Category: New York Daily News
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Hizzoner’s Relationship Not Private Affair by JIM DWYER
Sunday, May 07, 2000 Last fall, a Daily News reporter wondered why the mayor had vanished most summer weekends. For years, the mayor made public appearances on Saturdays or Sundays all summer long, so reporter Michael O. Allen asked the mayor’s press office about his schedule. Because the answers were vague, Allen asked for the…
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‘AMADOU’S ARMY’ HAS NEW RECRUIT IN WINNIE MANDELA By MICHAEL O. ALLEN SUNDAY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, December 19, 1999 The Rev. Al Sharpton’s efforts to recruit people for “Amadou’s Army” – a group of New Yorkers who will go to Albany for the Amadou Diallo murder trial – got an unexpected boost yesterday from Winnie Mandela. Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandela, arrived at…
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Art of controversy: New ‘Sensation’ sparks throngs of protesters By Michael O. Allen, Michael R. Blood and Dave Goldiner, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Sunday, October 3, 1999 NEW YORK — The controversial “Sensation” exhibit opened Saturday amid heated protests outside the Brooklyn Museum of Art — and a massive show of support from art lovers. Nearly 1,000 mostly Catholic protesters prayed, clutched rosary beads and held signs denouncing the exhibit, which includes a portrait titled “The Holy Virgin…
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After 27 years, man retires from job as keeper of Lady Liberty’s flame By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, September 26, 1999 Over the years, Charlie DeLeo figures, he must have climbed the iron girders through the upraised arm of the Statue of Liberty to the torch more than 2,500 times. “I knew it was time to leave because my legs gave out,” he conceded one day last week. Thursday was DeLeo’s final…
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KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY No One Likes To Think About Dying, But Estate Planning Is Your Most Important Financial Obligation By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, April 25, 1999 It wasn’t long ago that Gerald and Toby Sindler thought estate planning – setting up trusts so heirs are not hard hit by inheritance taxes – was something that only the wealthy needed to worry about. “And we do not consider ourselves to be wealthy,” said Gerald, who owns Career Objectives,…
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3 Who Died In ’94 SoHo Fire Remembered By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 11, 1999 As the skirl of bagpipes filled the air, scores of firefighters milled about a Manhattan church yesterday, reliving a tragic event the pain of which has not diminished five years later. It has been a half-decade since three firefighters were killed in a March 28, 1994, fire on Watts St. in…
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QUICK CASH STRATEGIES Where to Go When You Need Money in a Hurry By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 11, 1999 The man sitting before Clifford Jones had come to him several times before, to bury loved ones. But this time, the man wanted a loan. He needed $ 2,800 to fix the transmission on the car he depended on to get to and from work. “You know I’m good for it,…
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U.S. Serbs Saddened and Angry By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 04, 1999 Lana Todorovich was on the phone to Belgrade with an urgent message for her parents: “Get out. Now.” In the early hours of March 24, U.S. NATO warplanes bearing bombs were on their way to Yugoslavia. Milan and Yela Simic, 62 and 57 years old, heeded their daughter’s warning. They made…
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’60 batboy sees it again through 14-year-old’s eyes By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, October 17, 1998 NEW YORK–As ace Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera punched out the final Cleveland batter last week, tears welled up in Fred Bengis’ eyes. “Are you OK?” Terry, his wife, asked. “I’m just happy,” he said. And as Yankees jumped in joy, an image of James D’Angelo, the 14-year-old honorary bat boy…
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A MALEVOLENT HULK Sunken ship continues to claim lives By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Wednesday, August 26, 1998 NEW YORK–On a foggy July night in 1956, 52 people died when the cruise ship Stockholm rammed the luxury liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. But 42 years later, even as the Andrea Doria lies a rusting hulk 240 feet under the Atlantic Ocean, its appetite for blood has not been…