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Exploding Brooklyn

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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.

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Drawbridge Tragedy, Bombs In the Creek, Long Island City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 08.06.2023 31:09

Williamsburg & Greenpoint & Munitions 500 Pound Bomb Defused, 1969 City's Big Oil Fire Burning Itself Out, 1919 Boy Killed In Drawbridge, 1854 William Dykes vs. The Bushwick Newtown Bridge Turnpike Road Company, 1843 Bridge Swept Away, 1820 2 Killed 22 Hurt In Wild Rush in Fire At Subway Worker's Building Long Island City, 1929 Fire In Brooklyn Rages 4 Hours, 1965 featuring: Paule Marshall...

The Penny Bridge Disaster, The Bushwick Mystery, and Another Great Greenpoint Fire 01.06.2023 39:22

Bridge Gave Way, Penny Bridge Disaster, 1894 Greenpoint Oil Fire Spreading, 1919 You're Not Guilty But Don't Do It Again, 1909 Newtown Creek Erecting Toll Bridge, 1802 Fire On Land and Water, 1889 France Must Pay Tax On Land Here, 1925 Missing girl, part 4: Maggie Kueblein: The Bushwick Mystery, 1887 Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg o...

Margaret Conlan and Mrs. Tinpe and the Stubborn Fires In The Garden Spot 25.05.2023 30:07

Margaret Conlan of Brooklyn, 1859 Mrs. Tinpe: Mother and Babes Gone, 1903 The Garden Spot of America, 1946 Tanks Menaced By Gasoline Blasts, 1930 Gasoline Fire Contained On Brooklyn Waterfront, 1970 Stubborn Fire in Brooklyn, 1940 featuring: true crime, missing person, postpartum, firemen rescue Greenpoint cat. Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Wil...

Stealing From Standard Oil, Running From Bull Run, and Still Missing Maggie 18.05.2023 36:45

Three Men Leap From Pillar Of Fire, 1900 Skinning the Standard Oil Company, 1908 Bull Run Deserters, 1862 A Greenpoint Pest Hole, 1877 For Sale: Farm On Newtown Creek, 1790 The Whale Creek Butchery: Saw Two Men Pour Acid On Slain Girl and Burn Mattress, 1908 French War Base Sale, 1924 Missing Maggie Kueblein, 1887: Bushwick is an ugly place for a night mystery Exploding Brooklyn focuses on North B...

The History of Barren Island, and Why Vassar Students Chew So Much Gum 14.05.2023 33:01

Barren Island: New York City's dump and recycling ground for a century; and Why Do Old Newspapers Think Vassar Students Chew So Much Gum? 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. Officia...

Mayhem On The Waters, Stenches Within 10.05.2023 38:57

Swirling Barges, 1922 Tugboat Burns, 1908 Where Stenches Abound, 1881 Maggie Kueblein: Where Is She?, 1887 Featuring: ferryboat Bronx; Mill Rock; Barren Island; and part 2 of the story of missing girl Maggie Kueblein. Exploding Brooklyn tells the stories of North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst industrial mayhe...

The History of Penny Bridge Over Newtown Creek; and How US Railroads From China Ended Up In Greenpoint 05.05.2023 35:36

The History of Penny Bridge Over Newtown Creek; How US Railroads From China Ended Up In Greenpoint; the first Greenpoint & Williamsburg Fire Departments; North Brooklyn and 1776; Creeks and Corpses. featuring: the Penny Bridge Is Doomed; the Penny Bridge Tragedy of 1907; Towerman and Flagman Charged With Homicide, 1907; the Battle of Long Island; the Fire Department of Greenpoint, Engine No. 1...

The Greenpoint Oil Spill and the Meeker Avenue Plumes Welcome You To The Big Apple 01.05.2023 27:49

Biggest Oil Spills in US History  Deepwater Horizon, 134 million gallons  Hawaiian Patriot, 31,000 million gallons  Greenpoint Oil Spill, 30 million gallons  Epic Colocotronis, 18 million gallons  Exxon Valdez, 11 million gallons  Exploding Brooklyn tells the stories of North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst ind...

Newtown Creek is a Small Stream On Fire Full of Corpses 27.04.2023 38:00

Newtown Creek Is A Small Stream, 1873 Lumber and Boats On Fire, 1880 Burned in a Factory Fire, Curious accidents attending the conflagration, 1881 Row At Penny Bridge, 1867 Missing Girl: Maggie Kueblein, 1887 featuring: river pirates; the Export Lumber Company; Edward C. Smith box factory; Reeves & Church saleratus; American Flag House, formerly a pub; the Brooklyn Fire Department; Fire Depart...

Introducing: true stories about Greenpoint, Williamsburg & Newtown Creek's past 24.04.2023 2:14

Exploding Brooklyn tells the stories of 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 sto...