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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The Black Tom Island

There are actually three places you can visit. The first place is the actual site of black tom island in jersey city. If you go there to day, you'll find a small plaque that says you are walking on a site which saw one of the worst acts of terrorism in american history. That building is still there, that town house is still there,. but it is radically redone on the front of it. It looks nothing like it would have back then. There's even a garage, which is an odd thing to have on a side street in chelsea. O, lemon, i hope it didn't sour on you.

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