their libraries like that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=521.0,531.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=531.0,532.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: We have a really small YA section at Kew Gardens Hills and it does see a really heavy use. Were other folks your age checking out the same kind of level of books. You were the same amount of books you were?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=532.0,551.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't know if the same amount because I was taking out so many, like I haven't, I here's the thing. I was like, I had some friends when I was younger, but like a core group of them. And I was pretty much like the loner homebody in that group. So like I did have friends, but, and we hung out, but I was, I was happiest being at home reading. Okay. So I don't know about their⁠—I know my best friend who I've known since we were babies, she and I would always read the same historical historical romance novels together. So she and I would read the same books. I don't know if like my other friends took out, you know, books. I'm not sure about that, but I would take out like all the books.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=551.0,596.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Well, if it makes you feel any better, there's still a lot like still super high circulation for people who are coming in, like teens checking out huge stacks of books and going home. So it's nice to know that that's always kind of been a consistent, at least in the community. So are there any places that don't exist in the community that you miss that, that just aren't there anymore?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=596.0,623.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Trying to think. [Pause] I don't think so. I mean, I'm trying to like⁠—trying to think where like the parks are all still there. Most of the restaurant, I mean, some restaurants closed.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=623.0,638.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [crosstalk] Yeah\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=638.0,639.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [Crosstalk] I miss some of the restaurants, but I don't think so. I'm trying to think. 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There used to be like right on 73rd and Main Street, there was a⁠—it was like on the corner, it was called Kosher Corner and they made the best Greek salad. I miss their Greek salad. Like that's what I miss, went out of business a while ago. That's what I miss.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=658.0,672.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: I've found that there's always like some sort of food item that you can no longer get from a restaurant in your hometown. And like people will hold on to that for the rest of their life. So I'm like, I'm just going to ask.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=672.0,687.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. The Greek salad and the pizza fries, they had pizza fries too. Those are really good.[Laughter]I miss those.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=687.0,694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Beautiful. Beautiful. So I know, I know the Kew Gardens Hills is largely a really an Orthodox area. Are you a part of that community?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=694.0,704.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=704.0,706.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Do you have a synagogue that you go to in the community?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=706.0,709.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yes. It's called Ahavas Yisrael. It's on like the corner of 73rd and 147th. [crosstalk] So it's right here.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=709.0,716.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [Crosstalk] Would you like to tell me a little bit about what your like religious community is like? [crosstalk] You don't have to\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=716.0,724.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [crosstalk] Yeah. You know, we're [pause] Orthodox Jews, so it's very community oriented. So I mean, that's, what's so difficult now, but like all the holidays and every Shabbos, like every weekend, you just like⁠—that's the time⁠—like that's why I think so many books, the Kew Gardens Hills library has so many print books going out because you can't use electronics on Shabbos. So like Shabbos is a time when you read, so you go to the library, you get stacks of books, especially now when you can't go out with your friends, but you know, so like it would just be a time to like, you know, it's very⁠— would go to synagogue, you would see everybody, chat, you would go to people's houses for meals, you would hang out with your friends, read. It's just like a very community based. And so that's like really hard now because you can't go to people's houses, you know, you can meet outside, but it's winter. So it's too cold right now.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=724.0,791.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah. Now, from the outsider perspective of somebody who works in Kew Gardens Hills, it does seem like a really tight-knit, warm community that's really is focused around religious life. Would you say that's shifted at all? Like, has it remained the same since you were a kid who you are now, where you are now?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=791.0,817.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah, I think it stayed the same.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=817.0,820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=820.0,820.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: You know? Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=820.0,823.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Do you have any favorite like holiday memories or holiday celebrations? That's like based in the community?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=823.0,831.