Tag: Long Island
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STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION Rare street hopes makeover will be worth all the hassle By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, April 09, 2001 Residents of quiet 74th St., a few blocks from the Narrows in Bay Ridge, have been waking to the quaking of their homes lately as heavy machinery rolls in. Repairs to step street at 74th St. and Colonial Road in Bay Ridge have delighted tenants, though they must endure intrusion of…
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Hizzoner’s Relationship Not Private Affair by JIM DWYER
Sunday, May 07, 2000 Last fall, a Daily News reporter wondered why the mayor had vanished most summer weekends. For years, the mayor made public appearances on Saturdays or Sundays all summer long, so reporter Michael O. Allen asked the mayor’s press office about his schedule. Because the answers were vague, Allen asked for the…
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A MALEVOLENT HULK Sunken ship continues to claim lives By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Wednesday, August 26, 1998 NEW YORK–On a foggy July night in 1956, 52 people died when the cruise ship Stockholm rammed the luxury liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. But 42 years later, even as the Andrea Doria lies a rusting hulk 240 feet under the Atlantic Ocean, its appetite for blood has not been…
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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…