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The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Glass Breaking in New York City

It rattled two different elevated trains crossing the brooklyn bridge into the borough of New York. In jersey city, practically every window shattered. There was a lot of shaking around the borough hall neighborhood. A building on myrtle avenue and washington street had been knocked down by the explosion. I actually just can't believe that there are actually no deaths attributed to all these broken glass.

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