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I mean, Purim is the main one, you know, it's just like, you know, going around, dressed in costume, giving out candy and getting candy. That's like my favorite one. It's just like, there's always like in synagogue after you read the book of Esther, there's always a party at night, you know, like you see everyone in costume and it's just like a big celebration and it's so much fun. Of course we didn't have it this year, and last year, like that was like the last thing\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=831.0,863.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [Crosstalk] Yeah. I remember that\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=863.0,865.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [Crosstalk] the last thing before everything shut down. I'm trying to think of like other holidays. That's like the big one, everyone loves that one, but you know, like Passover's coming up. Cause that's a long one just seeing everybody. And that's when like the neighborhood gets crazy. Like switching over everything from like, you know, non Passover stuff to Passover stuff and there's like Rosh Hashana the new year, you know, that's always nice.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=865.0,897.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Are there any, any like specific⁠— I know there's a fair at one point in the year. Do you have any like, memories about that kind of experience in the community?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=897.0,907.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: There used to be right by the library - like on Vleigh, that little strip, there used to be on the weekends, like⁠—I don't know⁠—what's the word? I'm blanking like a fair, like little⁠—like people with tables would just have kind of like a flea market.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=907.0,924.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Okay\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=924.0,926.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: They would just set up maybe once a month, every other month. And it was so much on me to go and I would use to beg my mom to buy⁠—And it's like, some of these things were like used junk basically, you know, but I'd be like, I want that, mom I want that, and she'd be like, no, we're not buying that for us. You know, we don't need it, but it was always fun. Like walking down that small street and like seeing what people brought right outside the library. That's where they were.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=926.0,952.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's cool. So kind of shifting topics there. If you had to describe Kew Gardens Hills to somebody who's never been to New York City, never been to the neighborhood and you had to give them like a little elevator pitch for the community. What do you think you'd say, and take your time? Cause I know that's a little bit of a weird question.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=952.0,980.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [Laughter] I hate elevator pitches. Well, I don't know. I mean, for me it's just always been home. It's kind of very insular, you know, so for me it's always just been like [pause] a really warm community where Judaism is like the focus, you know, obviously there are non-Jews that live here, but they were kind of never a part of my world when I was younger. So, but you know, everyone's nice. I don't know. That's what [crosstalk] [laughter] this is what I've got.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=980.0,1018.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [Crosstalk] [laughter] You're like, \"No, I don't have an elevator pitch.\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1018.0,1019.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Speaking of like the non-Jewish community, have you seen that change since you were a kid?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1019.0,1027.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: When I was a kid⁠—I don't really know. We had some non-Jews live on our block and we were friendly, but we didn't really socialize with them I guess, because, you know, they weren't part of our community. And I went to an all Jewish girls school, and then we would go to syn⁠—Like there was no really mixing, I guess.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1027.0,1048.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1048.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Now I just noticed more, you know, because I'm [crosstalk]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1050.0,1055.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [crosstalk] Not five anymore.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1055.0,1056.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I'm not five anymore. You know, like I see like we have more non-Jews coming to the library. I see⁠—we do have some like non-Jewish shops and stores on Main Street, you know? Like I see it. I mean also, like I just know, a lot more non-Jews now. I went to college⁠—Queens College after going to Jewish schools for my entire life. I met a ton of people through work. So it's just like, I noticed different things now I guess.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1056.0,1087.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Okay. Yeah. Because know like there's a fairly large, I think Persian speaking population now, which isn't large comparatively just based on like, what's checked out at the library as how things have shifted. So [pause] do you want to stay in Kew Gardens Hills? Is it a place you could see making your own home?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1087.0,1120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah, Like I said, I'm a homebody. I don't like change. I mean, I work in Queens, you know, so for me staying here⁠— I mean, my brother and sister got married. They moved to Long Island and New Jersey, but we're not like far, you know, we pretty much stay, I think you muted yourself.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1120.0,1143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Sorry.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1143.0,1144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: It's Okay.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1144.0,1146.