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Flames In Oil Refineries, 1882
Williamsburg Joins Brooklyn, 1855
Lost Child But Saved Wife, 1900
Newtown Creek Nuisances, 1881
Rueben Ovington Drowns In Newtown Creek, 1862
Anarchists At Maspeth, 1893
Another Petroleum Fire, Ten Thousand Barrels, 1869
Missing girl, part 6: Maggie Kueblein: Missing For A Week, 1887

Featuring: 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.

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