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N e w s b r i e f s :Slope Co-opLoft ConvertReconstruction began two weeks ago on the co-op loft conversion of the Atlas Abrasives Company at 12th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Park Slope.The three-story structure will be converted to 12 units with approximately 1200 square feet of living space, 900-1000 square feet in floor space and 200-300 square feet on a mezzanine. The kitchen and bathroom are located under the mezzanine. All other space will be open.The units will sell for $35,000 and monthly maintenance fee will be $235. The developers, Mill Wich Enterprises, Inc., do not expect a fee rise for at least ten years due to a 20 year tax abatement.The project is the First of its kind in the South Slope, an area only recently beginning to redevelop. %u201c Basically we feel that it is a shame to see so many things going to waste,%u201d says Mill Wich principal, Woody Wichtendahl.%u201c It%u2019s only two to three blocks off the Slope. The north has developed within the last 8-10 years and now the south is in the same position as the north was then.%u201d Five units have already been sold, with expected occupancy in mid February.C o n tin u in g E dProgram StartsRegistration for the fall term of District 15%u2019s Continuing Education Center at John Jay High School, 237 Seventh Avenue, will be on Wednesday, October 4, 9:30 p.m. through October 26. The first week of classes begins on Monday, October 30. Over 70 courses, including academic, occupational and recreational classes, will be offered, along with a High School Equivalency program which has been operating for five years. English-As-A Second Language classes will also be given.Classes for the creative mind and body include Stained Glass, W oodworking, Yoga, Disco and Slimnastics and Mandarin Cooking among others. One time membership fee is $5; most courses are $15 except those which requireadditional materials. Some courses are fret. For more information, call Mr. Gill or Mr. Greenfield, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at 330-9303 or 330-9354.Rent Strike$ In EscrowWith a rent strike at 186 Amity Street in its ninth week, tenants have agreed to place their rent money in escrow until the strike%u2019s end.All rent money for August has been placed in a safety deposit box to be held by the landlord%u2019 s attorney. Money for September will be held by Assemblyman Mike Pesce, attorney for the tenants. The money will be released when both parties have agreed to it.Two tenants who received dispossess orders will argue their cases in court October 4, unless a settlement can be reached before then, according to Pesce. The tenants, Myer Strauss and Martha Gonzales, are among those complaining of bad conditions at the building, including frequent boiler breakdowns and mice infestations.- G.F.Drug CenterADDlys For MovePhoenix House, the Prospect Heights drug treatment center, is applying for a $100,000 grant from the state Division on Alcohol and Substance Abuse to start a multiservice senior citizen facility in Park Slope.Services will include transportation, education in consumer, housing, safety, and nutritional ^issues, vocational and educational counseling, a public information hotline, speaker service, and recreation and exercise classes.Phoenix House staff is currently presenting the plans to Park Slope community groups. -M .D .Commerce MeetDeputy Mayor Peter J. Solomon will discuss plans for the economic development of the city at a Chamber of Commerce meeting October 4.Solomon was appointed last July by Mayor Koch and this will be one of his first major addresses in office. He is Koch%u2019s chief advisor on tax, energy and government. Y . P .10 YEAR OLD MURDERED:Eugene Flowers, 37, of 472 Columbia Street was arrested by Detective Frank Essex of the 11th Homicide Division on September 16 at 4 p.m. and charged with the murder of a ten-year old girl 15 hours earlier. Flowers allegedly stabbed Vendetta Robinson repeatedly, causing her death. The murder allegedly took place in front of 135 Richard Street.ALL CHOKED UP: Police claim 26 year-old Robert Moore, of 1655 Union Street, grabbed a 23 year-old man by the throat on September 12 at 1:30 a.m., and took $12 from him. Officer Martin McNeela of the 76th Precinct arrested the suspect ten minutes later at Nevins Street and Atlantic Avenue, a block away from the scene of the crime, the comer of Pacific and Nevins.SHOT AND KILLED: Two bandits shot and killed the manager of a Flatbush McDonald%u2019s hamburger stand in an early morning robbery. The robbery was already in progress at 1 am on September 18 when Arthur Miller, 39, stopped by the restaurant together with his wifewhile off-duty. Two gunmen wearing ski-masks attempted to push Miller inside. Miller resisted and was shot once in the stomach. The gunmen then forced his wife and two employees into the back of the store where they were forced to strip to their underclothes. One employee opened the safe and turned $3000 over to the bandits. The pair, described as blacks in their twenties, then fled the premises.Miller was taken to Kings County Hospital where he died later at 9:30 am that same morning.DOUBLE ASSAULT: Sara Leon, 24, of 195 Hoyt Street and Joaquin Alvello, 23, of 104 Butler Street, allegedly acted together in assaulting a man in the back with a baseball bat and taking his monev at the intersection of Hoyt and Bergen Streets on September 15 at 7:40 p.m. Officer James Carlin of the 76th Precinct Anti-Crime unit arrested them two hours later in front of Leon%u2019s house and charged them with robbery, assault and possession of a dangerous weapon.regulatories policies as they affect economic development.At the same meeting, the Chamber will honor Fred Rider, who developed Brooklyn Union Gas%u2019 Cinderella program. The luncheon will be held at the Union Temple, Eastern Parkway at Grand Army Plaza.Plan Bd 2Holds HearingsCommunity Board 2 will hold two two public hearings in October; one for the renewal of a sidewalk cafe permit and the other for the approval of a car wash. The hearing on the applicatin for a car wash at 224 Flatbush Avenue Extension (near Gold Street) will be held at 10 am, October 4 in Room 909, 80 Lafayette Steet, Manhattan. The owners of the Paris Car Wash, already in operation, will be requesting this applications. Another public hearing will be held immediately after Board 2%u2019s October 12 meeting, and it concerns the J-J-J Coffee Shop%u2019 s (80 Clark Street! renewal of its outdoor