Flatbush + Main Episode 02: Brooklyn’s Working Waterfront - a podcast by Zaheer Ali & Julie Golia, Brooklyn Historical Society

In the past several years, Brooklyn's waterfront has transformed into a high-value, celebrated space lined with bucolic parks and new developments. In Episode 02 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia travel back in time to a different waterfront: when Brooklyn's waterfront was a crucible of American capitalism and labor. Julie and Zaheer describe the rise of the commercial waterfront in the early 19th century, sit down with BHS Assistant Public Historian Katy Lasdow who pieced together the story of one dockworker who lived and died at Brooklyn's Empire Stores warehouse, and hear from BHS's Puerto Rican Oral History Project with BHS Oral History Project Archivist Brett Dion. Finally, BHS Director of Education Emily Potter-Ndiaye and Teen Council Member Sam Pepere talk about the amazing work that teens have been doing at BHS this Spring. For detailed show notes, go to brooklynhistory.org/flatbush-main.

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