Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Series of still family photographs, but the last minute of the video also includes a brief description of the Co-ops and the Chorus by Peter Schlosser, emphasizing its communal and experimental nature.
Schlosser describes his childhood in the Co-ops and how unique the architectural design fostered a sense of an insular and safe community and community clubs. Schlosser then describes the older generations of Co-ops residents as Russian and Eastern European revolutionaries.
Schlosser discusses Jewish and Yiddish identity, the subtle differences between the cultures and the effort in the Co-ops to recreate a 'shtetl' style of life, emphasizing a traditional Eastern European communal living.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Rosenblum describes the layout of the Co-ops and the principles of communal living that influenced its architectural design and how that design impacted everyday life.
Dating from 1949 to 1996, the WNYC TV moving image collection includes mayoral press conferences, dignitaries visiting City Hall, and educational films about city government.
Rosenblum describes the reunion of Co-ops residents at the 1977 50 year anniversary of the founding of the Co-ops.
Black and white photographs of resident of the Allerton Coo-ps, their families and political events
Black and white photographs of the Allerton Co-ops and its residents through the middle of the 20th century.
The Jewish People's Philharmonic Chorus performs songs in Yiddish in between prose read in Yiddish.
Performance by the Chorus as well as conversations afterward about the Co-ops and its older members.
Performance that includes a clarinet solo, featuring work of Maurice Rauch and Itche Goldberg.
Font talks about the sense of community and togetherness the garden has brought and how many community events the garden enabled.
Margarita talks about efforts to improve the South Bronx and how a public hearing on a new school motivated her to become more involved in the community.
Ackerman grew up in The Coo-ps and goes into great detail describing the buildings, the people who lived there and how life there was removed from the rest of the City. She recounts the different clubs and after school activities set up to imitate the shtetl life style.
Ackerman describes the generation of secular Jews who moved to the City from Eastern European shtetl life and how they tried to recreate and maintain their cultural values and how successful they were.
