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
27 mins; November 22, 2023
The Murder of William Guldensuppe, the Cover-Up, the Fallout, 1897
96 hours 19 mins; November 15, 2023
The History of the Common Scold, Slum Children With Cameras, Animal Visitors To Newtown Creek
50 mins; November 08, 2023
Insane Girls, Exploding Tanks, Augusta Nack's Guldensuppe
37 mins; November 01, 2023
John C. Wiarda, His Chemical Factory, His Family, and His Chemical Warfare On His Neigbors and Tenants
24 mins; October 25, 2023
Escaped Smallpox Patient Walks New York City Like The Kid From The Family Circus, Racist Jury But Not Judge, What Is Jute?
35 mins; October 25, 2023
Slimy Bad Water Place Full of Flames, Lost Hands, Stolen Routes and Pieces of Exploded Tugboats.
36 mins; October 18, 2023
Pink Street Is No More and the Bodies Discovered There, and Workers Stomped By Troops But Supported By A Priest 1
39 mins; October 11, 2023
Old Greenpoint, New Fires, Slavers, and Strikebreakers.
37 mins; October 04, 2023
The McGuinness and The Chinese Exclusion Act; and the Friesel Bonusa Gang of Greenpoint
34 mins; September 27, 2023
Missing On Mount Washington, The Farleys That Never Were, and The McGuinness' Plans For Prisoner Meals
26 mins; September 20, 2023
The History of Mussel Island, the Long Island Railroad Disaster of 1893 revisited
40 mins; September 13, 2023
The Long Island Railroad Disaster of 1893, The McGuinness' Xenophobia; Maggie, In Her Best, and the Psychic
38 mins; September 06, 2023
Where Did the Hills of Greenpoint Go?, and Pinkertons On The Creek
18 mins; August 30, 2023
The Penny Bridge Disaster of 1894, Toner's Penny Bridge Hotel, Miss Annie Foley: Courageous Superhero Among Frightened Men
42 mins; August 23, 2023
Ferries: A History of Greenpoint and New York City Ferries; Awful Calamities and Enterprising Street Boys
57 mins; August 16, 2023
The Penny Bridge Disaster Revisited, Guldensuppe's Head, Where in Kings County is Maggie?
39 mins; August 09, 2023
Old Man Family Annihilator in Brooklyn, 1896
19 mins; August 02, 2023
The 1708 Slave Rebellion in New York City, and How It Is Connected To Elizabeth Winthrop Feake Hallett and Who She Is
18 mins; July 26, 2023
Slavery and Revolution On Newtown Creek
83 hours 34 mins; July 19, 2023
Streets On Fire, Trains In Flames, the Alsop Farm, Who Killed Guldensuppe and Who Disposed of His Head_
42 mins; July 12, 2023
He Belonged To New York, Rats Topple Building, The Anti-Anarchist Capitalist, The Astral
30 mins; July 05, 2023
Anarchists, Fires Grand and Startling, Marauders, Posse Comitatus What?
37 mins; June 28, 2023
Reckless Steamboats, Diamonds in the Creek, Hermits and Maroon Communities
30 mins; June 21, 2023
Cop In A Canoe On The Creek Full of Stenches, Bodies and Hermits
37 mins; June 14, 2023
Drawbridge Tragedy, Bombs In the Creek, Long Island City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
31 mins; June 07, 2023
The Penny Bridge Disaster, The Bushwick Mystery, and Another Great Greenpoint Fire
39 mins; May 31, 2023
Margaret Conlan and Mrs. Tinpe and the Stubborn Fires In The Garden Spot
30 mins; May 24, 2023
Stealing From Standard Oil, Running From Bull Run, and Still Missing Maggie
36 mins; May 17, 2023
The History of Barren Island, and Why Vassar Students Chew So Much Gum
33 mins; May 13, 2023
Mayhem On The Waters, Stenches Within
38 mins; May 09, 2023
The History of Penny Bridge Over Newtown Creek; and How US Railroads From China Ended Up In Greenpoint
35 mins; May 04, 2023
The Greenpoint Oil Spill and the Meeker Avenue Plumes Welcome You To The Big Apple
27 mins; April 30, 2023
Newtown Creek is a Small Stream On Fire Full of Corpses
38 mins; April 27, 2023
Introducing: true stories about Greenpoint, Williamsburg & Newtown Creek's past
