Michael O. Allen

Tag: Times Square

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…

May 7, 2000
3 Nudie Bars Get Shuttered By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and FRANK LOMBARDI, With Mike Claffey, Daily News Staff Writers

Sunday, August 02, 1998 The city’s crackdown on sex shops officially got under way this weekend with the padlocking of three topless bars, Mayor Giuliani announced yesterday. The three were closed Friday as part of at least a dozen enforcement proceedings the city launched against live-sex entertainment premises and book and video stores. The padlocked…

August 2, 1998
Big Apple’s Falling For Millenni-Mania By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and DAVID L. LEWIS, Daily News Staff Writers

Saturday, April 5, 1997 New York is getting ready to stage a millennium party for the ages. We’re talking about a year-long celebration that’s intended to blow away competition from other cities vying to be ground zero for the millennium. The big show will kick off with a Times Square New Year’s Eve bash unlike…

April 5, 1997
City XXX-pulsion Plan Put on Hold

October 25, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JAMES RUTENBERG, Daily News Staff Writers Times Square sex shop owners yesterday said the red-light district would stay lit as a state appeals court temporarily blocked the city’s plan to start restricting X-rated businesses this weekend. Smut shops advertising “Live Girls” and hawking such videos as “Slut…

October 25, 1996