Tag: Chinatown
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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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SENIOR CITY-ZENS; They left only to find there’s no place like home
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Horst Liepolt left New York City in 1995 for Berlin, where he was born 70 years ago, only to discover his heart belongs to the Big Apple. Ditto for Dolores White, now retired, who yearns to live in the city again. Howard and…
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Chinatown Fireworks Are Off the Menu By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, June 29, 1997 A week before Fourth of July celebrations in the city, fireworks were hard to come by in Chinatown. Not even a measly firecracker could be had. The young men hanging around shops on Mott St. eyed a stranger warily. No, he didn’t have fireworks, said one. Not anymore. He didn’t know…