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FINSIDE: %u201eA.aem bly Prim ary 3 Newsbriefs 430Weekend TV ^ T c %u00abUp & Coining ? 18, 19Real Estate M art 23Pacifying Post Parturr 'H unger) Pangs. V 'a*Usually, the way you make a reservation at a restaurant is to call your favorite rstsb !ish rriA'n^ tn reserve a table. Well, the only way you can make a reservation at Park Slope%u2019s newest restaurant is to have a baby. Park Slope%u2019s newrestaurant is located in tb v %u201e .... %u00bb...w wMethodist Hospital maternity %u2022 %u201cV * *e to celebrate tand solarium. ' a \new service i%u00ab- -v'l ^%u25a0 ' A a Vtossed salad, and wedge of cbPatrons extra s<=- %u201c res* o V f%u00bb^ .< < 4 O v_\\..This new service r A' exclusively for new m VXt ^*ie .ecent ^ght the %u00abd that the me time to be the infathers with no extra d noffer a delightful selectionMulgrew, the director and^mator of the restaurant, saidc ------------------ *%u00bbat the whole purpose of themignon with sauteed musht. ^ dinner is to give parents a %u201c little whole green beans alm ond, .e, time together%u201d and a chance tobaked potato with sour cream, %u2018%u2018get their spirits up.%u201d The idea isto make it %u201c not look like a hospital,%u201d but to let parents enjoy an intimate dinner together, during a hospital stay that Methodist is trying to make a more pleasurable experience.There are no plans to expand the restaurant innovation throughout the entire hospital now. but hospital officials do plan to extend the dining accommodations within the existing facility. One caution: restaurant service is only openMonday through Friday.----- JoanBester395 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn 11217 Friday, August 25,1978 Vol. VVI. No. 11----- %u2014%u2014 -------------------------------------------------------- :%u2014t------25 CENTSBY JOHN S. TURCOTT ANDROBERT CRANEMayor Koch threw a 3,000-mile counterpunch at the assertive City Council yesterday, demanding that it reconsider two sensitive nominations which it had rejected last week in a humiliating repudiation of the mayor%u2019s leadership.One full day into his Parisian vacation, and an ocean away from the fallout, Koch sumitted Robert C. Weaver and Jacob B. Ward for renomination as $15,000-a-year tenant representatives on the Conciliation and Appeals Board.The Council, using its veto power over appointments for the first time ever, voted down both men last week due to fears that their reappointments would tip the ninemember board in favor of a pro-landlord block.Reaction to the renominations formed swiftly, along predictable lines.Goya GetsPartialGo AheadPlans to redevelop the former Goya Foods building along Brooklyn%u2019s Gowanus Canal into a shopping mall have cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle and been approved for tax incentives by a city board.After extensive review, the Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board said it had authorized $1 million tax abatements for the project, which will provide facilities for Pathmark Foods and other businesses.The entire project is expected to cost about $5.6 million and to employ 450 people.The board approved abatements for 13 other new projects, including the construction of a $41 million, 38-story hotel at 214 E. 42nd St. and a renovation of the Berkshire Hotel at 52nd St. and Madison Ave., in Manhattan.Jane Benedict, head of the influential Metropolitan Council on Housing, said Koch%u2019s action casts the nominations as a significant symbol in the ten an ts%u2019 right movement.%u201c When it comes up it will have great significance,%u201d she said. %u201c Tenant representatives should come out of the tenants movement. These two men%u2014nobody doubts their ability, but they simply don%u2019t come out of the tenant movement. %u2019 %u2019Two Council members, who voted with the block that rejected the nominees by a single vote, predicted a tough fight when the Council takes up the matter sometime next month.Manhattan Councilperson Carol Greitzer chided the mayor for not listening %u201cto the people who are involved in tenants rights%u201d and said that since %u201cno one on the board adequately represents tenants,%u201d the mayor was taking an unnecessary political risk by resubmitting the nominees.Manhattan At-Large Councilman Henry Stem predicted that the administration would conduct a major campaign to convince the Council that %u201c it shouldn%u2019t get into the business of turning down nominees.%u201d By sticking with the two rejected candidates, Stern said, Koch would be forced to defend their credentials to the Council.IN HIS ONE-SENTENCESTATEMENT of renomination, Koch pointedly avoided any reference to the earlier rejection. Instead, he praised both candidates for being %u201c experienced, qualified and competent,%u201d and urged the Council to act \favorably.%u201dThe board administers the city%u2019s rent stabilization law and consists of nine members%u2014four representing tenants, four representing landlords, and an impartial chairman.Council opponents to the nominees focused the attack on tenant assertions that Weaver, a former secretary of the federal Housing and Urban Development Administration, and Ward, anattorney, have close ties to landlord interests.The renominations create considerable political risks for the mayor, the council leadership, and individual council members.By standing by Weaver and Ward, Koch faces anger from tenant organizations and the risk of a possible setback by the normally acquiescent Council.Koch, however, increased the stakes in the Council, putting individual members in the middle of pressure on one side from blacks, who want to keep Weaver as one of the administration%u2019s prominent black members, and the opposition of tenant organizations on the other.The setback was also a blow to Council Majority Leader Thomas Cuite, marking his first failure to deliver on a mayoral contract. The after shocks added to the simmering, below-surface rumblings that Cuite has lost his fine touch with the Council.Weaver, 70, a professor of Urban Affairs at Hunter College, formerly served as president of Baruch College, and has held government positions since 1933.Ward, 53, is chairman of the state Temporary Commission on Rental Housing, and helped draft the city%u2019s rent and rehabilitation law.A FRUIT PEDDLER at Livingston and Bond Streetsdowntown conducts a booming business. [Michael Cutedo Photo]Street Peddlers ProduceTheir Own Peculiar ProblemsBY ELIZABETH COLLIERAt noon on a hot but busy shopping day, the first of the peddler brigade are just setting up their wares on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn, in a prelude to a full-scale peddler occupation of ihe territory.The peddler phenomenon is particularly dramatic here, but it is also dramatic along Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village and in fact exists to varying degrees in commercial districts throughout New York City%u2019s five boroughs.Merchants, pedestrians, and residents in heavily-peddled areas feel the mere existence of peddlers to be a problem, whether it be in terms of competition or congestion. Peddlers, themselves, however, are increasingly standing up for%u201c %u2014 4 J 1 ------%u2014 A %u201e %u201e %u201e %u201e %u201e _____________J J V U U I V 1 %u00bb %u2022-%u00bb %u00ab%u2022 %u2022 %u2022 %u00ab. %u2014 V M W V AW i . W . .pending in Federal Court challenging the legality of police confiscation of peddler goods.Although a comprehensive bill was passed by the City Council last October, the rights and limitations of general merchandise peddlers inNew York remain vague, due in part to lack of enforcement of the law by the police and the regulatory agencies involved, including the Consumer Affairs Department.While merchants and others complain of lack of regulation, n^Hrllprs bemoan the %u201c many%u201d restrictions placed on them. Peddlers seem to see zoning restrictions the most troublesome. %u201c Any place where you could possibly make a dollar is restricted,%u201d a downtown Brooklyn peddler onCONTINUED ON PAGE 3Resubmits Names:Koch Fights BackOn Two NomineesAugust 24,1978, TH E PHOENIX, Page 1