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What was invented at 2 Cumberland St in NYC?

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0:00I'm going to throw a dart at a map of

0:01New York City and investigate the

0:03history of wherever it lands. This is

0:05Pinpoint, the series where I uncover the

0:07history of American city addresses. This

0:10week I'm heading to two Cumberland,

0:12which is across the street from the

0:13Brooklyn Navy Yard and has a surprising

0:15connection to World War II.

0:20Established in 1801, the Brooklyn Navy

0:22Yard was one of the United States' most

0:24important naval shipbuilding facilities

0:27for over 150 years. At the [music]

0:28height of World War II, 70,000 employees

0:32worked here in the Navy Yard building

0:33ships. And a lot of those workers ate

0:35lunch right across the street. So,

0:38that's two Cumberland and it used to be

0:39the Cumberland Cafeteria. So, right

0:42here, Cumberland Cafeteria, was a

0:44booming business throughout the Navy

0:47Yard period, peaking during World War II

0:49when there were 70,000 workers working

0:51right across the street who would just

0:53come to lunch every day. But after World

0:55War II ended on the decks of the Navy

0:57Yard's own USS Missouri, production

1:00slowed down in the Navy Yard, which

1:01meant that business slowed down for Ben

1:03and Betty who [music] owned the

1:04Cumberland Cafeteria. Supposedly, over

1:06the years of working in the cafeteria,

1:09Betty had gotten disgusted by the state

1:11of sugar laying out in bowls, discarded

1:14or spilled by sailors and workers in the

1:16Navy Yard. She invented pre-measured

1:18paper packets of sugar, which is why the

1:20Sweet'N Low logo is over my shoulder

1:23here. It's cool. I kind of live in the

1:24neighborhood, so I've walked past this

1:26mural like a hundred times and I've

1:28never thought to wonder why someone is

1:30celebrating Sweet'N Low on this random

1:32corner in Brooklyn. Since everything is

1:33so industrial here now, it's hard to

1:35imagine that this was townhouses [music]

1:36as recently as the 1940s. And if we go

1:39back even further, at one Cumberland

1:41right there, [music] that was a Gothic

1:43cottage in 1858. I also found out that

1:46just up the street a little old woman

1:48named Mary Fitzpatrick was arrested for

1:50bootlegging in 1921, [music] but we'll

1:52just have to do her address another day.

1:55Let me know where you hope the dart

1:56lands next.