Notable Residents Credits & Sources
The Hollis Preservation Association’s Notable Residents project highlights people whose lives, work, or family histories connect to Hollis, Queens.
This page gathers research sources, image credits, video credits, and local testimony used in preparing the individual biography pages.
Research & Credit Notes
Sources are maintained here so each article can remain readable while still preserving transparency about the research, credits, and community memory behind the project.
Some entries are supported by published sources such as interviews, obituaries, institutional biographies, newspaper articles, archives, or official websites. Others may include local testimony or community memory, especially where residents have helped identify a Hollis connection that still needs further documentation.
Articles
Irv Gotti Hip-Hop
- Page: /notable-residents/irv-gotti
- Research sources: To be added
- Image / thumbnail: HPA-created category image, Hip-Hop / Music,
/images/hpa/hpa-hip-hop.jpg - Video: Embedded YouTube video, title/channel/link to be added
- Notes: Hollis birthplace/residence noted in article research.
Anne Meara & Jerry Stiller Comedy
- Page: /notable-residents/anne-meara-jerry-stiller
- Research sources: Queens Chronicle article, “Comedian Anne Meara Came From Hollis”; additional biography sources to be added
- Image / thumbnail: HPA-created category image, Arts & Letters / Comedy,
/images/hpa/hpa-arts-letters.jpg - Video: Embedded video source to be added
- Notes: Anne Meara’s Hollis family connection is the basis for inclusion; Jerry Stiller is included through their shared comedy and family legacy.
Willie Bobo Jazz
- Page: /notable-residents/willie-bobo
- Research sources: Blue Note biography; PBS SoCal / Artbound article; additional music sources to be added
- Image / thumbnail: HPA-created category image, Jazz / Music,
/images/hpa/hpa-jazz-v2.jpg - Video: HPA short in production; possible short clip source to be documented
- Local testimony: Hollis residents remembered Willie Bobo as living near the Ketcham House; address research ongoing.
Eric “Bobo” Correa Percussion
- Page: /notable-residents/eric-bobo-correa
- Research sources: NPR Tell Me More, February 5, 2009; Modern Drummer profile; additional sources to be added
- Image / thumbnail: HPA-created category image, Hip-Hop / Music,
/images/hpa/hpa-hip-hop.jpg - Video: HPA short in production
- Notes: Eric Bobo stated, “I was born in Hollis — Hollis, Queens,” in the NPR interview.
Layhmond Robinson Jr. Journalism
- Page: /notable-residents/layhmond-robinson
- Research sources: New York Amsterdam News Research Index (Metropolitan staff survey data, 1964); The New York Times Archival Records (Front-page reporting on the RFK-Baldwin civil rights meeting, May 1963); Historical Records of the Legislative Correspondents Association of New York State; National Urban League Communications Directory (1968–1971); U.S. Social Security Death Index & historical metropolitan census records (1925–2013).
- Image / thumbnail: HPA-created category image, Arts & Letters / Journalism,
/images/hpa/hpa-arts-letters.jpg - Video: HPA feature short (In production). Narrative video research tracks his trailblazing broadcast contributions at WABC-TV and WCBS Newsradio 88.
- Notes: Historically documented as the senior Black staff writer at The New York Times in 1964 and the first person of color elected president of the Legislative Correspondents Association of New York State. Moved to Hollis with his family in 1964.
Lani Guinier Civil Rights
- Page: /notable-residents/lani-guinier
- Research sources: Harvard Law School Faculty Memorial Portrait Archive (2022); NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) Litigation Archives (Voting rights project case histories, 1981–1988); Congressional Record Transcripts (1982 Voting Rights Act enforcement amendments); U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division historical personnel files (Carter Administration).
- Image / thumbnail: HPA-created category image, Public Service / Civil Rights,
/images/hpa/hpa-service.jpg - Video: HPA feature short (In production). Pull quote text cited directly from the documentary short "Lani Guinier: Her Work to Lift Every Voice" published by RepresentWomen (2022).
- Notes: Historically documented as the first Black woman to achieve a tenured professorship in the history of Harvard Law School (1998). Raised in Hollis following her family's relocation to the neighborhood in 1956.