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Page Two, PHOENIXmmmmmw,BECOMES FAMILY COURT JUDGE %u2014 Mrs. Sybil Hart Kooper of Brooklyn Heights became Judge Kooper last week when Mayor John Lindsay named her to an interim appointment on the Family Court. She succeeds Justice Wise Polier, with a term running until 1975. Judge Kooper, who lives on Pierrepont St., has practiced law with her husband, Stanley, in Brooklyn for the past 15 years, specializing in matrimonial and family law. She is a graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute.NAMED PRESIDENT - Frank Verderame of South Brooklyn has been elected the first president of the newly formed Federation of Brooklyn Police Precinct Community Councils. Verderame, a former State Assemblyman, is president of the local 76th Precinct Community Council. George Marchaino of Fort Greene, who is president of the 88th Precinct Council, was named recording secretary of the new group, which will work to apply common solutions to boroughwide problems.Adam s WingC. Mauray Adams, a Cobble Hill resident and former president of the Cobble Hill Association, has been elected president of the Associate Board of Regents of the Long Island College Hospital.Three Brooklyn Heights residents were also elected to posts on the Associate Board: Patrick Owen Burns, executive vice president; Mrs. William P. Morrison, vice president; and Mrs. Eugene A. Lindemann, vice president, secretary and treasurer.NAMED TO LICH STAFF %u2014 Dr. George L. Wing of Brooklyn Heights, a child psychiatrist and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Downstate Medical School, has been appointed to the staff of the Children%u2019s Center for Developmental Disorders at Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Wing is a graduate of Harvard College and the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his training at the Downstate Medical Center and is a former attending psychiatrist at Kings County Hospital.TO INSTALL MINISTER - F. Allen Wells, Jr. will be installed as Associate Minister of the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn at ceremonies set for 4 p.m, Feb. 18, at the Church on Pierrepont St. and Monroe PI. A reception will follow in the Pierrepont St. Chapel.SHOW IN MANHATTAN %u2014 A one man print show by Boerum Hill resident Andrew B. Gardner runs through March 3 at the new Terrain Gallery, 489 Broom St. in Manhattan. Titled %u201cWar and Pieces,%u201d the exhibition reflects the artist%u2019s reaction to war, which he calls %u201cthe single most cataclysmic event that has happened to mankind as a whole in modern times.%u201dRed Hook Port OKedConstruction;Questions on LeaseBY LYNNE GRIFOIn May of 1972 a design for a new containership port facility in Red Hook was proposed by the NYC Economic Development Administration; last Thursday, nine months later, it was approved by the Board of Estimate.Now, the wrangle over terms of a lease between the City and the Port Authority is all that stands between this approval and the construction of the 230-acre facility that has been estimated will provide 3,000 new jobs on the South Brooklyn waterfront.While the public hearing on the lease terms is set for March 8 before the Board of Estimate, at Jeast one public official, State Senator Carol Bellamy, has spoken out to demand that the terms of the lease will be made public now, well before the hearing.In a letter to Mayor Lindsay after the hearing, she urged the immediate release of the proposed lease arrangements, saying %u201cIt is difficult to believe that the City would responsibly consider moving forward with the project until the lease arrangements have been made fully public. We must have clear indication that the Port Authority is in fact willing to carry out the intent of the lease.%u201d She expressed concern particularly about development of a relocation plan, a detailed traffic study, and the environmental impact of the project.The history of the Containerport location for South Brooklyn that preceded the affirmative vote by the Board of Estimate last week is the story of the declining usage of the Brooklyn pier system. The local piers were designed as breakbulk piers that could largely handle only non-containerized freight and as the shipping industry switched to the faster method of carrying freight in containers that could be loaded and unloaded much more simply, activity at the piers slacked off. Containerization had long been opposed by the ILA, the union of %u25a0 the longshoremen, because it reduced the number of men required to unload a ship. But as the plan for Red Hook reached its final stages the ILA faced the inevitability of containerization and declare its support.The site first chosen for the port facility was a 45-acre tract of land around Columbia St., north of the Atlantic Basin, but after strong opposition rose from the surrounding community the EDA began looking elsewhere for additional space. Asa result, 14-acres of the port will be in the Columbia St. area and the rest of the 230-acre called for in the amended EDA plan will be out at Red Hook. The port will service the ships that are part of the cargo transport system around the world that carry containers, and also the conventional break-bulk type.In Dec. a revised plan was approved by the City Planning Commission that provided for the inclusion of Coffey and Dykeman Sts. These streets were originally struck from the plan after the community voiced its opposition to the loss of the residential blocks but later their reinstatement wasaffrPoH tin n n tn a llo w f o r an in %u00adternal truck route to reduce pollution and traffic strain. There will be a single exit-entrance to the facility and a six-acre park at Ferry Point is to be built to provide for access to the waterfront that area residents have long desired. The housing units to be torn down number 225 but over 200 new units nf nnhliclv assist pH h%u2122,t!