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Board Two Meets OnL!RR Station, LandmarksThe New Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park on Brooklyn's waterfront was dedicated at festivi* t%u00abes last week. Participating were (left to right) State Parks and Recreation Commissioner Orin Lehman. Mayor Koch, and Claire Beckhardt. State Department of Parks and Recreation for N.Y.C. Region. (Occhiogrosso Photo)LIU Professors Start StrikeAsking %u2018Parity%u2019 In ContractsBY IRENE VAN SLYKEAfter a summer recess, during which Community Board Two hired a new district manager, the Board reconvened to catch up on how the summer job program had functioned, to hear a plea by community members to save the Long Island Railroad Terminal and hear that Clinton Hill might become the latest addition to the city%u2019s landmarked neighborhoods.After years of work by Clinton Hill residents with the city%u2019s Landmarks Preservation Commission, Howard Zimmerman Chairman of the Board%u2019s Landmarks Committee, reported that the Commission has scheduled October 9th as its hearing date. In a departure from its usual Manhattan based hearings this one will be held at Brooklyn%u2019s Borough Hall.Several buildings on the Pratt Institute%u2019s campus are also on the agenda as proposed historic landmarks in addition to the interior of St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights and one of the buildings owned by Polytechnic Institute at 312 Bridge Street in downtown Brooklyn.Since the full Board will not meet before the October 9th hearing date it voted to support the subcommittee and Executive Committees%u2019 findings.Board Two's summer youth program employed 250 youth and Board members agreed with its Youth Corps Director that the program had been well run becauseThe City Health Systems Agency has released a %u201c Draft Report on Acute Care Hospitals in New York City%u201d recommending that Woodhull Hospital in Williamsburg be opened by 1980 and that Cumberland in Fort Greene and Greenpoint Hospitals be closed. The Draft Report supports an earlier recommendation by the Mayor%u2019s Health Policy Task Force.Mary Lou Jones of the Health Systems Agency explained that it was a %u201c draft report%u201d which still had to be reviewed by a %u201cTask Force%u201d make up of %u201c HSA Board members and health related organizations and agencies.%u201dThen public hearings will be held in October in each of the five boroughs, Jones said, after which a final report would be released by November 1.At a meeting of chairpersons of Community Boards One (Greenpoint), and Two (Brooklyn Heights,of frequent checks on work sites by federal and city officials as well as the Board%u2019s Director. The only complaint was that the city had sent 65 youngsters from the Brownsville area to Board Two and several Board members felt that possibly young people from its own areas might have neded jobs but could not be accomodated.During the open session members from the Coalition to Save the Long Island Railroad Terminal asked the Board to reconsider their approval for demolition of the building because of its historic and aesthetic value and because plans for adjoining sites had been changed. The matter was referred to a committee after Assemblyman Harvey Strelzin said that he still favored the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plan to demolish the building and to build a new Terminal.Grantley Chrichlow, BoardTwo's chairman announced two changes to the Board%u2019s membership. Ann Faulkner resigned as a member while the Board gained a new one in Patricia Sloane of the Bridge Plaza Community.The city%u2019s Department of Real Estate would like to auction off four city properties and Board Two voted to take them off the auction lists for further study. They are two vacant lots at 460 Washington Avenue and on the corner of South Elliot Place and Atlantic Avenue and two buildings at 401 Adclphi Street and 5 St. Felix Street.Fort Greent), Three (Bedford Stuyvesant) and Four (Bushwick) a resolution was passed to demand that the City Council investigate %u201c the deteriorating level of health care being provided at Cumberland, Greenpoint and Kings County Hospitals.%u201dThe Chairmen also demanded that Woodhull be opened by 1980, although the Chairman of Board Two abstained from that vote, and that the Health and Hospitals Corporation wait with their implementation of the Mayor%u2019s recommendationThe Chairmen also demanded that Woodhull be opened by 1980, although the Chairman of Board Two abstained from that vote, and that the Health and Hospitals Corporation wait with their implementaion of the recommendations of the Mayor%u2019s Health Policy Task Force until the November 1 HSA final report.--I.V.S.BY LINDS GELBERThe largest branch of Long Island University, located in Downtown Brooklyn at DeKalb and Flatbush Aves., opened on Monday without classes for its 7000 students, as scores of the college%u2019s faculty stood outside the building and picketed.Classes, say University spokesmen, were conducted normally, except that no instruction went on in them. %u201c All the classes scheduled for today met, but none were taught,%u201d explained Jim Duchine, Director of Public Relations for Long Island University (LIU). He said that administrative assistants were sent to cover the classes andBY LIBBY HAYMANBecause two major tenants are moving out, a downtown Brooklyn office building, 345 Adams Street has fallen on some hard times, and its managers, Helmsley Spear Inc., have advertised that the building is for sale. The agent handling the building, Alvin Schwartz, says that Helmsley Spear %u201c would rather rent%u201d the floors of the building which are vacant, but that the building is also up for sale in case occupancy cannot be obtained. %u201c I%u2019ve had a few calls for the space,%u201d Schwartz said, %u201c but nothing has worked out yet.