Alexis de Tocqueville

Historical marker location:

Syracuse, New York

( Marker is on East Water Street just east of East Genesee Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1998

New York State was the site of the deadliest terrorist attack in United States history prior to 9/11. In 1993, a bomb planted in the World Trade Center by Islamic extremists killed six people and injured more than a thousand others.