Interview Responses

Conducting this interviews had indeed helped on my quest of finding out information about my neighborhood. The person that I interviewed is Marta Rusenetti. Marta has lived in Ozone Park for 60 years!!! She and her parents came directly from Italy to Ozone Park, where they bought their house. What attracted her family to this town, was that people from the same town in Italy were coming to Ozone Park; meaning it was an Italian community on the formation. She confirmed what I had found out in previous research, Ozone Park had once been one of New York’s “little Italies”. “Everybody knew each other, even people from the other blocks, we all knew each other”. Is one of the things Marta assured. Marta also described how involved in the community she was. She was part of a comity that was held every month. “People were asked to give two dollars a month as donation to improve the neighborhood”.
When I asked her about the Mafia activity that used to happened in Ozone Park she said ”Ohh no that was way later, and even then it was much better that how it is now” “You see lilltle gangs of black, Hispanics, and Indians on the corners, you didn’t see that even we the mafia was around”