Public Spaces

by Shahana Hanif

Shahana Hanif describes how her desire to live beyond the stoop and her alliance with local community activists to create more public spaces in Kensington were initially inspired by events in her home country of Bangladesh.

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Hanif, Shahana, Excerpt from oral history interview conducted by Liz H. Strong, April 17, 2018, Muslims in Brooklyn oral histories, 2018.006.15; Brooklyn Historical Society.

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