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Celebrating 10 Years of the Queens Memory Project
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To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we're revisiting highlights collected from different neighborhoods as part of the Queens Memory project. We began collecting oral history interviews and photos in the summer of 2010. Later that year, a grant from the Metro Library Council launched the project as a partnership between Queens Public Library and Queens College, CUNY. Since then we've recorded hundreds of oral history interviews and collected photographs from Queens residents from 23 countries of origin, living in 50 neighborhoods.

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1 E 14th Road

George Barr and Tom Harnisher bought this "back house" together in the 1970's. Back houses are gathering spots for friends and family that are built on the water. Their family homes are further inland. These structures still stand, but need to be repaired after Hurricane Sandy. Photo donated by Jeffery Dady
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