In this episode we're exploring the Bronx State Hospital buildings that have been abandoned since 2016. A brand new facility replaced the outdated structures that were built in the 1960s.

Hostile architecture is popping up around asylum shelters in NYC, and it looks like these could be in response to the city’s growing humanitarian crisis. Some businesses may have a legitimate safety concern, but when the city itself is looks like it’s installing hostile architecture something seems fishy…

Chapters:
00:00 - How New York was a Part of the Global Sugar Trade
01:52 - The History of New York’s Havemeyer Family’s Sugar Company
03:48 - How the Industrial Revolution impacted Sugar Trade
05:48 - How Sugar refining works
06:33 - How the 1880’s Domino Sugar Factory worked
08:44 - 1881 Expansion of the Domino Sugar Refinery
11:08 - 1920’s Expansion of Domino Sugar outside of Brooklyn
13:06 - The challenging history of the global sugar trade
18:44 - The Down Fall of New York’s Domino Sugar Refinery
19:55 - What Remains of Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery
24:39 - The Legacy of New York’s Domino Sugar Refinery