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Urban Histories, Local Voices: A Conversation on NYC Neighborhoods

NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)
Aug 05 | Tue | 1PM | FREE
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Urban Histories, Local Voices: A Conversation on NYC Neighborhoods at NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)
On August 5th, DORIS will welcome Dr. Tarry Hum, Professor Emeritus at CUNY and 2025 Caring Across Generations Fellow, and Marc Kirkeby, historian, writer, and former contributor to our For the Record blog, for a conversation about the evolution of infrastructure, demographics, and community life in two dynamic neighborhoods: Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens.

Dr. Tarry Hum is the author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood, Brooklyn’s Sunset Park (2014) and lead editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY (2021). Her research focuses on immigrant urbanism and growth coalitions, transnational capital, and urban and community planning.

Marc Kirkeby’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, NY Daily News, and Rolling Stone. Visit Archives.NYC to explore Marc’s 2017 Sunset Park Series.

Venue: NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)

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