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And my first question will be, when did you first move to Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=2.0,15.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Um, when I was three years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=15.0,19.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And what year was that? If you don't mind.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=19.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: 1961","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=26.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: What brought you to Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=26.0,29.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: My parents and I lived in Manhattan and they wanted to go to the suburbs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=29.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And what are some of your first memories? I mean, I know you were young, but was there anything that really stood out to you as a memory from early childhood?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=35.0,45.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: My earliest memories are around age five, going to the parks on 79th, on Broadway and 79th street, first going to kindergarten at PS 69, then going to first grade a St. Joan of Arc's on 82nd Street. So I have a lot of good memories around that time, around early age, around four or five or so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=45.0,70.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And can you describe something you loved in a place that you lived there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=70.0,75.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: I loved our house on 77th street between Roosevelt and 37th Avenue, because it was up from block and PS 69. So when we would say we were going outside to play, we would literally go into the school yard to play because it was on the same street. We didn't have to cross the street. It was like seven or eight houses up from us. So we got to play in this big school yard and we played handball and Dodge ball and all racing and everything. And we could ride our bikes in there. So that's like my favorite house. And also that's the house where we all lived in together. My four brothers, myself, my grandmother and my parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=75.0,110.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: How many different locations or houses did you live in, in Jackson Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=110.0,118.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: So 74th, 77, 75th. I only lived in three.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=118.0,126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And what do you think prompted all the moves?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=126.0,132.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Oh, because my parents didn't own anything and they never planned to stay here. Remember were immigrants from Cuba. And my parents always thought they'd go back, so they never wanted to own. So as the family grew, we left Manhattan. There was only three of us. It was my older brother and I, and my parents because it was only four of us. And then when we moved to Jackson Heights, it was my younger brother and my two older brothers. My grandmother too, so as a family group, we had to move.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=132.0,168.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: So at the largest home, how many bedrooms did you have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=168.0,181.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: There was three bedrooms and a den. So my grandma and I shared a room, my two brothers shared a room and my parents had their room. And then we had the den for like guests and stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=181.0,194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And, you know the historic district, it wasn't established until 1993, but was there ever a separation between the area? And what was the separation like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=194.0,209.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: By nationalities. So you had the Hispanics livedon, around the eighties, maybe second street, so maybe second St to like the nineties were mostly Hispanics, blacks. And then from Sunny Side to around the eighties and second street, you had Germans on one side Italians on the other side, then you have some mixtures, but, um, it was definitely by zones.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=209.0,245.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And what were the garden apartments like? What did you guys think of them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=245.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: The garden apartments were the, were back then what we would consider now townhouses that was like first versions of the townhouses where the garden apartments, when you had a little piece of property in the front end, very little bit of piece of property to the back, the whole thing, total, a quarter of an acre, if you were lucky. And then inside was kind of like row house apartments, but those are luxury houses to us back then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=252.0,282.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And then there's the ones that have the gardens, the whole block long...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=282.0,286.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Yes, nside in the middle or the front of the houses, Correct.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=286.0,292.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And I know you were young, but this idea of a co-op, a cooperative house. And I know your parents didn't want to own anything, but did it ever come up? Did talk about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=292.0,310.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Um, my best friend Karen's parents owned the co-op on 89 and 32nd Avenue, which is still considered Jackson Heights. And, her mom is still there and her apartment, she got married and later moved into one of the apartments there. So she and her husband's still there. Those were luxury apartment buildings, you know, we have washer and dryers downstairs and we have garages and the apartments were really, really nice. But, um, so yes, I'm well aware of it. And actually I looked into buying one when I first got married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=310.0,346.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And what made you move out of Jackson Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=346.0,350.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Annmarie we was going to go to, Annmarie is my daughter, I don't want to say gifted, but she was advanced. So when she was going into fifth grade, they wanted to put her in middle school. And there is a huge difference between a fifth grader going into fifth grade and a sixth grader. There is a huge, huge difference. And so we wanted to find the school system that was better fit. And then unfortunately, Fred got, pistol-whipped coming home from work one day and they beat him up really, really bad and stuff. So that made us decide to leave.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=350.0,392.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: You relocate to the same area of Connecticut that you are in now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=392.0,397.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Yep. Norwalk Connecticut.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=397.0,402.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Do you think you would ever consider living in Queens again?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=402.0,405.