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B-51 Stays AliveContinued from Page ltoo,%u201d the councilmember said.Borough President Howard Golden, another strong booster of the route, hailed the TA%u2019s decision to back the bus. %u201cBrooklyn needs a new means of transportation to meet the demands of a work force that is expected to grow by 20,000 jobs in the next six years,%u201d he said. %u201cThe 2,000 commuters who now ride the bus daily proved to the TA that not only is there a need but there is a market to support the service.%u201dNext on the agenda for the bus route is a public hearing tentatively scheduled for early 1987 before the MTA Board, which will then vote on making the bus permanent.The trans-borough bus began its original trial run in September 1985, becoming the only above ground transportation connecting Downtown Brooklyn with City Hall in Manhattan. It quickly attracted enthusiastic support from elderly and handicapped riders who were unable or fearful of riding on the subways, but ridership levels were low. A requirement set by the NYC Transit Authority conditioned the continuation of the bus uponits ability to recover 70 percent of the daily cost of operating the route.%u201cThe route has been showing an increase, slowly but steadily,%u201d says Termaine Garden from the Transit Authority, but not yet up to that 70 percent standard. The Transit Authority is therefore recommending to the M t a some changes in the operation of the route, proposing that the bus run every 12-15 minutes during rush hour instead of every 10 minutes and every 30 minutes during offpeak hours instead of every 20 minutes.%u201cWe are anticipating a ten percent drop in ridership due to the changes, but the cost of operating the bus will be much less,%u201d Garden explains. Currently, the TA estimates that 2,000 people ride the bus daily. The changes would reduce the cost of operating the bus by nearly $1,000 down from $1,400.Last May the bus was nearly cancelled after its trial run had already been extended twice and the route was showing no indication of a booming ridership. At that time residents demonstrated in front of the TA%u2019s office in Brooklyn and finally met with TA chairman Robert Kiley to make their case. He finally gave the bus a six month extension.Read All About It: Covering The Mets SeriesContinued from Page 36Dave Anderson and Geroge Vecsey never failing to point out the little ironies, such as Nolan Ryan%u2019s stellar but losing perfonnance against the Mets in the Championship series occurring 17 years to the day after his stellar winning performance for the Mets in the 1969 Championship series. Dave Anderson headlined his opening column before the playoffs began with the prescient %u201cA Vote for Mets and Red Sox.%u201dGeorge Vecsey waxed eloquent in the Times on World Series eve as in this excerpt: %u201cYours truly, if he is ever tempted to wander out to a midweek football workout in, November or December, solemnly promises instead to open his scorebook and re-examine Fred Brocklander%u2019s call at first base in Game 5 in New York, or Hernandez playing jai-alai on the rock-hard Astrodome infield, scooping up the pelota with his cesta and holding the Astro%u2019s below double figures in Game 6, until Lenny Dykstra could think of something.%u201d EXPLAINED NY CURSEAs the series began with the Mets losing the first two and then coming back to win the third in Fenway in surprisingly dull games, Joe Gergen took the opportunity to explain to us in his column exactly why Boston has the NY curse, tracing things back to Harry Frazee, the theatrical producer who purchased the Red Sox in 1916, won the World Series in 1918 with Babe Ruth starring, and then proceeded to sell Ruth and a host of other stars to the Yankees in order to raise cash.He resurrected a great quote from one of the sold pitchers, Ernie Shore: %u201c\talk about a Yankee dynasty, I say it was really a Red Sox dynasty in a Yankee uniform.%u201d The column was illustrated with a picture of Ruth and a copy of an original letter from Frazee to Ruth promising a bonus in the 1918 season if the team won the World Series, which of course was the very last year that they did.In the meantime, the Post and the News were busy letting us know how Ron Darling%u2019s wife got mugged in Boston, and how Met fans were upset about not getting tickets to games (the true fans %u2014 and the News tried to win our sympathy and publicity by splashing their front page with their donation of a pair of tickets to one diehard who complained to them in a letter).MASTERFUL TURNS OF WORDSKudos do go to the New%u2019s Phil Pepe, their beat reporter for the Series and his excellent coverage/analysis of the game. Among his masterful turns of the language, commenting on Game 3 %u2014 %u201cThe lefthander (Ojeda) changed speeds like an Indy 500 driver, keeping the Red Sox%u2019 batters off balance, driving them batty with his sleight of hand.%u201dAmong Newsday%u2019s graphic innovations was their daily publication of a real, usableDanny Dickerson (31:06 time) and MonicaScarborough (39:53) were winners in the recent seventh annual Bedford StuyvesantRestoration Corporation 10K Run. (BrownPhoto)D o u b le Y o u r C lo s e t S p a c e A tCLOSET WORLDWith Closet Maid Shelving &El fa Basket SystemsClosets %u2022 KitchensBathroomsFREE DESIGN &CONSULTATION SERVICE67 Clark Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.330-0465scorecard, complete with player numbers and statistics, and I noticed more than a few fans keeping score on them on my visit to the Stadium for Game Six. It was cheaper than the $5 scorebook on sale there.Coverage after the decisive game was, of course, generous, with the News devoting the most space, 22 pages, including four covers (they wrapped eight pages, including a poster around their regular paper), but Newsday made up for it the next day, publishing a special 24-page section, sans ads,' overviewing the entire season in retrospective. Once again, their production department outdid itself, using good, crisp, well printed photos, both color and black and white, and a design worthy of any upscale magazine, or Mets yearbook.All the papers drew on the resources of their news department as well as sports in covering the Series, with the Times%u2019 Fox Butterfield viewing Boston%u2019s suffering from his outpost there, The News using 11 staff reporters, including recent Post recruit Joanne Wasserman, plus Jimmy Breslin, with stories in all the papers appearing front, back and center. Things included college celebrations, Russian correspondents, the Shea parking lot and the Jersey Giants football game, which had to be interrupted as the spectators burst into a huge cheer as the Mets clinched.All in all, a baseball fan%u2019s dream with four local papers covering the local team in its moment of glory. 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