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Jobs, Apartments, Services in the Want Ads Pages 20-23395 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn 11217' %u2022 I p 25 centsH. Weinstei, \\o s e s iit High CourtBut M. Weinstein TakesOver Her Ballot PositionBY PETER HALEYAssembly Speaker Stanley Steingut still has Weinstein to kick around in the Democratic primary race for his 41st Assemblymanic seat in Brooklyn. Only instead of Helene, the 26-year-old attorney who was disqualified yesterday from returning to the ballot by the state Court of Appeals, it will be her father Murray who tries to end Steingut%u2019s 25-year reign as Flatbush assemblyman.The news of the Court of Appeals rejection, over a residency issue, was little more than an hour old before W einstein%u2019s vacancy committee selected her father, also an attorney, to run in her place.The senior Weinstein insisted his chances of defeating Steingut were %u201cvery realistic.%u201d%u201c The anti-Steingut campaign will continue because the antiSteingut sentiment is still in the district,%u201d announced Murray Weinstein.Steingut, meanwhile, picked up the editorial endorsement of the %u201c SoHo-Weekly News%u201d yesterday. The newspaper called Steingut %u201c a genuinely effective politician who, by giving his life over to public service, has gone out on a limb for a lot of good and bad people.%u201dHelene Weinstein had been considered a major threat to Steingut, one of the most powerful politicians in the state, but her primary campaign was derailed in the courts over the issues of her dual residence in Manhattan and Flatbush.Steingut%u2019s lawyers argued that Manhattan was her true home, making her ineligible. to run for office in the 41st A.D. State Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hental concurred and, referring to the fact she listed her address onan affidavit to the State Association in January 1978 as 83rd Street in M anhattan, the justice said, %u201c She made her bed.on 83rd Street, and now she must be required to lie in it.%u201dHental%u2019s ruling was based on a state law prohibiting the nomination of a candidate who did not reside in the legislative district for at least 12 months before the election. Despite W einstein%u2019s assertion that her voting address and her tax record address were 555 East 79th Street, Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Appellate Division upheld Hental%u2019s decision by a 3-2 decision.The Court of Appeals refused even to hear the case, deciding that there were no unresolved legal issues in the case, but the refusal did not dampen the younger Weinstein%u2019s enthusiasm and insistence that Steingut%u2019s legal jousts with her were %u201cbackfiring.%u201d %u201c When people find out he was afraid to have a race, it will backfire,%u201d asserted Weinstein.%u201d He has already earned the anger of the over 600 people in the district he subpoenaed jg> appear before the court, Jncliffing elderly and infirm people anq in one mistaken instance, a three-year-old boy. Beside that Steingut tried to take away their choice.%u201dThe elder Weinstein labelled Steingut an %u201c invisible%u201d leader in his own community.%u201c Steingut had used his district as'a power base for himself,%u201d said Weinstein, who intends to use Steingut%u2019s involvement with nursing home scandal figure Bernard Bergman as a campaign issue. %u201c It - was Sfeingut who told Assemblyman (Andrew) Stein not to investigate Bergman and who later told a Congressional committee that he couldn%u2019t recollect this conversation.TH E POLITICAL WEINSTEINS: She%u2019s out, he%u2019s in. [Michael Cuicdo Photo]Our Water Grid: 6,000 MilesOf Ancient, Breakable PipeBY GARY FREDERICKWater water everywhere, nor any drop to drink. So goes the %u201c saying%u201d commonly exerpted from %u201c The Rime of the Ancient Mariner%u201d by Coleridge. But whenAgainst LandlordsR e n t B o a r d H o ld s F ir mlie city Rent Stabilization Board yesterday again defied angry landlords and voted overwhelmingly to reaffirm** he\\| r # t structure that went mtdlefffedj faQTmonth.By a 5-to-l tally, the Board reconfirmed its support of maximum allowable rate increases on one-, two- .and three-year apartments which, according to the landlords, are too low to provide a fair