Tag: City Hall
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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 Trashes Rent Decontrol Compromise By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 20, 1997 Mayor Giuliani yesterday rejected a potential compromise in the battle to save state rent laws, saying the protections must be maintained for 2 million tenants. The mayor said it was “unacceptable” to lift the ceiling on rent hikes for units where tenants move out or die because that would eventually eliminate…
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Rudy Adds Help For Abuse Victims By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Friday, April 18, 1997 The city will make available 312 new shelter beds for victims of domestic violence in an effort to ease a chronic shortage, Mayor Giuliani said yesterday. The city also will hire 14 more workers to answer calls from battered women as part of a $7 million expansion of victim support systems…
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Yearbook Protest Planned by Advocates By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and DON SINGLETON, Daily News Staff Writers
Sunday, April 6, 1997 Civil rights advocates yesterday announced a protest rally over Police Department efforts to get high school yearbooks for use in identifying potential crime suspects. Accompanied by parents and students, New York Civil Liberties Union officials said protesters will rally outside Police headquarters in lower Manhattan on April 27, then march to…
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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…