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So if it's, it's definitely a place you want to stay [pause] what are, outside of say like religious community connections? Like, are you politically involved in the community or like in any other kind of realms?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1146.0,1171.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Not really. My politics and the politics of this community. Maybe don't gel so much, you know, I don't want to like put down the community, but I'm a little bit more liberal than say the rest of, or at least the majority, there are plenty of people here who are, you know, but just like the majority's politics are not mine.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1171.0,1192.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Is that difficult for you?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1192.0,1194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. I mean, mostly, you know, like right now when we don't go out anywhere. So I don't like have to⁠—well, Facebook arguments are one thing, but like, I used to like sit at the meal table and then have to listen and I'm like not a confrontational person. So I would just be like, keep my head down and just get through it. I'm not going to change their minds. You know? Like some people you might think like, Oh, I don't know about that⁠—these people are these people, that's not it⁠—but like, just like they have their minds made up and they're very firmly set on one thing and mine is very firmly set and another thing, and I don't want to beat my head against a wall. It's not gonna change.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1194.0,1234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That makes sense. That makes sense. [Pause] So compared to the rest of New York City, I might want to break this down into a couple into a couple of questions. So you have compared to like the rest of Queens, or the rest of New York City how would you say Kew Gardens? Hills is different and then a follow-up question of that is going to be compared to the other Jewish neighborhoods in Queens and in the city. How do you think it's different?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1234.0,1270.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Well, the rest of Queens, I guess when I was younger I just knew Kew Gardens Hills. I kind of knew some of the other neighborhoods because I would go to school there or just, we knew people. I don't know. Honestly, [laughter] I didn't realize how big Queens was until like college, which sounds ridiculous, but I didn't. And then now at the library and you hear all these⁠—we have like 63 branches and all this, and I'm just like, where even? I've never even heard of that place. Like where even is St. Alban's or like Auburndale? Like I have no clue, you know, so stuff like that. I don't really know other parts of Queens so much. Like I only really know where, like I worked [laughter]. There are other places that have insular communities based on where people are from, or, you know, their religion.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1270.0,1329.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: So I don't know how we're different than those communities. Like, we're not the biggest melting pot, I guess you could say, as opposed to like, I know Richmond Hill, when I worked there. Our customers were very mixed, you know, so, but like⁠—grown-up, they're not mixed, so it's very, like, it's just where I am. And different from other Jewish communities. I don't know. Like we are, I feel like we're the biggest one in Queens, at least in terms of like, I feel like most of the Kosher supermarkets are here. Most of the Kosher restaurants, like I know Hillcrest and Fresh Meadows have and like Forest Hills, but I don't think they have as many.I feel like they're more spread out almost mostly⁠—I don't know. That's what I think. And I don't know about the rest of New York city. Because I pretty much [crosstalk]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1329.0,1385.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Pretty much stick to Queens and Kew Gardens Hills.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1385.0,1387.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah, I don't know if there's like a part of like Manhattan, that's just Jewish you know? Like, I guess the Upper West Side, but there are plenty of people live on⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1387.0,1394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [crosstalk] I think Murray Hill is.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1394.0,1396.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Maybe I have no clue. I mean, Brooklyn of course has like, you know, their community, but I also don't want to go to Brooklyn very often if I can help it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1396.0,1407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: it's it sounds like you're pretty kind of content to be where you're at. Would that be true?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1407.0,1413.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yes.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1413.0,1414.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1414.0,1415.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. I like where I am.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1415.0,1418.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's that's good.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1418.0,1420.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1420.0,1421.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's good. So let's see. [pause] What is maybe a couple of the really unique things about Kew Gardens Hills? Like I know you tend to stick in the area and so I'm not necessarily asking you to like compare it to another location, but just things that you think are really unique.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1421.0,1452.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't know⁠—I don't know, because I don't know if there was anything so unique or if it's just like, it's my home and I like it. So, I don't know if we have anything really that amazing that is like so unique compared to like Manhattan, you know, or if it's just, I like being home and this is home. Like? Do we have anything unique? Just the sense of community, I guess, is the most unique thing. I don't know if there's like, there's no, like skating rink , you know, like there's nothing drawing people in, I guess, I don't know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1452.0,1497.