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Exploding Brooklyn

  • Mary Ann Duffy of Williamsburg

    23 NOV 2023 · 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 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
    27m 22s
  • The Murder of William Guldensuppe, the Cover-Up, the Fallout, 1897

    16 NOV 2023 · 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 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
    1h 36m 18s
  • The History of the Common Scold, Slum Children With Cameras, Animal Visitors To Newtown Creek

    9 NOV 2023 · 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
    50m 37s
  • Insane Girls, Exploding Tanks, Augusta Nack's Guldensuppe

    2 NOV 2023 · 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 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
    37m 37s
  • John C. Wiarda, His Chemical Factory, His Family, and His Chemical Warfare On His Neigbors and Tenants

    26 OCT 2023 · 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 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
    24m 21s
  • Escaped Smallpox Patient Walks New York City Like The Kid From The Family Circus, Racist Jury But Not Judge, What Is Jute?

    26 OCT 2023 · 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; The Wilson Bill; Flood's Lot. 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
    35m 54s
  • Slimy Bad Water Place Full of Flames, Lost Hands, Stolen Routes and Pieces of Exploded Tugboats.

    19 OCT 2023 · 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, Boody; George W. Piper paint factory; Post & McCord; Mayor Sanford; tugboats Defender (Russel Brothers), John Purcell (Capt. John Gillers); Jute Mill; Vernon Avenue Bridge; Williamsburg Hospital. 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
    36m 46s
  • Pink Street Is No More and the Bodies Discovered There, and Workers Stomped By Troops But Supported By A Priest 1

    12 OCT 2023 · 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 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
    39m 49s
  • Old Greenpoint, New Fires, Slavers, and Strikebreakers.

    5 OCT 2023 · 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 & Company Varnish Works; fireboats Boody, Van Wyck, New Yorker; Eastern District Hospital; Gustavus Meyers: History of the Great American Fortunes; Pink Street; ferryboat Seneca; Rushmore Paper Company; Brooklyn Heights Railroad; Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company; Brooklyn Heights Company; Fourteenth Regiment; Forty-seventh Regiment; Seventh Regiment; Troop A: General McLeer; Sheriff Doht, Long Island City; Maspeth Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, Grand Street; 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
    37m 22s
  • The McGuinness and The Chinese Exclusion Act; and the Friesel Bonusa Gang of Greenpoint

    28 SEP 2023 · 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 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
    34m 57s

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...

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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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