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

Scope and Contents

In the interview, Alice Flores describes her mixed Filipino-American family and growing up in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn. She discusses her father's work in the Navy, how her parents met, the Filipino-American Youth Club on Fulton Street, Dr. Jose Rizal VFW Post 867 (which was comprised solely of Filipino-American veterans), and how Filipinos dealt with prejudice. The interview was conducted by Patricia Carino Pasick at Flores's home in Manalapan, New Jersey.

Biographical note

Alice (Astorga) Flores was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Her father, Stanley Astorga, was a Filipino immigrant and her mother was of Lithuanian descent. Stanley served in the U.S. Navy and was an active member of the Dr. Jose Rizal VFW Post 867. Alice and her brother, Stanley Astorga Jr., were active members of the Filipino-American community center at 305 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. The family lived at 74 Johnson Street and on Chapel Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn. She married Antonio Flores, also a Filipino-American, during World War II and had two children. She worked for the federal government for many years and today lives in an apartment adjacent to her daughter's home in Manalapan, New Jersey.