Category: New York Daily News
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Rudy Rips INS Green Card Deal By MICHAEL O. ALLEN Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, March 23, 1997 Mayor Giuliani yesterday criticized immigration officials for going “in the wrong direction” by suddenly deciding to accept green card applications only by mail. “People are in a sense of real fear,” Giuliani said, referring to the panic that set in last week after the Immigration and Naturalization Service cut off the…
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SOMETHING BLUE AT CITY WEDDINGS Cops check immigrants By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, March 17, 1997 The city clerk yesterday said law enforcement agents will continue to check for fraud among immigrants seeking to get married even as critics said the officers’ presence intimidates brides and grooms. City Clerk Carlos Cuevas requested police support last month when city marriage offices overflowed with couples hoping to wed before…
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Don’t Monkey With Man; O’Connor sez clones mean armies of drones By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Friday, March 14, 1997 Cardinal O’Connor presented an apocalyptic vision of cloning yesterday, warning about a world that might use armies of drones to fight wars or become slaves. “If you just say they are expendable, we can just keep reproducing them, give them a gun, whatever might be the weapon of the day, and…
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Visiting Irish Rugby Player Drops the Bowl Near Goal By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 13, 1997 An Irish rugby team traveled thousands of miles with a precious $ 2,000 hand-crafted crystal rose bowl for Mayor Giuliani but it was ruined when a player dropped it 30 feet short of its destination. The good-will gift which survived a worldwide obstacle course of customs and airport security checkpoints, plus…
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They Rent & Rave To Ax Hikes By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 12, 1997 Facing an unprecedented loss of state rent protections, hundreds of tenants packed a municipal hearing yesterday and called on the City Council to preserve the regulations. Carrying signs and shouting at landlord advocates, the tenants demanded that the Council meet an April 1 deadline for reauthorizing laws that restrict the size…
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Foes Trash City Over Exporting
March 06, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOEL SIEGEL, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani’s plan to close Fresh Kills landfill and export the city’s trash has prompted howls of outrage — and some eager welcomes — from activists and officials in communities that might get tons of banana peels and dirty diapers. The…
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Don’t Pass The Ammunition; Mayor holds off on new bullets
March 5, 1997 by BOB LIFF, MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani put the brakes on the police plan to arm cops with controversial hollow-point bullets yesterday — demanding to see studies on the expanding rounds before approving the change. Giuliani summoned Police Commissioner Howard Safir and his top…
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City Hall Protesters Rally for Rent Control
February 27, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Hundreds of placard-waving tenants rallied outside City Hall yesterday to denounce landlords and politicians and demand renewal of threatened state rent protection. The tenants, worried that state lawmakers will allow the laws on more than a million city apartments to expire in June, applauded…
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PUSH TO LIFT TATTOO BAN; City Council votes for body art
February 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer New Yorkers may soon be able to get openly what they’ve been getting illegally for 35 years — tattoos. The City Council yesterday passed a law that would lift the official though little-enforced 1962 ban on tattooing. Councilwoman Kathryn Freed (D-Manhattan), who sponsored the…