Michael O. Allen

Tag: New York City

  • Rudy, Merchants In Mega Food Fight

    November 27, 1996 by BOB LIFF and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani and opponents of the city’s megastore plan yesterday accused each other of failing to talk turkey on Thanksgiving food prices. Merchants fighting the plan said the city Department of Consumer Affairs used bogus prices for a survey that found…

  • THE BIG FIX IN JERSEY; a brighter Star-Ledger

    May/June 1995 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN The Star-Ledger has always seen New Jersey — from the shore communities in the south through the urban/suburban sprawl of its central counties to the exurban north — as one big hometown, and it has chronicled its citizens’ common concerns. A common concern these days is the tumult of…

  • 3RD TEEN TIED TO SHOOTING; Joins Bergen Pair Arrested Last Week

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, April 22, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | B03 A 17-year-old Closter boy on Tuesday became the third Bergen County youth charged in connection with last week’s robbery of a Queens doctor and the shooting of two of his patients, police…

  • TARDINESS LEADS TO ARREST IN HOLDUP

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, January 12, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A07 After a gunman demanded money from a teller at the Lemoine Avenue branch of First Fidelity Bank on Monday and calmly walked out with $935, he was seen driving off in…

  • 11 CHARGED IN PROBE OF GAMING RING; BETS TOTALED $500,000 A MONTH

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, January 12, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Executing simultaneous warrants in an investigation that began when an informant came to Rutherford police a month ago, authorities have arrested 11 people described as members of a New Jersey-New York sports…

  • ROBBERY VICTIM PURSUES SUSPECTS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, January 5, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 There was no smooth getaway for two Bronx men Saturday afternoon when they encountered a jeweler who chased them after the pair held up his store at gunpoint, Police Chief William…

  • N.Y.C. GANG SUSPECTED IN ROBBERIES; ARE VICTIMS FOLLOWED HOME?

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, November 27, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 2 Star | NEWS | Page B01 A New York City gang that preys mainly on Hispanic business owners may be responsible for four robberies in Bergen County in which the victims sometimes were followed home from their…

  • STORE IS ROBBERY’S SECOND FATALITY; SHOP CLOSING AFTER N.J. MAN IS KILLED

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 6, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Daisy Benitez says being held up is something the merchants in her area learn to live with. But after a robbery claimed the life of a Tenafly man in her store,…

  • ROBBERS KILL N.J. SHOPPER; TENAFLY MAN INTERVENED

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, October 5, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A01 A 24-year-old Tenafly man who walked in on an armed robbery at a New York City clothing store and intervened was shot and killed by one of the robbers, police said…

  • GWB TRAFFIC ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT

    MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Sunday, September 22, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A06 New Jersey-bound drivers who braved the George Washington Bridge on Saturday ran into a 20-minute delay in the morning caused by construction work on the lower level, Port Authority officials said. Although traffic thinned later…