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Baruch CoylyRespondsTo AdvancesPHOENIX, Page SevenCity officials are now wooing Baruch College, in attampt to persuade the institution to locate its new campus in Brooklyn Atlantic Terminal Redevelopment site.%u201c We are offering Baruch at least 10 acres of solid ground for their campus,%u201d Richard Rosan, chairman of the Mayor%u2019s Office of Downtown Brooklyn Development said recently.Both the Lindsay administration and the Housing and Development Administration are among the number of public and private agencies trying to persuade Baruch to build at the terminal site. Baruch College officials, however, are refusing comment at this time, and it is reported that many of the school%u2019s faculty members are against the Brooklyn site, favoring instead moving the college, presently located at 23rd St. and Lexington Ave., Pace College and New York University are on record opposing the location of Baruch in lower Manhattan, however.%u201c We want Baruch to come to the (Brooklyn) site because their presence will trigger new development of the entire area,%u201d Rosan commented. On January 25 the Board of Estimate approved the construction of 506 apartment units and 22,000 square feet of retail space to be built on two sites in the Atlantic Terminal Redevelopment Area. Work on this project, which is being sponsored by the Ft. Greene Nonprofit Improvement Corp., will begin in the spring.Brooklyn%u2019s Borough PresidentBerkeleyIn ProgramBrooklyn College of the City University of New York is sponsoring a performance-based undergraduate program for the education of teachers and Park Slope%u2019s Berkeley Institute is the only private school in the plan. This program has as its primary objective the improvement of the education of prospective teachers in a way which will have an immediate, as well as a long-term, effect on the public education of children and youth in an urban setting.Berkeley will serve as a resource for the college %u2014 as a schoolcommunity-teaching-learning center by the use of its facilities, school personnel, acting as community consultants. Twenty education students from the college will come to the school for their field experience with related course content, for four months beginning February 22.The school will act as a source in helping students to analyze and in terpret teaching-learning situations in the classroom; in the interweaving of experience and concepts, to enable prospective teachers to learn to interpret teacmng-iearnmg oenaviors in a school and classroom environment.Sebastian Leone said at the January Board of Estimate hearings that he has reopened the question of constructing the new Baruch College campus on the Atlantic Terminal site. The borough president is also urging the rebuilding of the Long Island Railroad Terminal and the construction of a new hotel, all part of the original plans for Atlantic Terminal when it was conceived almost five years ago. Much of the delay, Leone charged, had to do with lengthy arguments involving the HDA, the City Planning Commission, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and CUNY over the Baruch College site and the rebuilding of the railroad terminal.One hundred four acres are involved in the Atlantic Terminal area. Much of it is now vacant, a result of the city having razed most of the old buildings in the area which encompasses the LIRR Atlantic Terminal and sections of Flatbush and Atlantic Aves. Plans drawn in 1963 by the City Planning Commission called for the construction of 2,400 new apartments, the renovation of 170 brownstones, the renovation of the railroad terminal, the decking over of the railroad storage yards, construction of new schools and commercial plazas. At that time the Planning Commission aiso concluded' that a %u201c major effort%u201d should be made to persuade a college of the city university system to relocate in the area.Baruch was originally offered a site over the railroad tracks, city officials say, but that, offer was rejected because construction costs would involve an additional $27 million to deck the area.The college is now being offered 10 acres of solid terra firma to the east of the railroad terminal and north of Atlantic Ave. %u201c The college can have the land free and immediately for construction,%u201d Rosan said.Cad PlazaRentingA number of apartments are still available in Cadman Towers, a 