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Page, 2, May 17, 1973, PHOENIXALUMNUS TO BECOME BASKETBALL COACH: John %u201cJack%u201d Prenderville has just been named head basketball coach at Brooklyn%u2019s St. Francis College, Athletic Director Daniel Lynch announced last week. Prenderville, who has coached varsity and jay vee basketball at St. Francis Prep for the past 10 years succeeds former teammate Lester Yellin. who resigned at the end of the season. The two were members of the Terriers%u2019 1956 NIT team. At St. Francis Prep, Prenderville%u2019s teams won the Brooklyn Catholic High School Athletic Association titles on six occasions. He and his family live in Park Slope, and Prenderville is Administrative Assistant to Congressman Hugh Carey.Jack PrendervilleNAME TOMEO TO CAMPAIGN POST: Assemblyman Vito Battista has named Heights resident Robert Tomeo as campaign coordinator in his race for the Republican nomination for City Councilman-atLarge from Brooklyn. Tomeo is former president of the St. Francis College Young Republican Club.DR. PENDLETON RETIRES: Dr. Raymond K. Pendleton, a practicing physician and for 47 years a member of the medical staff at Long Island College Hospital, has retired from practice. At the age of 72, Dr. Pendleton will leave Brooklyn Heights to return to his native home in Isleboro, Maine. A graduate of the McGill University Medical School in Montreal in 1926, Dr. Pendleton was an intern, assistant resident and resident at LICH before entering private practice. Dr. Pendleton and his wife Veronica, will live in Maine and expect to spend winters in warmer climes.Dr. Raymond PendletonGETS AWARD: Mr. Joseph Paul Quinn of Park Slope received the Dr. Lockett Memorial Award from Hon. Thomas J. Cuite majority leader of the City Council at a recent ceremony. The Award is presented yearly by the Red & Blue Club of St. Francis College to an alumnus for recognition of his work with the college%u2019s athletic program.Thomas Cuite (1) and Joseph QuinnFavorHomesThe Board of Governors of the Brooklyn Heights Association has recommended to BHA members that housing for the elderly in the northernmost block of the Heights, Block 207, be approved.The Board has asked the Association's 1200 members to vote on the recommendation. The results of the poll are expected in % about three weeks. Block 207, which is part of the Cadman Plaza Urban Renewal project, is bounded by Hicks, Poplar, Henry and Fulton Streets.I rmll AtKtk. M I m mL ! U t ? ! \\ yThe BHA Board said it has endorsed housing for the aged on Block 207 %u201cin principle%u201d provided that the final project proposal would: %u201c Provide amplerecreational space and facilities for school and community use; Enable a reasonable number of elderly in Brooklyn Heights %u2014 currently and in the future %u2014 to live in the project; Provide sufficient community facilities to enable the elderly in the Heights to participate in social, recreational, and educational programs that may be developed in the project; and Insure that the project enhances the Brooklyn Heights Historic District in terms of architecture and design.%u201d%u201c These four %u2018provisos%u2019 are essential,%u201d stated the Board, %u201cand the project will not receive continued Association support unless they are satisfactorily met.%u201d The Board told BHA members that the above conditions should not be more specific at this time in order to insure flexibility so that details can be worked out as the project, proposal developed.The Board also raised the possibility that the Block could be utilized for new or expanded facilities for P.S. f>. %u201cHowever%u201d, the Board added, %u201cwe do not know of any current specific proposals along these lines. If any develop, we would give them our fullest consideration.%u201d %u201c At the very least,%u201d said the Board, %u201cwe feel it%u2019s essential that school children benefit from the project in terms of increased recreational facilities.%u201dThe future development of Block 207 has been %u201cuncertain%u201d for nearly 12 years, the Board pointed out, when the Cadman Plaza Urban Renewal Project began. Over the years, many proposals for the block have been advanced in addition to housing for the aged %u2014 including low income housing, new or expanded school facilities, and recreational facilities.The City took title to the block six years ago with the pledge that it would be used for recreational facilities. The BHA supported that position and since then has repeatedly urged the City to honor its pledge But the possibility is considered doubtful, the Association says.There is little reason to believe that the private sector is interested in acquiring and developing the block either, said the BHA Board. %u201cAt this time, the only specific proposal for the block that we know of is the one advanced by the HDA and the Knights of Pythias, the sponsor of the project chosen by the City.%u201d%u201c If the City%u2019s proposal does not receive the necessary approvalso n rl f Vrn nrvnr,cr. r, %u00bb.. . %u2022> *L %u201e %u2022%u25a0VVVOOUi J lU IIU U lg , lilCBoard continued, %u201cit would seem there will not be an alternative proposal for Block 207 in theforeseeable future. We are anxious that the- block be used constructively so that the North Heights in particular and Brooklyn Heights ir general benefit %u201dTuesday was moving day at Cadman Plaza Towers as the firstpeople moved into the long-troubled Brooklyn Heights housingcooperative on Cadman Plaza West. First new resident in wasDelores Astili, who moved into 10 Clinton St. on May 15, and whowas greeted by Robert Dorman Chairman of the Board ofDirectors of the development. PHOENIX PHOTO by Francois DumaineTA At Work On Joralemon Noise, Vibration ProblemBY LYNNE GRIFOBrooklyn Heights residents, who have had to suffer through a year of nerve wracking noise and vibration transm itted to the foundations of their homes from the IRT Nos. 4 and 5 subway lines beneath them, have been advised that they%u2019ll have to be patient a little longer.The Ad Hoc Joralemon Street Noise and Vibration Committee has been working with the Transit Authority to find a remedy for the situation that has caused wall plaster to crack, mirrors to fall from their hangings, loud rumbling, and mental anguish at several homes on the south side of Joralemon, on parts of Henry and Hicks Sts. and on Willow PI.The problem resulted from changes made in the road bed in which the track rails are set. A gravel ballast was replaced with a concrete bed to provide for better operation, but the substitution also resulted in the tremors experienced by families living above the tracks.Herbert Kaufman, an architect who lives on Hicks St. and who heads the Committee, Said that he knows of no similar occurrences in other parts of the City. The reason for this, he explained, is %u201cthe rather unique construction of the Joralemon subwav tunnel, which isbasically a steel tube. This type oftunneling is usually used onlyunder water or wet mud. The tunnel and the particular geological conditions seem to be responsible for the vibrations,%u201d Kaufman continued.%u201cTheTA has behaved honorably, so far,%u201d Mr. Kaufman stated, despite some early problems in convincing the authority that the problem w as indeed caused by the trains and not by truck traffic in the area.Maintenance-of-way crews have tested two types of resilient mounting %u2014 a kind of pad that would be fitted in between the rail and the tie to prevent vibration transmission. Neither worked satisfactorily and so a third type is being experimented with now.Borough President Sebastian Leone has informed the President of the Brooklyn Heights Association, William.J. Carlin, that %u201cChairman William J. Ronan of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority indicates tests should be completed in about two months.%u201d The Borough President and Heights Association have become involved in the situation at the request of the Joralemon Committee.In the meantime, the Committee has urged all Heights residents affected by the vibrations to write to the Senior Executive Officer of the Transit Authority, Daniel Scanned at 370 Jay St., Bklyn., 11201 and to also send a copy to the Bklyn. Heights Association that will be filed.