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N e w s b r i e f s :Ferry InterimPark Awaits $Some $90,000 requested by the State Parks and Recreation Department for plans to construct an %u201cinterim%u201d park at Fulton Ferry is awaiting approval as the state legislature convenes this week.The State Parks Department purchased the land, including the 19th century Empire Warehouse last March. Until more extensive plans for the site are developed, the State called for the waterfront plot to be renovated into a park, %u201chopefully by July 1.%u201d The money, requested from the State supplemental budget, would go towards landscaping, benches and bench painters, a boardwalk, a parking lot, trees, a lawn area and rehabilitation of an existing metal shed to be used for a small photo exhibit, maintenance trailer and %u201c protection from the rain.%u201dWe%u2019re ready to go ahead if we get the money,%u201d said Clair Beckhardt, general manager of the New York City regional office of the State Parks and Recreation Department. %u201cIt%u2019s simply that right now we don%u2019t have any money to work with.%u201d%u2014J.E.W.Red HookProperties HeldTwenty-one city-owned properties have been held from the auction process per a request from the Red Hook Homeowners Association. Community Planning Board 6 voted to keep the properties from going into the city%u2019s parcel-selling process at a public hearing last month.Community groups had requested that the board hold the hearing so that they could relay plans for the properties. The board originally had 62 parcels.Groups have charged that properties going to the auction block are often bought by landlords who have owned them previously and do not plan to renovate or restore them. The community groups say they plan to rehabilitate the buildings.The board voted to hold the 21 properties requested in the Red Hook-Columbia Street area, and to hold a vacant lot at 381 13th Street for ROSAS (Restoration of Seventh Ave. South) and the 13th Street Block Association.%u2014J.W.New GoyaPlant In SnagThe controversial, two year-old plan to convert the vacant Goya Foods factory in Gowanus into an enclosed shopping mall remains snagged in financing difficulties.Gerald Genet of 12th Street Realty, developers of the proposed $5 million shopping center, said negotiations are continuing with several banks. But terms have %u201c not been agreeable,%u201d he said, given the current tight investment market in the New York area. Genet declined to name which banks were involved in negotiations.Plans call for the vacant four acre site to be converted to a 45,000 sauare foot Pathmark suoermarket. with eight %u201c support stores%u201d and a 406-car parking lot. Genet said a Hillman-Cohen Vision Center will occupy one of the store spaces, and he expects to have a committment from a liquor store operator within 60 days.Genet said he is also negotiating with two other merchants who may lease space, but he declined toGET THEM W HILE THEY%u2019RE HOT! Whichthey will be for some time to come, at the newlyre-opened Times Plaza kiosk which nowfeatures a Hebrew National hot dog standalong with its longtime adjacent newstand. Thefast food emporium and the entire $150,000(Gary Roker Photo)renovation of the kiosk itself is a project of theDowntown Brooklyn Development Association.Although the kiosk has yet to receive an%u2018official%u2019 opening, the dispensing of the hotdogs is fast and furious.reveal the kinds of stores that will occupy any of the six remaining sites. %u201cWe don%u2019t want them to be there for one year, so we%u2019re not going to have anything that competes directly with the Fifth Avenue shops,%u201d he said. %u201c In order to live with this community, we%u2019re going to accomodate.%u201dLast week the developers applied for tax abatement for the project under the Steingut-Padavin law. The city measure grants a 100% tax abatement on the improved value of industrial property converted for commercial use. The abatement then shrinks by 5% annually for 19 years until the property is taxed for its full improved value. The program was created to spur the redevelopment of abandoned industrial sites.%u2014I.L.Doler DyeConvert HearingA public hearing detailing plans for the conversion of the Doler Dye factory building in Carroll Gardens into residential units will be held on July 19.Recycling for Housing Partnership, developers for the project at 505 Court Street, will present plans which call for 118 units of cooperative housing. Seventy-eight 2- bedroom and 24 one-bedroom apartments are planned.The project requires a zoning variance from the current industrial manufacturing usage to a residential zone.The hearing, conducted by Community Planning Board 6, will be held at St. Mary%u2019s Star of the Sea Church, 467 Court Street, at 6:30 pm on July 19. For further information call: 643-1500.%u2014J.W.Atlantic Ave.Sale Day ComingParticipating merchants of the Atlantic Avenue Committee will hold their next Sunday Sidewalk Sale Day on July 23. To publicize the event the day before, the group will rent an old-fashioned horse and buggy, fill it with antiques and balloons, and plaster it with postersbefore launching it down Atlantic Avenue on its way to Manhattan.Criers will hand out leaflets and maps to passersby as the buggy winds its way over the Brooklyn Bridge, through Greenwich Village and uptown to the Bloomingdale%u2019s shopping district. Central Park and the West Side will also be entertained and %u201ccultivated%u201d by the promotion.John Hamilton, chairman of the trade association, said more than 60 merchants are expected to participate in the Sunday sale, which will offer shoppers a 10% discount on selected merchandise.LIHS ChoosesNew DirectorThe Long Island Historical Society has selected a new executive director to succeed Jim Hurley, after screening more than 30 applicants for the position vacated by Hurley last May.LIHS President Dwight DeMeritt, Jr., declined to name the new administrator, saying that a public announcement will be forthcoming before the new director assumed the post on September 1. Hurley%u2019s resignation became effective June 30, following his disagreement with DeMeritt and the Board of Directors on future plans and directions for the Society.