NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 05 July 1998
Replaying Sunday, July 5, 1998
The July 5, 1998 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 185 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 27 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, July 5, 2025, 362 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, July 5, 2026, in 2 days. You have lived for 10,224 days, or about 245,396 hours, or about 14,723,788 minutes, or about 883,427,280 seconds.
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5th of July 1998 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 5, 1998
THE NATION: A New Broom Needs a New Handle; Welfare as We Know It Goes Incognito
Date: 05 July 1998
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Rachel SWARNS
New York and other cities and states are scrubbing welfare programs clean of words tainted by sour smell of failure; welfare offices are now job centers, while new names, such as Family Independence Administration in New York City, reflect era when work is prized and dependency disparaged; changes also send powerful message to the poor about change in expectations; photos (S)
New Station Chugs Along
Date: 05 July 1998
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
Anthony RAMIREZ
Community Board 7, despite residents' complaints, notes that renovation and expansion of NYC's West 66th Street subway station is ahead of schedule; photo (M)
Reuniting New Yorkers With Forgotten Billions
Date: 05 July 1998
By JAYSON BLAIR
Jayson BLAIR
New York State Comptroller's Office is holding record $4.16 billion in unclaimed forgotten bank accounts, uncashed travelers' checks and other assets turned over to state; 15 million accounts range from $700,000 New Yorker left unclaimed, to small bank accounts forgotten by college students who have moved out of area; Comptroller H Carl McCall has stepped up his campaign to get people to regain funds, including placing unclaimed funds database on Internet Web site; all 50 states have some method of collecting and returning unclaimed funds, but none has collected anywhere near as much as New York (M)
Habitats/70 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights; For 2 Men, a New Dog, And Then a New Home
Date: 05 July 1998
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Barbara WHITAKER
Thomas Guerin and Anthony Ranieri describe their search for new apartment, and how their requirements changed somewhat after 52-pound boxer entered their lives; photo of Guerin, Ranieri and their dog in 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom penthouse they bought on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights (M)
New Dialing System For Italian Telephones
Date: 05 July 1998
Italy changes national telephone dialing system, effective June 19 (S)
New Transportation Chief Named
Date: 05 July 1998
By DONNA GREENE
Donna GREENE
Deputy Transportation Comr Marvin V Church is named to commissioner's post, Westchester County, NY (M)
Discovering a New Way of Dining Out
Date: 05 July 1998
By FRAN SCHUMER
Fran SCHUMER
Fran Schumer column recounts her experiences during annual camp outing for school children at Camp Fairview in Stillwater, NJ; drawing (M)
REIT's Place Their New York Area Bets
Date: 05 July 1998
By JOHN HOLUSHA
John HOLUSHA
Real estate investment trusts have become major force in commercial property market in New York City area in little over one year; single biggest player is Vornado Realty Trust, which is betting that area around Madison Square Garden will be next Times Square in terms of economic revival and is preparing to develop it into urban equivalent of entertainment-oriented shopping mall; it has invested close to $2 billion in office buildings, making it one of city's larger landlords; it plans to invest as much as $1 billion more in next two years; it has already bought most of office, hotel and retail properties on both sides of Seventh Avenue from 34th to 31st Streets; photos (M)
THE NATION: A New Broom Needs a New Handle; Welfare as We Know It Goes Incognito
Date: 05 July 1998
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Rachel SWARNS
New York and other cities and states are scrubbing welfare programs clean of words tainted by sour smell of failure; welfare offices are now job centers, while new names, such as Family Independence Administration in New York City, reflect era when work is prized and dependency disparaged; changes also send powerful message to the poor about change in expectations; photos (S)
New Station Chugs Along
Date: 05 July 1998
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
Anthony RAMIREZ
Community Board 7, despite residents' complaints, notes that renovation and expansion of NYC's West 66th Street subway station is ahead of schedule; photo (M)
Reuniting New Yorkers With Forgotten Billions
Date: 05 July 1998
By JAYSON BLAIR
Jayson BLAIR
New York State Comptroller's Office is holding record $4.16 billion in unclaimed forgotten bank accounts, uncashed travelers' checks and other assets turned over to state; 15 million accounts range from $700,000 New Yorker left unclaimed, to small bank accounts forgotten by college students who have moved out of area; Comptroller H Carl McCall has stepped up his campaign to get people to regain funds, including placing unclaimed funds database on Internet Web site; all 50 states have some method of collecting and returning unclaimed funds, but none has collected anywhere near as much as New York (M)