margin on profit on their investments.The vote came one day after Manhattan Supreme Court JusticeM artin Stfichmr a opppH tn dofiH * ifthe landlords should be granted a preliminary injunction against the new rates for rent stabilized apartments.After hearing debate from both sides, Stecher said he would consider if the Board had acted improperly by enacting the new rate without first granting thelandlords a hearing, and without having a majority of its members vqte on the increase when the issue first came up earlier this year.Attorneys for the city contended that since the board is under no legal obligation to conduct a hearing, and since yesterday%u2019s vote had already been scheduled, the landlords%u2019 contentions were moot.Stecher%u2019s willingness to take on the case, however, was only a partial victory for the landlords in their campaign against the new rates. They failed to convince him%u2666a o %u2666/> o m o f oschedule pending outcome of the case.The new schedule took effect July 1. It restricts the maximum permissible percentage increase to 3Vi% for a one-year renewal lease, 5Vi% for a two-year renwal, and 7Vi % for a three-year renewal.By comparison, the previousschedule permitted increases of 6 %u2018/ j % , 8 %u2018/ j % and 11 Vt% for one, two and three year renewals respectively.The case is being fought by the Rent Stabilization Associatiod, a landlords%u2019 group whose members own approximately 40,(XX) residential buildings with approximately 800,000 rent stabilized apartments.Arthur Richenthal, the landlords%u2019 attorney, contended that the new schedule will unfairly reduce the rent level in all future leases,w i l l p f l i i c p a n p m t m m i p k a r r l c k i n n nlandlords, and create rents disproportionately low to those in Westchester, Nassau and Rocklandcounties.But in agreeing to hear the case, Stecher said he would not consider the landlords%u2019 request for a rollback until first considering the impact of two procedural issues.Elliot Altman came to work on August 7, that is precisely what he found%u2014a basement flooded under four feet, not enough pressure to operate the faucets, and most importantly, inoperative kidney dialysis machines.Altman is a manager of the Brooklyn Kidney Center, which provides dialysis treatm ent for those with failing kidneys. That morning, when a 20-inch water main burst near the Center at Flatbush Avenue and Seventh Avenue, the building was.left in a critical situation, indeed.Water main breaks should be nothing new to city residents, particularly those living in Brooklyn. Since this borough has onethird of the city%u2019s pipes, Brooklyn has one-third of the water main breaks. A year doesn't go by that a break doesn%u2019t oc%u00abur; Brooklyn still hasn%u2019t forgotten the 30-inch main that broke last Labor Day and flooded the Brooklyn Academy of M u sic and c a u sin g SI m illion indamage. And, from the first of the year,%u201d Brooklyn has suffered 87 breaks, compared to a city-wide total of 283.In New York%u2019s aged, massive water system, breaks are inevitable. Consider the following:New York City%u2019s water supply runs through approximately 6,000miles of pipe, many ot which ait close to 100 years old. The system employs some 170,000 valves and 103,000 fire hydrants. During the summertime, daily use hovers around 1.5 billion gallons and drops only slightly during the winter, to 1.2 billion gallons. To keep a system like this fully operative and leak proof is no small job.%u201c By and large, given the age of a lot of the equipment, pipe size and so on, a fully decent job is done,%u201d said Rudy Garcia, director of Public Information and Education for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEA).In fact, $18 million a year is spent now on maintenance and repair.%u201c You can never keep a system this size perfectly in order,%u201d he continued. %u201c Not unless we could replace it all in three days.%u201dBECAUSE THEY CANNOTREPLACE IT ail, the inevitable breaks do occur. The Flatbush A v e n u e in c id e n t h a n n e n e d at3:20 a.m. and sent thousands of gallons of water surging into streets,*basements, subways and stores.Debra Russell, one of the first workers to arrive at the Kidney Center, said the flooding was so severe that the %u201c Fire DepartmentContinued on Page 4