Tag: Rudy Giuliani
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City Set to Boot Latino Center By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, March 24, 1997 The city plans to pull the plug this week on a Latino cultural center when it auctions off the former lower East Side school the group has restored and called home for the past 18 years. Charas/El Bohio Community and Cultural Center will have to find a new home after Thursday,…
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AFFIRMATIVE INACTION City Work Scarce, Say Minority Firms By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, March 23, 1997 Many female and minority contractors say they are doing far less business with the city since Mayor Giuliani overhauled an affirmative-action program created to boost their chance of getting contracts. Twenty of 30 minority and female-owned firms surveyed by the Daily News sharply criticized the 1994 policy shift, saying it has…
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Rudy Rips INS Green Card Deal By MICHAEL O. ALLEN Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, March 23, 1997 Mayor Giuliani yesterday criticized immigration officials for going “in the wrong direction” by suddenly deciding to accept green card applications only by mail. “People are in a sense of real fear,” Giuliani said, referring to the panic that set in last week after the Immigration and Naturalization Service cut off the…
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SOMETHING BLUE AT CITY WEDDINGS Cops check immigrants By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, March 17, 1997 The city clerk yesterday said law enforcement agents will continue to check for fraud among immigrants seeking to get married even as critics said the officers’ presence intimidates brides and grooms. City Clerk Carlos Cuevas requested police support last month when city marriage offices overflowed with couples hoping to wed before…
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Visiting Irish Rugby Player Drops the Bowl Near Goal By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 13, 1997 An Irish rugby team traveled thousands of miles with a precious $ 2,000 hand-crafted crystal rose bowl for Mayor Giuliani but it was ruined when a player dropped it 30 feet short of its destination. The good-will gift which survived a worldwide obstacle course of customs and airport security checkpoints, plus…
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They Rent & Rave To Ax Hikes By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 12, 1997 Facing an unprecedented loss of state rent protections, hundreds of tenants packed a municipal hearing yesterday and called on the City Council to preserve the regulations. Carrying signs and shouting at landlord advocates, the tenants demanded that the Council meet an April 1 deadline for reauthorizing laws that restrict the size…
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Don’t Pass The Ammunition; Mayor holds off on new bullets
March 5, 1997 by BOB LIFF, MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani put the brakes on the police plan to arm cops with controversial hollow-point bullets yesterday — demanding to see studies on the expanding rounds before approving the change. Giuliani summoned Police Commissioner Howard Safir and his top…
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City Hall Protesters Rally for Rent Control
February 27, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Hundreds of placard-waving tenants rallied outside City Hall yesterday to denounce landlords and politicians and demand renewal of threatened state rent protection. The tenants, worried that state lawmakers will allow the laws on more than a million city apartments to expire in June, applauded…
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Rudy Probes His Own Campaign
February 17, 1997 by BOB LIFF and MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writers Mayor Giuliani’s reelection campaign has launched internal audits to determine whether any corporate contributors gave donations that exceeded the $7,700 limit allowed by the city’s public campaign finance law. Campaign officials disclosed the reviews after the Daily News reported that a…
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City Has Net For Deadbeats
February 7, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer The city yesterday launched a cyberspace hunt for deadbeat parents who owe tens of thousands of dollars in child support payments. Computer users around the city and the world can now access the Internet and view a “Deadbeat Hall of Shame” with names, photographs…