When 37,000 Pounds Exploded: Brooklyn's Pier That Shuddered 35 Miles
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When 37,000 Pounds Exploded: Brooklyn's Pier That Shuddered 35 Miles
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The afternoon smelled of burning rubber before anyone knew how close they were to disaster: 37,000 pounds of explosive cord and foam rubber scrap ignited on Pier That-Fifth Street and the sound carried 35 miles. Ten people died, 274 were injured, and one man standing a thousand feet from the blast was killed without touching the fire - so how did that much explosive material end up on a commercial pier surrounded by 25,000 workers?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events on December 3, 1956 at Industry City, describe the setting and the people who worked there, and lay out the documented chain from broken burlap bags to a torch and 26 burning minutes - but the core question remains: why was so much explosive material stored on Pier That-Fifth Street?
Date: December 3, 1956
Location: Pier That-Fifth Street, Industry City, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
People at work: 25,000
Deaths: 10
Injuries: 274
- 3:15 PM: an oxyacetylene torch ignited shredded foam rubber scrap on the dock.
- 26 minutes: duration the fire burned before the final detonation occurred.
- 37,000 pounds: total explosive cord and foam rubber involved when the blast happened.
- 1,000 feet: distance from the blast where one man died (about three city blocks).
- 35 miles: how far the sound of the explosion traveled.
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