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Chin's father owned a laundry business in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but the business was the target of burglaries in the late 1970s and arson in 1987. Chin and her family moved to Elmhurst in 1981; she worked to help support her family, married in the late 1980s, and moved to Auburndale in the mid-1990s where she and her husband raised their daughter.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eChin speaks about her decision to homeschool her daughter and to get her daughter involved in cycling at the Kissena Velodrome. Chin explains that she initially founded Kissena Synergy to keep the velodrome area safe and clean, but the group has grown over time and has taken on additional responsibilities that supplement the work of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (e.g. tree planting, mulching, and weeding). 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Today is January 31st, 2025. I am interviewing for the first time Leona Chin. This interview is taking place at Melting Cups, Sunnyside, Queens. This interview is part of the Queens Memory Project. So Leona, can you just briefly talk about yourself and how you were raised in Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, I was born in New York City. My name is Leona Chin. I was born in New York City. I was raised in New York City, went to school in New York City. I lived in Brooklyn most of my life before going to college for a few years at Drexel [University] in Philadelphia. I returned, I went to school at NYU [New York University] and I, then, I got married, moved back to Brooklyn, another place in Brooklyn, and then—now I'm so confused.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=36.0,73.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I actually lived in Queens. I lived in Elmhurst, and then after getting married, I moved to Brooklyn. I worked many years while I was in Brooklyn. And while working as a legal assistant, I was asked to teach at Queens College. So in 1996, I started teaching at Queens College. I was teaching basic office skills. Then I was teaching a legal secretary course, and then I was teaching paralegals. At that time, which was back in '96, I moved to Queens. We bought a house in Queens, I had my daughter, and I've been in Queens ever since.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=73.0,132.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And whereabout in Queens after you moved back the second time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=132.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I live actually in Auburndale, which is between Flushing and Bayside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=138.0,144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And can you tell us more about your family's immigration background?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=144.0,153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: From what I can remember and recall, my dad came to the United States in the mid-1950s, I think, settled in Washington, DC, where my uncles and, I guess, grandfather had a business. They had a laundry and other relatives had a grocery store. And I think in nineteen fifty, I don't know, six or seven, my dad found a laundry space in Brooklyn, and he brought my mother over from China, and they settled in Brooklyn. And we settled in Bedford-Stuyvesant, so I grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a very mixed neighborhood. Many of my friends are still my friends from grade school, junior high school, high school. I went to high school in Brooklyn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=153.0,221.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And since when did you move to Elmhurst?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=221.0,224.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: We moved to Elmhurst in 1981. And that was actually after we had a series of, I guess, robberies at my dad's—he had a laundry, so that was his business. And so he moved us all out because we lived above the laundry in an apartment. So we moved out to Elmhurst and my dad commuted so that he was able to continue his business and, I guess, take care of the family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=224.0,254.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: But while we were out in Queens, I had already started working. So I was working part-time, going to school back and forth. My sister was going to school in Queens. She was going to school at St. John's [University], and my brother was at Stuyvesant [High School] and getting ready to go to MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. So we were, I guess, in a lot of transition at that time, but Queens is our base. And, yeah, so 1980s or so we started, so I've been here, oh my God, 40 years [laughter]. I've been here a long time. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=254.0,289.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So Elmhurst, 1981, then you say 1996 you moved [to Auburndale], but between there was a period you were still like—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=289.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I was in Brooklyn because I got married. So we couldn't really afford a house or anything, so we found a small studio apartment in Brooklyn, and we moved to Brooklyn. And basically we just isolated ourselves, but we just worked. So we just work, work, work, work. And we participated, I guess, in sports. My husband played basketball and volleyball with, I guess, the New York City Chinatown teams. I played volleyball with the New York City Chinatown team. And that's what we did for recreation. It was just work and see our friends.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=300.0,338.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And you say in the eighties there were burglaries or robberies in [unclear]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=338.0,345.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: In Brooklyn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=345.0,346.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Specifically targeting small business or—how was the public safety?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=346.0,352.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. Well, let's see. While I was away at college in—I guess it was 1979. Let me see if I got this right. '79, '78—'78-'79, I was away at school and my dad didn't want to tell me that we were having issues at home because he wanted me to continue to study. But my sister called me and said, like, my mom is on edge, everybody's on edge. So I said, okay, the only thing for me to do is come home. So I did. And since I was going to Drexel, which is a cooperative school—it's a five-year program, you study and then you go to work for six months or something and back and forth—I said, I'll just come home and go to work. So I did. And then I wound up working full-time and going to school at night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=352.0,403.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: How old were you at that point?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=403.0,406.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I was 18.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=406.0,406.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: 18, okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=406.0,407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. So it was just a lot of—I'm the oldest, so I felt a responsibility. I didn't feel as driven as my brother, who's the youngest, so I said, I'll be okay. I'll just work. And so I was able to make enough money to support. So that's what I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=407.0,431.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And so how was the neighborhood? Can you recall what was the neighborhood looking like? Are there a lot of Asians?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=431.0,439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: In my first neighborhood in Brooklyn?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=439.0,441.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=441.0,442.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No [laughs]. We were the only Asians. There was another Asian—there was another laundry. So we were a Chinese laundry on one street, three blocks away there was another Chinese laundry. It used to be all small businesses. But it was just very—there was a lot of turmoil because there were a lot of, how would you say, I don't want to call it—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=442.0,462.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Turmoil in terms of—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=462.0,466.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I don't want to call it race riot, but there was a lot of uprising, protesting. So I guess people felt if you protested against businesses, you would get your message across. So that's basically what happened to us. And the reason we had to leave, or actually the reason my father had to leave Brooklyn was because someone set our place on fire.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=466.0,491.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: What?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=491.0,492.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: It was absolutely insane. I don't even know how this [unclear] but—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=492.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah, what happened?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=496.0,498.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, right before I was to get married, they set my dad's place on fire. And so my dad didn't have a job. And—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=498.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Who were they?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=510.0,513.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I don't know. It could have been kids or anything, but they broke into the laundry. So we had a glass front. They broke into the laundry. I mean, there's really nothing to take. But they went through the back because we had tables and there's a bed to sleep if we needed to. There was a kitchen, a bathroom. So that was the end for my dad. So he had to, I guess, try to find another job, which is difficult. So he had to find another laundry. So that took probably a year, a year and a half or so.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=513.0,549.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: But this was right before I got married. So this happened in, let's see, I guess April, March, April of '87. And we basically had to figure out a way to recover because my grandma lived above the laundry. We had already moved to Queens. So she had suffered from smoke inhalation because it was above the laundry. So she was in the hospital. I mean, vividly, I remember because when I got married, I wanted her to be there. And we actually went to the hospital in between, and she didn't want to look at us for the superstition of superstition. She didn't want to put bad luck on our marriage. And that was hysterical. I was like, no, you've been waiting for this. But yeah, so that was that period of time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=549.0,604.