Tag: Kathryn Freed

  • 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,…

  • 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…