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Page Six, PHOENIXUp For Re-Election:Self-Styled Brooklyn ChauvinistLeone Talks Of Boro Upswing1iBY CORRINE COLEMANAt a recent Academy of Music Brooklyn Booster evening, Borough President Sebastian Leone joined opera star Beverly Sills in singing a newly written old timey song called %u201cCome Back to Brooklyn!%u201dThough that climactic duet and the entire affair were centered around Leone%u2019s favorite theme, the Brooklyn Renaissance, the expensively dressed audience whose limousines and chartered buses waited outside to return them to Manhattan, preferred to focus on the borough%u2019s good old days%u2014to wallow in nostalgia with comedian Sam Levinson, Beverly Sills and even Woody Allen.Despite the disbelief of certain exiles however, Sam Leone and other Brooklyn dwellers believe in the borough%u2019s positive turnabout, and Leone, Brooklyn chief since Sept. 1970, is basing much of his current campaign for reelection on his role in bringing forth the change.Seated in his lush offices in the pillared landmark building that once was Brooklyn%u2019s City Hall, Leone notes the current %u201cBrownstone fever,%u201d raging he says, %u201clike nowhere else in New York,%u201d and proudly points to the upsurge of activity at the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.He talks about the new downtown goings on, describing the momentum as following %u201c a reverse domino theory.%u201d AmongDo yourun ,lor coffeearound!1 Now you can stop running. 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Call now.Have a good cup of coffee tomorrow!1Call Today For Free Week Trial2 1 2 -7 8 4 -3 0 3 0BUNNCOFFEESERVICEthe projects designed for the Flatbush Ave. and Fulton St. downtown center, the Consolidated Edison building is already up, he notes, with ground already broken for the telephone company structure, and plans are set for the third building, to be developed by candy tycoon George Klein.These downtown projects are moving faster than similar area, around the country, Leone says, and adds the information that Brooklyn is becoming known as the %u201conly large older city where the trend is up %u2014 with population, land values and commerce on the increase.%u201dTalking about borough prospects and accomplishments has become second nature to the %u201cBrooklyn chauvinist,%u201d who after %u201cfighting for two-and-a-half years to get the borough its fair share%u201d points to the fact that last year for the first time, the two city dollars that Manhattan used to get for Brooklyn%u2019s one, was totally reversed.Pushing for borough decentralization, Leone%u2019s statement to the recent City Charter Revision Commission hearings calls for a set up of elected Community Councils; one in each of Brooklyn%u2019s 18 Community Districts, with the Borough President as overseer, to plan and supervise %u201csanitation services, highway and sewer maintenance, park operation, zoning regulations and housing code enforcement. According to the Leone design, each council would be made up of nine members to represent each of the district subdivisions. A Community Coordinator working closely with the City Council member representing the district would supervise the delivery of services, he adds.Claiming the leadership in seeking charter strengthening of borough offices, Leone also advocates restructuring of the Board of Estimate to include a Mayor and Comptroller elected to office for five or six years (but ineligible for consecutive reelection) who are granted six votes each, with the five Borough Presidents to be granted two votes each. The Board should be able, as it was before the 1961 charter revision, to levy taxes along with the City Council.Leone calls for an end to the City Planning Commission and in its stead asks for the formation ofB ro o k ly n %u2019 s o n ly Bookstore for KidsTues%u2014Thr 2 %u20146 Sot. 1 0 :3 0 -5 :3 0 Sun. noon%u20145:30B orough President S ebastian Leone an d fa m ily.%u201cBorough Improvement Boards%u201d to be composed of Borough City Council members and the Borough President. The boards would be responsible for Capital Budget preparation, %u201cleaving to the Mayor the right to include in the draft budget those projects of city-wide concern.%u201dResponding to his opponent for the Borough office, City Councilwoman Ruth Lerner, who acDistrict 13 Gives List Of Candidateschild's Play226ATLANTIC* 2 3 7 -2 6 5 6School District 13 has announced that 42 candidates will be on the ballot on May 1, competing for nine positions on the District%u2019s Community School Board. The District includes Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene and parts of BedfordStuyvesant and Park Slope.Three residents of Brooklyn Heights and three from Park Slope are among the candidates. The complete list includes:Maxine P. Carter, 126 Clifton Place; Ernest A. Hood, 250 Madison St.; Mario De Falco, 164 Washington Ave.; Almenia Arrindell, 414 Monroe St.; Paul J. Jarvis, 115 Ashland PI. ; Madgie A. Ford, 46 Macon St.; Nelson C. Reid, 365 Clinton Ave.; Lawrence Feeling, 1166 Fulton