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So you said there was uprising, protesting for what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=604.0,611.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I mean, I don't remember what economically was happening back then, but the neighborhood that we were in was lower income. It wasn't as gentrified as it is right now. Right now everyone is in our neighborhoods buying the brownstones and just—the neighborhood's so different now. I mean—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=611.0,636.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: It's like co-op, pre-war apartment building kind of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=636.0,641.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: But so we were on the corner and we were in—they're kind of like two apartments to a floor. There were only three, four very low story buildings. But inside of our residential block were all one family homes, beautiful one family homes. And at the time, no one was interested. But probably in the 2010s or so, people started coming knocking on doors and offering full cash for these apartments, because my friends still live there, and they were like, no, no, no, because everyone's older, maybe retiring on social security. So some people took the money. And then, like I said, the turnover changed the neighborhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=641.0,689.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So where we used to have, I guess, fish fry, how do you say, grocery store, I don't know, hairdresser. I'm trying to remember what else. Shoe repair, I remember. Pizza shop. Now, we had a farmer's market, a natural grocer kind of place. Coffee shops like this. It just changed over. It is such a difference now. Because we were in Bed-Stuy, we were maybe five stops from Manhattan. So very close by train to commute, but no one would ever live in our neighborhood at the time, back then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=689.0,736.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And you said you were one of the only two Asian families here back then. And how are other residents—[were they] white?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=736.0,748.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: At the time when my parents moved in in the fifties or the sixties, early sixties, it was Italian, Irish, working class, maybe European. Because—I've never shared this, but we actually, I had a nanny, not a nanny, but a babysitter that would help my mom because when she was having my sister and then also my grandmother came over, everything was going crazy in the house. So we actually had two people helping out with me and my sister and my brother. So they were from the south, and one was Anna [phonetic] and one was Bula [phonetic], and they basically took us to school, helped us with our homework.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=748.0,805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: And then as the neighborhood changed, it was, I guess, African-American and then Caribbean or Caribbean American. 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So there were five of us in one apartment, and then my grandparents in the other apartment, and they were right across the hall. And that was it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=843.0,861.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And how do you feel growing up in Bed-Stuy with some maybe insecurity? I don't know how—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=861.0,871.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. Well, for me, I think I'm like the eternal optimist. And so it was awesome because, like I said, I still keep in touch with my friends. We still talk. One of my friends just retired. It was a really good experience. I don't know why. Maybe also because some of our teachers in junior high school and high school—we still keep in touch with our junior high school teachers. Very unusual, but they nurtured because something that's unique about our junior high school is that most of our teachers were men, but they were teachers because they didn't want to go to war. And that was their issue. So we were raised by these men who were very aware of what was happening, taught a lot about civil rights, equal rights, I guess [in] a time when it wasn't as popular, I guess.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=871.0,936.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: In the eighties you mean?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=936.0,937.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: In the seventies. I was in junior high school in the seventies. Because they decided that they would teach instead of being drafted, and I didn't learn this until after I talked to them, I guess, maybe a couple of years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=937.0,953.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And you said your family moved to Elmhurst just because literally the laundry store was on fire, and maybe Elmhurst is safer and having more space?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=953.0,967.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, when we moved to Elmhurst, we had the robbery. My dad had to move totally because he didn't have a business in '87. So '81 we moved after the whatever, and '87 he had no business, he had nothing, so they moved completely. And their business, I think the first stop for their business was in Jamaica on Hillside Avenue. And then they found another spot then in Chelsea, which worked out. It was a better fit for them. And they were able to, I guess, take care of my sister's children because my sister was married and then wound up being divorced and then had two children that had to be watched somewhere and somehow. So my niece and nephew were raised in Chelsea, which is amazing because they had, I don't know, great education and—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=967.0,1025.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: That's true.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1025.0,1025.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: —great classmates, great teachers. I mean, they were in the best school district, so it was just amazing for them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1025.0,1033.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And what did your father do before he came to the States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1033.0,1039.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: He's never told us, honestly. I know that [crosstalk]—he, okay, since we're just talking and talking on the couch, what I found out later is that my dad, I guess, my dad and my mom, I think they were arranged. My dad, maybe, I think he was a tutor or something. He did some kind of tutoring, but he came to be with his dad and his brother. His older brother was in the Army. He was in the military here. So was my grandfather. My dad is the youngest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1039.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: U.S. Army?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1080.0,1081.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1081.0,1082.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1082.0,1082.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, I think he was in the Army. I'll have to ask my cousin, I mean, because it seems like so many years ago, but my dad came to join them. But from what I heard after—because again, my parents didn't really say a whole lot to us about their past—my mom actually graduated university.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1082.0,1101.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: In where?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1101.0,1102.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: In China, and was probably, I don't want to say the smarter, but probably the smarter of the two. But she never let on. And so I guess the—yeah, so—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1102.0,1120.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Right. I understand a lot of Asian Chinese parents, they don't like to talk about their past. And did they put an emphasis on education for kids?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1120.0,1135.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yes and no. I'm going to say honestly because, like I said, when there was a problem with being robbed and, like I said, I felt it was my responsibility as the eldest to do it, my dad was okay with it because he felt I would be able to marry well. Whether I had a bachelor's, master's, PhD, I would be okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1135.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Why would he think like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1170.0,1174.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I guess—and again, like I said, maybe it had something to do with my mom, I don't know. But I don't feel it hurt me, because I didn't finish college and it always weighed on me, but I was always making a little bit more than other people. I always had more experience. So I said, I'm okay. That was the whole point of my being here. I was able to take care of my parents, take care of my family, and do whatever we had to do. But, I don't know, I mean, it was more important [for] my brother, since he's the youngest, that he succeed and he get—because my brother, bachelor's, master's. I don't know if he has a PhD. I know he has two masters. But, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1174.0,1221.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: I see. And they are from Hong Kong, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1221.0,1226.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: They're from Taishan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1226.0,1228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Taishan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1228.0,1228.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1228.0,1229.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And I guess they also didn't have much time to do a lot of things with you when you [were growing] up because they're busy taking care of the business—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1229.0,1242.