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The 1989 firebombing of the ''Riverdale Press'' was an attack in which two firebombs were thrown at the offices of a weekly newspaper, the ''
The 1989 firebombing of the ''Riverdale Press'' was an attack in which two firebombs were thrown at the offices of a weekly newspaper, the ''Riverdale Press
Founded in 1950 by David A. Stein and wife Celia Stein, ''The Riverdale Press'' is a weekly newspaper that covers the Northwest Bronx neighborhoods of Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights and Van Cortlandt Village, as w ...
'', in the Riverdale community of the Bronx
The Bronx () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the state of New York. It is south of Westchester County; north and east of the New York City borough of Manhattan, across the Harlem River; and north of the New Y ...
, New York City on February 28, 1989. The building was heavily damaged. Two California bookstores were also damaged in similar attacks.
The bombing took place shortly after the newspaper published an editorial defending Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and We ...
during the controversy over ''The Satanic Verses''.
See also
* ''The Satanic Verses'' controversyReferences
Terrorist incidents in the United States in 1989 1989 in New York City Building bombings in the United States Crimes in the Bronx Salman Rushdie History of the Bronx Attacks on buildings and structures in the United States 1980s in the Bronx Attacks on buildings and structures in 1999 {{Terrorism-stub