NYPAP has created a series of oral histories with preservationists who were directly involved in much of the groundbreaking legislation and grassroots activism of the 20th century. The collection includes approximately fifteen oral histories. Six have been conducted and transcribed in the past year and a half with notables such as Simon Breines, Robert Lowe, Henry Hope Reed, and Marjorie Dunbar. We have been working with the Columbia University Oral History Project to standardize our work, and hope to contribute NYPAP’s collection to the Project. The NYPAP interviews are online in transcript form with audio clips and photographs.

Otis Pratt Pearsall
Doris Diether
Simon Breines
Everett Ortner - Park Slope

Dierdre Stanforth - Brownstones

Penn Station Veterans

Diana Goldstein
Lee Pomeroy
Giorgio Cavaglieri
Jordan Gruzen
Michael Zimmer
Ed Acker
Stanley Judd
Laurel Lovrek
William Conklin
Sanford Malter
Costas Machlouzarides
Peter Samton