%u2014I.L.Kaplan Back AsSchool Board PresPhilip Kaplan has been reelected president of Community School Board 15 for the ninth consecutive year. Kaplan, along with the other officers who served this past year, were reelectd in a nomination slate.Philip Scala, vice-president, Marv Treacv. secretary, and Heriberto Cruz, treasurer, will all resume their present positions in the fall.At its monthly meeting, the school board also approved a $7500 federal government grant for an early childhood preventative curriculum project and an impact aide proposal for 1978-79 of approximately $4,577,614.The board also approved funds for three projects: Spanish, Italian and Yiddish instruction in P.S. 1, 58, 94 and two non-public schools.The board also appointed Dr. Herbert Rahinsky, a former principal of P.S. 154, to serve as Principal of Intermediate School 293.The School Board accepted the following calendar of public meetings for 1978-79: July 26, 1978; August 30, 1978; September 27, 1978; October 25, 1978; November 29, 1978; December 20, 1978; January 24, 1979; February 28, 1979; March 28, 1979; April 25,1979; May 23, 1979; and June 27, 1979.%u2014J.W.School Board13 to Elect SlateElection of officers will be held during the next meeting of Community School Board 13.A president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer will be elected at the July 18 meeting.The meeting will be held at the school board%u2019s office, 44 Court Street, and will begin at 7:30 pm. -J.W .Public SiteStill SettlingBoth developers slated to utilize the Public Place Site on the old Brooklyn Union Gas property in Carroll Gardens are still gathering information and talking to city officials.The six acres of land were equally divided by Community Board 6 for the two proposals.%u201c We%u2019re negotiating with the city on the lease,%u201d said Joe Cardillo who is heading a group that plans to build a private tennis and raauet ball facilities. %u201c We%u2019ve met twice with the Department of Real Estate and plan to get an appraisal of the land before we meet again,%u201d Cardillo said.%u201c I haven%u2019t gotten any word on the Community %u2018Development funding,%u201d said Joseph Verderame, who is heading up a group that plans to build two public playingfields.The site, vacant for 15 years, is bounded by 5th, Smith and Liquer Streets. It is slated for recreational use by the Parks Department.Verderame applied to the City Planning Commission for Community Development IV funding. He says he has received no word from the Commission, but is %u201c waiting for Community Board 6 to follow through%u201d on its intent to help him get the funding. The board had voted to work with Verderame in acquiring the funds.%u201c We%u2019re moving on our own,%u201d he said. %u201c We%u2019re protecting ourselves. If the board doesn't do things, we have to take some action on our own.%u201d Verderame would not comment on what action he has taken.%u2014J.W.JJ Byrne ParkProgram GrantA $45,000 grant kicks off the JJ Byrne Park Exposure Program this summer, a series of recreational and athletic programs for youths aged seven to 19.The program includes a day camp, softball, basketball, tennis and handball; writing, math and reading programs; and a photography project.The program, being funded by the New York Community Trust, Exxon, Citibank and other private companies was assembled by Community Planning Board 6 and Slope Sports. Registration forms can be obtained at 250 Baltic St. Call 965-3311.%u2014J.W.BQE TaskForce ExpandedBorough President Howard Golden has broadened the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Task Force to include representation from one formerly dissident community group as well as Long Island College Hospital and two police precincts.The task force, which was formed to insure community participation in the controversial plans for the BQE reconstruction between Hamilton and Atlantic Avenues, came under fire from Cobble Hill Association (CHA) members who charged that their exclusion from representation on the task force was unwarranted%u2014 especially since much of the necessary traffic diversion will affect the community. At the first BQE task force meeting on June 27, Selma Abramawitz, CHA vicechairman, had been asked to leave because Golden and Borough Hall officials felt that the presence of two South Brooklyn Citizens Committee members on the task force was sufficient representation for the entire area.Following the dispute, Golden expanded the group to include the Cobble Hill association, LICH, and the 88th and 84th police precincts. The 76th Police Precinct is already on the task force, as are other city officials, the South Brooklyn Citizens Committee, the Brooklyn Heights Association, and chairpersons from Community Planning Boards 2 . 6 . and 7 . A ll a nScharmatz of the Borough President%u2019s office indicated that %u201c some consideration%u201d is being given to include the Democratic and Republican assembly district leadership in the immediate community among the political participants already on the task force.%u2014P.H.July 13,1978, PHOENIX, Page 25