the air for the first time, under the call sign WJZ-FM (now WPLJ). June 15: WPIX Channel 11 became the 5th television station in the city to signed on the air for the first time. First tenants move into Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, then the largest apartment complex in Manhattan. August 10: Channel 7 signed on the air for the first time, as WJZ-TV (now WABC-TV). New York City Ballet is founded. The Ed Sullivan Show (television programme) begins broadcasting. New York International Airport dedicated. Korvettes department store in business. Premiere of Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate. Paris cinema opens. 98.7 FM facility station signs on for the first time, as WOR-FM (now WEPN-FM). 1949 February 10: Premiere of Miller's play Death of a Salesman. May 13: Holland Tunnel fire caused by exploding truck carrying eighty 55-gallon drums of carbon disulfide seriously damages the tunnel's infrastructure and injures 66, with 27 hospitalized, mostly from smoke inhalation. October 9: New York Yankees won 12th World Series title, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games. October 11: Channel 9 became the last VHF station in the city to sign on the air as WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV). Birdland (jazz club) in business. School of Visual Arts established. 1950s–1970s 1950s 1950 Port Authority Bus Terminal opens. May 25: Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel opens. August 31: William O'Dwyer resigned from office as mayor, because of the city's police corruption scandal; Vincent R. Impellitteri appointed acting mayor. November: Impellitteri elected 101st mayor, the first since the consolidation of greater New York in 1898. November 22: Kew Gardens train crash kills 78 people, injuring 363 others. 1951 March 29: A bomb that exploded in Grand Central Terminal, injuring no one, marked the end of self-imposed hiatus of George Metesky, a.k.a. the "Mad Bomber". In 1951 alone he had five bombs explode at New York City landmarks, such as the New York Public Library Main Branch. October 3: New York Giants won the NL Pennant, with a famous walk-off home run by Bobby Thomson, which was called the hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball). October 10: New York Yankees won their third consecutive World Series title, and 14th overall in franchise history, defeated the New York Giants in six games. New York State law takes over from World War II era Federal laws regarding Rent control. At the time over two million rental units are impacted. 1952