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The Greenwich Village townhouse explosion occurred on March 6, 1970, in New York City, United States. Members of the Weather Underground (Weathermen), an American leftist militant group, were making bombs in the basement of 18 West 11th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, when one of them exploded.
The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. March 30 – Chicago police discover a WUO "bomb factory" on Chicago's north side. April 1 - Based on a tip Chicago Police find 59 sticks of dynamite, ammunition, and nitroglycerin in an apartment traced to WUO members. [14]
It includes 165 contributing buildings, six contributing sites (parks), one contributing structure, and 27 contributing objects. It encompasses the historic center of the village including residential, commercial, civic, and ecclesiastical buildings as well as six memorial parks, including Monument Park containing the Civil War monument (1916).
[7] After the Greenwich Village explosion, in a review of the documentary film The Weather Underground (2002), a Guardian journalist restated the film's contention that no one was killed by WUO bombs. [94] We were very careful from the moment of the townhouse on to be sure we weren't going to hurt anybody, and we never did hurt anybody.
In 2005, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation recognized the park's then-recent renovation with a Village Award. [3] On August 3, 2009, a small garden was established inside the park as a memorial to Adrienne Shelly, an actress and film producer who was slain in her office located in 15 Abingdon Square.
If today's reported suspicions and reposts are accurate, the statuesque actress has listed her Greenwich Village five-story, elevator-free townhouse with Sotheby's Uma Thurman Lists Greenwich ...
Organisers of the permanent memorial in Lockerbie said the impact of the bombing has been lifelong for survivors, and they are working to create a facility similar to the 9/11 museum in New York ...
Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization; [11] the four ZIP Codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing prices in 2014, according to Forbes, [12] with residential property sale prices in the West ...