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: It sounds like the kind of place where if, if your neighbors need help, you can ask for help and you get that kind of support. Yeah? [Crosstalk]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1497.0,1505.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [Crosstalk] Yeah\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1505.0,1506.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: My mom has like a WhatsApp group for the neighborhood or even just for the block. And like, I remember one time, I don't know, my sister right before Shabbos started, had like, something was stuck in her eye and we had like no eye medicine or anything. And she was going crazy, and we didn't have time to like go to an eye doctor, right? So my mom just put on a WhatsApp group, like half an hour before shops⁠—like anyone have any eye medicine or anything. And three people, especially like one guy who's like a member of like the Hatzolah the Jewish ambulance service, was like, I have it, I live around the corner just like \"I have it!\" And he gave like, unopened, like huge things of eye medicine. So you know, anything you need, like my mom last night, actually, we had like a plumbing emergency in out house at like 3:00 AM. So my mom like put it on⁠—there's a Kew Gardens Hills Facebook page⁠— and just like anywhere she could think of like anyone know a 24 hour plumber service and literally someone from across the street 30 minutes later said my husband is up and going to work, just call him. He's very⁠—think he was on an electrician, but he knows some plumbing. And he came in like did a temporary fix, you know, you need help. You can find it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1506.0,1573.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's great. That's great. I feel like sometimes there's a lot of neighborhoods where you don't have that kind of connection.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1573.0,1579.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1579.0,1581.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So being able to have that, I could definitely see why you'd want to stay there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1581.0,1587.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1587.0,1588.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So you mentioned your mom's WhatsApp group and Facebook. I also heard like there's a little listserv for the community. It is there like a digital⁠—so is there a pretty, like big digital presence for the neighborhood residents?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1588.0,1607.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I think so. I mean, I don't know about the listserv, but you know, they're like the Facebook [unclear], you know, I'm part of it. Like some of it is just like, I stay away from like the political ones, but you know, like everyone's like, has anyone seen a package? It said it was delivered or, you know, they'll post a picture. Like this is not my door. Has anyone, you know, has anyone seen my bag? You know, things like that or like the WhatsApps or like, you know, just, I don't know. My mom's always like, you know, she's on all these things, actually, the I'm pretty sure. I don't know if it was a Kew Gardens Hills thing, but they had like a vaccine. I think it was started by someone in the community. They had like a vaccine WhatsApp group. People literally there's like already a thousand members. It was already like cut off at the⁠—but like, people are like, okay, quickly go there's, you know, there's spots open here or there. So like, that's how, like, we all got our vaccine appointments because my mom was like on group. And she saw like right away that, you know, people post that, you know, this place has appointments available now or, you know, so, you know, there's a very big.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1607.0,1669.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So since it's come up a couple of times, and I think COVID pandemic, stuff's honestly unavoidable to talk about right now. One, how have you been doing?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1669.0,1684.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [Sighs].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1684.0,1684.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah [laughter]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1684.0,1685.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I've been alright recently, but I will say that like, at the beginning, like in March time. I was like, fine. You know, like I still was going to stores cause back then, like, it was bad, but like, people weren't like, like masks were still like⁠—should we wear masks? Should we not wear masks? So I would wear masks when like I went to the supermarket, but like not everyone was then back then it wasn't a big deal. But then I would say like, my sister had a baby in April.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1685.0,1713.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Oh.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1713.0,1714.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: So like, and she was gonna need help. So not that I was going anywhere. Right. The library was closed, but that, and I'm just like, you know what? I don't want to chance anything. Like, we just didn't go anywhere. You know? Like we had our groceries delivered, all our food delivered.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1714.0,1729.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: We just didn't go anywhere. Cause I was like, I don't want to chance, you know, something happening and not being able to see my new baby. So then my sister had a baby and like, like we literally, our two families did not go anywhere. Like the only place we went to was each other's houses because also my parents are older, you know? Like I was like very worried. And then, then I don't remember when it happened, but early on actually one of my pages from Richmond Hill, he passed away from COVID. And that just like, he was like 24, young.