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Tag: The Bad Old Days

Joan Kipp newspaper cover

The Bad Old Days: The Mad Mail Bomber Who Struck Bay Ridge

In 1982, a booby-trapped package killed a woman on 91st Street. A decade later, the killer struck again. And again. And again. And again.

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George Dalton Fifth Avenue

The Bad Old Days: A Man with a Grenade and the Siege of Fifth Avenue

In 1982, George Dalton threatened to detonate multiple explosives near 77th Street, leading to an almost 10-hour standoff that ended on a dark hill in Owl’s Head Park.

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