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.
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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
11/23/23 • 27:23
featuring:Thorn Faces JuryThorn's Awful AccusationMrs. Nack's Career of CrimeCigars for the Convicts at Sing SingPhotograph Where Head Should BeA Stay for Martin ThornMrs. Nack May Plead ManslaughterThe Jury's Wine BillMrs. Nack Taken To AuburnFor Use As A Wine ShopMrs. Nack Released From Prison& moreExploding 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
11/16/23 • 96:19
Animal Visitors To The CreekA Sea Dog Stealing Bass, 1832Sea Dog Captured and Sold To The American MuseumSea Dog Near the Creek - 1859Two Day Fox Hunt In Greenpoint, 1932Shark Shot 8 Times, 1950Calf Fleeing Slaughterhouse In Brooklyn, 1957Dolphin Spotted In Brooklyn's Polluted Newtown Creek, 2010Cameras Open World To Slum Children, 1968Dump It Yourself DepotsWertheimer - "Infanticide in the American Imagination" by Janet GalleyMargaret Shaw & The Common Scold and James v. Commonwealthfeaturing: "Infanticide in the American Imagination" by Janet GalleyExploding 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
11/9/23 • 50:38
Queens County Oil Works Fire, 1895Men Buried at the Tunnel at Long Island City, 1905An Oil Tank Explodes, The Residents of Greenpoint Startled By Broken Windows, 1885Mary Wertheimer and Her Murdered Child, 1892 Girl Determined To Die, 1902Guldensuppe: Mystery Is Not Solved, 1897Hard Fight With A Fire, 1902Emma Robinson "Insane" Girl, 1867Exploding 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
11/2/23 • 37:38
Michael Burns, Escaped Smallpox PatientA Jury of Black People Is Called By The Court But Rejected By The DefendantThe Jute Mill: What Is Jute?Child Labor in Greenpoint, 1904The American Manufacturing CompanyThe Tugboat John Ansonfeaturing: 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
10/26/23 • 35:55
Wanted To Get Him Out: Landlord Succeeded With Noxious GasesA Terrible Death In Muriatic AcidFire In A Greenpoint PlantLong Ill Woman Failed In Suicide AttemptGreenpoint Blaze: Iron Works and Chemical Factory DamagedChauffeur Killed BoyExploding 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
10/26/23 • 24:22
Slimy Newtown Creek, 1897Another Mystery: Human Hands, 1862Nine Acres Ravaged By Fierce Flames, 1900Car Tracks Torn Up, 1900Bad Scare for Newtown: A Man With Smallpox Mingles With Its People, 1893Tugboat Blown To Pieces, 1902Missing girl, part 10: Not Maggie, 1897featuring: 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
10/19/23 • 36:47
Actress Jennie GoldsteinPink Street Is No More and The Bodies Discovered ThereRushmore Paper PlantLabor "Rioters" In Greenpoint Suppressed By Federal Troops, Strike Actions Citywide; Streets Of City Overrun By Reckless Militan MenExploding 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
10/12/23 • 39:50
Had To Send For Soldiers To Suppress Workers, 1895Paper Plant Burns, 1925Woman's Body Found In Newtown Creek, 1927Arrest of the Williamsburg Pilot, 1849Greenpoint, 1853: Shipbuilding and other industriesFrance Waterfront Lands Will Be Developed, 1930Varnish Works Ablaze, 1902Slaver Ship Seized At Greenpoint, 1861Missing Girl, part 10: Where Is Maggie?, 1887featuring: 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
10/5/23 • 37:23
The McGuinness7 Boys Held As Movie-Taught Robbers, Police Search For The FaganWWI: Private Joseph G. Beach, MIA since 1918Alleged Yourful Crooks, 1898Elevator Boy Loses Ear, 1903The 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
9/28/23 • 34:58
The Farleys That Never WereMount Washington and John Keenan: Hidden For All TimeThe McGuinness: Sheriff of the Athens of the East River, and Prisoners' Mealsfeaturing: 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 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 Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
9/21/23 • 26:38
Mussel IslandClam Peddlers As First Responders, 1857Up Turbid and Congested Newtown Creek, 1929OwnershipStolen Speedboat, 1926Oysters and SpamAdditions to the LongIsland Railroad Disaster of 1893:Skelton's Morgue, QueensJohn Philip Sousa and the Long Island Railroad Disaster of 1893P. S. GilmoreThe World's Fair and Manhattan BeachA Trip To MarsActor George FieldingUnderstanding Gold vs. Silver and the Election of 1896: Free Silver and Sound MoneyThe Spirit of the TimesThe Big Bear School of Southern HumoristsWilliam B. Curtis, the Father of Athletics, and New Hampshire's Mount Washingtonfeaturing: The Long Island Railroad Disaster fallout: John Philip Sousa, The Storming of Vicksburg, P. S. Gilmore, The World's Fair, Gold Versus Silver in 1896, A Trip To Mars, George Phelan, The Spirit of the Times and The Big Bear School of Southern Humorists; Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner; New Hampshire's Mount Washington and the Disappearances of William B. Curtis, the Father of Athletics, the Fresh Air Club, the New York Athletic Club; Seafood; Peter Cooper Union; Gelatine Jello created; Brooklyn Union Gas Company; undertakers; Skelton's Morgue.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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
9/14/23 • 40:21
Oil Fire,Terrible Explosion, Worker Cut In Two 1883A Man Drowned At Hunters Point, Shameful Conduct Of Bystanders, 1870Long Island Railroad Disaster, 1893Newtown Creek Being Made Deeper: The Removal Of Mussel Island, 1922McGuinness Raids In Vain, 1922City Employee Dead in Newtown Creek, 19092000 Men Fight Fire Sweeping Vast Oil Store, Fireboats Float In A Sea Of Flames On Newtown Creek, 1919Missing Girl, part 9: Maggie Kueblein and the Camden Clairvoyant, 1887featuring: 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
9/7/23 • 38:37
