Michael O. Allen

Tag: Brooklyn

City Urged to Scrap Homeless Shelter Plan By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

March 21, 2002 Opponents of a proposed 400-bed homeless shelter in Williamsburg rallied against the plan last night, calling on Mayor Bloomberg to cancel it. “What they’re creating is a warehouse for homeless men,” said Jose Leon. Opening the East Williamsburg Industrial Park facility, at an old factory at 89 Porter Ave., is the first…

March 21, 2002
SUBWAY VOTE POSTPONED A Transit Authority committee has postponed a vote on proposed subway By MICHAEL O. ALLEN

May 16, 2001 Transit Authority committee has postponed a vote on proposed subway service changes, including the controversial plan to shorten the G line. New York City Transit and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials will instead consider a new proposal that community groups opposed to the TA plan offered on Monday, leaders of the groups said…

May 16, 2001
Finding MIA’s Kin Stumps U.S. Army By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

Sunday, May 13, 2001 The United States government believes that Charles Arce of Brooklyn kept faith with his country. He went to Korea with the Army more than half a century ago and almost certainly died there. Now, his country would like to keep faith with his memory and his family. But it isn’t easy…

May 13, 2001
HIGH-TECH BOOST FOR COLLEGE Kingsboro gets 425G By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

Sunday, May 6, 2001 Kingsborough Community College students will soon be learning in the “smart” high-technology classrooms of the future. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn, Queens) secured the initial $425,000 in a federal appropriation for the equipment — high-resolution plasma screens — and recently went to the campus for a demonstration. “This essentially allows the boundaries…

May 6, 2001
Teach Them to Be The Bravest — Green By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Daily News Staff Writers

Friday, May 04, 2001 Public Advocate Mark Green urged the city yesterday to establish educational programs for firefighting at two high schools and two community colleges to increase the number of minority group members in the FDNY. In a city where minority groups now represent the majority of the population, the Fire Department remains overwhelmingly…

May 4, 2001
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…

April 29, 2001
SCHOOL BARS ‘SATAN’ KID Officials say he vowed to kill his classmates By CAROLINA GONZALEZ and BRIAN KATES, Daily News Staff Writers

Wednesday, April 25, 2001 A 10-year-old gifted boy said to call himself “brother of Satan” who has terrorized two Brooklyn schools was barred from classes yesterday, officials said. The fourth-grader was kept in seclusion yesterday after he allegedly threatened to kill classmates at Public School 236 in Mill Basin — reportedly the second time in…

April 25, 2001
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…

April 20, 2001
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…

April 14, 2001
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…

April 8, 2001