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: No. I was there last week and I can tell you that's not going to happen. I miss Jackson Heights and after we moved to Connecticut, I had made my mom a promise to take her back every week. And I did because she would get her hair done in Jackson Heights for over four or five years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=405.0,427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And where did she get her hair done?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=427.0,429.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: On 37th avenue between 74th and 73rd street. And we took her down every week. We would take her down or every other week because I said after the first year I \"Okay, Mom, this hair has to last two weeks.\" So we went down for many years and then we also still have family back then. My aunt lived in Elmhurst on 82nd and Broadway. So we would go there. And then Karen my best friend lived on 89th street and 32nd Avenue. And for a long time, I still had my pediatrician there. And so a little by little, it took us like over three or four years to stop going back to Jackson Heights for a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=429.0,476.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: From the time that you lived there, and even when visiting with your mom, what were some of the things that changed the most?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=476.0,485.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Well, I didn't really notice the changes because you grow up, everything changes. You know, you started to have more and more people, more Asians coming in a lot more Indians coming in and little by little, the Hispanics were being pushed out. The Americans were being pushed out the Italians and everything were being pushed out. So it wasn't until we left in 90, did we noticed, when were living in Connecticut and going down once a week or every other week that I started to notice a huge changes in Jackson Heights. Like our hispanic restaurants were closing down and more Indians were moving in. More Asians were moving in and, and so it was in the nineties that we noticed that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=485.0,548.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And Diversity Plaza, we talked about last time. The name of it kept changing...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=548.0,558.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Yeah. It changed all the time from Little Kolkata, to Little Colombian to not so much Cuban, but more Puerto Rican and stuff like that. So yes, it changed a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=558.0,571.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And when you lived in Jackson Heights, did you ever really need to leave the area for anything? 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It was mostly in Elmhurst.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=641.0,653.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And did you have a sense of safety when you lived in Jackson Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=653.0,658.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Yeah, and my parents never worried about us. We had a sense of community. Everybody knew everybody and everybody knew each other's mothers and fathers. And believe me, they watched out for us. I mean, Mrs. Riley will yell at us the same way Mrs. Martinez would yell at us. She didn't care who kid that was there. If we were doing something wrong, we all got it together. And there was none of this going, \"Hey mom, Mrs. Riley yelled at me!\"Mom would go, \"Well, what were you doing wrong?\" You all got yelled at together. So, yeah it was a sense of community, a sense of safety. Everybody took care of each other. 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And that's was very much where, um, the gay community started in Jackson Heights. And, um, so that's in one block, that's where the acting was. And that was so that was constantly, you know, there's a bar on the corner of 77th and Roosevelt. So a lot of times when those guys came out drunk and stuff like that, and they would see two guys making out or anything, they would go beat them up and make their lives miserable. So yes, there was a lot of homophobic going on in that area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=720.0,764.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Yeah. I know over the over time it really changed from, I understand there's like, there's like a really big parade every year.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=764.0,773.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Yep. Jackson high school is grown culturally and has come into the 21st century. It's, it's more inclusive of everybody, not just gays, but transa--that, not just gays, but trans, um, gender and, um, blacks and whites and speck w they all get along now where growing up, um, we always had that issue with blacks and whites and Hispanics and, you know, it was always there. The tension was always there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=773.0,807.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And what, how did it, um, like manifest when you were younger? Was there a lot of fights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=807.0,812.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: A lot of gangs, A lot of gangs and a lot of fights. And, um, it was hard for us because we were really like the first Hispanic family. And so we didn't really fit in anywhere. We weren't black, we weren't American, but we were white our skin color was white. So, um, we didn't, we, me personally, I had no problems, neither did my brothers, but, um, it was always difficult for us because whose side, what side did you pick? If you had to pick black side or a white American side? So it was always an issue. So we tried to stay neutral.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=812.0,851.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And I remember you had mentioned something about living in a basement apartment, uh, temporarily. 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It was, I think something about with, um, with uncle Fred","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=865.0,871.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: And Fred, did you live in a basement apartment in Jackson Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=871.0,878.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[Annmarie]: If you lived there? That was the one that grandma used to say. You used to take me and I used to hate it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=878.0,883.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: It wasn't a an apartment. No, it wasn't an apartment basement. 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Cause I only, I only had notes from the last interview, so","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=895.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: I mean, one of our houses had a basement and we did a lot of stuff in the basement, like the laundry and we hung out down there. It was very dark and it was sectioned off to storage and then stuff. 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And my daughter did that too. Annmarie is eating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=918.0,956.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Oh, good. Yeah. Did you ever see the documentary in Jackson Heights?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=956.0,962.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: No. We talked about that last time. I forgot to watch it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=962.0,966.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Yeah. It's um, you can watch it for free with your library card on something called canopy, but that's the only place I was able to find it. Okay. It's yeah, it's just, it's, uh, it, it plays heavily on the fact that Jackson Heights is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world. And I think that's really interesting. I don't know what your thoughts are and why that is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=966.