1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press

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.

[1][2] The building was heavily damaged.

Two California bookstores were also damaged in similar attacks.

[3] The bombing took place shortly after the newspaper published an editorial defending Salman Rushdie during the controversy over The Satanic Verses.

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