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The Hometown Newspapero f Downtown Brooklyn%u2019sHistoric Brownstone Neighborhoods395 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn 11217Telephone (718) 643-1400Serving Brownstone Brooklyn since 1972Member of New York PressAssociationWinner of More than 60 Awards Since 1972 For Outstanding Reporting and CoverageBest in the State of New York for General Excellence and Coverage of Business and Economic Issues%u2014 N. Y. Slate Press AssociationHonored for Outstanding Reporting on the Courts and Legal Issues, 1983, 1985%u2014N.Y. State Bar AssociationC hairm an of the BoardD.B. A rm strongEditor & PublisherM ich ael A. A rm strongA ssistant EditorTracy G arrityFeature EditorDavid L.L. LasklnR eportersLiz K ochElizabeth FosterM ary Jo N eubergerUp & C om ingJared C loudC ontribu ting EditorsD ennis H o ltA rthur K roeberRob TaylorPhotographyKathryn KirkG eneral M anagerG eorge FialaA dvertising M anagerBinni IpcarAdvertisingSydney S ue S elonickC lassified A dvertisingLydia BurleyArt D irectorM ike M olanphyProduction M anagerRon G abrielArt, TypographyAram Baum anPaul H allasyLynw ood Saw yerRussell C opneyThe Phoenix (L'.SPS 044650) is published weekly by theSfrif Press. Inc.. Michael A. 4rmctmno Pr*cirt*ntSecond Class Postage Paid at Brooklyn. Sew York 11201.Annual subscription by mail in Brooklyn $12.50.Elsewhere $15. Single copy price at office and newsstands35 cents. Copyright 1986 Serif Press. Inc. Postmaster:Send changes o f address to Phoenix, 395 Atlantic Ave.,Brooklyn. Sew York 11217.\\\\fAY BACK WHEJyJThis hearty group m arked th e holiday season in 1976 at th e H oyt Street G arden atA tlantic Ave. and H oyt. (Phoenix Photo)Fourteen Years AgoDecember 14,1972The Community Planning Committee forLong Island, College Hospital, Cobble Hillresidents agreed to compromise and accepted the hospital%u2019s proposal that the CPCsend two representatives, without vote, tomonitor meetings of the Associate Board ofLICH, and of various LICH committees.State Assemblyman-elect Mike Pesceshared his views with the Phoenix in thewake of his turbulent, often-controversialreform campaign to win the State Assemblyin South Brooklyn.The Park Slope Preservation Councildiscussed future plans to oppose theMethodist Hospital%u2019s expansion plans.Five out of six staff teachers at the ParkSlope Adult Education Center resigned inprotest over the center%u2019s new director,Jaime Zapate, who had begun to institutepolicy changes that allegedly threatened theteachers%u2019 autonomy. The teachers saidZapata%u2019s performance was %u201cdivisive andincompetent.%u201dTen Years AgoDecember 9,1976The New York Public Interest KesearcnGroup released details of its study of themortgage lending practices of seven majorBrooklyn-based savings banks which showed that local savings banks not only gavehad given an unreasonably low number ofmortgages to applicants in 1975, but thatmoney deposited into city-based banks bycity residents went out of the city and evenout of the state for investment.Several surplus City-owned propertiesauctioned, including a three-story brickbuilding at 96 Myrtle Ave. (upset price$5,000), one at 207 Columbia St. at the corner of Sackett ($5,000), and one at 43Underhill Ave. ($500).Planning Board Six voted 15-0 to deny theSheepshead Bay Aware, Inc.%u2019s petition tolocate at 298-300 Flatbush Ave. to open aFamily Youth Center, a drug-free facilityfor troubled adolescents.Five Years AgoDecember 10,1981A New York Supreme Court Judge waspreparing to make a decision on a civil suitthat charged Brooklyn%u2019s Congressman FredRichmond with taking %u201cexcessive and unnecessary%u201d payments as a retired pensionerfrom the corporation he started.Police and city marshals were called inby the landlord to help break an 11-monthrent strike by 14 families in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The tenants, who were striking because the landlord refused to provideheat, hot water and elevator service, werethreatened with arrest and only avoidedmass eviction by signing an agreement tovacate the building by February 28.One Year AgoDecember 12,1985Eight schools in District 15, eleven inDistrict 13, and two local high schools wererated %u201cin need of improvement%u201d with 400other schools city-wide.Updated plans for the Willink Entrance toProspect Pk. and new designs for the ThirdStreet Playground were introduced at theBorough President%u2019s Parks Advisory boardmeeting as the next projects in the multimillion dollar restoration of Prospect Park.Retail and business people on FlatbushAvenue celebrated the launching of a newpromotional and service operation for theirstreet as many on Atlantic Avenue expressed strong misgivings about the samekind of activity for their street at a meetingof the Atlantic Avenue Committee.BROOKLYN F A C T gTouch Someone In AustraliaTired of being charged for directoryassistance? You can look up phone numbersall over the world in the 1,500 phone directories at Brooklyn%u2019s Business Library. Hielibrary, at 280 Cadman Plaza West inBrooklyn Heights, also subscribes to over1,800 business periodicals.Of Brooklynites Surveyed, Most Liked A %u2018Raw Deal%u2019CVS Video at 316 Court Street says itseight copies of %u201cIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,%u201d which was released in videolast month, are always rented. VideoGallery at 300 Seventh Avenue in ParkSlope reports that %u201cRaw Deal%u201d with ArnoldSchwarzenegger is so popular they%u2019ve hadto order more copies. Kim Basinger is thebig draw in Brooklyn Heights. Boro Photoof 146 Montague Street says that, although ithas been in videotape for more than amonth, %u201cNine and a Half Weeks%u201d is still itsmost popular rental.Pardon Our Chauvanism,But Brooklyn%u2019s A BestsellerIn addition to the national bestseller list,The Community Bookstore of Cobble Hill'(212 Court Street) and the CommunityBookstore of Park Slope (143 SeventhAvenue) report strong sales of %u201cWhenBrooklyn was the World%u201d by Elliot Willensky, a native of Brooklyn Heights. A historyof the borough between 1920 and 1957 with agenerous sprinkling of photographs, %u201cWhenBrooklyn ...%u201d was published by HarmonyPress in June, but according to shopownersis still selling at a rate of almost 15 copiesper week, (about $18.%).The Weekend On IceOver 1,600 Brooklynites took to the ice onthe opening weekend at the Kate Wollmanskating rink in Prospect Park. The rinkopened its season at 10am on Nov. 22 for 22hours of weekend skating.p HOENIX INDE\\ [Group Meets To Find A Way To HALT TrafficPlayers Offer A Gallery O f Authors To SeeParents Go Back To School To See How The Kids Do Sports____________________________ __________________________Page 10 Page 10N.Y.P.D._________________________ Page 10Names Make News _____ Page 12Church News______________________Page 14Community Calendar_______ Page 28'u u is s y ic u A _______ r u g c 4 yCommunity Forum._________________ Page 34Editorial__________________________Page 34D ecem ber 11, 1986, TH E P H O E N IX , Page 3