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, so they were just taking care of the laundry. And me, I was working, and I was working one and then two jobs, and then I was going to school. I was just trying to finish and try to, I guess, check off everything. They weren't helicopter parents because we didn't have that. But then also I wasn't part of a lot of—I didn't participate in sports, but I was part of student government. I did things that were at school that I could do before going to work, and then that's it. So I think that was all high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1242.0,1278.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And how did you feel like to be an immigrant back then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1278.0,1282.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I was born here, so I'm not an immigrant, but my parents—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1282.0,1286.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: [unclear] have immigrant parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1286.0,1288.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, we had to translate for them, but then my sister I think was more—my sister's quieter than I am. So I was very outgoing and I was willing to go and speak and talk, and we learn because I would have to do that anyway for my mom, for my dad. So, I don't know, I mean, they managed. So our job was just to succeed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1288.0,1317.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So they don't speak Mandarin, right? They speak—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1317.0,1322.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: —No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1322.0,1322.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: —Taishanese?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1322.0,1322.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: —Yeah, Taishanese and Cantonese.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1322.0,1322.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: —And you speak Taishanese?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1322.0,1324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No. No, actually, I'm going to say my dad wanted me to learn English because he said he didn't want me to have the accent, which would create more of a problem for me going forward. He said, \"I'm not going to be here next to you all the time, and you have to be able to make your own way.\" So all I did was study. I just studied and tried to meet people that hopefully would help teach me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1324.0,1353.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So you said you start to work when you went to high school. Was it—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1353.0,1358.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I started at 14, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1358.0,1360.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: 14. Is it because you said you want to be more responsible or to relieve the family burden?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1360.0,1369.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. Well, at 14 it was more curiosity. And also, in the laundry—I would work at the laundry. I'm ironing, I'm sorting clothes, making packages, do the change and everything. But I said, I wanted to learn more, and I also wanted to bring money home. It was really important. You get your first paycheck, you don't ever want to stop working, and that's what happened. So my first job was at a daycare center across the street from my junior high school. I think my second real job was at McDonald's, and I worked at McDonald's all through high school. And then I had various other jobs. I worked at a bank. I worked everywhere. I worked everywhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1369.0,1412.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Okay. Let's talk back about Elmhurst. And in 1981, your family moved to Elmhurst because Elmhurst back then is sort of a first Asian kind of community—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1412.0,1428.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: But it wasn't that Asian then. Back then it was very mixed. So we rented an apartment from a Spanish family. But we were right smack in the middle of Elmhurst. We were right near Queens Center Mall, and eventually I got a part-time job at Queens Center Mall as well. But it wasn't as Asian as it is now. Back then, it wasn't. It was just, again, another working class neighborhood. We were very close to the Grand Avenue train station, so a lot of people were able to commute to work. There were the bus lines, and there are schools. There was a library down the street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1428.0,1468.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And then how about Auburndale? When did you move to Auburndale?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1468.0,1474.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: We moved to Auburndale in '96, and I was teaching at the college at the time. And I was commuting back and forth from Brooklyn, and it was killing me because I was working full time during the day, and I would have to drive from Midtown into Queens to teach, and then from Queens drive back to Brooklyn to go to sleep, and then get up and start the whole thing again. So on a whim, I was with my director, my education director, going through the paper. We found a couple of listings and we went to look. So I think it was the second listing, we put a bid in. It was during Thanksgiving, so it was like the end of the season. It was an estate sale, and we won the bid, and that was it. The whole thing, everything changed because then we became homeowners. We had one car. Somehow my husband bought another car. And yeah, we were full-blown homeowners.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1474.0,1536.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And you've never moved anywhere else ever since?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1536.0,1541.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1541.0,1542.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Why decide to [settle down in] Auburndale?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1542.0,1545.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Because right after we moved in, I had my daughter. And then it was it [laughs], because I was working part-time, raising my daughter. I was going to go back full-time, but I decided it just wasn't going to work out. It was too much work. You understand [laughs]. It's too much work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1545.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Right. And how was Auburndale back then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1560.0,1568.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I guess it's very stable. It's a very quiet residential neighborhood. We're two blocks, yeah, we're about two blocks from Northern Boulevard and there's a lot of, I guess, restaurants and businesses there now. Back then, it was just—there was a Genovese, a 24-hour Genovese, which turned to a 24-hour Rite Aid, would turn into a 24-hour Walgreens, and now it's a Chinese market. So, yeah, always stable. We're close to the Long Island Rail Road, close to the highways, and I guess the buses that take us down to Main Street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1568.0,1608.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Back then, what is your family activities, like, the things you guys always do together? Going to shopping to Chinatown, or is there any family routine?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1608.0,1621.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Do we have any family routine? Well, after my daughter was born, the routine was to make sure that she had a stable environment to grow up in. We didn't want to deny her anything, but we also didn't want to spoil her. Because I had her late, I had her, I was 39, and I was afraid—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1621.0,1643.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1643.0,1644.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, so my husband was like, okay, no, no, we're not taking any chances. We lose mom, that's not a good thing, so this may be it. And so we tried to be balanced in deciding how and what to do with her so that she wouldn't, I don't know, have issues. I mean, my husband's one of six, I'm the eldest of three, so having an only [child] is a challenge in itself. So we just try to take it a step at a time so that she'd have a good opportunity to do whatever she wants to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1644.0,1677.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And was there a family routine back then with your family, like, your parents and your siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1677.0,1685.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, because, as I said, my sister was divorced and a single mom and working, the routine was that I would pick up the kids, my niece and nephew, and drop them with my parents and then I would go to work. So my start time was usually nine-thirty, and the kids had to be in school at eight-fifteen, eight-thirty. So I would pick them up at seven, drop them with my parents so they could go to school. I'd work from nine-thirty to whatever, five-thirty, and when I finished I'd have dinner with my parents, and then we take the kids home, drive them home. So I had the car and it justified the parking fees and stuff. So that was the routine for a while.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1685.0,1734.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And what were some memorable experience when you were a kid with your parents and siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1734.0,1744.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: That's good. Let me think. Memorable experience. I remember my dad tried to teach me how to ride a bike, and I practically almost killed him because I had no control at all. And the thing that's, I guess, interesting is that I am at the [Kissena] Velodrome, and my daughter races bikes, and I'm involved with the community that advocates for cycling, or safe cycling, in the city as a commuting type of thing. And I still don't feel comfortable riding a bike in the street. I'll ride in the park and at the Velodrome, but not on the street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1744.0,1784.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah, speaking of the Velodrome, how did you encounter with it and what prompted you to found a group to sort of protect it and surrounding areas?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1784.0,1799.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Okay, so it started—so as I explained to you, what we wanted to do with my daughter, or for my daughter, we homeschooled. And in that process, you're exposed to many different opportunities in the city, because we live in the greatest city in the world, I'm going to tell you that right now. So I think in our homeschool group, one of my best friends suggested to us that we try fencing. That was the first thing we did. This all happened in the same year. So we went—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1799.0,1832.