Habitats/70 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights; For 2 Men, a New Dog, And Then a New Home
Date: 05 July 1998
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Barbara WHITAKER
Thomas Guerin and Anthony Ranieri describe their search for new apartment, and how their requirements changed somewhat after 52-pound boxer entered their lives; photo of Guerin, Ranieri and their dog in 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom penthouse they bought on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights (M)
New Dialing System For Italian Telephones
Date: 05 July 1998
Italy changes national telephone dialing system, effective June 19 (S)
New Transportation Chief Named
Date: 05 July 1998
By DONNA GREENE
Donna GREENE
Deputy Transportation Comr Marvin V Church is named to commissioner's post, Westchester County, NY (M)
Discovering a New Way of Dining Out
Date: 05 July 1998
By FRAN SCHUMER
Fran SCHUMER
Fran Schumer column recounts her experiences during annual camp outing for school children at Camp Fairview in Stillwater, NJ; drawing (M)
REIT's Place Their New York Area Bets
Date: 05 July 1998
By JOHN HOLUSHA
John HOLUSHA
Real estate investment trusts have become major force in commercial property market in New York City area in little over one year; single biggest player is Vornado Realty Trust, which is betting that area around Madison Square Garden will be next Times Square in terms of economic revival and is preparing to develop it into urban equivalent of entertainment-oriented shopping mall; it has invested close to $2 billion in office buildings, making it one of city's larger landlords; it plans to invest as much as $1 billion more in next two years; it has already bought most of office, hotel and retail properties on both sides of Seventh Avenue from 34th to 31st Streets; photos (M)
THE NATION: A New Broom Needs a New Handle; Welfare as We Know It Goes Incognito
Date: 05 July 1998
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Rachel SWARNS
New York and other cities and states are scrubbing welfare programs clean of words tainted by sour smell of failure; welfare offices are now job centers, while new names, such as Family Independence Administration in New York City, reflect era when work is prized and dependency disparaged; changes also send powerful message to the poor about change in expectations; photos (S)
Reuniting New Yorkers With Forgotten Billions
Date: 05 July 1998
By JAYSON BLAIR
Jayson BLAIR
New York State Comptroller's Office is holding record $4.16 billion in unclaimed forgotten bank accounts, uncashed travelers' checks and other assets turned over to state; 15 million accounts range from $700,000 New Yorker left unclaimed, to small bank accounts forgotten by college students who have moved out of area; Comptroller H Carl McCall has stepped up his campaign to get people to regain funds, including placing unclaimed funds database on Internet Web site; all 50 states have some method of collecting and returning unclaimed funds, but none has collected anywhere near as much as New York (M)
Habitats/70 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights; For 2 Men, a New Dog, And Then a New Home
Date: 05 July 1998
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Barbara WHITAKER
Thomas Guerin and Anthony Ranieri describe their search for new apartment, and how their requirements changed somewhat after 52-pound boxer entered their lives; photo of Guerin, Ranieri and their dog in 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom penthouse they bought on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights (M)
New Dialing System For Italian Telephones
Date: 05 July 1998
Italy changes national telephone dialing system, effective June 19 (S)
New Transportation Chief Named
Date: 05 July 1998
By DONNA GREENE
Donna GREENE
Deputy Transportation Comr Marvin V Church is named to commissioner's post, Westchester County, NY (M)
Discovering a New Way of Dining Out
Date: 05 July 1998
By FRAN SCHUMER
Fran SCHUMER
Fran Schumer column recounts her experiences during annual camp outing for school children at Camp Fairview in Stillwater, NJ; drawing (M)
REIT's Place Their New York Area Bets
Date: 05 July 1998
By JOHN HOLUSHA
John HOLUSHA
Real estate investment trusts have become major force in commercial property market in New York City area in little over one year; single biggest player is Vornado Realty Trust, which is betting that area around Madison Square Garden will be next Times Square in terms of economic revival and is preparing to develop it into urban equivalent of entertainment-oriented shopping mall; it has invested close to $2 billion in office buildings, making it one of city's larger landlords; it plans to invest as much as $1 billion more in next two years; it has already bought most of office, hotel and retail properties on both sides of Seventh Avenue from 34th to 31st Streets; photos (M)
New Station Chugs Along
Date: 05 July 1998
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
Anthony RAMIREZ
Community Board 7, despite residents' complaints, notes that renovation and expansion of NYC's West 66th Street subway station is ahead of schedule; photo (M)
Reuniting New Yorkers With Forgotten Billions
Date: 05 July 1998
By JAYSON BLAIR
Jayson BLAIR
