Michael O. Allen

Tag: Manhattan

  • Don’t Monkey With Man; O’Connor sez clones mean armies of drones By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer

    Friday, March 14, 1997 Cardinal O’Connor presented an apocalyptic vision of cloning yesterday, warning about a world that might use armies of drones to fight wars or become slaves. “If you just say they are expendable, we can just keep reproducing them, give them a gun, whatever might be the weapon of the day, and…

  • 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…

  • STING HAS SHARP EDGE; 43 of 73 stores sell box cutters to kids

    February 23, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Kids working undercover bought box cutters in stationery and hardware stores across the city in open violation of a law barring sales of the dangerous blades to youngsters, officials said yesterday. The Department of Consumer Affairs sent the kids into 73 stores in a…

  • Swiss Ask Jews For Help With Fund

    February 14, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer The Swiss government yesterday invited the World Jewish Congress to Switzerland next week to help administer and distribute a fund set up for aged Holocaust survivors. It was the first gesture by the Swiss, under increasing pressure to compensate Holocaust victims for looted World…

  • 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 Rips Probe Of Diplo Fight

    January 2, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Mayor Giuliani yesterday accused the State Department of dragging out its probe of Sunday’s slugfest between city cops and diplomats from Russia and Belarus. In his latest lashing over the envoys’ invocation of diplomatic immunity, the mayor demanded that federal officials immediately back the…

  • Rudy Sez He’s Tops, And Dems Are Flops

    November 9, 1996 by DAVID L. LEWIS and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani fired the opening salvo of the 1997 mayoral battle yesterday, slamming potential challengers as inexperienced, extremist or “machine politicians.” While insisting he hasn’t decided to seek a second term, the Republican mayor for the first time dropped his…

  • CLOSTER MAN, 21, SLAIN IN MANHATTAN

    New York City police are investigating the shooting death of a 21-year-old Closter man found lying next to his car Thursday on an exit ramp of the Henry Hudson Parkway in upper Manhattan.