Exploding Brooklyn

Mary Ann Duffy of Williamsburg: Unfortunate Mam'selle and Nymph Du Pave: Clinker Revolver Inebriate Bummer Item Prize and Friend: Girl Does What She Wants To Do. 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 shippi...

featuring: Thorn Faces Jury Thorn's Awful Accusation Mrs. Nack's Career of Crime Cigars for the Convicts at Sing Sing Photograph Where Head Should Be A Stay for Martin Thorn Mrs. Nack May Plead Manslaughter The Jury's Wine Bill Mrs. Nack Taken To Auburn For Use As A Wine Shop Mrs. Nack Released From Prison & more Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint a...

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...

Queens County Oil Works Fire, 1895 Men Buried at the Tunnel at Long Island City, 1905 An Oil Tank Explodes, The Residents of Greenpoint Startled By Broken Windows, 1885 Mary Wertheimer and Her Murdered Child, 1892 Girl Determined To Die, 1902 Guldensuppe: Mystery Is Not Solved, 1897 Hard Fight With A Fire, 1902 Emma Robinson "Insane" Girl, 1867 Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's indust...

Michael Burns, Escaped Smallpox Patient A Jury of Black People Is Called By The Court But Rejected By The Defendant The Jute Mill: What Is Jute? Child Labor in Greenpoint, 1904 The American Manufacturing Company The Tugboat John Anson featuring: burlap; Labor Strike; Child Labor; Call the Darkness Light by Nancy Zaroulis; The American Manufacturing Company; tugboat John Anson; the health wagon; Th...

Wanted To Get Him Out: Landlord Succeeded With Noxious Gases A Terrible Death In Muriatic Acid Fire In A Greenpoint Plant Long Ill Woman Failed In Suicide Attempt Greenpoint Blaze: Iron Works and Chemical Factory Damaged Chauffeur Killed Boy Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst in...

Slimy Newtown Creek, 1897 Another Mystery: Human Hands, 1862 Nine Acres Ravaged By Fierce Flames, 1900 Car Tracks Torn Up, 1900 Bad Scare for Newtown: A Man With Smallpox Mingles With Its People, 1893 Tugboat Blown To Pieces, 1902 Missing girl, part 10: Not Maggie, 1897 featuring: Edward C. Smith box factory; James D. Leary lumber yard; E. C. Smith's planing mill; fireboats Seth Low, Van Wyck, Boo...

Actress Jennie Goldstein Pink Street Is No More and The Bodies Discovered There Rushmore Paper Plant Labor "Rioters" In Greenpoint Suppressed By Federal Troops, Strike Actions Citywide; Streets Of City Overrun By Reckless Militan Men 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...

Had To Send For Soldiers To Suppress Workers, 1895 Paper Plant Burns, 1925 Woman's Body Found In Newtown Creek, 1927 Arrest of the Williamsburg Pilot, 1849 Greenpoint, 1853: Shipbuilding and other industries France Waterfront Lands Will Be Developed, 1930 Varnish Works Ablaze, 1902 Slaver Ship Seized At Greenpoint, 1861 Missing Girl, part 10: Where Is Maggie?, 1887 featuring: Emil Calman & Com...

The McGuinness 7 Boys Held As Movie-Taught Robbers, Police Search For The Fagan WWI: Private Joseph G. Beach, MIA since 1918 Alleged Yourful Crooks, 1898 Elevator Boy Loses Ear, 1903 The Greenpoint Friesel & Bonuso Gang of Greenpoint: For A Yeggman. Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and di...

The Farleys That Never Were Mount Washington and John Keenan: Hidden For All Time The McGuinness: Sheriff of the Athens of the East River, and Prisoners' Meals featuring: the Boston & Maine Railroad. 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 N...

Mussel Island Clam Peddlers As First Responders, 1857 Up Turbid and Congested Newtown Creek, 1929 Ownership Stolen Speedboat, 1926 Oysters and Spam Additions to the LongIsland Railroad Disaster of 1893: Skelton's Morgue, Queens John Philip Sousa and the Long Island Railroad Disaster of 1893 P. S. Gilmore The World's Fair and Manhattan Beach A Trip To Mars Actor George Fielding Understanding Gold v...

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...

Greenpoint: August 21, 1850 The Hills Must All Come Down Pinkertons On The Creek, 1887 Workers, Bosses, Owners and the Laurel Hill Chemical Works Featuring: Maspeth; Laurel Hill Chemical Works; Strikes & Pinkertons; Workers kidnapped to replace strikers. Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived a...

