FREE! Volunteer interviewers are needed to help us with Bridging Our Stories: Washington Heights and Inwood Oral History Project. Interview your neighbors, family or friends. Sign up for one interviewer training session below at one of our participating neighborhood libraries and help collect and preserve neighborhood history! To sign up, contact Alexandra Kelly at alexandrakelly@nypl.org or 212-621-0552.

VOLUNTEER INTERVIEWERS NEEDED

 

Bridging Our Stories: Washington Heights and Inwood Oral History Project

Volunteer interviewers are needed to help us with Bridging Our Stories: Washington Heights and Inwood Oral History Project. Interview your neighbors, family or friends.

Sign up for one interviewer training session below at one of our participating neighborhood libraries and help collect and preserve neighborhood history! 

To sign up, contact Alexandra Kelly at alexandrakelly@nypl.org or 212-621-0552.

Washington Heights Library (1000 St. Nicholas Avenue):

• Friday, January 23rd – 3 – 5pm
• Saturday, January 31st, 2 – 4pm

Fort Washington Library (535 W 179th Street):

• Thursday, January 22nd, 5 – 7pm
• Saturday, January 24th, 2 – 4pm

Inwood Library (4790 Broadway):

• Saturday, January 24th, 11am - 1pm (Spanish translation available)
• Tuesday, February 3rd, 6 – 8pm

 

About Our Project:

This is a neighborhood oral history project that works to both preserve and document Washington Heights and Inwood history through the stories of people who have experienced it. This project will collect oral histories of people who have lived or worked in the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods. Community members will be trained to conduct these interviews. Interviews will be preserved at The Milstein Division of US History, Local History and Genealogy and available in a circulating collection. Interviews will also be accessible at the New York Public Library website: oralhistory.nypl.org