Tag: Giuliani

  • PUSH TO LIFT TATTOO BAN; City Council votes for body art

    February 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer New Yorkers may soon be able to get openly what they’ve been getting illegally for 35 years — tattoos. The City Council yesterday passed a law that would lift the official though little-enforced 1962 ban on tattooing. Councilwoman Kathryn Freed (D-Manhattan), who sponsored the…

  • N.J. Wins Battle In Sewage-Dump War

    February 19, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer New York retreated in the Great Sewage War yesterday after tough talk from New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman. After a day of counter-charges, the city and state agreed to at least a year-long delay in plans to release 560 million gallons of raw sewage…

  • Poll: Wild About Mayor, Not Rudy

    February 12, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and FRANK LOMBARDI, Daily News Staff Writers City voters soundly approve of Mayor Giuliani’s job performance and would reelect him in a walk, even though they aren’t wild about his personality, according to a new poll. The Quinnipiac College Poll showed 62% of voters approved of the first-term…

  • Rudy Hedges Bets On Riverboat

    February 9, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday said he could support riverboat gambling under some conditions but would have to study its effect on neighborhoods near where the boats dock. The mayor also said he would need to be assured the venture is free of organized crime —…

  • Normal City? Are You Nuts?

    December 12, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JANE FURSE, Daily News Staff Writers New York ain’t normal, according to a new book — whereas Orange County, Calif., is. That’s Orange County as in Disneyland and the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history. Whaddaya mean New York is the “most abnormal” of American cities? Merely a…

  • Rudy Going on ‘Cos’

    December 12, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani will dust off his acting skills today when he tapes an episode of “Cosby,” guest-starring as himself on the CBS sitcom. Is Shakespeare in the Park next? Giuliani laughed when asked if his latest acting foray was a sign of things to…

  • Rudy Hopes O’C Stays in Pulpit

    November 11, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LAWRENCE GOODMAN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani said yesterday he would like Cardinal O’Connor to stick around awhile longer — and refused to place bets on who would be the next to lead the Archdiocese of New York. “I better not start rating the possible successor…

  • MEGASTORES OK’D; Fight looms for planners

    Friday, October 25, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and PETER GRANT, Daily News Staff Writers In one of the most sweeping zoning changes in 35 years, the city Planning Commission yesterday approved Mayor Giuliani’s plan to open up the city to massive superstores. But the unusually close 8-to-5 vote set the stage for what promises…