Category: New York Daily News
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Playground Site For Lab Irks Nabe By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 2, 2001 A plan to build a high school science lab on an elementary school playground in Midwood is drawing fire from some parents. The Board of Education wants to build the laboratory for Midwood High School students on a portion of the playground used by elementary school students. “We are outraged, very…
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Diallo Kin ‘Refuse to Lose Hope’ By PATRICE O’SHAUGHNESSY, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2001 Amadou Diallo’s parents expressed anguish yesterday over the Police Department’s exoneration of the four cops who killed their son, and urged supporters to “refuse to lose hope.” “Whoever said [the cops] have done nothing wrong, they are wrong,” said Diallo’s mother, Kadiatou. “I am saying to Mayor Giuliani the decision is…
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Cyclones: Overnight Sensation By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2001 The line of baseball fans began forming at 7:30 p.m. Friday, growing slowly but steadily, until by Saturday morning it nearly stretched around the mammoth Kings Plaza in Brooklyn. As they waited, they talked of baseball, of Opening Days past, present and future — the next being the June 25 debut…
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TB Sidelines B’klyn Teach by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, April 20, 2001 Teachers at a Park Slope, Brooklyn, middle school learned yesterday that a colleague who had been out of school for over two weeks was hospitalized with tuberculosis. Health Department spokeswoman Sandra Mullin confirmed that a member of the staff at Middle School 88 has active tuberculosis but said the risk to…
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He’s Held in Mom’s Slaying By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers
Saturday, April 14, 2001 Detectives were questioning a 20-year-old man suspected of stabbing his mother to death in an argument in their Brooklyn apartment, police said yesterday. The son apparently had been given an ultimatum by his mother, Christine Thompson, 44, to “straighten out his act” or leave home, a police source said. Neighbors in…
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STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Rare street hopes makeover will be worth all the hassle By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, April 09, 2001 Residents of quiet 74th St., a few blocks from the Narrows in Bay Ridge, have been waking to the quaking of their homes lately as heavy machinery rolls in. Repairs to step street at 74th St. and Colonial Road in Bay Ridge have delighted tenants, though they must endure intrusion of…
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Thousands Protest: Demand Palestinians be given homeland By SUZANNE ROZDEBA and GREG GITTRICH, Daily News Writers
Sunday, April 08, 2001 Middle East tensions spilled out on the streets of Manhattan’s East Side yesterday as thousands of protesters rallied outside the Israeli Consulate to demand that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homes in Israeli-occupied lands. Waving posters with images of bloodied children and screaming words of protest in English…
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WOODLAND TO REPLACE LANDFILL Mother Nature getting back 400 acres of f ormer dumps By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, December 3, 2000 Forget a tree. Soon, a forest will grow in Brooklyn. In East New York, to be exact. Atop the former dumps on Pennsylvania and Fountain Aves. now grow mugworts, fragmites, some switch grass here and there and the occasional ailanthus, the tree that grows in Brooklyn. The greenery doesn’t hide the…