%u201dVacancies in the building are%u201c explain\happening.The issue at hand, contends George Small, President of the LIU Faculty Federated Union, is a simple one. %u201c We want parity with other LIU campuses,%u201d he stated. %u201c Present policies degrade the Brooklyn Center, render a disservice to the students, and are also hurting us in our pockctbooks.%u201d Charging that teachers in LIU%u2019s other facilities at C.W. Post and Southampton Colleges in Long Island are better paid and have %u201c better conditions,%u201d Small said that the strike would keep going until LIU is willing to sign a contract giving equal terms for all.largely the result of the liquidation of Consolidated Mutual Insurance Companies, which held three floors of the 13 story builing. The liquidation was announced in June, after a long period of financial difficulties and an unsuccessful attempt by the State Department of Insurance to rehabilitate the company.The other tenant leaving the building is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, which moved its Office for Catholic Education to Bay Ridge in July and will soon move its Marriage Tribunal from the building to offices in Queens. Frank DeRosa, a spokesman for the DioceseContract talks broke oft on September 12, with the union local voting the next evening in favor of pickciting.Both sides are scheduled to be reunited over the bargaining desk on September 19, although neither was willing to discuss the outlook for compromise. %u201c When we sit down around a table then we%u2019ll have a pretty good view of when this will be settled, soon or in a longer time,%u201d Duchine said.%u201c We can only hope for the best,%u201d Small commented, although he quickly reaffirmed intentions to %u201c continue with this until we%u2019re guaranteed parity.%u201dexplained that the Diocese is putting as many offices as it can into vacant space owned by the Diocese, in order to avoid paying rents.Schwartz says that space in the building rents for $9-10 per square foot and that other tenants are not leaving. The difficulty in renting the space results, he comments, from the fact tha tthe rental units are very large, up to as much as an entire 25,000 square foot floor of the building. Other tenants of the building include the Borough Office of the Board of Elections. Officials at the Board said that they were no plans to move the offices %u201c that we know of.%u201dBoard Eight Hears MTA SafetyFears And Plans Firehouse RallyReport Urges WoodhullHospital Open By 1980Downtown Office Building Up For SaleAfter Major Tenants Move OutBY VIRGINIA CAREYIssues of health and safety along with a slated fire demonstration were discussed at the Community Board Eight meeting on September 13. Concern expressed over the potential safety hazards of the erection of the M.T.A. sub-station along Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue. The Board, who had opposed the construction of the station upgrading the IRT #2 line, will do a follow-up of the requirements which they believed had been promised. A fence surrounding the area will be their first prerogative.Housing Chairperson, Cybil Hoimes, reponeu inai tuc Interim Lease Program (1LP) continues to be a success and thanked the Board for their support. Hie ILP is a city funded program that promotes the maintenance of abandoned buildings by tenants with the eventualconversion to private corporations under Article 11 of the State Housing Code.A demonstration to have service returned to engine company 234 will take place on Saturday, September 29. This is the second effort on the part of the Crown Heights%u2019 residents concerning the city%u2019s decision to move the station six blocks away from its 1472 Bergen Street location. The first demonstration took place on October 21, 1978 in which two local elected officials were arrested on charges of criminal trespassing.At the closing of the meeting, Ruth Goring, Board Chairperson, urged belli Bv'%u00bbrds j1 *bf %u00b0nd Minn to join together and make plans encouraging the safety at the Eastern Parkway, West Indian Day Parade that is held on Labor Day each year.Judge Elections Result In RegularSlate Victories And Traded LawsuitsBY IRENE VAN SLYKEThe September 11th Democratic Primary to nominate six candidates for Civil Court Judges produced a solid victory for the slate of the Regular Brooklyn Democratic organization. The aftermath of the primary, however, has led to law suits and possible counter lawsuits between the organization and reform factions of the party.Jack Carroll, one of the attorneys for ihr Kings Countv Democratic Coalition (KCDC) explained that the regulars had gone to State Supreme Court to restrain KCDC from using (heir logo. Carroll said that it was. true that %u201c people associated with KCDC%u201d had distributed cards with a daisy motif, used by the regulars, in the 39th Assembly District, regular County leader Meade Esposito%u2019s home district. However, Carroll, added, %u201c it was done more or less as a prank%u201d and had no effect on the election. %u201c It was not meant to confuse the voters,%u201d he said. Repeated phone calls to the lawyer for the Democratic County Committee of the County of Kings were nmot returned.In turn, KCDC is meeting to decide if it is going to court to overturn the primary results, Carroll said, since the returns for regular Gabtiel Krausman and reformer Eleazar Goldstein, wereless than 150 votes apart. Carroll feels that the Courts might have to overturn the entire primary and order a new one for all twelve candidates, %u201c based on irregularities%u201d in the voting. He did not want to elaborate what kind of irregularities had been uncovered.Preliminary results by the Board of Elections showed Lorraine Stein Miller with 31,533 votes; Jerome Cohen, 30,547; Herbert Kramer, 28,972; Gloria Aronin, 28,853; Eleazar Goldstein, 25,617; Leona Freedman, 23,679; Renee Roth, 23, 538; Bernard Klieger, 20,612; Stanley Glantz, 17,885, and Irving Saduc, 12,116.September 20,1979, The PHOENIX, Page 5