A Man People Watching On a Commuter Ferry in 1853
The First Ferries in Brooklyn
The Union Ferry Company: Total Dickheads
The Greenpoint Company
A Sufferer: Commuting Hell
The Greenpoint Ferry, 1857
The Union Ferry Company: Life's Hard For Us Rich Monopolists Too, You Know
The Union Ferry Company's Nemesis: Street Boys
The City Takes Over To Usher The Ferry System Into Oblivion
Austerity and The Death of the Greenpoint Ferry, and Apparently the Political Career of The McGuinness
Save the Ferries for War, 1942
Public Transit, Public Money, Debt Service, Occupy Wall Street

featuring: Ravenswood Buckwick Green Point and Hallet's Cove Turnpike, Horse Boats Team Boats, Union Ferry Company, Commuters, McGuinness

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