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1729.0,1762.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Wow\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1762.0,1762.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: And that just like put me in a very⁠—and then I pretty much fell into like a depression for a good few months. I want to say 'til like the summer, like June, July, and I did not leave my house unless I was going to see, my sister did not leave the house at all.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1762.0,1779.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: And it kind of all the days kind of bleed together, you know, like I could blink and a week had passed. So I basically became a hermit.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1779.0,1787.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1787.0,1787.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Then when the summer hit, I started like exercising and going on walks. And also by that time, like things were getting better, you know? So I was like getting a little, like going out on walks and just getting out of the house. And then I didn't really go back to work until November cause I wasn't called back and now, I mean, works fine, you know, it's just the three days on three days off, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1787.0,1823.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah. How would you say in such a communally focused neighborhood COVID's impact has been?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1823.0,1831.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I mean it's hard, you know, like synagogues were closed. There were some like outside⁠—at least in the summer ⁠—there were some outside like prayer groups going on -for a while my dad was going to those. But I feel like I don't want to like bad mouth my community, like, but there are parts of the community that like either didn't think it was a big deal, so don't mask up when they go anywhere, and some of the stores are letting them, you know, and then there's some people that are like, okay it's over, you know? And some people aren't⁠—but it's very hard especially I'm so careful⁠—to see people not being careful, like it drives me crazy. So I don't really go anywhere anymore. Like I still don't go to the supermarkets or anything cause people are not being careful enough.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1831.0,1884.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1884.0,1885.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: You know? So it drives me crazy, but I mean, there are like, some people are just like back to not, you know, like, and that drives me nuts because it's not back to normal. Like we had like a low⁠—we had a dip in like cases and I'm like the only way for it to stay a dip is like to not do what you're doing. But I mean, you can't force anyone to⁠— unfortunately⁠—care about other people.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1885.0,1915.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Was, like the new year and the following⁠—it's Sukkot⁠—is the following holiday. Was that, that difficult? Because I know particularly that is a holiday about gathering together.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1915.0,1928.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. I mean the New Year⁠—obviously you're supposed to go to synagogue and stay⁠—I didn't go actually like the first time in my adult life, like I was like, even outside, like I'm not prepared. But my mom and dad went outside, you know, they said it was fine. Like services were shorter. Like they didn't take as long. They like rushed through things. For Rosh Hashanah, my⁠—we actually all like were quarantined. I mean we all quarantined before, I got tested and actually my entire family was able, I mean, my brother and my sister came over, which was nice. Because like my brother, like my sister, we saw for a while during the pandemic, you know, just like during quarantine, because again, we did it. But my brother actually, he lives in New Jersey, but he went to my sister-in-law's family in Connecticut⁠—cause like they have a bigger house, they have more people.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1928.0,1984.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Cause my nephew was almost two at the time. It was like one and a half to two. So he⁠—they were in a small apartment in New Jersey. They would have gone⁠—And my brother and sister-in-law both had to work from home. So they would have just gone nuts. So like, but we barely, like we maybe like once or twice in the summer, like had an outdoor thing when we all wore masks, where you could see each other, but we hadn't seen my nephew in so long, you know, like FaceTime, like it's fine for awhile. So for Rosh Hashanah we were actually all able to just hang⁠—be together, which was nice. And thankfully, no one got sick after. I mean, we were all like, we all pretty much never went anywhere before and then got tested. So, yeah. And Sukkot⁠—I think my sister came again for that holiday. So yeah you normally go around to people and say hi, but like⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=1984.0,2038.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: And one of the parts of it is Simchat Torah we celebrate⁠—that's a lot of dancing and candy and like that's a big day for everyone being together. It's hard, but you know, I think that it's better to stop for a year or two and like save lives and to like just like hold on to doing something just because we do it every year. Like it's hard. But would you rather have half your community be there or would you rather in a year or two or would you rather just⁠—you know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2038.0,2073.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: I know some communities have been doing like digital services and stuff, but I also know there's certain days you can't, you guys can't do digital services. Have you seen a rise of digital events in your community or is it not really been going that way?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2073.0,2090.