421 unit cooperative located in historic Brooklyn Heights, according to Robert Dormer, President of Cadman Towers, Inc. Spring occupancy is anticipated for the first of two tower buildings, 10 Clinton Street.Apartment carrying charges range from one bedroom units at $248-350 per month, two bedroom units at $348-435 per month and three bedroom units at $475-567 per %u2022 month, says Dormer. Deductions permitted to cooperato%u2019-s for income tax purposes offer substantial savings.Full details regarding available apartments and an information bulletin approved by the attorney General of New York, can be obtained from the sales agent for Cadman Towers: Rental and Management Associates Corporation, tu East win Sireei, ivew York City. For interviews call RMA at MU 4-0400.Site near LIRR Terminal given to BaruchBank Ads On PierrepontOwners of the Pierrepont Hotel have been formally requested to correct violations by the bank which holds the hotel%u2019s mortgage, Jim Benson, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for a Safe Pierrepont Hotel announced this week. The owners in turn, it was learned, have terminated the hotel%u2019s present lease because the lessee has failed to correct violations.Requesting that the bank%u2019s name be withheld, its vice president in charge of mortgages and loans said that the bank pledged that %u201c as mortgagee, we have taken formal steps with the owner to demand removal of the violations forthwith in accordance with the terms of our mortgage. You may be interested in knowing that we have been furnished with the copy of the owner%u2019s notice to the lessee terminating the lease agreement by reason of said lessee%u2019s failure to obtain dismissal of all of the violations reported by the City of New York.%u201dIt continued: %u201c Needless to say, we are following the matter closely and will keep you informed. Hopefully, the conditions which you describe will be corrected in the near future. Your interest and that of your committee in callingthis to our attention is greatly appreciated.%u201dKeeping the committee%u2019s pledge to take all action necessary to ensure safe living conditions at the Pierrepont, Priscilla Rassin, anRichmondReportContinued from Page 2appropriations listed in the budget; to set productivity standards for the thousands of employees budgeted under architectural, engineering, administrative planning and design appropriations; to require written reports, in detail, on all nonspecified programs; and finally, to require all planning and design appropriations to be tied to specific budget lines to allow for open debate at the inception of new projects.Councilman Matthew Troy, Chairman of the Finance Committee, endorsed the Richmond report by stating %u201c This report goes a long way toward defining what role I hope my committee will play in the upcoming hearings on the capital budget.%u201dL i M YHSaM l%u00ae MORE!doors plywoodceiling file sheeirockpaneling mouldingsuspended ceiling materials(paints and toolsuE & G H O M E IM P R O V E M E N T SCARPENTRY - MASONRY - PAINTING - ROOFINGAH Kinds of Alterations9 6 7 -7 6 3 3John Sorrentino Gregory lernicoia yN T S ^%u25a0jgQ Q Q QDELIVERY ANYW HEREBOOK & SOKlnc2 5 3 Fourth Avenueat Carroll St.UL 7-7445 LJL 7-attorney who has been acting as secretary to the committee, joined forces with Fire Department officials at a court hearing on Monday, March 5, to press for vigorous enforcement of the safety provisions violated by the hotel. At Ms. Rassin%u2019s request, the matter was adjourned to March 29, so that Assemblyman Mike Pesce and State Senator Carol Bellamy could be present as well.The committee has also learned that the City%u2019s Corporation Counsel has requested reports on the Pierrepont, so that an action can be filed to have it declared a public nuisance, along with four Manhattan hotels.Jan. 1973 statistics showthe Brooklyn, U.S. PostOffice covering 90 sq. mi. ofthe Brooklyn borough toserve 3,658,659 people.Employing approx. 7,500carriers to deliver andreceive 1 ,6 8 1 ,8 4 3 ,8 6 9pi&ces of mail.LumenC o n v e n ie n tly located inPark Slope, Lumen-Krafthas the largest, moste x c itin g co llectio n ofc o n te m p o ra ry d esig n erlighting in New YorkCity!The complete line ofKovacs, Sonnem sn,Lightoiior, Koch & Lowy,Lux%u00a9, W egu ch i. andmany, many more in ourBrooklyn showroom, allat w e ll discountedprices!Lum en -K raft 145 SeventhA iia h i A 'lA .I KKfl