Pineda, Richard: Patricia Carino Pasick collection of Johnson Street Filipino-American oral histories: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents

In the interview, Pineda discusses growing up in the Bronx and Brooklyn, New York in the 1940s and 1950s as a child of mixed Filipino and Hungarian heritage, his parent's racial identity and losing them to illness as a child, moving to Brooklyn and living with his godmother, the mixed ethnic make-up of the neighborhoods he grew up in, meeting other Filipinos at the New York State Merchant Marine Academy at Fort Schuyler (where his father ran a concession stand), visiting the Philippines, and his racial identity as a Filipino-American. The interview was conducted by Patricia Carino Pasick in Lakewood Ranch, Florida. Please note that the recording of the interview cuts short prior to the interview's conclusion. However, the remainder of the interview is available in transcript form.

Biographical note

Richard Pineda was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941. His mother, Ella Santos, was born in Hungary in 1912, into a mixed family. His maternal grandmother was Hungarian and his maternal grandfather from the Philippines. His father, Luciano Pineda, a professional photographer, was also born in the Philippines, in 1908. After losing both parents to illness in 1952, Pineda and his sister (Linda Ball, also in this collection) moved to the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn to live with his godmother, Marion del Rosario (who was of German/Norwegian/Filipina descent) and her husband Herman (a Filipino). He attended PS 12, JHS 223, and finally, New Utrecht High School in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. As of 2014, after a career with NBC as a cameraman and boom operator, he lives in Lakewood Ranch, Florida.

Subjects

Organizations

New York State Merchant Marine Academy

People

Ball, Linda; Pineda, Richard

Topics

Places

Borough Park (New York, N.Y.); Bronx (New York, N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Philippines

Pineda, Richard, 2014 March 21