Category: New York Daily News

  • Rudy Going on ‘Cos’

    December 12, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani will dust off his acting skills today when he tapes an episode of “Cosby,” guest-starring as himself on the CBS sitcom. Is Shakespeare in the Park next? Giuliani laughed when asked if his latest acting foray was a sign of things to…

  • Warning: Lead Paint Disclosure required

    December 7, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer New Yorkers will now have to be told whether the home they are about to buy or rent contains lead paint, according to a federal rule that went into effect yesterday. Advocates for children and low and moderate-income families hailed the new disclosure law.…

  • Free Parking Bill Is Meter Made

    December 6, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer The City Council wants to give you something for nothing: 10 free minutes at parking meters everywhere except midtown Manhattan. But there’s a catch. As the city giveth, it taketh away: A quarter in that same meter would then get you only 20 minutes…

  • City Gets Needled Over Tattoos

    December 4, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Hiding cobras, birds, flowers and mythical creatures under their clothes, dozens of people went to City Hall yesterday to urge that a decades-old ban on tattoo parlors be lifted. Andrea Tasha, 31, a tattoo-artist apprentice at the Rising Dragon tattoo shop in Chelsea, told…

  • Rudy, Merchants In Mega Food Fight

    November 27, 1996 by BOB LIFF and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani and opponents of the city’s megastore plan yesterday accused each other of failing to talk turkey on Thanksgiving food prices. Merchants fighting the plan said the city Department of Consumer Affairs used bogus prices for a survey that found…

  • Fifth May Hafta Stand Kiosks

    November 15, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Step aside, Saks Fifth Avenue. Move over, Bergdorf Goodman. And Tiffany’s, watch out. Newsstands may soon be coming to New York’s ritziest real estate. The city plans to add 100 stands to the 330 already operating around Manhattan. And officials of the Municipal Arts…

  • Rudy Hopes O’C Stays in Pulpit

    November 11, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LAWRENCE GOODMAN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani said yesterday he would like Cardinal O’Connor to stick around awhile longer — and refused to place bets on who would be the next to lead the Archdiocese of New York. “I better not start rating the possible successor…

  • Teachers, Principals Eye Edition Additions

    November 9, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LAURA WILLIAMS, Daily News Staff Writers City teachers and principals yesterday were drawing up shopping lists to spend $70 million promised by Mayor Giuliani for new textbooks. “I already have my orders worked up,” said Yve Douglass, principal of Public School 3 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “At the…

  • Rudy Sez He’s Tops, And Dems Are Flops

    November 9, 1996 by DAVID L. LEWIS and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani fired the opening salvo of the 1997 mayoral battle yesterday, slamming potential challengers as inexperienced, extremist or “machine politicians.” While insisting he hasn’t decided to seek a second term, the Republican mayor for the first time dropped his…

  • 89 + 77 = 1 HAPPY TWOSOME

    Thursday, November 07, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer He’s 89. She’s 77. For more than a decade, they lived across the street from each other, strangers in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Yesterday, 14 years after chance brought them together on a bus trip, they tied the knot at City Hall. And a…