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RING THE BELLROGERGREENSTATE ASSEMBLYA Fighting Program forASSEMBLYMAN ROGER L GREENRoger Green has consistently fought against gentrification, apartment warehousing, and discrimination inhousing.Roger Green is the author of the Supplemental TuitionAssistance Program (STAP), which provides $47 millionfor our college students.Roger Green is the sponsor and author of legislationcreating the first affirmative action program forwomen-owned businesses.Roger Green has been an organizer and strong advocate of the statewide coalition to fight infantmortality.Roger Green successfully led the effort to secure anew campus for Medgar Evers College.Roger Green secured half a million dollars for servicesto homeless Vietnam veterans.Roger Green has been a strong and clear voiceagainst the inhuman practice of apartheid. He was theprime sponsor of legislation to withdraw New York Statemoney from corporations doing business with SouthAfrica.A vision for progress shared by Roger GreenAs an earlier generation of young men andwomen marched from Selma to Montgomery tosecure the right to vote, this generation mustunderstand that it is our responsibility to continuethe struggle for social and economic justice in aworld of peace.Ferry Proposals Voided As CityOpens Fulton Ferry Site To AnyoneBY ROB TAYLORAfter issuing two different invitations inthe past year for bidders to vie to become theexclusive operator of a ferry service betweenFulton Ferry, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, theCity now says that it is prepared to considerpermits for anyone who wants to provide theservice.On Oct. 23, the City%u2019s Department ofTransportation announced a new policystatement that outlined procedures for operation of all private ferry services in the City ofNew York. It turns around a previous approach that had the City franchising soleoperators on specific runs to one where itsimply will issue permits for docking spaceand times and set standards for operation,safety and vessels.The change means that each of the fiveoperators who wrote proposals for a shuttleconnecting Fulton Ferry Landing with lowerManhattan could conceivably run their ownservice, says Marcia Reiss of the City%u2019sDepartment of Ports, International Tradeand Commerce (PITC).Since a six-week successful trial of a FultonFerry Landing shuttle between Brooklyn andthe South Street Seaport ended more than ayear ago, five competing proposals for thepermanent operation of a single service havebeen waiting an official decision by the City,with a final choice postponed over and oversince April. The proposals were submittedby: the Citizens1 Committee for UrbanFishing; Dirksen Tallyrand, Inc.; a ventureof the owners of the River Cafe; Floatingthrough America, Inc.; Skyline ManagementCommuting and Sightseeing in partnershipwith David Walentas%u2019 Two Trees Management; and Friends of Fulton Ferry Landingin partnership with the South Street SeaportMuseum, Seaport Line and the ProspectPark Environmental Center.Reiss says that PITC will be creating timeslots for the operation of a ferry shuttle fromBrooklyn. The department will assign thetimes, 20 minute intervals, to any firm thatobtains the DOT permit, she says. The ferrywill then be able to shuttle passengers to Pier11 just below Wall Street in Manhattan.A part of the reason the City never got toannounce its choice from among the fivewould-be Fulton Ferry operators, says Reiss,was that Pier 11 is already rented for twomore years and all the space had been sublet.The City had to wait until the space wasavailable for other ferry services. %u201cWe have300 feet now reserved on one side of Pier 11for the ferry service,%u201d she said. The ferryservices will be able to operate year-round.The original request for proposals on theFulton Ferry Service offered a five-yearlease and a renewal option when the termsneeded to be renegotiated. According toReiss, these terms were written when the CiA part of the reason the Citynever got to announce itschoice from among the fivewould-be Fulton Ferryoperators, was that Pier 11 isalready rented for two moreyears and all the space hadbeen sublet.ty assumed there would be little interest inoperating a ferry service. Five years ago, theCity tried to start a Brooklyn service, but theonly interested operator was not able to getthe financial backing.%u201cThere is all of a sudden a substantialgroup of operators who want to offer ferryservice,%u201d explained Reiss, so the City decided it had to simplify the application procedures.City fees for the service will be determinedas a percentage of the capacity of the boatand the fare charged. The percentage willdecrease if the company provides morelandings. DOT will be offering two permits, atemporary permit that will be issued for up toone year and a long-term permit that is subject to Board of Estimate approval.The long-term permits will only be offeredafter an operator has successfully finishedshort-term service under the temporary permit. Permits will be issued to companies orindividuals who successfully meet criteriaestablished by DOT. Safety, passengervolume, quality of service and financialsoundness are some of the criteria that willbe evaluated by DOT.Would-Be Ferry Operators Comment On PlanThe City Transportation Department%u2019s announcement of new city-wide guidelines forferry service operation was expected bysome of the companies vying for the contractto operate the service between Fulton FerryLanding and lower Manhattan and the newswas a relief to others.%u201cI though it made sense from the City%u2019spoint of view,%u201d says Sandy Wiener, presidentof Seaport Lines, the firm that operated thetrial runs last year. %u201cThey made a mistakeby offering the Fulton Ferry service to oneoperator. Of course I would have liked tohave had a monopoly on it myself, but this isreally a better decision.%u201dWiener says that his company will %u201cabsolutely%u201d apply to DOT for an operating permit to run a service from Fulton Ferry toManhattan. However, his company had beenmost concerned with the operation of a service that linked with the South StreetSeaport. Wiener says that his company willre-examine the situation before it goes toPITC for landing time slots.Seaport Lines has submitted a final proposal together with three non-profit organizations: Friends of Fulton Ferry Landing,South Street Seaport Museum and the Prospect Park Environmental Center. Accordingto John Muir, director of the Prospect ParkCenter, the news was welcome because thedecision included provisions for therehabilitation of the old Fireboat house atFulton Ferry Landing. Muir, along with theFriends of Fulton Ferry, had joined theSeaport Lines venture in order to make surethe Fireboat house was rehabilitated andavailable for some of the Prospect Park Environmental Center%u2019s youth education programs in the area. Muir says that the environmental center will no longer be participating in a ferry operation. %u201cI never imagined we would be in the business of runninga ferry service in the first place,%u201d he says,%u201cso I don%u2019t believe we will be continuing withSeaport Lines any longer.%u201dDavid Walentas, the president of TwoTrees Management and developer of theFulton Ferry Landing waterfront property,was among the five who were seeking the exclusive service, but his staff says he has nocomment about the news. %u2014 R.T.%u2605 Vote Tuesday,N ovem ber 4 ,1 9 8 6 %u2605V o t e f o rROGER GREEN%u2014- i i k %u00ab M i B %u00ab a . . i i . A rv Wl a %u25a0 I IV b l t # b l %u25a0 VII %u25a0 | IV WROGER L OREENPAESC8 5 South Portland Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217, (718) 7 9 7 -5 3 7 2LEVOLORBLINDS50%OFF^ ^ i y i f i f i s i n i k r a f tIn Park Slope145 7th Ave.Bklyn. NY 11215636-1550IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN CARS %u2022 VANS %u2022 STATION WAGONSo / u r r uASEi l l /O W IT H THIS AD65 Smith Street(corner of State Street)718-596-2393 718-852-8686JOE SAYRES FRANK Ml LG ROMPage 4, TH E P H O E N IX , O cto ber 30, 1986