>n%u00a3 will bedeveloped. In the earlier plan 450 units of existing housing would have been lost. EDA forecasts the creation of 3,000 new jobs while some 4,000 existing jobs will be preserved.The above version is the one passed by the Board and the one that the So. Brooklyn Development Council supported at the hearing. SBDC, however added four additional conditions that should be met: first, that provision be made for the relocation of all tenants and businesses displaced by the plan; secondly, that the City reinstate the %u201cMain Street%u201d program that was promised earlier when Columbia St. was being considered as the project site; thirdly, that a new traffic study be conducted for the amended plan and that the City take into consideration a proposal for a rail link between Williamsburg and Queens through Red Hook %u2014 to alleviate part of the heavy truck traffic; and finally, that a comprehensive study of rezoning be made with the objective of preserving residential enclaves, as promised earlier.Ira Levine has stated that he personally does not support any port development plan for Red Hook. He believes that it would mean %u201ctoo much industry in an area without enough back-up space and a loss of jobs in the long run.%u201dThere are three piers along Furman St. that have been closed and eventually the one at Red Hook will follow along a similar path, Mr. Levine feels. %u201cThe resolution passed at the hearing calls for a 50-year lease with a 25-year option. The Authority has up to 1985 to develop. Twelve years %u2014 it%u2019s incredible. The Red Hook people believed they had a chance, at least until they saw Anthony Scotto, ILA president, hobnobbing with the City officials on the dais. The people poured their hearts out but it took only five minutes for the Board to reach its decision. Councilman Cuite was across the hall but he didn%u2019t even come in. Boro President Leone did not show up either. The people are now left without recourse.%u201dSpeaking, at the Board of Estimate for the Committee to Save Red Hook, Bernard Carlsen stated that his group was not opposing the development of the port but rather the site that has been selected. The alternative site Carlsen has long supported is located on the outer edge of the area in the Grain Terminal area. Building there would require no relocation of families or businesses, would prevent traffic congestion and lower development costs, Carlsen explained. After the hearing Mrs. Carlsen stated %u201cWe lost, but not without a fight. The deal was complete before we got there and its only the beginning of a land-grabbing operation that won%u2019t stop until many more acres are taken.%u201dAssemblyman Pesce declared his support for the amended EDA plan before the Board. The legislator feels that %u201cit is a viable plan and it will provide for the development of a port that has a. v .w X w Mm :*Neighbors MayGet Together YetIn Cobble Hill%u00a3 BY CORRINE COLEMAN%u00a3 Informal talks during the %u00a3 last week seem to indicate a %u00a3 coming together of the two %u00a3 C om m unity Planning %u00a3 Committee factions who %u00a3 have been disputing over %u00a3 height limitations for the %u00a3 projected Long Island %u00a3 College Hospital buildings %u00a3 over the Brooklyn-Queens %u00a3 Expressway.%u00a3 Latest events appear to %u00a3 underscore the sentiment %u00a3 previously revealed by Paul %u00a3 Sayegh, one of the CPC %u00a3 m em bers o rig in a lly | demanding the 50-foot %u00a3 height restriction rather %u00a3 than the 12-story limitation | during last week%u2019s hot and %u00a3 heavy CPC meeting. As %u00a3 Sayegh said, the winning | vote for the typical Cobble | Hill Brownstone height, was %u00a3 meant to be a negotiating %u00a3 point rather than an | ultimatum to the hospital. | A meeting last Thursdayi$ was held at thp City Plan.%u00a3 ning Commission with Chairman Don Elliot and his %u00a3 successor, Don Zucotti, and | was attended by two CPC | re p re se n ta tive s, two %u00a3 members of the LICH Board %u00a3 of Regents, two members of :%u00a5 the hospital%u2019s architecturalfirm of Ferrenz anc^Taylor, %u00a3 plus Rick Rosan, Director of %u00a3 the Office of Downtown $: Brooklyn Planning, Mike %u00a3 Gold of the Landmarks %u00a3 Commission and City %u00a3 Council Majority Leader, %u00a3 Thomas Cuite. It ended in %u00a3 agreement that the %u00a3 preliminary planning thus %u00a3 far set up for the hospital %u00a3 highway buildings, could be %u00a3 the \the minds.%u201d %u00a3The Ferrenz and Taylor %u00a3 firm promised, at the %u00a3 Planning Commission %u00a3 Meeting, to produce working %u00a3 drawings and a cost %u00a3 estimate, by week's end. In %u00a3 addition, the hospital %u00a3 regents suggested that %u00a3 LICH would agree to sell %u00a3 their Cobble Hill Brown- %u00a3 stone holdings if the Ex- %u00a3 pressway plan went %u00a3 through, %u00a3A later meeting of the %u00a3 Executive Board of the LICH %u00a3 regents, to which CPC %u00a3lAaHorC A lla n R n n o D~U v.------------- ^ wN/hs ;.vSowers were invited, ended %u00a3 in the hospital%u2019s agreement %u00a3 to have their architects go %u00a3 ahead with the drawings %u00a3 and cost estimate. Mario %u00a3 Cuomo, at that meeting as a %u00a3 member of the LICH law %u00a3