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Wait, homeschool group, can you just explain?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1832.0,1835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, sure, sure. So, I didn't send my daughter to public school. So in New York State, you can homeschool. You provide what they call a IHIP. What's it called? My goodness, I forgot what it is, IHIP. I'll have to tell you what IHIP is later. Home instruction plan—intended? I don't even know what the I—individual. It's individual. Individual Home Instruction Plan [Individualized Home Instruction Plan, corrected by transcript editor]. So there are certain rules that we have to follow. We have to provide them with our plan and then provide a report every quarter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1835.0,1875.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So when my daughter was kindergarten or so, we had to decide, do we send her to school? She has to go in at five or six. So as we got closer and closer, we met different families. So one of my homeschool friends and, I guess, mentors suggested that we try fencing. So we did that. Another one of the moms also suggested we try archery, so we did that as well. The last mom suggested that we try cycling. It's a free program, and it was so close to our house. We went fencing on Long Island. We went to archery in South Ozone Park, I mean Ozone Park, not South Ozone Park. But it was like, oh, this is great. It's only five minutes away. We'll do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1875.0,1917.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So my daughter started training, or learning, and then she started racing. The parents were concerned because during and I guess after training practice, one of the girls flipped over and chipped teeth. We went to the coaches. The coaches didn't want to say anything to Parks Department [New York City Department of Parks \u0026 Recreation] because they were afraid they were going to shut it down and then the program would be shut down. So we went and we advocated. We said, what can we do? Because it's not safe for us, our children or anybody in the community. So they said to us, for you to have a voice, you need to form a group. And that's how it started. And that was in 2017-18, and we formally became a group in 2018.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=1917.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: And the initial work was to keep it clean and then advocate for funding and anything that we could get to have them fix it so that no one would have to suffer any kind of issue, because there was no one to sue unless the parents wanted to sue. Our coaches wouldn't say anything. They didn't want to lose the access. So we became a group. We started cleaning. We started telling people what we were doing and we said, can you help us? 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Can you tell more about the expansion?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2019.0,2036.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So in the process of working with Parks Department, they suggested to us that maybe we should become park stewards. We should learn more so that we can help. If there were weeds around the Velodrome, we can help weed and then maybe be a more powerful force, a voice. So we said, okay, sure. We weren't actually doing a lot of activity. I mean, we had gotten involved with a food pantry for our kids, basically so they could get community service. So we had started at a pantry. We were at a senior center. We were doing all kinds of service. We said, okay, no, we'll dig in. They trained us. I guess our initial team all became forestry stewards. Then we became trail stewards. It's 2020, 2021, 2022. Now we have a full-blown team and we have people that are joining us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2036.0,2097.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So we were there every, I don't know, once a week I think at the time, or once a month, and then once a week. And then Parks Department shared with us a team from Queens Centers for Progress. They are pre-vocational, and they spent three hours with us every Tuesday. So we needed to find something for them to do as well as for something for us to do with them. So we worked with them. We weeded and mulched and cleaned and did everything with them. And they've been with us three years, four years, four years now, and they're a community partner to us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2097.0,2135.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: And then since then, I guess last year and the year before, we brought on three other teams that are similar in nature. They have individuals that are looking for pre-vocational training, and they join us on Tuesdays, generally Tuesdays and Thursdays. And on Wednesdays, I don't even remember how we were able to secure this team, but the St. John's service team joins us every Wednesday, and they also come on the certain service days that they have. And their, how would you say, their students actually have joined us as permanent members of our team. So it's just been crazy awesome. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2135.0,2175.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Did you expect the expansion of the volunteer group as well as the more collaboration and bridge building with other groups?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2175.0,2184.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No. Honestly, our intent was just to try to get the space repaired and so it'll be safe. But then in being at the park as often as we are, we met our neighbors. We met people who told us things, who shared with us. And through that sharing, we brought that information back to Parks Department. And then after bringing it back to Parks Department, we also were able to bring it back to elected officials. And then because of that, and I guess because of my outreach, I was also able to bring it to the Borough President because, how else are our voices going to be heard?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2184.0,2233.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: And then the environmental came as we got to know our parks stewards better and better. Because over the years, so I would say over the last five years, every July 1st we have to worry that our team is no longer available. And these are people that we work with every week, week in and week out. But they're real to us and they're passionate about their work, but they would be laid off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2233.0,2263.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: What do you mean laid off?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2263.0,2265.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Based on budget. So Parks Department every year gets probably less and less money, even though the spaces are very important to people. And especially during COVID, because people just needed someplace to go, whether it's to walk, to run, and just let off whatever that they needed to do. But then it became more important to us because we were actually seeing these people and we were like, okay, we're going to keep it clean. And then the Parks Department was actually in the middle of a five year planting, I guess, program or reforestation program. So we happened to be there at the right time with them. So they were able to do what they had to do, and we just supplemented everything they did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2265.0,2311.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And basically they kind of helped to make it—like, they give you the tools, they give you the trainings, they empowered the group to become even larger and larger.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2311.0,2324.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Right. And because, well, my background is also in recruiting. So for me, I'm like, I have no fear because I'm going to ask more volunteers to join us. So I'll walk up to anyone and ask them to join us. So our recruiting is great. It's enormous. And so what happened this year, I was just telling someone, Parks Department actually gave us every last Friday of the month as an open public event. They would come with stewards and they would work with us. And then every time we have one of these open events, we generally pick up a new volunteer, a new permanent volunteer. So it's just been awesome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2324.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And can you tell more about how floods become sort of like a rising concern over the years for the residents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2370.0,2381.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So as forestry stewards and park, I mean, as trail stewards, we take care of the trails. So when they flood, the residents tell us the dogs can't walk, they can't walk, they jog, they do whatever. So we would bring that information to Parks. We report what we see. So then it became more real. So last year, maybe the beginning of last year, we adopted four rain gardens so that we would be able to clear them so that any water wouldn't overflow into people's residences. We also started working with, what's it called, Climate Strong Communities. We also started working with, what is it called, the Billion Oyster Project, because I guess it would be three years ago, maybe it's three years ago, we did water testing at Kissena Lake to help them determine what kind of, I dunno, issues there are all along the coast.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2381.0,2447.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: And then through that we met other people at emergency management, Department of Emergency—Department of Environmental Protection, a group called Rebuild by Design, because I'm working with them as well to help them create a program and develop, I guess, structures to mitigate the flooding in Kissena Park because it's gotten to be more and more problematic every time there's a heavy rain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2447.0,2489.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Can you give me a concrete example how it became more and more problematic issue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2489.0,2496.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So I'm trying to remember if we were around during [Hurricane] Sandy, but Sandy was an issue. And I think [Hurricane] Ida was the last, when the rain fell so heavily that the basement apartments were basically overtaken and there was nothing they could do. We're not sure if what we're doing will help, but we know that the trees that have been planted and the work that we do—mulching and weeding and doing that—will help because at least the water can be absorbed somewhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2496.0,2534.