Image thanks to poly.edu

We were sad to learn that George Bugliarello, president emeritus of Polytechnic Institute of NYU, passed away last week.  BHS interviewed Dr. Bugliarello (1927-2011) in 2007 for the oral history archives.  The interview is available for listening in the Othmer Libary (accession #2008.031.5).  You can read his obituary in The New York Times (2/22/2011).

In his oral history interview, Dr. Bugliarello talks about his role in conceiving the redevelopment of Downtown Brooklyn (near Poly) in the 1980s to create a research park now known as MetroTech.

Interestingly, BHS just added more memories of the early days of MetroTech to the oral history collection last Friday when we interviewed Colonel Marc Anthony Garcia in Fort Greene on the day before his promotion ceremony held at his parents’ brownstone.  Col. Garcia was active in the Brooklyn political scene in the early 1980s.  He travels widely for his career but always returns to Fort Greene and he remarks on what it is like to see the completion of MetroTech, once just an idea, and other development in the neighborhood.  You can see more photos of Col. Garcia’s promotion ceremony on Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Patch and an oral history interview with Col. Garcia’s mother Yolande Garcia is also included in the BHS archives.