Queens Street Names Stories : A Name Explorer Listening Party – An Open House New York Weekend Event

Ever wonder who the people behind the named streets in your neighborhood were? What were their stories? What did those local heroes mean for their communities? What can we learn from their legacies?

Join us on the 34th Avenue Open Street for a listening party featuring Queens Street Name Stories, an interactive audio map created by students of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in collaboration with the Queens Memory Project at Queens Public Library. Listen to the stories behind local honorary place names, told through in-depth audio interviews with the friends, family, and colleagues of local residents who had a street or other public space named after them posthumously. View Queens Street Names Stories at http://bit.ly/streetnamestories

During Open House New York Weekend, we will be bringing those stories to life once again through a listening booth, a live oral history gathering and a mini tour across some of those meaningful places in the borough.

Queens Street Name Stories is part of the Queens Name Explorer, which seeks to highlight the individuals whose names grace public spaces across the borough. View the Queens Name Explorer, which maps more than 1,000 named places, at http://queenslib.org/explore.

Queens Name Explorer is funded by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation.