PHOTO: In 1979 over 200,000 people gathered on the undeveloped Battery Park City landfill in antinuclear protest, at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Anti-Vietnam war demonstrators burning the American flag during 1967 demonstration in Central Park. Click "More Info" Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Anti-Vietnam war demonstrators burning the American flag during 1967 demonstration in Central Park, at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: In 1958, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed here at a book signing in the then Blumfield's Dept. Store. Click the link for this historic pic of King being treated at the police station! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: In 1958, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed here at a book signing in the then Blumfield's Dept. Store. Click the link for this historic pic of King being treated at the police station! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: In 1962, children ducked under their desks for air raid drills. Click "More Info" for this great historic pic! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: 1965. Police carry off one of the teenagers who reportedly ran amok in a nearby shopping area during a protest at the New York City Board of Education headquarters. Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Firefighters battle the blaze after the explosion of a Weather Underground bomb in 1970. Click "More Info" to see this historic pic! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: In 1970 a bomb built by Weather Underground accidentally exploded in this Village townhouse. Click "More Info" to see a great pic of actor Dustin Hoffman racing from his next door apartment! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Police frisk alleged Hells Angels at booking at the old Ninth Precinct station here in connection to the stabbing of a marine. Click "More Info" to see this historic pic from 1965! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: The Stonewall Riots began here in 1969, with crowds attempting to impede a police raid on the Stonewall Inn. Click "More Info" to see this historic pic! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Abbie Hoffman at the foot of the Alma Mater encourages students to disobey all laws in a 1970 demonstration, at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: In 1920 a horse-drawn wagon carrying a bomb killed 38 people at 23 Wall St. The crime was never solved though historians suspect it was carried out by Italian anarchists. Aftermath at the link. Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Police break through student demonstration at Low Library during student protest in 1968. Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Sit-in demonstrators protesting the Vietnam war fly a Viet Cong flag off the roof of the Mathematics building in 1968, at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: The shell of a burned out car remains on the corner of Troy and Lefferts Ave following the 1991 riots, at the link. Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Hasidic man watches as a car goes up in flames on the corner outside during the 1991 Crown Heights riots, at the link. Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: NYPD arrest and pepper spray protesters during Occupy Wall Street march. Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: NYPD arrest and pepper spray protesters during Occupy Wall Street march. Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Graham Nash and David Crosby provide some spiritual power to the people at Zuccotti Park with protest hymns, including "Teach Your Children" and "Military Madness." Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: Graham Nash and David Crosby provide some spiritual power to the people at Zuccotti Park with protest hymns, including "Teach Your Children" and "Military Madness." Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: A core group of protesters in the center of the camp are surrounded as the NYPD and sanitation department prepared to raid Zuccotti Park, November 15, 2011. Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: A core group of protesters in the center of the camp are surrounded as the NYPD and sanitation department prepared to raid Zuccotti Park, November 15, 2011. Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
PHOTO: In 1975 a bomb exploded in Fraunces Tavern. Four people were killed and more than 50 were injured. The FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group claimed responsibility. Photo at the link! Mehr erfahren.
