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November 9, 2023 50 mins
Animal Visitors To The Creek
A Sea Dog Stealing Bass, 1832
Sea Dog Captured and Sold To The American Museum
Sea Dog Near the Creek - 1859
Two Day Fox Hunt In Greenpoint, 1932
Shark Shot 8 Times, 1950
Calf Fleeing Slaughterhouse In Brooklyn, 1957
Dolphin Spotted In Brooklyn's Polluted Newtown Creek, 2010

Cameras Open World To Slum Children, 1968
Dump It Yourself Depots
Wertheimer - "Infanticide in the American Imagination" by Janet Galley
Margaret Shaw & The Common Scold and James v. Commonwealth

featuring: "Infanticide in the American Imagination" by Janet Galley

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.com
Ig: @trippingballsthroughhistory
bonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
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