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: The rain gardens, we just hope that people see what we do and that they will also participate. So I guess this last quarter, last quarter 2024, we decided as we were cleaning, cuz we also clean, is to clear the storm drains. And that's been helpful cuz we see the leaves are all there and there's litter. And the residents and sanitation—so we're hoping that something little will kind of multiply and then other people will see and do what we do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2534.0,2571.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Have you or your family experienced the flooding in the past few years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2571.0,2577.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No. Actually, our house is on a hill. I mean, we're at the top of the hill on our block, so we've never had. My friends though have, because they live in the area on the perimeter of the park. And it also depends on the type of garage. Some people's driveways are actually built with a pitch down, so the water has no place else to go. And even though I know DEP [New York City Department of Environmental Protection] has provided flood guards and things, nothing can happen. If it goes over, it's downhill. They have to actually renovate the whole driveway for it to be safe, I guess, flood safe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2577.0,2625.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah. What was the impact of—to which degree? Did it destroy your friends or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2625.0,2634.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, every time it rains, every time there's a huge rain, their basement would flood. And then they would have to clean everything up, have the, I don't know, I guess they have to go to a certain contracting company, have it all taken out, vacuumed out, but then they have to replace. And then they're concerned about their foundation. So we would hear stories of them trying to have people come in to help with, how do you say, reinforcing the foundation, but then the fear is that they may not be able to get insurance and they may not be able to pay the next time it happens. But we're having more and more frequent unexpected rainfall that it's very difficult. I mean, I've heard that there might be a program to buying out some of the houses that are in the flood prone zones, but I don't know. I don't know how people feel about giving up their whole home at this point.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2634.0,2699.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And I remember once you did some knock door-to-door questionnaires to asking residents about their flooding experience. And is there any story that you remember? 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And I was just like, oh my goodness, there has to be a better way. There needs to be more information so that they can understand their risk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2721.0,2774.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And where are they?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2774.0,2776.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: They're located on the perimeter of the park, of Kissena Park. So Kissena, actually, Kissena Corridor West.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2776.0,2783.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And how many residents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2783.0,2784.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: It's actually a small, maybe three or four block group of houses. I don't know how many residents. I don't have the data, but maybe [unclear], I dunno. And then they're one and two family houses, so I don't know how many families. But yeah, it's just a small pocket. It's like right behind Parsons [Boulevard], right behind Booth Memorial Avenue, Kissena Corridor West by Kissena Boulevard. So we walked the area just to find out if anybody had questions and if there was anything we can do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2784.0,2827.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Are they all homeowners?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2827.0,2829.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, mostly.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2829.0,2830.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And are they all Asian Americans?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2830.0,2834.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: The people we saw, there were two Asian families and one Southeast Asian family. So maybe Indian, Bangladeshi maybe, I don't know. Bengali, I think it was. And they just happened to be outside with their young kids. And so we just happened to—because they were like, why are these people walking through our neighborhood? I would be afraid too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2834.0,2856.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And so who answered them, like, park their car [on] the hill?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2856.0,2863.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, they told us that whoever was putting up the flood sensor told them that. So I don't know. I believe DEP puts up the flood sensors because we were at a meeting with them as well, and they were trying to explain their, I don't know, several part attack. They were putting in large water tanks in the park. They were trying to, I guess, regrade some of the trails so that the water would flow a certain way. But we didn't know the timeline. But it's up there. They did that meeting, I think, last May. Yeah, like I said, it's all because there's always been public meetings that we've gone to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2863.0,2908.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And you say two Asian family, one Southeast Asian family. All the others are white families?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2908.0,2915.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: We didn't see them. So like I said, we were just taking a tour. We were on-site tour, just walking through the neighborhood. We're walking through the parks. I'm looking at, again, where the sewer storm drains are and where there might be issues with flooding that we can actually see. Because someone in our group has the plans. I know we were walking with landscape architects and they had their own expertise. And then there's somebody else with other, how do you say, other contributions to what we were doing. They asked us, I think again, it's just mostly for outreach because we're on the ground and people are always asking us, \"Who are these guys?\" \"What are they doing?\" \"Why are they here?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2915.0,2963.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: How is the storm drainage? Can you see it or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2963.0,2971.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, kind of. So most people don't—first, most people don't notice the rain gardens, but the rain gardens have to be clear for them to properly do their job. The storm drains, you'll see maybe at the corner, sometimes the middle of the block, but most times cars are parked on top of them. And then underneath the cars you'll see the leaves, litter. So on the perimeter of our park, we've now made it one of our, I guess, assignments to go at least once a week just to check, make sure there's no problem. Because inside the park there are also these storm drains. So in the playground there are storm drains. So we've been clearing those too, because it seems that nobody clears them. So obviously they're going to flood, and if they flood, then out in the street, there's no place for the water to go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=2971.0,3025.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Now you clean them once a week?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3025.0,3027.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, well, we check them because we have teams on site five days a week. We don't want to do it every day. So it'll be something that we do maybe on a Friday or a Saturday just to check. So we'll take a walk, breaks up what we do, because weeding and mulching is hard on your body. So we'll do that, and it also contributes to the whole package, I guess, of what we're trying to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3027.0,3056.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Are there a lot of storm drains when you try to—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3056.0,3061.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: —Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3061.0,3061.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: —Like how—can you describe it? How a lot—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3061.0,3064.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Let me see if I can show you what it [unclear] because it's like—let me see if I could, cuz we just did it last week. Let me see. How do I do this? So we were out—when were we out? December? Yeah, I made them do it in December. Hold on. Because they weren't happy with me because we were trying really hard—okay, she was with us. Oh wait, December, we did Mulchfest. Okay, I got everything going on here. Let's see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3064.0,3114.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: This is, well, this is just us working. We were mulching that day. So this was January 4th. And then, I think, I'm trying to see—so that's us doing our trees, always taking care of our trees. That's our teams. Let me see. Okay, that's my [unclear]. Let me see if I can find others. Okay, how do I do this? I'm trying to remember when we—because we did it recently and it was cold.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3114.0,3153.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, okay. Here we are. So this is the park that we're in. So we started here and we just started walking. So we were cleaning. We were weeding here cuz we're helping with a re-seeding project. So this is one of the drains inside of the playground. And so I guess maybe we tried to clean it, so maybe we cleaned it and then we just kept walking around to check. So this one had dirt over it, people didn't even see it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3153.0,3179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3179.0,3179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So that's [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3179.0,3185.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: I see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3185.0,3186.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, so that's some of the stuff that we do [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3186.0,3190.