Queens Memory

@QueensMemory

Queens Memory is a collaborative digital archives program at @qplnyc and @libraryqc aiming to record and preserve contemporary history across Queens.

Queens, NY queensmemory.org Joined September 2011

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Queens Memory @QueensMemory Sep 17, 2025

What's changed in Flushing since Hurricane Ida's devastating floods? Reporter Yiyan Zheng investigates how vulnerable residents, cut off from critical information, are navigating the climate crisis in Queens. Listen to "Memories of Water" Episode 3 on YouTube, Apple, or Spotify.

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Queens Memory @QueensMemory Jun 24, 2025

#CommunityArchiving Happy Hour on 7/1 - 12 PM ET! Laura Orleans & Emma York from New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center share "Casting A Wider Net" #OralHistory: preserving diverse fishing community stories. Register: tinyurl.com/mw4kzrkp

Queens Memory @QueensMemory May 16, 2025

Celebrate #HaitianHeritageMonth at Central Library! 🎉 Crafts, dance, artist talk w/ Gilbert Dorimain. Learn about Queens Memory & digitize your photos FREE (11 AM). Family workshop w/ Artist Rejin Leys (12 PM), talk (1 PM), Dance (3 PM). @QPLNYC
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Queens Memory @QueensMemory Feb 14, 2025

Love is in the archives! In the 1940s a @qplnyc librarian assembled these romantic cards from the 1880s into a collection in the #QPLarchives. Many of them include poems too! Sharing a few here💘
#ArchivesValentine
Post Nande Walters, Citi + QPL Fellow, Fall 2024

Queens Memory @QueensMemory Feb 11, 2025

Doing a #localhistory project in NYC? RSVP to Neighborhood #OralHistory #WinterSocial returns on Tues, 2/25 - forms.gle/nDiM3b7kfWa7MW… Meet people from other neighborhoods doing similar work, share strategies & mingle! Co-hosted by @oralhistory @CU_Oralhistory @OHMidatlantic 👍

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