Tag: Brooklyn
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FLEETING INFAMY Many are called, but few are frozen in spotlight By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and RICHARD T. PIENCIAK, Daily News Staff Writers
Sunday, May 4, 1997 Most people who grab fleeting notoriety — Sukhreet Gabel, the kid who stole the A train, Lady Bing and Yankee switcher Fritz Peterson — disappear quickly and quietly. Then there are those like Burton Pugach, resurrected at regular intervals, and Donald Trump, who never seems to leave the stage. Pugach has…
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77th Pct. Is Champ on Crime: Felonies Take 40% Fall By JOHN MARZULLI, MICHAEL O. ALLEN, and ALICE McQUILLAN, Daily News Staff Writers
Monday, April 7, 1997 Once notorious for corrupt cops and bloodshed, Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct has a tough new reputation — tough on crime. It leads the city with a 40% decrease in major felonies — nearly triple the city’s average decline of 15.5% for all five boroughs. “This place is like a sponge, and we’re…
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IN THE CITY, SEX IS A RICH EXPERIENCE; Borough Of Queens Sits Atop the Lust List
Monday, January 20, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and PAUL SCHWARTZMAN, Daily News Staff Writers The rich are different from the rest of us and not just because they have more money. They have more sex, more fantasies about sex and more sex partners. But, then again, so do people living in Queens. Yes, Queens,…
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Rudy: Shed Half Of Clothes Tax
January 12, 1997 by MIKE CLAFFEY and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani yesterday revived his call for 2-cent cut in the city sales tax on clothing buys — and vowed to press for approval even if the state doesn’t match the reduction. In an election year bid aimed at city shoppers…
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Teachers, Principals Eye Edition Additions
November 9, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LAURA WILLIAMS, Daily News Staff Writers City teachers and principals yesterday were drawing up shopping lists to spend $70 million promised by Mayor Giuliani for new textbooks. “I already have my orders worked up,” said Yve Douglass, principal of Public School 3 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. “At the…
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89 + 77 = 1 HAPPY TWOSOME
Thursday, November 07, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer He’s 89. She’s 77. For more than a decade, they lived across the street from each other, strangers in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Yesterday, 14 years after chance brought them together on a bus trip, they tied the knot at City Hall. And a…