The Chelsea bombing last week made headlines across the country, but fortunately no one was killed. Bombings are big news today, but New York City has always had them. Some in the past were never even heard of outside the city. In fact, there was an 18-month period in 1969-’70 in which 370 bombs went off in the city! New York bombings have been carried out by all kinds of groups and individuals for as many different reasons: targeted political statements, general terrorism, revenge, or just insanity.
…in November 1940, the city had its first encounter with a bomber who would haunt them for years: George Metesky, a disgruntled former ConEd employee who left a pipe bomb at a company building, along with a note: "CON EDISON CROOKS – THIS IS FOR YOU."
A similar bomb appeared several months later, before Metesky decided to pause because of World War II.
"I WILL MAKE NO MORE BOMB UNITS FOR THE DURATION OF THE WAR," Metesky wrote police. "MY PATRIOTIC FEELINGS HAVE MADE ME DECIDE THIS."
True to his word, Metesky didn't resume bombing until 1951, when he captivated the media with a string of bombings over several years, many at city landmarks like Grand Central Terminal, the New York Public Library, and Radio City Music Hall, some 33 in total which never killed anyone but, for a time, set the city on edge.
Metesky was eventually captured and committed to a mental institution. His is only one of the many stories told in a rundown of historical New York bombings at Atlas Obscura.
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BTW, this is actually a healthy political move with more than symbolic significance in the sense of defending values of self-expression/ body freedom for women.
Dude! Just tits? Come one man they are not just they are something that is why so much fight. But anyway, I think it is not good for women to bath topeless in public place. However they can get topeless in women only pool.
http://www.gotopless.org/news.php?item.3.1 for more info.
Yeah, we got a nude beach to, but it's infested with ugly old and "probably" gay old troll men. My friends try and avoid it and would rather look directly at the sun. Funny thing is, it's against the law to go into the water naked, but I wouldn't go into that filthy lake Ontario with or without clothing on.
"Of sort", indeed. Either make those jerks wear bikini or shirt tops (and watch them bitch about it) or allow everyone to go shirtless on hot days. People need to quit acting like they've never seen a titty before.
And nudist resorts are very popular in the US. I know as I own the Terra Cotta Inn, Palm Springs, CA. http://sunnyfun.com We have the 2nd highest occupancy rate of ALL hotels in Palm Springs.
Fashions change. In the late 1800's women wore full dresses from their ankles, to their wrists, to their necks and had little house carts go into the ocean or lake so they could go "swimming."
In the early 1900's if a woman showed a bare ankle she was considered immoral.
By the 1920's bare ankles were OK, bare calves were immoral.
Just like the world did not come to an end when bare ankles were first shown in public on women in the 1900's, the world will not end with topless swimming.
People should grow up. Breasts are no more sexual now than ankles were at the turn of the century. Do these moralists want woman to dress like Muslims? We"re in the year 2009 not 1909.