St.; Gertrude Jefferson, 429 Washington Ave.; Albert T. Vann, 400 Herkimer St.; Ernestine Brown, 335 Lexingtoni _ i____ n _____ . je n u M iu p n u i u .u .famous radio and TV personality with special talentsC a ll 783-0687 every Sunday, 4 PM -7PM.a special consultant and advisor on marriages, divorces, child problems, in fan t dedications and all other problem s 51 C lark St. St. G e o rg e H o te l 4 th flGilroy, who was killed during the recent Williamsburg sporting goods store shooting.Among the other tasks that fill Leone%u2019s hours, the attempt to bring Baruch College into Brooklyn%u2019s Atlantic Terminal complex has current high priority. The College%u2019s recent refusal to locate in the new project was based, CUNY spokesmen say, on the great expense of building over the Long Island Railroad tracks. However, the Mayor has now committed less costly %u201chard ground%u201d for the school, opening possibilities for a reversal of the negative stand, and Leone has been meeting with city and CUNY officials and reminding the Board of Higher Education and CUNY of its prior agreement to build within the project. Leone also advises that he has been pushing a bill, now pending, to allow CUNY students to use the facilities of private institutions like Long Island University, with payment by city funds, so that both public and private education set ups can continue to exist together.Leone%u2019s effort to provide Brooklyn with a sports arena, which would be used by professional, college and high school teams is also high on the priority list. Recalling the days of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he longs to provide a similar set up for the borough%u2019s youth. A project accomplished he says, has been the obtaining of a two and a half million dollar grant for provision of an information center in each Brooklyn Public Library branch. The centers, operating for a month now, are set to answer questions about community resources and relate to individual problems as well.As to the Gowanus Canal situation, Leone was able to get $500,000. of city money appropriated for dredging of the Butler St. to President St. portion (the nonnavigable part). He has been able, he says, to steer the Gowanus movement through the city government and the Board of Estimate, through hard work and trust, attributes he doubts apply to his opponent Solarz, who %u201cseems to have never had a bill passed in the State Assembly.%u2019%u2019The question of a high school on the Gowanus, to which Leone has never spoken publicly, because %u201cI like to see such issues resolved by people in a position to resolve them,%u201d is closer to solution now he feels, because of the decision to pare the numberd down from the original 4000 pupil capacity to a mini school 1500-2000.The Borough President sees the next four years as most important in Brooklyn%u2019s redevelopment, believing that much of the work he began after replacing Abe Stark two and a half years ago will truly achieve fruition. %u201cWe are asking the peOple now to join in the fight%u2014 to get die borough what it deserves,%u201d he says with the expectation of a true believer.Richmond CaseContinued from Page 2Gerges, Democratic district leader.The suit was brought by Gregory Arroyo and Gilbert Torres, who are supporting one of Richmond%u2019s opponents in the June Democratic Primary election, Louis Rosenthal. Also challenging Richmond is Robert Wittich of Fort Greene. Richmond was appointed to the council post in January.U n io n S tS P R IN G Save 157. onC L E A N I N G ? ' T i n t T *orientals-novpItiec-Hnmoctirccused him of spending much of his time at ceremonial tasks, at ribbon cutting and plaque exchanges, Leone says that he merely sets aside one half hour each morning for these activities and adds that they relate to requests for the occasion by civic and charitable organizations. On a recent Monday morning the Borough President awarded a medal and citation to the widow of Patrolman StephenAve.; Lyn Bell, 429 Sterling Place; Sister Georgianna Glose etc., 55 N. Elliot Place; Tyrone R. Woods, 45 Halsey St.; Mildred J. Zapata, 383 Myrtle Ave.; Egbert Kirnon, 105 Lefferts Place; Francis J. Voyticky, 321 Sterling Place; Pedro J. Colon, 274 Henry St.; Laurence Lee Rosenzweig, 103 Cambridge Place; John Rivera, 117 N. Oxford Walk; Seymour W. Pustilnik, 140 Cadman Plaza West.Leslie R. Campbell, 83 Lefferts Place; Joseph Mayes, 415 Lafayette Ave.; Kevin P. Johnson, 191 Sands St.; Frank Thompson, 52 Putnam Ave.; Adele B. Hardison, 135 Washington Walk; Benny Brinson, 77 Eastern Parkway; John W. Kemp, 33 Pulaski St.; Alvin D. Reinford, 465 Franklin Ave.; William Boone, 309 Lafayette Ave.; Ligia Rivers, 333 Lafayette Ave.; Alfred Habersham-Bey, 465 Franklin Ave.; Richard Habershan-Bey, 1200 Fulton St.; Claire Pearce, 107 Sixth Ave.; Wilma E. Maynard, 47 Kingston Ave.; Edward J. King, 471 Jefferson Ave.; Phyllis E. Giles, 234 Jefferson Ave.; Robert B. Black, 947 Bedford Ave.; Christina Cuffee, 574 Washington Ave.; Jesse A. Pavis, 35 Clark St.; Julius Murray, 221 Greene Ave.; Garland Roberts, 22 Cambridge Rd.-06004,