Welcome
to the heart of the site...
I started writing some fairly generic stuff here about the the
Ebbets field era and the transformation of the neighborhood over
time (blah, blah, blah).
Then I realized I really should
leave this space blank until I could capture something authentic
from the neighborhood as it is today. So, I'm hitting the streets this
spring with my microphone and a mission to interview anyone who is
willing to talk to me about PLG now and in the past.
If you want volunteer to talk to me
about anything PLG, email me at:
dan@planetPLG.com
VOICES OF PROSPECT LEFFERTS
GARDENS
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Malik Sekou Osea (MP3)
DEP Engineer, Author
Lives on Woodruff Avenue
Malik moved
with his family from Bedford-Stuyvesant to PLG four years
ago. He likes the international flavor of PLG but is worried about the
anger caused by chronic unemployment and unaddressed
injustice, the impact of gentrification and the
ineffectiveness of a political leadership he feels acts in
symbols without really providing positive change for its
constituents.
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Bob
Thomason
Reference Librarian, Community Activist
Lives on Lefferts Avenue
When his white neighbors fled Lefferts Manor in the 70s,
Bob and his family stayed on. A fervent believer in Dr.
Martin Luther King's vision of a fully racially and
economically integrated society, Bob spent his adult life
fighting segregation and working for the betterment of his
community. Bob founded PLGNA in 1968 and was actually at the
meeting where the name "Prospect Lefferts
Gardens" was created (and yes, he also thinks it's
awkward). |
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conversation with Bob lasted almost 2 hours. We are still in
the process of editing it down and will present it in small
installments beginning with the three mp3 files below: |
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