This project was, is, and always will be dependent on the generosity of many people. We are most deeply indebted to our narrators, but many others also made our work possible, and we give them our most heartfelt thanks.
New York University — Mal Semple, former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Science, and colleagues at the what was then the Draper Program (Robert Dimit, Larissa Kyzer, and Georgia Jelatis-Hoke) and to Una Chaudhuri, who transformed Draper into the dynamic Experimental Humanities and Social Thought. Within Faculty of Arts & Science, Bruce Altshuler, Haidy Geismar, Michael Nash, and Peter Wosh. Thanks also to the tireless and always dedicated efforts of James Devitt.
Department of Sanitation, New York — John Doherty, former Commissioner; Bernard Sullivan, former First Deputy Commissioner; Vito Turso, former Deputy Commissioner of Public Information; Mierle Laderman Ukeles, DSNY Artist-in-Residence; Maggie Lee, records management officer for the DSNY and director of cultural and edicationan programs for the Sanitation Foundation; Chris Bendall, CUNY student and DSNY intern; Julie Raskin, executive director of the Sanitation Foundation
United Sanitationmens Association, Teamster Local 831 — Harry Nespoli, President, and the officers, business agents, and shop stewards who help keep 831 a strong and vital union.
Freshkills Park — Eloise Hirsh, Administrator and also a Founding Narrator, and the FKP team, including Angelyn Chandler, Andrew Deer, Doug Elliot, John Fouskaris, Carrie Grassie, Raj Kottamasu, and Kate Sokol
Columbia University — Mary Marshall Clark, Director, Oral History Research Office (OHRO), along with Amy Starecheski, Elizabeth Grefrath, Charis Emily Shafer, and OHRO’s director emeritus, Ron Grele.
Jenine Durland for her guidance on audio recording and editing and on all things Internet-related in the very first iteration of the class back in 2011. There would be no website were it not for her.
Narrators: Sal Annerino, Jack Behan, Hansine Bowe, Paul Brown, Angelo Bruno and Susan Tedesco-Bruno, Joey Calvacca, Dennis Diggins, Phillip Gleason, Javier Gomez, Eloise Hirsh, Sandy McCaffrey, Michael Mucci, Marc Murphy, Ted Nabavi, Edwin Nieves, André Ramos, Joey Rivera, Joseph Siano, Chris Sullivan, Will Walsh and Dawn Toledo-Walsh
Interviewers: Ghalia Alhammadi, Cristiana Baik, Cassandra Brewer, Mario Cancel-Bigay, Giovanny Castro, Gloria Coletti, Jacqueline Colognesi, Hilary Crowe, Quin DeLaRosa, Catherine Falzone, Shanna Farrell, Margaret Fraser, Rachel Greer, Emily Haidet, Navdeep Kaur, Charlotte Morlie, Lana Povitz, Alex Provo, Samantha Rijkers, Lexie Russo, Chelsea Trembly, Maggie Schreiner, and Anna Weinreich