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 li...

A Man People Watching On a Commuter Ferry in 1853 The First Ferries in Brooklyn The Union Ferry Company: Total Dickheads The Greenpoint Company A Sufferer: Commuting Hell The Greenpoint Ferry, 1857 The Union Ferry Company: Life's Hard For Us Rich Monopolists Too, You Know The Union Ferry Company's Nemesis: Street Boys The City Takes Over To Usher The Ferry System Into Oblivion Austerity and The De...

At Least Two Lives Lost, Newtown Creek Penny Bridge Disaster, 1894 Greenpoint, 1850: A Debutantes' Ball Guldensuppe and Mrs. Nack, 1897 Naptha Tank's Exploded, 1896 Missing Girl, part 8: Maggie Kueblein: Not Yet Found, 1887 featuring: Laurel Hill Chemical Works: Coroner Strong; Greenpoint Avenue bridge; Toner's Penny Bridge Hotel: Into Icy Newtown Creek + Down With A Bridge + Still finding more bo...

The Schwab Family. 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...

Elizabeth Winthrop Feake Hallett Massacres in Colonial New York The Halletts in Queens The 1708 Slave Rebellion in Queens Gendered Punishments For Rebellion Tortured for Rebellion: Put To All Torments Possible For A Terror To Others John Underhill, Mass Murderer of New York and Environs Women's Suffrage in 1737 The Alops and Descendants featuring: Slave Rebellion, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage,...

Greenpoint and Slavery Slavery Abolition in New York State, Kind Of New York City and Slavery Thomas Alsop: Enslaver and His Runaway Notices Alsop Farm at Penny Bridge, Sold The Alsops and the Yellow Fever of 1847/8 Frederick Douglas and The Power of Public Opinion Public Transportation in the North and South: The Jim Crow Car Staten Island Quarantine Ground, and Suppressing Pandemic Numbers The A...

A Street In Greenpoint On Fire, 1888 Nine Sources of Bad Odors On Newtown Creek, 1894 He Shot To Kill Three, 1896 $200,000 Fire Delays Long Island Trains, Two Trains Speed Through Flames, 1913 The Alsop Farm On Newtown Creek, 1807 The Murder and Dismemberment of Guldensuppe, 1897 New York Harbor Pollution, 1923 Oil Works On Fire, Spontaneous Combustion Blamed 1881 Missing Girl, part 7: Missing Mag...

Anarchist Capitalist: Otto Eckhold The Brig Avarice The Bangville Police Drownings and Accidents in Newtown Creek The Goodwin Accident, 1808 Boy Drowned While Bathing, 1853 Found Drowned, 1853 Boy: Fatal Occurrence On the Flushing Railroad: He Belonged To New York, 1854 Terrible Accident Near New York, Two Men and Six Horses, 1860 Suicide In Brooklyn, On the Bridge, 1874 Long Island Suicide: Farce...

Flames In Oil Refineries, 1882 Williamsburg Joins Brooklyn, 1855 Lost Child But Saved Wife, 1900 Newtown Creek Nuisances, 1881 Rueben Ovington Drowns In Newtown Creek, 1862 Anarchists At Maspeth, 1893 Another Petroleum Fire, Ten Thousand Barrels, 1869 Missing girl, part 6: Maggie Kueblein: Missing For A Week, 1887 Featuring: fire-priggers, river theives, land sharks; Devoe Manufacturing Company; s...

August Depperman, Hermit's, and Maroon Communities Carry Dead Body In Streets, 1904, part 2 George Fuchstein: Drink the Cause of His Death? or The Growler Gang?, 1891 Fire Sweeping The Brooklyn Waterfront, 1952 Missing Child of G.B. Schoonmaker Found In Creek, 1854 Diver Digs Vainly In Mud For Gems, 1935 Reckless Steamboat Navigation, 1852 Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial...

Yesterday a Fire Occurred, Explosion of a Still, 1872 Our Only Seagoing Traffic Cop, 1923 A Serious Oil Fire, Fatal Explosion, 1888 Carried Body In Streets, 1904 The Newtown Creek Nuisance, 1878 McGuinness Seeks To Stop Women Smoking, 1921 A Hermit's Life, 1893 Drink the Cause of His Death, 1891 Maggie's Fate Still A Mystery, 1887 featuring: 'Buffalo Girls' Finnish Dance; the House of Refuge; Wome...