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Old Greenpoint, New Fires, Slavers, and Strikebreakers.

Exploding Brooklyn

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Episode  ·  37:23  ·  Oct 5, 2023

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Had To Send For Soldiers To Suppress Workers, 1895Paper Plant Burns, 1925Woman's Body Found In Newtown Creek, 1927Arrest of the Williamsburg Pilot, 1849Greenpoint, 1853: Shipbuilding and other industriesFrance Waterfront Lands Will Be Developed, 1930Varnish Works Ablaze, 1902Slaver Ship Seized At Greenpoint, 1861Missing Girl, part 10: Where Is Maggie?, 1887featuring: Emil Calman & Company Varnish Works; fireboats Boody, Van Wyck, New Yorker; Eastern District Hospital; Gustavus Meyers: History of the Great American Fortunes; Pink Street; ferryboat Seneca; Rushmore Paper Company; Brooklyn Heights Railroad; Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company; Brooklyn Heights Company; Fourteenth Regiment; Forty-seventh Regiment; Seventh Regiment; Troop A: General McLeer; Sheriff Doht, Long Island City; Maspeth Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, Grand Street; The Bangville Police.Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst industrial mayhem as this backwoods of New York City became an epicenter of shipping and commerce.Exploding Brooklyn is the first podcast from Tripping Balls Through History - podcasts using newspapers and media to bring old true stories to light. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory

37m 23s  ·  Oct 5, 2023

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