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Construction proceeds on Eichner house. 0 < T h io j%u00bb ro s s o P h o toLocal Properties Up for AuctionBY JEAN STERNLIGHTOn Tuesday August 21, some two hundred New York City owned commerical, residential and industrial properties will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. To join in on the bidding action go to One Police Plaza in Manhattan, behind the Municipal Building at Chambers and Centre Streets at 9:15 am. The sixty-five Brooklyn properties will not go on the block until 1:15 pm.Most of the parcels being auctioned are %u201c in rem%u201d properties which have fallen into City hands because of tax defaults. Approximately thirteen of the properties are located in Brooklyn brownstone areas.Among the Brooklyn properties to be auctioned are four located in Park Slbpe. One of these is the now vacant commercial triangular building at Flatbush Avenue, andBergen Street. The cash requirement on this property is $3,600 and the minimum upset price is $18,000.Also in Park Slope is the commercial property known as 516-18 Bergen Street. A two story brick building on a lot measuring 60 x 131 feet off 6th Avenue, at a minimum upset price of $12,000.Right next door is another Park Slope commercial property at 520 Bergen Street. A two story brick garage in a 30 x 131 foot lot at an upset price of $12,000.Also in Park Slope, a small lot on the Northwest corner of Jack son Place and Prospect Avenue is being auctioned. The minimum cash requirement on this 40 x 74 foot lot is $130, at-an upset price of $650.Three properties are going to be sold in Fort Greene, among them, a one story building at 226 GrandAvenue, on the south side of Greene Avenue, and Grand Avenue, and the upset price is set at $700.For $100 a small Fort Greene property on the east side of Adelphi Street, 49 feet north of Fulton Street, is up for auction.For $1000 on the north side of DcKalb Avenue, 132 feet west of Myrtle Avenue, another Fort Greene property will be auctioned.In Cobble Hill, a one story brick building at 172 Sackett Street will be sold located at the corner of Hicks andSackett Streets, for a minimum upset price of $1,500.A Boerum Hill property on the north side of Warren Street, 50 feet cast of 3rd Avenue, will also be auctioned for a $100.Four Prospect Heights properties are being auctioned off as well.Goya Mall Construction Held UpWaiting for Federal Funds to Clearout for 30 years at five percent interest. Genet, of New Jersey%u2019s Zolmar Realtors, applied for the loans several months ago after spending two fruitless years trying to finance the $7 million mall, which will house a 45,000 square foot Pathmark supermarket, eight satellite stores and a 405-car parking lot, from the private sector.The UDAG money was approved by the government last month, but it will now still take quite a load of preparation before it sifts down to the mall site in the abandoned Goya canning plant at 12th Street and Hamilton Avenue. %u201c The application has been approved in substance and concept,%u201d explained Linda Einhorn from the City Office of Economic Development. \it%u2019s a matter of making sure we dot all the i%u2019s and cross all the t%u2019s.%u201dShe said that Genet now had to produce %u201clegally binding documents%u201d for all the other pieces of his financing, each making an %u201cirrevocable%u201d committment to the project. %u201c Everything has to be in place,%u201d she asserted. %u201c The feds are very serious about theirs being the last piece to go into place.%u201d Finally, the whole thing will have to undergo a last-minute Environmental Review, as well as one or two wrapping-up approvals.While Genet had originally hoped to begin construction as early as September, that no longer seems a viable possibility. %u201cThere%u2019s a lot of work yet to be done before this moves forward,%u201d admitted Einhorn. %u201c I%u2019d hate to an pxart date when the monev would be ready, but I%u2019d say in the best of all possible worlds, if nothing goes wrong, it will be at least two or two-and-a-half months.%u201dBY LINUS GELBERAlthough the finances are all in place to start off construction on the long-scheduled Goya Mall, it will be several months before developer Gerald Genet is cleared to start up the project because offederal loans that have yet to become available for construction.The delay stems from a $1.2 million federal Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which will be loanedThe Goya plant site on Hamilton Avenue. OoehiofjrosMi I%u2019hiilnHistoric Block HostsNew Modern Facadeo : vo i a o l u i yBY ELIZABETH ALVAREZThere is nothing ordinary about the house being constructed at 222 Columbia Heights, which required three proposals to the Landmark's Commission before it was approved and when completed will contain a solarium, heated swimming pool, exercise room and wine cellar and cost the owner, Bruce Eichncr close to $700,000.The most difficult consideration in designing the irregularly shaped structure of slanting skylights, double heighted rooms and front bay window, according to the architect Alfred E. DcVido, was \which would fit with the urban context of the landmark block.