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: No, there've been like digital events, but like obviously on Shabbos we can't like⁠—from Friday night, Saturday night⁠—we can't really use electronics. So that, so like service, like during the week fine, you know, like there have been like zoom, like services and stuff, but not on, not on the weekends, so that's, but like there, they have been like zoom lectures and stuff like that, that the different synagogues or different community organizations have put on. Yeah. Stuff like that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2090.0,2125.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's cool. Is there anything else that's kind of happened towards the pandemic during like focused on the community that you want to mention?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2125.0,2139.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Not that I can think of. I mean [pause] I don't think so.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2139.0,2146.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Like I said, I pretty much became a hermit\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2146.0,2149.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: For the entire time.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2149.0,2151.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah. I haven't⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2151.0,2153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [crosstalk] I will say people have not been happy about the library being turned into a COVID testing center.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2153.0,2158.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Tell me about that. I mean, I I've heard a little bit, but let's put some on the record.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2158.0,2163.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. I mean, I know that someone posted in the Facebook group and I didn't wanna - I don't want to be like⁠—and they were just saying how like, like why couldn't they just put it in an empty, like whatever.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2163.0,2177.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Like an empty storefront. Like it was when the library was closed for a while and it was just like, cause the library⁠—I was like, I got kind of got into it with someone because the library is the biggest space and you know what I got like, and then he's like, but why did it have to be Kew Gardens HIlls? Why couldn't it have been a different library? I'm like, cause this is where the outbreak or at least that's where the rising numbers were for awhile. And the library probably had like, I dunno, but the library probably has some kind of deal or an agreement maybe. Cause there are other libraries that are testing centers. And I mean, it's really strange. I've been in the library to get tested and it's so I'm like, where did you put all the books? Cause that's [crosstalk] going to be fun.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2177.0,2213.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: [crosstalk] What does it look like inside?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2213.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: It's so weird. Everything is like all, all the shelves. I guess all the books were like pushed somewhere. I don't know where and like it's all like a doctor's office, you know? Like I could kind of see like the children's circulation desk, like all covered up. But like you actually like⁠—it doesn't even look like the library. Like it's so⁠—you come in and like, you go that way to like⁠—towards the manager's office almost. And that's where you get like the first, like you get signed in and then you go all the way around to I'm guessing where like the, the stacks were like the adult stacks and then they swab you. And then where like the new books were, that's like the waiting area where you wait for your results, if you want to. And then, but then you have to leave through the back.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2216.0,2260.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Oh wow.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2260.0,2261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Like I've never left through the back, the emergency exit, I guess\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2261.0,2266.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: With the little gate behind the library?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2266.0,2266.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. That's where you leave. So it's just like very, I'm like⁠—I wonder how long it's gonna [laughter] take to put everything back. Like what was it carpeted before? Now it's not carpet.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2266.0,2277.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah it was carpeted.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2277.0,2279.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: No, they took that. It's⁠—not linoleum⁠—like wood floors now, but yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2279.0,2285.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Wow\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2285.0,2286.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: So I got into it with someone about it. Because I'm like, there are three libraries in like within a mile, like there's Queensboro Hill, there's Briarwood. And then there's also Forest Hills, and Hillcrest ,and all the ones around. And he's like, but Kew Gardens HIlls was like doing the, he said, I like we were behind central or something. I don't remember. He basically said that they had the highest rate. They had highest circulation count Kew Gardens HIlls. And I'm like, is that true?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2286.0,2314.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: It is, it is true\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2314.0,2316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Of the before times that we were in the top 10 circulation.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2316.0,2319.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Right.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2319.0,2319.