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So if it's all filled with leaves and—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3190.0,3195.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So this is on the street. So this was, I guess, 160th Street, so this is on the perimeter of the park. So that's our team cleaning, because if it's clogged, then the water has no place to go but to go into people's houses cuz there are houses across the street. This was the day that we were just walking and cleaning. So we got kids with us. And so it was also Mulchfest day, and we found a tree on the side, on our side of the street. And so this one was clean. This was by the crosswalk. And so we're still walking. And these are things we found in the—oh, I forgot. Oh, there were needles here, so we reported that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3195.0,3237.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Jesus.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3237.0,3238.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, I mean, the stuff that you find. So we found a snake last week.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3238.0,3242.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: What?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3242.0,3242.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah, you can't even make this stuff up. But yeah, so we found another tree.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3242.0,3248.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Like a live snake or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3248.0,3249.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I think it was frozen because it was in the snow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3249.0,3251.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Oh my gosh.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3251.0,3252.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. So this is us just same kind of—I think there was a wasp nest. And then that's our team at Mulchfest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3252.0,3261.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Found a lot of strange stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3261.0,3263.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: It's so crazy [laughter]. I'm just going to check. Okay. Okay, let's see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3263.0,3277.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Everything okay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3277.0,3278.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah [pause]. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3278.0,3293.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So how is the flood situation inside the park every time when there was a heavy rain? The next day, is it all destroyed or it's—how is the situation in the past few years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3293.0,3312.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Inside the park—so since we're trails stewards, we try to level the trails so that there isn't that flooding when people are walking on the passageways. But there are different parts of the park that flood, and so it's like a lake. And then when it, like, we just had this snow, it would freeze and it's dangerous. So we were actually at the park yesterday. We were at the park yesterday, the day before, but it was still icy because the temperature hadn't dropped, I mean, hadn't risen, and it wasn't warm enough for it to actually melt. So it was like half ice, half water. And so I think yesterday's rain helped, but they said it's going to freeze again. So that's probably one of the major issues because of the large pools of water.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3312.0,3368.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah, it seems like, isn't it getting more and more severe or more and more frequent, this type of—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3368.0,3374.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: It's more frequent. Severity, I would say less only because at least in where we are, we're addressing it or trying to address it. But again, it takes a lot of work, like, incremental work. Incremental work. Because sometimes you'll find a pool of water in one place and then you'll go someplace else—because we have sports teams sometimes that come and what they'll do is they will dig because whatever they want to do, and then we'll find that, oh no, now we have another stream from someplace else. And we don't have the means to, I guess, renovate anything. But we report. We spend all our time reporting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3374.0,3427.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And what do you think the government and also the residents can do more to fix it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3427.0,3438.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Government, I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. I think residents who are, I guess, using the park, they can help us. In front of their houses, there are rain gardens and storm drains. Just clean them out. Just do your small part and then other people don't have to try to follow when there's a major issue. Because once there's a major issue, it's really difficult. Because then you have to call in and then there's damage, there's car damage and property damage and all kinds of things. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3438.0,3477.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And what made you keep going for this group?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3477.0,3484.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: It started, like I said, it started as just, let's keep our kids safe. But then, like I said, we got to meet Parks people, we got to meet other residents that were just as passionate about making a difference, and they were willing to come out consistently. So we have a consistent Wednesday and Friday team as well as a Saturday team now. And I think that's probably what drove the—just accelerated what we were doing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3484.0,3524.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Parks Department was very interested in working with us because we were willing volunteers to do work that was supplemental to what they were doing. So they would just give us the project and we would just direct our volunteers. This summer, we brought on the Summer Youth Employment Program interns. So we had six. This year we're expecting probably 30 or more because I guess our regular interns are going to be back anyway, and if they're going to be there, they might as well be paid. They're gaining experience, but they're also sharing their ideas, which is amazing. They've made things more efficient because they're kids. They're like, we're doing—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3524.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: What kind of ideas [do] they have?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3570.0,3572.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, we did this one project on a trail because cyclists were complaining about weeds that were blocking like one lane. So there's an east-west and a west-east lane, I guess, on this stretch of the greenway from 164th [Street] and Underhill Avenue all the way out to Fresh Meadow Lane. So we took our kids out there as a cleanup project. We'll weed some stuff. So all of these weeds are all into the trail, into the path.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3572.0,3610.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So we were trying to cut it. So one of the kids decided, hey, let's see if we can roll these weeds. And they rolled the whole thing like a carpet and off the side. So we probably saved, I don't know how many man hours, but they cleaned up the whole trail. We finished it in a day, and the cyclists were able to ride their bikes. The runners who are from the local high schools were able to run cuz that's where they train. So we thought that was amazing. We're also trying to enter them into an entrepreneurial contest at this point. We don't know what's going to happen with that though, but we're excited.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3610.0,3651.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And as you say, weeding, mulching, and planting are kind of a hard, difficult, not hard, but it takes a lot of strength. 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And I think from the pandemic, they haven't had that contact because when they're in school, they're just in school, they're concentrating on doing their work and going home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3668.0,3706.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: When they come to the park, they're basically playing, right? And they're a team. They have wheelbarrows, we've got dirt, we've got pitchforks, we've got mentors that are working with them. And I think they just enjoy being there. So they love coming out. After they finish, they all go have, I think, they have boba or they go and do something. So it's been a lot of fun. And we're sad because many of them are seniors and they're going to go to college in the fall, but we'll see.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3706.0,3738.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And can you tell me more about the change at the park during these years? How do you feel about it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3738.0,3749.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: We're excited because we didn't think there could be any transformation. We had an incident last year. We had the vandalism and 300 of our trees were stolen, destroyed for a bicycle kind of track. But Parks Department, along with some other organizations, stepped up, purchased new trees, provided the manpower. And a month after the vandalism incident, we replanted. So we were very excited that we had that kind of support.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3749.0,3792.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: And then at that point, I think we felt responsible and accountable. So we're driven to see the trees grow to the certain point that they're looking for. So they had a five year plan. They also have a ten year plan. So we're like, we're going to take it a little at a time. Hopefully we reach the five year plan that they're hoping for, and the expectation is ten years because we have some more planting to do in the park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3792.0,3817.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: But overall, the look of the parks and the Velodrome didn't change much, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3817.0,3822.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: The park has. If you come, yeah, if you haven't been to the park in, I don't know, maybe three years, you'll see the difference. It's huge. It's huge.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3822.0,3834.