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Purse Strings CutOn Shopping StripsThe Directors Of LocalDevelopment Corporations ReactTo Lost Funds, Page 3Fort Greene HelpsTo Make A MovieSome 66 Extras Appeared In AFilm About Hope And Goals,Find Out Why, Page 5After Election,Slope Pols PartyCBtt) Honors State SenatorMontgomery And Others A tAnnual Dinner, Page 35Rain Didn%u2019t HarmProspect Of TourTProspect Park A dm inistrator Tupper Thom aswith her m egaphone shows o ff the features of\(Phoenix/Koch Photo)Fans Of LHmsted Country- WideConverged On Prospect ParkLast Week To See Its Creator%u2019sHandiwork Decades Later,I Page 3Old Watches New In Brooklyn HeightsT he Victorian peak of theBrooklyn Historical Societystill pokes into view behindthe steel girders going up forthe new Pierrepont O fficeBuilding. But soon this viewfrom Cadm an Plaza West thatstill includes the tops of St.A n n %u2019s School and the landm ark M anufacturer%u2019s HanoverBuilding will be gone. AlanAppel, construction m anagerfor Forest C ity PierrepontAssociates, developers forthe project, says the newbuilding%u2019s skeleton, all 19stories of it, will be finishedby spring and then workersw ill begin to sheath the structure with brick, lim estone andglass.(Phoenix/K irk Photo)Election Day In The Life Of A Candidate:Green Gets Brooklyn Go-AheadBY ROB TAYLORWork began early on November 4 at Ft. Greene Assemblymember Roger Green%u2019s campaign office on S. Portland Ave. when Diane Porter arrived at 5:30am on this election day to make sure all the polls had volunteers passing out leaflets showing where Green%u2019s name appeared on the ballot.%u201c All you have to do is tell the voters that Roger is a Liberal candidate this year and they should cast their ballots on D-9,%u201d Porter said repeatedly over the telephone and to the stream of volunteers that poured in and out of the campaign headquarters throughout the day.Coming from all over the city, they had been summoned to help Green buck the traditional Democratic voting patterns in the 57th Assembly District and re-elect him to a new term on the Liberal Party%u2019s line. They were part of a massive education effort designed to make sure Green%u2019s constituents were able to locate his name on the lowerright corner of the ballot. With 36,731 Democrats and only 445 Liberals registered in the Ft.Greene/Clinton Hill/Gowanus/Boerum Hill/Prospect Heights district, the odds seemed against his effort.That%u2019s why election day was a major test ofG re e n %u2019 s rM-onniTafirm p lfv tin n H av e ffo rts n f acandidate often mean the difference between a winning and losing campaign, but this day they were crucial to Green%u2019s chances. And as is it wasn%u2019t already a tough enough job his volunteers faced, itContinued on Page 6Ft. Greene Assem blym em ber Roger Green talking to avoter heading to the polls on. a rainy election day. Greenspent m ost of the day touring ^polling sites making surehis operation ran smoothly. (Phoenix/Taylor Photo)For Other Election ReportsAnd Results, See Pages 7, 35