Plot of Land - Ep. 6: Tucked Between Those Two Boroughs

Future Memory

New York’s Roosevelt Island was imagined as an idyllic, multi-racial, multi-income community, developed as part of the social housing movement in the 60s and 70s. But by the 1980s, socially-minded investments in housing were overtaken by neoliberal policy. We talk to current-day and displaced residents to see how this change affected them, while looking back from the point of divergence to find the decisions that created and dismantled housing as a human right.

• Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Melissa Fundira @MFundira
• Interviewees:
  • Ted Liebman, FAIA; Twitter: @liebman_t
  • Yonah Freemark, Ph.D.; Twitter: @yfreemark
  • Rosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D. Affiliate Twitter: @GU_AFAM
  • Kim Phillips-Fein, Ph.D.; Affiliate Twitter: @CUHistoryDept
  • Marion Ntiru @marionntiru
  • Residents past and present
    • Sasha Ross *Note: resident
    • Lionel Fundira *Note: resident
    • Courtney Francis *Note: previous resident
    • Barbara Spiegel *Note: resident
    • Rita Ombele *Note:previous resident
    • Nikki Leopold *Note: resident
    • Marie Orraca *Note: resident
    • Eneaqua Lewis *Note: resident
    • Ludi Nsimba *Note: resident
    • Morgan Elinson *Note: former resident
    • Judith Berdy *Note: resident
    • Andrew Kerr *Note: former resident