cafe permit. The place of the October 12 meeting is yet to be determined but those interested can call the Board office at 596-5410 for further information.More TrainsAdded to SubwayTo help ease the city rush-hour crunch, 53 trains have been added on 13 subway lines where ridership is heaviest.The additional trains, 33 during the morning rush and 20 during the evening, went into service on September 19 and cost the Transit Authority $4.4 million.This is the third expansion o f the subway system since January when mid-day train lengths were increased on the IND A D E and F lines, and on the IRT nos. 2 and 4 lines.Ft. Greene GetsLandmark OKUntil September 26 historic Fort Greene had no official %u201c landmark%u201d districts, but the Landmark Commission%u2019 simultaneous designation of both the Fort Greene and Brooklyn Academy of Music area as historic districts gave the community two landmark areas.The decision also marked an official end to the controversy created when the Commission made a decision in September 1977 that the %u201c triangle%u201d area of blocks now known as the BAM district, would be excluded from the proposed historic district. Residents who lived in the sout of Fulton Street blocks of Fort Greene Place, South Elliott Place, and South Portland Place were excluded but ultimately their protests did not fall on deaf ears.vLandmarks chairman Kent Barwick saluted both districts after announcing the decision. Calling the Fort Greene and BAM districts %u201c significant areas in the city's history,%u201d Barwick said.The Fort Greene historic district runs north on Fulton Street beginning at South Elliott Place and DeKalb Avenue, continues eastward in a zig-zag pattern to Carlton and Claremont Avenues, and, in some instances, going as far south as the block below Green Avenue. The Commission%u2019s original decision to exclude the BAM district was based on the opinion that the triangle was divided spatially and architecturally from the Fort Greene district by Fujlton Street.Scott W itter sits amidst his %u2018blocks. %u2019 [Cuicdo Photo]Local Man Works To SaveBit of Razed Meat MarketBY PETER HALEYScott Witter apparently took the old adage, %u201cIf at first you don%u2019t succeed, try, try, again, to heart when his last-minute efforts to save the Fort Greene meat market and the adjacent Long Island Railroad Atlantic Avenue terminal from scheduled demolition went ignored by city officials and community residents alike.Witter, a Fort Greene resident, decided to save a portion of the meat market himself. So he dismantled an entire two-story budding and put it into storage. The only problem is that now he has a 1888 vintage building - and no place to put it.Witter is an aficionado of oldtime architecture and with his own money he purchased the salvage rights to No. 178 Fort Greene Place, took it apart, and moved it to several different locations.%u201c A lot of it is in my house, some in friend%u2019s homes, and I rented storage space,%u201d said the youthful Witter. Witter took the facade along with %u201ctwenty feet deep%u2019s worth%u201d of the brick and limestone building. He says he did it all for love.%u201cIt started off as a demonstration against the demolition of beautiful buildngs,\explained Witter, %u201cand right now I want to find someone with the money to put this thing up because the whole thing has put me into debt.%u201dLast April, Witter went before the local planning board.communtiy Board Two, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority, with his plea to save the Meat Market and Terminal buildings. The Meat Market had been scheduled for demolition for some time and infact the old Meat Market had become something of a ghost town, since the wholesalers moved out in October 1977 to the Sunset Park Meat Market.The market land is located on the Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area, and portions of it will be utilized for the upcoming reconstruction of the LIRR terminal and the accompanying commercial development. Witter argued that the %u201cquality of architecture%u201d should be preserved, and when it became apparent that the demolition was going ahead anyway, he puchased 178 Fort Greene Place.Together with Chuck Winns, Mark Landesburg, and John Blades, Witter ana company took six weeks taking No. 178 carefully apart so that some day it can be put back together again. Using crowbars and wrecking bars to loosen the brick and stone and cranes to lower portions of the building into a padded dumpster and bulldozer bucket, No. 178 with the exception of the pipes and foundation, has been entirely removed from the site.Witter wants to put the building back together again and doesn%u2019t care where it ends up, just as long as it%u2019s standing in its original form. Anyone with land to spare should contact Witter with a proposal, care of Scott Witter, 111 Hall Street Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205. Witter insists all he wants is to see that this structure gets a home, and to sell the building to %u201c someone who wants to put it up as bad as myself.\%u201cI really feel that the entire area of buildings should have been preserved, but I%u2019ll settle for seeing this structure put up,%u201d he says.Koch-Daughtry Antic ConfrontationContinuedon him.%u201dHeilman denied that the Mayor had been struck saying, %u201c If contact (with Koch) was made it was minor.%u201dDaughtry said he felt compelled to confront the Mayor because of the numerous incidents and bad feelings between the city, Kassidic Jews and the black community. %u201c The Mayor and the city need tot n n w w h a t ic r r p a t i n o t h p f p n c i n nWhy do some groups get special treatment?%u201d Daughtry said referring to a demonstration his grtoup held outside Hassidic headquarters on Eastern Parkway. %u2018 %u2018 What they%u2019re saying is that they%u2019re totally disregarding our Sabbath... I just wanted to say to the people thatwe%u2019re not crazy. This is sacred to us.%u201dThe Reverend said his demonstration was forced to stay 105 feet from the headquarters while no such consideration was taken for his church while services were being held.Inspector Heilman said a difference was made because of the nature of the two gatherings.' T i l P f O 1 C O A 11 T U A i t l l A A M #,parade and a demonstration. Their (the blacks) target was the Hassidic building,%u201d Heilman said.%u201c I%u2019m a man of peace,%u201d Daughtry conch ded. %u201c But sometimes you%u2019ve got to disturb the peace to get a hearing.%u201d