New York State Comptroller's Office is holding record $4.16 billion in unclaimed forgotten bank accounts, uncashed travelers' checks and other assets turned over to state; 15 million accounts range from $700,000 New Yorker left unclaimed, to small bank accounts forgotten by college students who have moved out of area; Comptroller H Carl McCall has stepped up his campaign to get people to regain funds, including placing unclaimed funds database on Internet Web site; all 50 states have some method of collecting and returning unclaimed funds, but none has collected anywhere near as much as New York (M)
Habitats/70 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights; For 2 Men, a New Dog, And Then a New Home
Date: 05 July 1998
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Barbara WHITAKER
Thomas Guerin and Anthony Ranieri describe their search for new apartment, and how their requirements changed somewhat after 52-pound boxer entered their lives; photo of Guerin, Ranieri and their dog in 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom penthouse they bought on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights (M)
New Transportation Chief Named
Date: 05 July 1998
By DONNA GREENE
Donna GREENE
Deputy Transportation Comr Marvin V Church is named to commissioner's post, Westchester County, NY (M)
Discovering a New Way of Dining Out
Date: 05 July 1998
By FRAN SCHUMER
Fran SCHUMER
Fran Schumer column recounts her experiences during annual camp outing for school children at Camp Fairview in Stillwater, NJ; drawing (M)
REIT's Place Their New York Area Bets
Date: 05 July 1998
By JOHN HOLUSHA
John HOLUSHA
Real estate investment trusts have become major force in commercial property market in New York City area in little over one year; single biggest player is Vornado Realty Trust, which is betting that area around Madison Square Garden will be next Times Square in terms of economic revival and is preparing to develop it into urban equivalent of entertainment-oriented shopping mall; it has invested close to $2 billion in office buildings, making it one of city's larger landlords; it plans to invest as much as $1 billion more in next two years; it has already bought most of office, hotel and retail properties on both sides of Seventh Avenue from 34th to 31st Streets; photos (M)
THE NATION: A New Broom Needs a New Handle; Welfare as We Know It Goes Incognito
Date: 05 July 1998
By RACHEL L. SWARNS
Rachel SWARNS
New York and other cities and states are scrubbing welfare programs clean of words tainted by sour smell of failure; welfare offices are now job centers, while new names, such as Family Independence Administration in New York City, reflect era when work is prized and dependency disparaged; changes also send powerful message to the poor about change in expectations; photos (S)
New Station Chugs Along
Date: 05 July 1998
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
Anthony RAMIREZ
Community Board 7, despite residents' complaints, notes that renovation and expansion of NYC's West 66th Street subway station is ahead of schedule; photo (M)
Reuniting New Yorkers With Forgotten Billions
Date: 05 July 1998
By JAYSON BLAIR
Jayson BLAIR
New York State Comptroller's Office is holding record $4.16 billion in unclaimed forgotten bank accounts, uncashed travelers' checks and other assets turned over to state; 15 million accounts range from $700,000 New Yorker left unclaimed, to small bank accounts forgotten by college students who have moved out of area; Comptroller H Carl McCall has stepped up his campaign to get people to regain funds, including placing unclaimed funds database on Internet Web site; all 50 states have some method of collecting and returning unclaimed funds, but none has collected anywhere near as much as New York (M)
Habitats/70 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights; For 2 Men, a New Dog, And Then a New Home
Date: 05 July 1998
By BARBARA WHITAKER
Barbara WHITAKER
Thomas Guerin and Anthony Ranieri describe their search for new apartment, and how their requirements changed somewhat after 52-pound boxer entered their lives; photo of Guerin, Ranieri and their dog in 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom penthouse they bought on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights (M)
New Dialing System For Italian Telephones
Date: 05 July 1998
Italy changes national telephone dialing system, effective June 19 (S)
Discovering a New Way of Dining Out
Date: 05 July 1998
By FRAN SCHUMER
Fran SCHUMER
Fran Schumer column recounts her experiences during annual camp outing for school children at Camp Fairview in Stillwater, NJ; drawing (M)
REIT's Place Their New York Area Bets
Date: 05 July 1998
By JOHN HOLUSHA
John HOLUSHA
Real estate investment trusts have become major force in commercial property market in New York City area in little over one year; single biggest player is Vornado Realty Trust, which is betting that area around Madison Square Garden will be next Times Square in terms of economic revival and is preparing to develop it into urban equivalent of entertainment-oriented shopping mall; it has invested close to $2 billion in office buildings, making it one of city's larger landlords; it plans to invest as much as $1 billion more in next two years; it has already bought most of office, hotel and retail properties on both sides of Seventh Avenue from 34th to 31st Streets; photos (M)