Ferries: A History of Greenpoint and New York City Ferries; Awful Calamities and Enterprising Street Boys

A Man People Watching On a Commuter Ferry in 1853<br />The First Ferries in Brooklyn<br />The Union Ferry Company: Total Dickheads<br />The Greenpoint Company<br />A Sufferer: Commuting Hell<br />The Greenpoint Ferry, 1857<br />The Union Ferry Company: Life's Hard For Us Rich Monopolists Too, You Know<br />The Union Ferry Company's Nemesis: Street Boys<br />The City Takes Over To Usher The Ferry System Into Oblivion<br />Austerity and The Death of the Greenpoint Ferry, and Apparently the Political Career of The McGuinness<br />Save the Ferries for War, 1942<br />Public Transit, Public Money, Debt Service, Occupy Wall Street<br /><br />featuring: Ravenswood Buckwick Green Point and Hallet's Cove Turnpike, Horse Boats Team Boats, Union Ferry Company, Commuters, McGuinness<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Exploding Brooklyn is the first podcast from Tripping Balls Through History - podcasts using newspapers and media to bring old true stories to light. <br /><br />Official: trippingballsthroughhistory.com<br />Ig: @trippingballsthroughhistory<br />bonus content at Patreon: patreon.com/TrippingBallsThroughHistory