1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press

Attack on a newspaper office June 2025 July 2021 thumb|Riverdale Press building on Broadway. 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, in the Riverdale community of the Bronx, New York City on February 28, 1989.Office of Weekly Paper in Riverdale Is Firebombed David E. Pitt The New York Times March 1, 1989 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/01/nyregion/office-of-weekly-paper-in-riverdale-is-firebombed.html?pagewanted=allViolence against the press: policing the public sphere in U.S. history https://archive.org/details/violenceagainstp0000nero registration John C. Nerone Oxford University Press 1994 204 The building was heavily damaged. Two California bookstores were also damaged in similar attacks.Newspaper, Bookstores Damaged by Firebombs https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2092878/newspaper_bookstores_damaged_by/ Daily Sitka Sentinel Sitka, Alaska Associated Press 28 Feb 1989 5 newspapers.com The bombing took place shortly after the newspaper published an editorial defending Salman Rushdie during the controversy over The Satanic Verses.Two Rabbis Find They're Separated Only by Doctrine Samuel G. Freedman The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/us/30religion.html?_r=1 To those suspects, described by law enforcement officials as jailhouse converts to Islam and jihadi wannabes, the distinctions between Reform and Orthodox were either irrelevant or invisible. May 30, 2009 A17Bombings Linked To 'Satanic Verses' https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2092850/bombings_linked_to_satanic_verses/ Logansport Pharos-Tribune Logansport, Indiana 1 Mar 1989 18 newspapers.com See also 1980s The Satanic Verses controversy References 40.89499 -73.89666 type:event_globe:earth_region:US-NY title Category:1989 in New York City Category:1980s in the Bronx Category:1989 building bombings Category:Terrorist incidents in the United States in 1989 Category:Building bombings in New York City Category:Building and structure arson attacks in the United States Category:Crimes in the Bronx 1989 firebombing Category:Salman Rushdie Category:Terrorist incidents in New York City Category:Attacks on mass media offices in the United States Category:Arson in New York City Category:Arson in 1989 Category:1989 fires in the United States Category:Unsolved arsons