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: What is the difference?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3834.0,3835.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Probably the trees, the trails. I don't know how many acres cuz I don't know how to measure that, but we've planted over 2,500 trees. So we've been maintaining them. And keeping up is difficult, but I guess that motivates us to keep trying. I mean, what have we got to lose? The worst that's going to happen, we're not going to be able to achieve what we want to achieve, but we're trying. We are going to keep going. And the kids are excited because there is kind of an end goal, but they're just tired of doing the same labor intensive work. So we're trying to mix it up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3835.0,3874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: When you first took your daughter there for cycling, what was your first impression about the park?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3874.0,3883.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Being in the park, it was amazing, but we never really walked the park because we were just isolated too. It's like when you go to an ice skating rink, if there's, I don't know, something else going on, maybe there's pickleball or whatever, you just concentrate on where you are. So that's all we concentrated on. So we would just go back and forth. But until we started talking to Parks Department and trying to get more help, more support, that's when we found out more. And like I said, that's when we got to know the Parks personnel. And they love what they do. And then that's kind of infected us, and then we wanted to learn more about it. And then we met other people. Like I said, we have different teams on different days. Yeah, awesome [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3883.0,3931.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: It's kind of amazing because it's all from—the seed is like homeschool—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3931.0,3937.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: That's how it started. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3937.0,3938.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: —activity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3938.0,3940.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. It's so random because I have never had anything to do with gardening, growing. There was no way that that would be the direction. And I said, it must have been meant to be because the group that we have does this well, and we seem to attract other people that want to do this as well. So like I said, we're scaling this year, which is crazy, but we'll keep going with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3940.0,3969.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And going back to the origin, can you repeat again why did you decide to homeschool your daughter?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3969.0,3978.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, we wanted to give her every opportunity she could have in New York City. I grew up in Brooklyn. My husband grew up in the Bronx. I went to a specialized high school. He went to a specialized high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3978.0,3991.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Brooklyn [Tech]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3991.0,3992.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I went to Brooklyn Tech [Brooklyn Technical High School]. My husband went to Bronx Science [Bronx High School of Science]. My brother went to Stuyvesant. And at the time, everyone didn't like each other because it was always a rivalry. But the thing was, there was so much available to us. The arts. Internships. My best friends had an internship at Coney Island Hospital. They wanted to be doctors. I eventually worked in law, so there were opportunities to work in law firms. I remember working in a brokerage house. I don't know what I was doing. I remember working on an adding machine. But I said, the opportunity is here in New York City. Why would I want to go and do anything else? So when it came time for us to educate her, we thought she may have an opportunity to play the piano, become an actress, do anything, but we have to give her an opportunity to feel it, to see it, and to do it. And we would meet amazing people. We've met many, many amazing people who homeschool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=3992.0,4046.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So you believe the homeschooling would be better than public education system or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4046.0,4055.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: See, that's hard because I came up through the public education system and so did my husband, and we both turned out, I think, okay. But I think there's a lot of pressure on the kids to perform. And that's something I didn't want for my daughter because we've watched other kids just totally lose it trying to please their parents, and then they just walk away. And I didn't want that for her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4055.0,4084.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And this is an easy decision, or it's like—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4084.0,4086.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No, it was not easy [laughter]. My family was not on board at all. Totally not on board. Because their argument was you are in the greatest city in the world. Why are you punishing your daughter? And so anytime, if it was Chinese New Year, we'd go to the dinner and they would test her. They would ask her to multiply. They would ask her, \"What's the capital of—\". Can you conjugate this noun, I mean, conjugate this verb? Can you do this? I was like, \"Oh my goodness. What is wrong with you? I would never ask your kids.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4086.0,4121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: But your husband [unclear]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4121.0,4121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: —Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4121.0,4121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: —he is actually advocate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4121.0,4126.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: At first, I think he was hesitant because it's not, like, normal. And I said, \"Okay, you're going to have to trust me.\" So I think it's turned out okay. My daughter is okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4126.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Is it because you also met someone before that is doing the homeschool?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4140.0,4144.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. Yeah, so I've had mentors, because I was really afraid. I mean, I teach at the college as well, so I was like, oh my goodness, how is this going to fly? But there were other college instructors, professors that were doing the same, so I took that as a cue that there's a reason. And again, it's because maybe the structure of how the schools work, and the competitiveness. And especially in my neighborhood, it's very competitive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4144.0,4179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Right, because it's Asian populated and every parent wants their child to go to G\u0026T [Gifted and Talented] program and a specialized high school, and you really don't want your kids to go in the same race. I understand. I understand.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4179.0,4198.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: But at a certain point, there's no place to go. And so since I taught at the college, I also tutored on the side. The expectation of the parents for their kids to learn something they didn't learn in school was just totally baffling to me. What are they doing in school, or what are the teachers doing? They have a job to do. When we were younger, we had no SAT [also known as Scholastic Assessment Test] prep. We had none of this. And I had to get into a specialized school on my own. And I'm thinking, all the kids have been prepping since kindergarten to get into the right high school, right college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4198.0,4234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah. But the professors are doing the same, you say?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4234.0,4237.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yes, they're homeschooling their kids as well. So I said, that might be a good reason.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4237.0,4244.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And the connection is—you said the network is big and easily connected?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4244.0,4252.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yes, it's huge now. I mean, I'll share with you later if you want, but it's huge now. When I first started, I don't think there were as many groups, so I wound up joining a Christian based group. But there are secular groups in the city, but that meant traveling into the city and that was difficult because you've got to get on the train, the bus and do everything. But we joined any group I could find so that I could see what it is that she could do, what opportunities she could have. But the networks are much bigger now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4252.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Can you describe how big it is now and how bigger than it is before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4290.0,4298.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I think a lot of people wanted to be under the radar because obviously if you were home and your child was, I don't know, ten and was playing outside, you would be worried about a truant officer. Although we don't have that many truant officers. People don't pull you off the street. But you wouldn't be able to go on the train if you had a teenager. They couldn't go on the subway because somebody would stop them and say, \"Why are you not in school?\" But they could be going to a museum class or they could be going to piano or fencing or anything. But now I think more people, after pandemic actually, are more comfortable with the homeschooling concept and things like that. But there's a lot of money in it also now. People teach—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4298.0,4348.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: But would you be worried if your daughter can make friends in this [unclear]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4348.0,4355.