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Podcast: Exploding Brooklyn
Episode: Old Greenpoint, New Fires, Slavers, and Strikebreakers.
Description: 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...