%u201d Now that three of the eventual six levels are visible, DeVido claims that even the staunchest critics nowR e cy clin g Site MovesThe recycling center of the Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) will be moving from its present location on the Pratt Campus to a now vacant lot across the street from Adelphi Hospital at 50 Greene Avenue. Vicki Davis, a member of the PACC recycling committee announced that a lease has now been signed with the Hospital to allow PACC to set up its recycling center and a small vegetable garden in the lot.Davis reports that PACC received a SNAP award of over $600 from the Citizens Committee of New York to pay for fencing and other necessary construction. She hopes that the Sanitation Department will aid in cleaning out the weed filled lot. Since the old site was cramped for space, Davis feels that the recycling center may be able to expand in its new location. The center now recycles aluminum, tin and glass, and may soon begin recycling newspapers as well.%u2014J.S.D i ailrlinryU U I I U I I 1 0praise the building as %u201c handsome\Margaret Tuft, chief historian of the Landmarks Commission, upon completing a recent inspection tour of the building stated that %u201c it's coming along very well%u201d and was particularly pleased with the \of the stone, which blends well with the other houses.%u201dDespite the modern features, the custom manufactured square chocolate bricks, with matching mortar and lintel details provide some turn of the century influence. The three exposed sides of the building is in itself unique since most of the row houses have only two sides exposed and relatively little thought was given to the backs of the buildings. Running along this additional side of the structure, a solarium will utilize the southern exposure.The layout of the building includes the basement which will eventually house a heated swimming pool, sauna, exercise room, laundry and wine cellar, the level above contains the garage, and a three bedroom garden co-op, and the floor above will have a 3 bedroom co-op and a studio apartment. Eichncr plans to reside in the top three levels of the structure, which have not yet been constructed, but will be accessible by elevator and two staircases.Among the unusual features of the building are the double story spaces of the solarium, dining room, living room and study where the two window levels will consist of 18 feet of glass.According to Eichner, a lawyer and developer of several properties in Brooklyn Heights, including the Hotel Margaret at 97 Columbia Heights, along with 52, 54 and 56 Willow Street, properties. Hotel Montague at 103 Montague Street, the Franklin Arms Hotel on Orange Street and the Brooklyn%u2019s Women Club at 114 Pierrepont Street, the exterior masonry and roofing will be completed by September 30, and the expected date for occupancy is January 1st.N.Y.P.D.CHAIN ATTACK: For allegedly beating a 19-year-old woman with a chain, Carlos Rivera, 19, of 308 Sutter Ave. was arrested at 1:30 pm July 23 by Officer Waverly Thompson of the 78th Precinct. Rivera is charged with assault and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon.DOOR SMASH: After he allegedly broke open the front door of his building at 34 St. Marks Ave., 28-year-old Yves Baptiste was arrested at 4 am July 25 by 78th Precinct Officer Herman Ramirez. Baptiste is accused of shouting at bewildered neighbors who gathered round that they should mind their own business, or else he would shoot them; the neighbors subsequently fled in fear. He is charged with burglary, criminal mischief, grand larceny and menacing.SHOOTING: At 10:56 pm Aug. 3, Edwin Almodovar, 28, of 438 Pacific St., was shot once in the lower back in a first floor hallway at 48 Fourth Ave. His assailant, Jose Sanchez, 36, of 48 Fourth Ave., was arrested by Detective Richard Moore of the 78th Precinct shortly afterwards, and charged with attcmDtcd murder; in Sanchez%u2019s apartment, Moore turned up a shotgun. Almodovar was treated in Long Island College Hospital for gunshot wounds, and is in acceptable condition.FORCED SWALLOWING: On thecomplaint of 29-year-old woman, Detective Richard Moore of the ,78th Precinct arrested Angel Vega, 42, of 391 Van Brunt St., after he allegedly forced her at gunpoint to swallow 4 tablets, each containing 30 milligrams of Solamine. The woman was treated at Methodist Hospital; Vega is charged with assault and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon.POSSESSIONS: Officer Joseph Spagnuollo of the 78th Precinct arrested Sherry Smith, 31, of 1149 Putnam Ave. at 2:15 am July 22 at Bergen St. and Fourth Ave. Smith was carrying at the time of her arrest a gravity knife and a plastic bottle containing methadone, two white pills, a foil of alleged barbituates and a quantity of Valium pills. She is charged with criminal possession of a dangerous weapon and criminal possession of a controlled substance.STICK THREAT: Officer Joseph Spagnuollo of the 78th Precinct arrested Jose Flores, 20, of 506 Warren St. on the complaint of a 22-year-old man on July 23 at 12:10 am. Flores is accused of attacking the man with a stick, injuring his right arm; when approached by Officer Spagnuollo, he also threatened him with the stick. Flores is charged with assault, criminal possession of a dangerous instrument and menacing.A ug.16, 1979, The PHOENIX. Page 3