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Why, because it's easy to get into Manhattan. It's easy to get to long Island, um, because you have the trains and the buses, and then you also have the Rockaways, which is its own little Island and that you can get there by bus, I think it's also because it always was to diversified. It just wasn't the diversified, like we know it now, like I said, you had, hi, I'm sorry. So I said like in Woodside, you had a lot of your, um, Polish and the Italians then in Corona, you definitely had a lot of Hispanics and you have a lot of, um, African-Americans and Hispanics. And then in sunny, Sunnyside, you had some Asians. So in a store you had all the Greeks and stuff. So I, it was very diversalize, but nobody crossed into each other's territories. Okay. 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Um, people are more tolerant of each other, um, Italians and obviously you can get married without any issues these days in blacks and Hispanics and blacks and Indian. And you know, I think it's more accessible and that's why it's in Jackson Heights is the most diversified, um, borough in the world because there's more, we're more tolerable of each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1053.0,1113.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Yeah. I think the Queens like is tolerance. Everybody's kind of just tolerating everybody and, and, but it's, there's more pos-- it's like positive tolerance. Not like,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1113.0,1124.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Oh, definitely not. I mean, we never would think of going to Flushing, you're in Jackson Heights. You never, I mean, you went to Flushing to go to the world's fair and to go to, um, it wasn't even called Mets stadium before it wasn't even called what's it called now? It's closer to fields. Now. It wasn't even called Shea stadium when I was growing up. But what was it called? It was wasn't it called giant stadium? Or just say him. It was the, just the jets and the Mets. She had the stadium. So it depends on what side of the season was. So, you know, it's all about going of flushing. Ever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1124.0,1165.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Just because you didn't need to go there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1165.0,1168.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: I mean, we didn't need to go there. Um, you just didn't, you know, unless you had a reason for going, I mean, cause they had like, they had a, what we call an Alexander, it was a store department store, but we also have one in Jackson Heights. Um, and if you wanted to go like to a gimbals, then you went to the city, you wanted to go to Bloomingdale's. We went into the City. Cause we didn't have those things there, um, in Jackson Heights, but we had them all and it was pretty good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1168.0,1198.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: And did, did you or any of your friends have any gardens in their yards or front yards?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1198.0,1206.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Yes. If you had an apartment, Oh, you lived in a garden apartment, you had them, you grew stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1206.0,1213.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Food","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1213.0,1215.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: Or tomato, especially if you're Italian. Oh my God. We had tomatoes galore. We had the house, we lived on 77th street. The landlord was Italian and believe me, there was plenty of tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers and yeah. All that good stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1215.0,1236.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: That's great. Well, that's kind of all my questions, but before we wrap up, was there anything else that you wanted to mention about? Yeah. Yeah. 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Um, so that's such a plus also the people, uh, genuinely caring people, um, this field, that sense of community, even with all those buildings and all those, I mean, I was just, I was watching the news the other day day. There was a huge fire on 89th and 34th Avenue. Huge. And all I heard was 89th street and I'm texting my friend, my best friend's husband. Are you guys okay? Where is this fire?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1248.0,1316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: It's on 89th street, but I couldn't get the Avenue and he's texting me back. Hi, great to talk to you. Love to---they were fine, but he said they all on 89th street people wouldn't a lot of the, the neighborhood came out and went down the street as close as they can get bringing blankets, water, bringing food, um, first aid kids to help because a lot of people got hurt. I don't know if you know, but I think 16, firemen got hurt and I don't mean how many people went to the hospital and die, but it was pretty serious fire. And I started when I was watching and I literally put on New York news because that's one of the good things of living Norwalk. You can get both local news, Connecticut news and New York news. And I had tears in my eyes because I saw, I was like, it's not just Norwalk pulling together, Jackson Heights pulling together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1316.0,1374.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: And all the fire departments from all over Texas, all over Queens were coming out of the help. Um, police officers from other areas came to help. People came to, I was like, that's my Jackson Heights. And at the same token, I also cry horribly last year when I saw the frozen containers to put people in on the COVID and Elmhurst hospital-- killed me. But then those people came to me. As I saw that they had visuals, they were coming out of seven o'clock in clapping that all started in Jackson Heights, by the way, that did not start in Manhattan. It did not start here in Connecticut. It started in Jackson Heights and I was very proud of it. So yes, Queens has come a long way in 50 years. Um, and I can say that because 50 years ago I was teenager. And um, I would move back to Queens only.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1374.0,1442.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: They got rid of so many buildings. I mean, I, when I drove on the Van Wyck and I see that mall, you guys have them, I'm like, where the hell did this come from? And I'm like, so congested. So, so congested. I was like, I can't do this anymore. I'm not saying Norwalk is not congested. I just happen to live in a section that is not that congested. You know, we have room next to each other. I don't hear my neighbors yelling and screaming at each other. But um, if I can, if, if any of my grandchildren said they want to move to Jackson Heights, I would say, let's go, let's call it a fun house or an apartment or a townhouse or whatever, because I think it's the best area. If you're going to live in the city of New York, that's one of the best areas to live in because you can get to everywhere. So yes, that's my final thoughts on it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1442.0,1489.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Krystal Kaler: Thank you so much, Chris. So helpful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1489.0,1492.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393/transcript/34385/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cris Bonilla: I hope you do really good. How are you interviewing other people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/56193/file/130393#t=1492.0,1495.168"}]}]}]}