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    Rockland Brinks Robbery - Rockland Brinks Robbery Historical Marker

    Rockland Brinks Robbery

    4.0(2 reviews)
    1.2 mi

    My first historical marker in the Empire State, this one points out a more recent happening. This…read moremarker is located at the entrance to the New York State Thruway. I was able to find a spot to stop my car that was probably not a legal space. The marker reads, "Rockland Brink's Robbery. On October 20, 1981, a three-year crime spree in the New York Metropolitan area came to an end at this site. Members of the Weather Underground, a radical domestic terrorist group, robbed a Brink's armored car at the Nanuet Mall. Using high-powered weapons, they stole 1.6 million dollars, and shot and killed security guard Peter Paige. At this entrance to the New York State Thruway, the Nyack Police Department set up a roadblock and was ambushed by the assailants. A fierce shootout ensued. As a reult, Sergeant Edward J. O'Grady Jr and Police Officer Waverly "Chipper" Brown were shot and killed. All the suspects were apprehended. Subsequent trials held in Goshen and White Plains led to their convictions." The 1981 Brink's robbery was an armed robbery and three related murders committed on October 20, 1981, which were carried out by six Black Liberation Army members: Mutulu Shakur, Kuwasi Balagoon, Solomon Bouines (Samuel Brown), Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, Edward Joseph, and Cecilio "Chui" Ferguson; and four former members of the Weather Underground, now belonging to the May 19th Communist Organization, consisting of David Gilbert, Judith Alice Clark, Kathy Boudin, and Marilyn Buck. They stole $1.6 million in cash from a Brink's armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York (about six miles west), killing a Brink's guard, Peter Paige, seriously wounding Brink's guard Joseph Trombino, slightly wounding Brink's truck driver guard, James Kelly, subsequently killing two Nyack police officers, Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown, and seriously wounding Police Detective Artie Keenan. [Review 15149 overall, 651 of 2021, number 188 in New York.]

    Historic mile markers are a dime a dozen in Texas. They're not as plentiful up north, but I do…read moreappreciate having seen this one. To get an up close look, you'll need to park in the Italian restaurant parking lot, and walk about 400 feet, past the bus stop veer right. Or across the street from the Chase.

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