Park Slope Walking Tour Audio

Wherever you see the icon on the map, you can listen to voices from Park Slope to accompany this walking tour.  Listen to store owners, long-time residents, local bloggers, and others reflect on their place in the neighborhood.  You can download this audio to an mp3 player by clicking on the tracks below, so you can take it with you as you follow the tour.  These audio tracks are also available for download through the Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast on iTunes.

Produced by independent radio producer, Laura Starecheski for the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Recorded by Philip Napoli, Laura Starecheski, Sady Sullivan, and Corie Trancho-Robie.

Thank you to everyone who was interviewed, and to the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

LIFE OF A BLOCK
The Rubin Family: 3 Generations in Park Slope   (track 5)
The Rubin Family: Fire on Carroll Street   (track 6)

TALE OF TWO LIQUOR STORES
Red, White, and Bubbly: Darrin Siegfried    (track 3)
DeSilva South Brooklyn Liquors: Floyd DeSilva    (track 8)

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Park Slope Food Co-Op: Joseph Holtz    (track 4)
Lesbian Herstory Archives: Maxine Wolfe    (track 10)

PARK SLOPE 2.O: THE BLOGGERS
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Louise Crawford   (track 1)
The Declaration of Co-Dependence: The Blog That Must Not Be Named   (track 2)

COLLECTING MEMORIES
Fatima and Zoraya from the Urban Memory Project   (track 7)
John and Denis Hamill from In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn Vietnam Veterans    (track 9 *contains strong language)
Message from the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Oral History Program   (track 11)

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