On August 5th, we welcome Dr. Tarry Hum, Professor Emeritus at CUNY and 2025 Caring Across Generations Fellow, and Marc Kirkeby, historian, writer, and former contributor to DORIS’s For the Record blog, for a conversation about the evolution of infrastructure, demographics, and community life in two dynamic neighborhoods: Sunset Park, Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens.
Dr. Tarry Hum is the author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood, Brooklyn’s Sunset Park (2014) and lead editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY (2021). Her research focuses on immigrant urbanism and growth coalitions, transnational capital, and urban and community planning.
Marc Kirkeby’s work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, NY Daily News, and Rolling Stone. Visit Archives.NYC to explore Marc’s 2017 Sunset Park Series.
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