Tag: Harlem

  • Harlem Inferno Hurts 38

    Sunday, August 3, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer A raging fire tore through the top floor of a Harlem apartment building yesterday, forcing firefighters to use a tower ladder to rescue a man trapped by the flames. Nearly 200 firefighters raced to the five-alarm blaze at 31 Tiemann Place, a street…

  • 60 Rally for Slain Teen By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    Sunday, July 6, 1997 The Rev. Al Sharpton led about 60 marchers yesterday in peaceful protest of a grand jury decision that exonerated a white city cop in the shooting of a black Washington Heights teenager last April. Roma Cedeno, mother of the slain youth, Kevin Cedeno, 16, spoke of her sadness at her son’s…

  • SLOWDOWN NOT THE TICKET; Rudy sez cops’ll be punished

    January 25, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday escalated his contract fight with city cops, warning rank-and-file officers not to engage in a ticket slowdown — or else. “If a police officer absolutely refuses to do his or her job, then that police officer will have to be disciplined,”…