Oral history interview with Alfonzo Forney, 2020
- Name
- Forney, Alfonzo, 1978- (Interviewee)
- Lewis, Lynn (Oral historian) (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Alfonzo Forney, 2020
- Abstract
- Alfonzo Forney recounts his experiences with homelessness and homelessness facilities in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. Forney describes the lack of information, health resources, and protection measures in the New York shelters. He also discusses New York City's policies on homelessness, his experience having COVID, working in food delivery, and fighting against big bureaucracy
- Collection Name
- New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection
- Subjects
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Social distancing (Public health); Homeless persons--New York (State); Shelters for the homeless--New York (State); New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 21st century; Forney, Alfonzo, 1978-
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 34 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Alfonzo Forney was born in New York and has lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn. At the time of this interview, Forney was 41 years old and residing within the New York City Department of Public Services system at a COVID-19 hotel in Long Island City
- Note
- Interviewed by Lynn Lewis on May 14, 2020
- Note (Provenance)
- Alfonzo Forney, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
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- Catalog Record
- 18896388
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/c5wz-ff32