final term as mayor by a landmark margin, this time defeating New York City Council President Carol Bellamy. December 16: Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano is shot dead in a gangland execution outside Sparks Steak House on E. 46th Street in Manhattan. Palladium nightclub and Union Square Cafe in business. Poets House established. Artworld Guerilla Girls pranksters active. 1986 January 1: Ed Koch is sworn into his third and final term as the city's 105th mayor. March 7: Channel 5 changes its call letters from WNEW-TV to WNYW. March 17: St. Patrick's Day – Rosanna Scotto joined WNYW Channel 5 as a news reporter for the station's 10 P.M. weeknight newscast. At the time, she said: "In Manhattan, Rosanna Scotto, Channel 5 News". April 2: Koch signs the city's first ever homosexual rights bill. July 7: A deranged man, Juan Gonzalez, wielding a machete kills 2 and wounds 9 on the Staten Island Ferry. In 2000 Gonzalez was granted unsupervised leave from his residence at the Bronx Psychiatric Hospital. August 26: The "preppie murder": 18-year-old student Jennifer Levin is murdered by Robert Chambers in Central Park after the two had left a bar to have sex in the park. The case was sensationalized in the press and raised issues over victims' rights, as Chambers' attorney attempted to smear Levin's reputation to win his client's freedom. October 4: Broadcaster Dan Rather is attacked on Park Avenue by two men, one of which repeated "Kenneth, what is the frequency?" October 27: New York Mets won their second World Series title in franchise history, defeating the Boston Red Sox in 7 games. November 13: Wollman Rink reopens after being shut for 6 years due to the efforts of Donald Trump. November 19: 20-year-old Larry Davis opens fire on police officers attempting to arrest him in his sister's apartment in the Bronx. Six officers are wounded, and Davis eludes capture for the next 17 days, during which time he became something of a folk hero in the neighborhood. Davis was stabbed to death in jail in 2008. November 24: 2 Port Authority police officers and a holdup we're seriously shot and wounded in a shootout at a Queens diner. December 20: A white mob in Howard Beach, Queens, attacks three African-American men whose car had broken down in the largely white neighborhood. One of the men, Michael Griffith is chased onto Shore Parkway