Michael O. Allen

Tag: City Council

  • 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…

  • Free Parking Bill Is Meter Made

    December 6, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer The City Council wants to give you something for nothing: 10 free minutes at parking meters everywhere except midtown Manhattan. But there’s a catch. As the city giveth, it taketh away: A quarter in that same meter would then get you only 20 minutes…

  • MEGASTORES OK’D; Fight looms for planners

    Friday, October 25, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and PETER GRANT, Daily News Staff Writers In one of the most sweeping zoning changes in 35 years, the city Planning Commission yesterday approved Mayor Giuliani’s plan to open up the city to massive superstores. But the unusually close 8-to-5 vote set the stage for what promises…