Michael O. Allen

Tag: Greenpoint

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
WOODLAND TO REPLACE LANDFILL Mother Nature getting back 400 acres of f ormer dumps By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

Sunday, December 3, 2000 Forget a tree. Soon, a forest will grow in Brooklyn. In East New York, to be exact. Atop the former dumps on Pennsylvania and Fountain Aves. now grow mugworts, fragmites, some switch grass here and there and the occasional ailanthus, the tree that grows in Brooklyn. The greenery doesn’t hide the…

December 3, 2000