Sylvia Leaving Piers, Tom' Tape
- Name
- Rivera, Sylvia, 1951-2002 (Speaker)
- Iorio, Thomas (Speaker,Filmmaker)
- Title
- Sylvia Leaving Piers, Tom' Tape
- Abstract
- Sylvia Rivera takes Iorio on a tour of the piers where she lived and had recently been cleared out by city regulation and urban renewal construction. The footage features interviews with other unhoused New Yorkers speaking about how the community at the west side piers, as well as footage of New York police and city officials clearing out the piers
- Collection Name
- Thomas Iorio Stonewall Vets video recordings
- Archival Context
- Thomas Iorio Stonewall Vets video recordings. Box no. OHAC C14
- Subjects
- Gay activists; Political activists; Homeless persons; Homelessness--Government policy; Gentrification; Transgender people; New York (N.Y.)
- Format
- video recordings
- Genre
- Amateur films
- Date
- April 2, 1996
- Physical Description
- 1 video file (86 minutes)
- Note
- Original format: Hi8
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-3p22-j298