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Top ten, but he was like, they were the top. And I'm like, I don't think that's true. And I didn't want to say like I worked with the library and I know that's not true because I'm like, where did you hear that? And he's like, what are the librarians told me. And I'm just like⁠—he said like the top one. And I'm like, no, they're not like they get a lot, but like they're not beating Central or Flushing or Elmhurst or any of like the much bigger ones. But I was just like, I'm not getting into it. I'm just like, okay. I'm just like, just walk to Briarwood, but it's not that far, you know, like that's where I am now. I'm just like, just walk there to get your books. And I mean what's annoying about Briairwood not Brairwood itself, but just like, we always get the calls. Like my book was supposed to be at Kew Gardens Hills Where is it now? And I'm like, probably still at Kew Gardens HIlls in a box somewhere. [Crosstalk].\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2319.0,2366.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: In the basement.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2366.0,2367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. Like can't help you with that. So, you know.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2367.0,2375.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So, is there anything else that we didn't kind of talk about about Kew Gardens Hills that you want to say?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2375.0,2383.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't think so. I mean, I do have like criticisms of the community sometimes, but I still love it, you know? Like, but it's still like my home, like my favorite place to be.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2383.0,2394.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Do you, do you want to talk about any of the criticisms?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2394.0,2399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Uh, not on camera. [laughter]\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2399.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's fair. [laughter] That's fair. Like you can, you can have mixed feelings about a place and still love it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2400.0,2406.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2406.0,2406.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's cool.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2406.0,2407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: That's like I talked about some of them like the politics and some of the response to COVID and not being as careful, but you know, like you, can't a community is made up of many people and so some people are they way they are, you can't change them.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2407.0,2428.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: And when it's your home, it's your home.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2428.0,2431.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Yeah. Like it's still, you know, I try to ignore that part for my own sanity, but you know, the parts I love. I love\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2431.0,2439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So as a final question for you, then, what is your hope for Kew Gardens Hills in the future?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2439.0,2450.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: [sigh] [pause] I don't know. Like just to get back to some form of normalcy, you know, like the synagogues being full again and everyone, you know, getting vaccinated [laughter] as soon as they can, I will say I'm pretty sure, like at least most of the people here are like, pro-vaccine, you know, like they want to get the vaccine as soon as possible. They're not⁠—so that's something, you know⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2450.0,2473.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: That's great⁠—\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2473.0,2473.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: ⁠—like they're all like let's get the vaccine to be able to get back to normal, you know?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2473.0,2480.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: So beyond COVID.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2480.0,2482.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: yes.\t\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2482.0,2483.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: What would be your hope for the community as you continue to make your home there?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2483.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: I don't know. I mean [laughter] maybe for rent prices to down because you know, how expensive it is to live here, like, like a one bedroom apartment is like $2,000 a month. So it's hard. Because so many people want to live here that, you know, you can, you can charge as much as you want, you know, but I don't know, just for every, like I said, things get back to normal people to still love their neighbors and help out and just kind of continue, you know, the way it's been, I guess.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2490.0,2526.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you for sharing your stories and your information about the, about the neighborhood you live in. There's probably going to be some up emails that you'll get from me. Eventually I'll have a transcript and we'll both go over the transcript and then we can like edit it when it inevitably spells somebody's name wrong. So we can do that later and I'll be in touch. And f you don't have anything else that you'd like to say, I think we can end.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2526.0,2556.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: It was good seeing you.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2556.0,2557.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAsher MacInnis-Call: It was good seeing you, and have a good Shabbos.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2557.0,2560.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863/transcript/29112/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nEsther Petrushka: Thank you. Have a good weekend.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1432/collection_resources/43802/file/116863#t=2560.0,2564.57143"}]}]}]}