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I know a lot of people say that, the socialization is [a] huge thing. I think maybe because of me, because I was able to bring her to different groups, she was able to socialize and she wasn't afraid to, I guess, engage with older or younger. So I think she's more well-balanced only because of that. Because I know some children will only talk to people their age and they have a fear of speaking to people older or in a professional place. And it all depends on how they're, I guess, assimilated, socialized.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4355.0,4399.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And how these homeschooling families connect each other, through social network or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4399.0,4407.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah. Well, I guess because of social media, like Facebook, we were on—well, actually, I met somebody and then it was just emails cuz it was mostly private groups. But now they do have Facebook pages and I guess Instagram and all these other things and they keep in touch. There are trips. There are—there's so many different things. I remember back in the day when my daughter was, I guess, third or fourth grade, we set up workshops at [New York] Hall of Science and it was very easy because it was during the day when everyone was in school and we could do different age groups. So, many people do that. So, like, Queens Farm [Queens County Farm Museum], Botanic Garden, APEC [Alley Pond Environmental Center]—there's all kinds of opportunities.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4407.0,4455.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: So once you get plugged into the network, you'll start to see that there are just so many opportunity—art classes, dance classes, martial arts classes, sports. So like I said, the fencing, the archery, everything. Crazy, crazy, crazy. So many options. You have to sit down and choose so that you don't overwhelm your child [unclear].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4455.0,4475.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And how old is your daughter now? What—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4475.0,4477.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: She's 26. She's 26 now. And she spends a lot of time working with me only because a lot of what we built, she also built. But that was probably because of the pandemic. At the time, she was between jobs and I guess between trying to decide what she was going to do. So [unclear] difficult just [unclear] but she's probably better at what we do than I do. I'm better at the administrative parts and the recruiting. She's actually better with the on the ground stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4477.0,4512.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So she's still exploring and trying to figure out what she eventually want to do for—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4512.0,4518.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4518.0,4519.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: —her life. And so the goal of homeschooling is, of course, to find what she's passionate about, but won't you be—like, the university [unclear]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4519.0,4540.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: I have nothing against, how would you say, I have nothing against structured schooling. For my period in life and time, that was the best option for us at the time. Because a lot of homeschoolers will homeschool until high school and then send their kids to school, high school, so that they can compete on that level and then do the SAT, the ACT [also known as American College Testing], [unclear] the whole thing, so that they can get into a good college. I was like, you're going to have the same experience, it's just a matter of what you want to do. But because we had traveled and we had explored different opportunities, she was just comfortable in her own skin. We didn't need to spend more money. We didn't need to do anything extraordinary. So it worked out, I think. We'll see [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4540.0,4601.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: And she never—she's satisfied and she never tells you that, hey, mom, I want to go to school, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4601.0,4609.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: No, we've never had that, because when she's focused on something, she does it and I don't have to worry about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4609.0,4618.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: That's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4618.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: But I think—she's an only child too. So I think that also has something to do with it. If she's decided, she gets it done. So I think the sports helped because as a female, as a woman, she had a lot of issues with the boys assuming they were going to win things or they were going to be—and that I think helped because, who knows, head-to-head in school, I don't know how that works.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4620.0,4647.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Homeschooling is another topic that I think I can write a very long article about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4647.0,4654.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, sure. You let me know. I will introduce you to the people who mentored me. And there are people now, I don't know if you're on Facebook, but there's a group called, if you want to just work with secular, there's a group called New York—what are they called? New York Secular Homeschoolers. And they just started last year because they found—because there are Muslim homeschoolers, Jewish homeschoolers, there's everybody homeschoolers. [unclear] let's see. New York City Secular Homeschoolers. So they participate in free programs, they pay programs. So New York City Secular Homeschoolers. So they have an urban park ranger thing. There's an art project. I remember going there. I remember my husband, \"What are we doing here?\" We were at Central Park driving around in the snow. So I said, \"My daughter has to see this. She has to see this.\" And he was like, \"What's wrong with you?\" And I'm like, \"Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with me.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4654.0,4716.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: So do you feel like Asian parents are doing this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4716.0,4721.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: There are a lot of Asian parents. Yeah, because some want their children to be music prodigies. Some want them to be—so they can concentrate and focus on whatever it is. Some are more religious, so they make sure that there's religious training before they do their academic training, before they do their maybe cultural training, maybe—and then it could be music, it could be art, it could be anything. I can introduce you to them too because they're fun. They're lots of fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4721.0,4753.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah. I think I will do a long article about homeschooling. I feel it's inspiring and unexpected and we don't cover enough [unclear]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4753.0,4767.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, no?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4767.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: We actually never covered homeschooling.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4770.0,4771.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4771.0,4772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah, because Asian parents—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4772.0,4775.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Well, they're driven.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4775.0,4777.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: A lot of—they're all keep an eye on the specialized high school and top tier university, whatever. I think it's a little bit too much. But yeah, I'm glad to know more and more Asian parents are willing to try homeschooling, and it'll be a very interesting piece. I'll let you know once [unclear] [laughter].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4777.0,4803.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh yeah, of course.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4803.0,4805.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah. Yeah, I think I've got enough materials I need for the oral history. Is there anything I didn't ask that you want to—is there any story you think it's very interesting?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4805.0,4819.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Not yet. I mean, because I could start [laughter], once I start, if I remember something, it'll go on. But I could do this again with you when there's time. Because like I said, everything's been insane since the beginning of the year. And like I said, since I was honored yesterday, I had no clue what I was doing, how I was going to do it, why am I [unclear] here. But I was excited because I said if I have an opportunity to share about the group, I'll go for it. And so I brought all my friends and made them talk to everybody, and that was it. So I said, okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4819.0,4855.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah. I think also [unclear] it's a very, it's labor work, but it's also a way of relaxation mentally, or it's kind of cleansing, purifying your mind. I think it's very—I would love to participate, yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4855.0,4876.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: You should come. Bring everyone, because we bring the kids now and, like you say, what it started as was during the pandemic, people were afraid to be near each other. But when we got out there, everyone had their own little space. We did our little meeting, but then over time it just became, it's comfortable, and we would just—so we would meet and then we'd go out, do our work, dismiss and that's it. But then everyone felt clear and grounded. And then we made new friends. So it worked out. And like I said, we didn't think it would be as important for the kids, but the kids love it. If you're ever free, just come out, like tomorrow, and hopefully we'll get a bunch of kids. The kids are going to come cuz the weather will be nicer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4876.0,4925.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Good to know. And thanks for letting me record everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4925.0,4930.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Leona Chin: Oh, no worries. No worries.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4930.0,4930.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894/transcript/90125/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yiyan Zheng: Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2074/collection_resources/166431/file/302894#t=4930.0,4931.592"}]}]}]}