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Exploding Brooklyn

Tripping Balls Through History

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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42:19

Streets On Fire, Trains In Flames, the Alsop Farm,...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/07/13

A Street In Greenpoint On Fire, 1888Nine Sources of Bad Odors On Newtown Creek, 1894He Shot To Kill Three, 1896$200,000 Fire Delays Long Island Trains, Two Trains Speed Through Flames, 1913The Alsop Farm On Newtown Creek, 1807The Murder and Dismemberment of Guldensuppe, 1897New York Harbor Pollution, 1923Oil Works On Fire, Spontaneous Combustion Blamed 1881Missing Girl, part 7: Missing Maggie Kueblein: A Wild Shriek, 1887featuring: Wissel's Dead Animal Wharf; Mayor Schieren; Thomas Alsop.Exploding

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30:29

He Belonged To New York, Rats Topple Building, The...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/07/06

Anarchist Capitalist: Otto EckholdThe Brig AvariceThe Bangville PoliceDrownings and Accidents in Newtown CreekThe Goodwin Accident, 1808Boy Drowned While Bathing, 1853Found Drowned, 1853Boy: Fatal Occurrence On the Flushing Railroad: He Belonged To New York, 1854Terrible Accident Near New York, Two Men and Six Horses, 1860Suicide In Brooklyn, On the Bridge, 1874Long Island Suicide: Farce Follows Suicide, 1891Building Felled By New York City Rats, 1859Landmark The Astral Sold In Brooklyn Deal,

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37:45

Anarchists, Fires Grand and Startling, Marauders,...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/06/29

Flames In Oil Refineries, 1882Williamsburg Joins Brooklyn, 1855Lost Child But Saved Wife, 1900Newtown Creek Nuisances, 1881Rueben Ovington Drowns In Newtown Creek, 1862 Anarchists At Maspeth, 1893Another Petroleum Fire, Ten Thousand Barrels, 1869Missing girl, part 6: Maggie Kueblein: Missing For A Week, 1887Featuring: fire-priggers, river theives, land sharks; Devoe Manufacturing Company; steamer Minnchanouck; brig Avarice; lager-beer saloon kept by F. C. Bloomer; E.V. Crandall's Factory; Otto

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30:36

Reckless Steamboats, Diamonds in the Creek, Hermits...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/06/22

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

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37:00

Cop In A Canoe On The Creek Full of Stenches, Bodies...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/06/15

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

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31:09

Drawbridge Tragedy, Bombs In the Creek, Long Island...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/06/08

Williamsburg & Greenpoint & Munitions500 Pound Bomb Defused, 1969City's Big Oil Fire Burning Itself Out, 1919Boy Killed In Drawbridge, 1854William Dykes vs. The Bushwick Newtown Bridge Turnpike Road Company, 1843Bridge Swept Away, 18202 Killed 22 Hurt In Wild Rush in Fire At Subway Worker's Building Long Island City, 1929Fire In Brooklyn Rages 4 Hours, 1965featuring: Paule Marshall: Brown Girl, Brownstones; FDNY smoke-eaters; obstructing the Creek with a tug; stampede to escape; smoldering

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39:22

The Penny Bridge Disaster, The Bushwick Mystery, and...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/06/01

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

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30:07

Margaret Conlan and Mrs. Tinpe and the Stubborn Fires...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/05/25

Margaret Conlan of Brooklyn, 1859Mrs. Tinpe: Mother and Babes Gone, 1903The Garden Spot of America, 1946Tanks Menaced By Gasoline Blasts, 1930Gasoline Fire Contained On Brooklyn Waterfront, 1970Stubborn 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 Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and died amidst industrial mayhem as this backwoods of

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36:45

Stealing From Standard Oil, Running From Bull Run,...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/05/18

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, 1908French War Base Sale, 1924Missing Maggie Kueblein, 1887: Bushwick is an ugly place for a night mysteryExploding Brooklyn focuses on North Brooklyn's industrial history in Greenpoint and Williamsburg on Newtown Creek; and the people who lived and

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33:01

The History of Barren Island, and Why Vassar Students...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/05/14

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. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon:

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38:57

Mayhem On The Waters, Stenches Within

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/05/10

Swirling Barges, 1922Tugboat Burns, 1908Where Stenches Abound, 1881Maggie Kueblein: Where Is She?, 1887Featuring: 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 mayhem as this backwoods of New York City became an epicenter of shipping and commerce.Exploding Brooklyn is the

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35:36

The History of Penny Bridge Over Newtown Creek; and...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/05/05

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. 15; bark Tiber; railroads; anti-Asian xenophobia; Hong Kong Railway Society; History of the Great American

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27:49

The Greenpoint Oil Spill and the Meeker Avenue Plumes...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/05/01

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 industrial mayhem as this backwoods of New York City became an epicenter of shipping and commerce.Exploding

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38:00

Newtown Creek is a Small Stream On Fire Full of Corpses

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/04/27

Newtown Creek Is A Small Stream, 1873Lumber and Boats On Fire, 1880Burned in a Factory Fire, Curious accidents attending the conflagration, 1881Row At Penny Bridge, 1867Missing 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 Department of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Engine No. 15; St. Catharine's Hospital; the murder of William H. Snow;

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2:14

Introducing: true stories about Greenpoint,...

Exploding Brooklyn ·

2023/04/24

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 stories to light. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at

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