Category: New York Daily News
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Council Will Keep Curfew off Street
October 28, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer It’s lights out for a proposed curfew for city teenagers. The plan, introduced with fanfare during the summer, is all but dead after it gained virtually no City Council support, Council leaders say. The Council’s 21-member Black and Latino Caucus is opposing a curfew,…
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MEGASTORES OK’D; Fight looms for planners
Friday, October 25, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and PETER GRANT, Daily News Staff Writers In one of the most sweeping zoning changes in 35 years, the city Planning Commission yesterday approved Mayor Giuliani’s plan to open up the city to massive superstores. But the unusually close 8-to-5 vote set the stage for what promises…
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City XXX-pulsion Plan Put on Hold
October 25, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JAMES RUTENBERG, Daily News Staff Writers Times Square sex shop owners yesterday said the red-light district would stay lit as a state appeals court temporarily blocked the city’s plan to start restricting X-rated businesses this weekend. Smut shops advertising “Live Girls” and hawking such videos as “Slut…
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Statue Unveiled, Hil Hails Eleanor
October 6, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and DON SINGLETON Daily News Staff Writers Two American First Ladies came together in Riverside Park yesterday afternoon, one the current occupant of the White House and the other a larger-than-life bronze statue. With songs and speeches and flags that rippled gently in the sunshine of a perfect…
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$304,000 LOTTA GS FOR GIULIANIS
Saturday, April 13, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Rudy and Donna Hanover Giuliani’s combined income jumped to $ 303,889 last year, thanks to the First Lady’s blossoming radio, television and film career, their 1995 tax returns show. The 21% increase from the couple’s $ 250,343 reported earnings for 1994 marked the…
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2 More Fishy Firms Banned
Saturday, December 30, 1995 By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer In an ongoing war against allegedly mobbed-up companies at the Fulton Fish Market, the Giuliani administration yesterday banned two firms from parking and loading for fish retailers. The city booted Beekman Dock Loaders and C&A Fish Lifters Inc., ordering them to cease operations…
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’96 MISS AMERICA HAILS FROM OKLA.
Sunday, September 17, 1995 by LARRY SUTTON and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Miss Oklahoma took the famous walk down the runway in Atlantic City last night as she won the 1996 Miss America Pageant. “I don’t believe this,” gasped Shawntel Smith who turned 24 yesterday as her name was announced. Smith won…
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NEW YORK NEWSDAY, RIP
Saturday, July 15, 1995 By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, KAREN AVENOSO and LAURIE C. MERRILL, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Columnist Murray Kempton, a New York newspaperman for as long as anyone can remember, was writing at his computer. All around him in the offices of New York Newsday, there was overwhelming sadness. He tried to lighten…