The son of a Manhattan banker killed in the 1975 Fraunces Tavern bombing hailed City College’s weekend move to finally close a student center named after the bomb-maker.
“It’s absolutely long overdue — it was a disgrace that a publicly funded school would have a center named for terrorists,’’ Joe Connor, 47, told The Post Tuesday.
Leftist students in 1990 at the upper Manhattan college were allowed to name their campus room the Morales/Shakur Center — for Puerto Rican-nationalist bomb-maker Willie Morales and cop-killer Joanne “Assata Shakur” Chesimard.
“I read about a student saying that he was ‘torn in half’ over this decision,” Connor said. “Well, he should perhaps consider the people the [Puerto Rican terrorist group] FALN literally tore in half and the lives that they destroyed.”
The 1975 bombing killed Frank Connor and three others in lower Manhattan.
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