Category: New York Daily News
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Harlem Inferno Hurts 38
Sunday, August 3, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer A raging fire tore through the top floor of a Harlem apartment building yesterday, forcing firefighters to use a tower ladder to rescue a man trapped by the flames. Nearly 200 firefighters raced to the five-alarm blaze at 31 Tiemann Place, a street…
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Teddy Bear Saves Lives: Helps mom and daughter flee Thai inferno By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, July 13, 1997 The life line that would pull them out of the 15th floor of Thailand’s towering inferno was just out of reach, so Rochelle Stein-Salmi of Branford, Conn., borrowed her daughter’s brown teddy bear to hook the line that saved their lives. The rescue of Salmi, 50, and her 7-year-old daughter, Rebecca,…
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60 Rally for Slain Teen By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, July 6, 1997 The Rev. Al Sharpton led about 60 marchers yesterday in peaceful protest of a grand jury decision that exonerated a white city cop in the shooting of a black Washington Heights teenager last April. Roma Cedeno, mother of the slain youth, Kevin Cedeno, 16, spoke of her sadness at her son’s…
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Chinatown Fireworks Are Off the Menu By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, June 29, 1997 A week before Fourth of July celebrations in the city, fireworks were hard to come by in Chinatown. Not even a measly firecracker could be had. The young men hanging around shops on Mott St. eyed a stranger warily. No, he didn’t have fireworks, said one. Not anymore. He didn’t know…
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No Sweat, Kids Puff By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, June 22, 1997 Teenagers were skeptical yesterday that any deal to snuff out Joe Camel ads or to ban vending machines would stop them from smoking. “Kids are going to smoke anyway,” said Ian Hansson, 17, of Highbridge, N.J. “Just making it harder for them to get cigarettes is not going to stop them.…
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Cub Scout Leader Held in Slay: Female victim found in Queens rec room By ANNE E. KORNBLUT and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers
Sunday, June 22, 1997 A respected Queens cub scout leader was charged with murder yesterday, one day after the body of a woman was found in a room where the suspect ran scout meetings. Perry Buckley, 44, of Corona, who is also a local school board member, was arrested after he was questioned at the…
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Shot Cop Is Stable By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, June 8, 1997 A rookie cop was in stable condition yesterday after four hours of surgery to repair a bullet wound suffered in a Bronx shootout that left a robbery suspect dead. Police Officer Washington Zurita — on his first unsupervised patrol — was struck in the left arm, but managed to fire his…
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Whining Is Waste, Crew Sez to Union By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and DAVE SALTONSTALL, Daily News Staff Writers
Sunday, May 18, 1997 Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew yesterday told city teachers to raise the academic performance of their schools and “to do this within the context of not blaming people.” “Who has time to blame anyone?” Crew asked in a speech to more than 2,000 members of the city’s United Federation of Teachers, gathered…
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Raid Bags 2 in Holdup; Shootout suspects nabbed By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and PATRICE O’SHAUGHNESSY, Daily News Staff Writers
Sunday, May 11, 1997 Lying in wait outside a Queens hideout, police yesterday captured two of the suspects in the wild 50-shot ambush that wounded a retired cop and a moonlighting detective during a payroll heist in Queens. A third suspect — believed to be a twin brother of one of the two arrested —…
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Gunfire Disrupts Tranquil Enclave By BLANCA M. QUINTANILLA and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers
Saturday, May 10, 1997 Terrified Queens residents and bystanders dived for cover when a gang of masked gunmen shattered the quiet of a Flushing neighborhood with a Wild West-style shootout. Suzanne Jenson, who lives in an apartment near the shooting scene at Station Road and 168th St., cowered with her 9-month-old grandson as the bullets…