In the late 1960s and in 1970 he and his wife Ann and son Ethan , actor Dustin Hoffman , and several other families lived in apartments in a townhouse at 16 West 11th Street . On March 6 , 1970 , the townhouse next door to theirs was destroyed by an explosion of dynamite that killed three and injured two members of the Weathermen organization . In an article written by Gussow on the 30th anniversary of the disaster , Gussow reported an FBI finding that " had all the explosives detonated , the explosion would have leveled everything on both sides of the street . " He and his family remained residents of Greenwich Village after the explosion , maintaining a home on West 10th Street
destroyed by an explosion of dynamite
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Mel Gussow