Category: New York Daily News
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Bus slams, kills father & son, 11: Witnesses say driver ran red light By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, JAMES RUTENBERG and TARA GEORGE with Ruth Bashinsky
July 29, 1998 A father and his 11-year-old son were struck and killed by a charter bus yesterday that plowed into them at a notoriously dangerous Broadway intersection. Scores of work-bound commuters watched helplessly as Peter Dennison, 55, and his son, Morgan, were hit crossing 22nd St. at Broadway on their way to the boy’s…
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HERO, BROTHER, EVERYMAN: BRONX MONUMENT IS ONE ALL OF US CAN EMBRACE By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, May 24, 1998 The monument to Cpl. Walter J. Fufidio, which has come to serve as memorial to those who served in World War II and the other wars that have followed, stands almost nondescript most of the year in the square named after him. It will be spruced up in time for Memorial…
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FENFLURAMINE STUDY HURT BOY: Single Dose of Controversial Drug Altered Personality, She Says By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, April 26, 1998 The Brooklyn woman said she got a letter telling her to bring her 8-year-old son to the state psychiatric institute for a survey on children whose older brothers had been convicted in Family Court of crimes as juveniles. “They wanted to do a study on my son to find out if…
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HIS CAUSE His Spirit Moved Them by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 5, 1998 Children were raising innocent voices in freedom songs in church basements as adults braved firebombs, water hoses, dogs and jails for full rights as American citizens. As a 5-year-old, Suzan Johnson joined the other children singing at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Now 41, the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook is pastor…
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Five Points Had Good Points By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
THE FIVE POINTS ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT In the early 1990s, a group of archaeologists began an excavation in Five Points. Their research revealed that there was much more to Five Points than the filthy, poor, and crime-infested area that early visitors had described. On February 22, 1998, the Daily News published an article by Michael O.…
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Rudy Backs Regents Requirement
Sunday, November 16, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday supported the state Board of Regents’ new foreign language requirement for high school graduates, setting up a possible showdown with Chancellor Rudy Crew. “The system should introduce more languages,” Giuliani said at a Bensonhurst news conference. “It’s an excellent idea.…
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DOROTHY DAY Life of a Saint?
Sunday, November 16, 1997 By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer In the clatter of spoons on soup bowls and excited voices absorbed into murmurs in the smoke-filled first-floor kitchen of St. Joseph House last week, it was hard to tell the poor from their helpers. The house was not unlike a home, its…
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Rudy Won’t Return 10G Gift From Abe
Sunday, November 9, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and RICHARD T. PIENCIAK, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani said yesterday that he has no intention of returning developer Abe Hirschfeld’s $10,000 campaign contribution, even though the gadfly politico and one-time newspaper publisher is being investigated for allegedly plotting to kill a long-time business partner. “Generally,…