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Headlines for November 1994

November 1994

November 30, 1994

The City Council is holding hearings on a proposal to ban aggressive pan-handling in ATM machines.

Rapper Tupac Shakur is at Bellevue hospital after having been shot in an apparent robbery.

The main post office on 8th avenue has opened up its letters from Santa Claus program. They make letters to Santa Claus from children available to the public to respond to and hopefully spread some joy.

November 29, 1994

Mayor Giuliani and Governor elect Pataki met today and said they will work together.

November 28, 1994

City College Professor Leonard Jeffries is back in the news. A videotape of him making racist slurs against Jews is being sold on the streets of Harlem. Herman Bedillo is going to bring up the issue at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York.

Governor elect George Pataki met with City borough presidents today. He will be meeting with the Mayor Giuliani in private tomorrow.

November 27, 1994

The large menorah downtown was lit for the first night of Chanukah.

November 26, 1994

Mayor Giuliani is vetoing the budget that the City Council passed earlier this week because it reinstated 96 million dollars in cuts.

November 25, 1994

Former Mayor Beame is in the hospital. Doctors say he will be ok.

The Navy commemorated a Kamikaze attack on the air craft carrier Intrepid 50 years ago. The 68 crewmen that lost their lives in that attack were remembered.

November 24, 1994

Happy Thanksgiving!!! The Macy's Day parade kicked off in usual fashion today. They wound their way down Broadway to 34th Street. Among the celebrities marching in the parade were Bob Hope and Joey Lawrence.

November 23, 1994

The City Council is expected to vote today on the Mayor's proposed budget cuts. They are challenging the mayor's ability to unilaterally cut many of the city's programs.

Police Commissioner William Bratton said that all police officers were going to be required to take driving courses to make them better drivers. He said New York City cops have a lot of bad habits on the road.

November 22, 1994

School Chancellor Ramon Cortinez and Mayor Giuliani are going head to head about proposed cuts in the budget for the Department of Education.

Some of the head members of the Chinatown gang, The Flying Dragons, have been placed under arrest and charged with murder and racketeering.

November 21, 1994

Three young people were killed on the West Side highway this morning as their car ran into a tree.

There are going to be reductions in the amount of support staff at the Board of Education. 800 jobs will be cut to meet with the Mayor's stringent budget requirements.

November 20, 1994

A firefighter and the family he tried to save are fighting for their lives tonight due to a faulty ladder on a fire truck that collapsed as they were climbing down.

November 19, 1994

Cab Calloway is dead at the age of 86.

The feud between Mayor Giuliani and Governor elect Pataki is still raging. People all agree that it will have to be settled because neither the State nor the City can afford to keep it going. Giuliani is hoping that a face to face meeting with the Governor will clear things up.

November 18, 1994

The MTA is preparing announce a fare hike of 10 cents on the Buses and Subways. The hike would bring the fare to $1.35.

The Department of Transportation has started placing parking signs on poles that are 30 feet high due to excessive theft and vandalism the current signs. Over 20,000 signs had to be replaced last year.

November 17, 1994

It was a quiet night at the Riker's Island jail last night. There is a group of prisoners who are on a hunger strike to protest budget cuts.

Former Governor Hugh Carey and Former Mayor Ed Koch are two candidates for George Pataki's transition team.

November 16, 1994

Their is a lot of tension and protests going on inside Riker's Island. The inmates are protesting proposed budget cuts that would reduce prisoner's services.

7 year veteran Officer Martinez has been arrested for robbing a grocery store. He is being suspended without pay.

November 15, 1994

Martina Navratilova will make her last appearance at the Virgina Slims tournament at Madison Square Garden tonight.

A police officer was just shot in East New York in Brooklyn. He is being taken to Jamaica Hospital.

November 14, 1994

The man who was planning to blow up the Holland tunnel has been caught on home video in a practice run he filmed before he was caught.

November 13, 1994

The City Council is considering a bill to ban smoking in all public places in the city.

November 12, 1994

One burgular has died and another is seriously injured as they tried to escape from police on Broome Street. They fell 7 stories as they tried to climb down from the roof in an effort to escape from police.

Mayor Giuliani has said that he hopes to work with Governor Pataki even though he didn't support him in the election. So far it appears that Governor Pataki has snubbed Giuliani's attempts to congratulate him.

A group of Cyclists completed their trip across America to promote AIDS awareness. The three women peddled 3800 miles from Los Angeles. The trip took them 52 days.

November 11, 1994

Memorial services in commemoration of veteran's day are taking place in New York at the eternal light monument.

Mayor Giuliani has appointed Mr. Sherman to head OTB. They finished $7 million in the hole last year and the Mayor is hoping this change in leadership will turn things around.

November 10, 1994

An infant was rescued from a trash compactor. He was estimated to be between 1 to 8 hours old and was found by the building superintendant.

The family of transit police officer Robinson that was shot on a subway platform by accident is sueing the city for $50 million.

November 9, 1994

George Pataki beat Mario Cuomo for Governor.

Six people were arrested for graffiti making on Woodward Avenue in Queens.

A new Disney store is opening just south of the Warner Brother's store on 55th Street and Fifth Avenue. They will specialize in Disney merchandise and promotion of Disney's interests in the city.

November 8, 1994

It's election day, don't forget to vote! Polls will be open in New York until 9 and in New Jersey and Connecticut until 8.

As of noon the City board of elections reported that voter turnout has been light so far.

There was a large fire at the Saks Fifth Avenue department store. Nobody was hurt, but several employees did suffer from smoke inhallation.

November 7, 1994

George Pataki's campaign manager got into a fight with police commissioner, William Bratton, when he demanded an investigation into why New York City police officers ripped down several campaign signs in Brooklyn.

November 4-6, 1994

The New York City Marathon was run today. The winners were German Silva in the men's division. Tecla Laroupe is the youngest woman to ever win the race. There was a wedding before the race and the bride and groom ran in their wedding gowns.

Memorial services for actor Raul Julia were held today in New York at the public theater.

November 3, 1994

Ross Perot is going to endorse Tom Golisano for Governor as we head into the final 100 hours of the campaign.

Two police officers that were recently injured in separate incidents saluted the medical professionals that took care of them. Officer Robertson and Constantino both commended their doctors publically.

November 2, 1994

George Pataki is gaining some ground in the polls again.

November 1, 1994

Con Edison admits that it covered up evidence in the steam pipe explosion in Gramercy park 5 years ago.

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