Welcome to America, Suckers: Selling the Brooklyn Bridge
Podcast: Ridiculous CrimePublished On: Thu Feb 19 2026
Description: It's become shorthand for someone being gullible, thinking they can buy the Brooklyn Bridge (and at a discount!). But the idea had to start somewhere. Turns out selling the bridge and other landmarks to those newly arrived on U.S. shores was a lucrative con in the early 1900s. But such cons are not sustainable, and eventually bad guys go to prison. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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