Greenpoint: August 21, 1850The Hills Must All Come DownPinkertons On The Creek, 1887Workers, Bosses, Owners and the Laurel Hill Chemical WorksFeaturing: 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 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 Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
8/31/23 • 18:20
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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
8/24/23 • 42:08
A Man People Watching On a Commuter Ferry in 1853The First Ferries in BrooklynThe Union Ferry Company: Total DickheadsThe Greenpoint CompanyA Sufferer: Commuting HellThe Greenpoint Ferry, 1857The Union Ferry Company: Life's Hard For Us Rich Monopolists Too, You KnowThe Union Ferry Company's Nemesis: Street BoysThe City Takes Over To Usher The Ferry System Into OblivionAusterity and The Death of the Greenpoint Ferry, and Apparently the Political Career of The McGuinnessSave the Ferries for War, 1942Public Transit, Public Money, Debt Service, Occupy Wall Streetfeaturing: Ravenswood Buckwick Green Point and Hallet's Cove Turnpike, Horse Boats Team Boats, Union Ferry Company, Commuters, McGuinnessExploding 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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
8/17/23 • 57:20
At Least Two Lives Lost, Newtown Creek Penny Bridge Disaster, 1894Greenpoint, 1850: A Debutantes' BallGuldensuppe and Mrs. Nack, 1897Naptha Tank's Exploded, 1896Missing Girl, part 8: Maggie Kueblein: Not Yet Found, 1887featuring: 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 bodies; District Attorney Fleming; contractors Dean & Westbrook; Delaware and Hudson Coal Company; United States & Canada Degreasing Company; Hommel's flag yard.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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
8/10/23 • 39:30
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 true stories to light. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
8/3/23 • 19:33
Elizabeth Winthrop Feake HallettMassacres in Colonial New YorkThe Halletts in QueensThe 1708 Slave Rebellion in QueensGendered Punishments For RebellionTortured for Rebellion: Put To All Torments Possible For A Terror To OthersJohn Underhill, Mass Murderer of New York and EnvironsWomen's Suffrage in 1737The Alops and Descendantsfeaturing: Slave Rebellion, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, John Winthrop, Hallett's Cove, Raritan, Maspeth, Rockaways, Governor Stuyvesant, Quakers, Society for the Propogation of the Gospel, John Underhill, Continental Congress, Federalist Papers, Execution for Men and Women in the Law; scholar Rebecca Hall; James Byrd, Jr.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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
7/27/23 • 18:46
Greenpoint and SlaverySlavery Abolition in New York State, Kind OfNew York City and SlaveryThomas Alsop: Enslaver and His Runaway NoticesAlsop Farm at Penny Bridge, SoldThe Alsops and the Yellow Fever of 1847/8Frederick Douglas and The Power of Public OpinionPublic Transportation in the North and South: The Jim Crow CarStaten Island Quarantine Ground, and Suppressing Pandemic NumbersThe Alsops, Colonial New York to 1776 and Onwards: The American Revolution On Newtown Creekfeaturing: Slavery and Escape In New York: Blissville, Sojourner Truth, Rutgers University, Harriet Powell, Colonial New York, Illinois Bounty Lands, Staten Island Quarantine Grounds, Pandemic, Frederick Douglas, Public Transportation, Colonial Medicine and Physicians, Lord Cornbury, Lord Cornwallis, The Capture of New York, Revolutionary War, Tories, Sir Henry Clinton, Quakers, Iconography of Manhattan Island; Yellow Fever Pandemic of 1848.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.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
7/20/23 • 83:34
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 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: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
7/13/23 • 42:19
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, 1963Body of an Infant Caught On Hook In Newtown Creek, 185542 Are Homeless As 400 Flee Fire, 1952Fatal Accident On Flushing Railroad Bridge, 1858Barge Sinks In Newtown Creek, 1935Sixteen Year Old Drowns, 1832Pulaski Bridge, 1954Death By Drowning, 1845Exploding 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: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
7/6/23 • 30:29
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 Eckhold; St. Catharine's Hospital; 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. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
6/29/23 • 37:45
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 mayhem as this backwoods of New York City became an epicenter of shipping and commerce. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
6/22/23 • 30:36
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 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: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
6/15/23 • 37:00
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 ruins of a pickle factory, beer distributors warehouse damaged.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: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
6/8/23 • 31:09
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 became an epicenter of shipping and commerce. Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.comIg: @trippingballsthroughhistorybonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
6/1/23 • 39:22
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 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 Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
5/25/23 • 30:07
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 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 Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
5/18/23 • 36:45
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: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory
5/14/23 • 33:01
