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September 7, 2023 38 mins
Oil Fire,Terrible Explosion, Worker Cut In Two 1883
A Man Drowned At Hunters Point, Shameful Conduct Of Bystanders, 1870
Long Island Railroad Disaster, 1893
Newtown Creek Being Made Deeper: The Removal Of Mussel Island, 1922
McGuinness Raids In Vain, 1922
City Employee Dead in Newtown Creek, 1909
2000 Men Fight Fire Sweeping Vast Oil Store, Fireboats Float In A Sea Of Flames On Newtown Creek, 1919
Missing Girl, part 9: Maggie Kueblein and the Camden Clairvoyant, 1887

featuring: Mussel Island; Standard Oil Company; Sone & Fleming; Columbia Distilling Company; Peter Cooper Glue Works, Cooper Union; American Agricultural Company; Pratt Works; Fire Chief John Kenlon; fireboats Abram S. Hewitt, New Yorker; 197 Norman Avenue; 150 Meeker Street; 229 Dupont Street; 181 Greenpoint Avenue; Spirit of the Times; St. John's Hospital; Skelton's Morgue; Haberman's Agateware Manufactory; schooner George S. Puge; 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.com
Ig: @trippingballsthroughhistory
bonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
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