Peter Cooper's Glue Factory

Brooklynology has a lengthy post on Peter Cooper and his glue factory that was once one of the major foulers of Newtown Creek. Cooper's glue factory stood not too far from Peter Cooper Houses, the NYCHA development in East Williamsburg. And also not too far from the stockyards and abbatoirs that dominated the area of East Williamsburg south of Grand Street at the turn of the century.