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Prospect Park Services FaceVandalism And CutbacksBY RICHARD AFFLICKAi summer's end Prospeci Park finds iis siaiues being visited by vandals and facing possible massive cuts in its Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) and its force of 20 Park Rangers.Vandals stripped the statue of Civil War hero Henry Warner Slocum, at the Grand Army Plaza, of his for large bronze medallions worth more than $25,000 reported Joe Brcsnan of the City Parks Department. Vandals also tried to pry loose a bronze ornamental wreath from the Slocum structure but did not succeed and Brcsnan ordered it removed to prevent its theft.The Mozart bust located in the Park, already covered with graffiti, was knocked off its pedestal but was soon recovered, Bresnan said and added that the bust was then put in storage. Asked if there was any way of curtailing the vandalism Brcsnan said %u201c It%u2019s up to the police to do that. It's their job.%u201dWith the rash of vandalism the park is also faced with cuts in its personnel. The 40 member YCC program, this summer, prunedtrees, cleaned the lake and streams and also weeded pathways. They also restored the park's horse trail and built walls to prevent soil erosion. Jane Edwards, director of the Magnolia Tree Earth Center, which administers the program, said that she would not know for another six months whether or not YCC would be funded. %u201c I don't know how many youngsters will participate,%u201d she said, adding that she fears that the program might be totally eliminated. %u201c Congress cut the budget allocation considerably in New York State. It will mean that statewide there will be a 55 percent cut, and cither they have to cutto totally eliminate some groups,%u201d Edwards said.The 20 Rangers who this summer strolled around the Park with their green, grey and brown uniforms helped people enjoy the park, gave nature tours and watched out for vandals. Wayne Curtis, city director of the Rangers, said that the Rangers have gotten a superb reaction from the public. However, he said that the program would get a cut of more than 50 percent. During the winter seven Rangers will continue to work in the park but it is not dear how many will return for the busier summer months.Prospect Park's bust of Mozart was toppied from its graffiti covered pedestal. It was recovered by Parks%u2019 Dept, personnel. Vandals also stole two bronze medallions from the Grand ArmyPlaza statue of Henry Warner Slocum (left), a Civil War hero. (Ochiogrosso Photos)Policy BoardVote CancelledEven though residents received notices on September 24 to go to the polls the next day to elect members to Area Policy Boards, the City Community Development Agency (CDA) on September 21 had called off the election. The CDA was %u201c left no choice,%u201d said Margaret Bald of the CDA.s press office, because the company which was to conduct the election in Brooklyn and Queens %u201c failed to deliver election machines and ballots to the polling places,%u201d in the Bronx.Area Policy Boards were to replace the corruption riddled Anti%u2014Poverty Corporations but according to Bald the CDA might not reschedule another election until December.%u201c Commissioner Roger Alvarez has initialed legal action%u201d against the Election Machine Service Co. Inc. and now the agency has to put out bids and draw up a contract with a new company which will take time,\Andrew McCarthy, also of the CDA press office, reported that all ads on radio and in the newspapers had been %u201c pulled off%u201d but at least one station, WHN, reminded its listeners all weekend to go out and vote on September 25%u2014IVSProspect ParkStudy StartedThe City Parks Department has embarked on two major studies of Prospect Park which were discussed at a Borough Parks Committee meeting at Borough Hall on September 18th.Lois Hirsch. Assistant Commissioner of the Department explained that a %u201c Use Study%u201d would be conducted by Steven Savas who just completed a similar study of Central Park. It would study how many people arc using the Park'sfacilities and services, and when and how they are used.Another study done by the Parks Department itself and headed by Joe Bresnan is to develop a %u201c Preservation Plan.%u201d Brcsnan says that it would be a plan %u201c to restore, rehabilitate and landscape\the park to make it usuable. Brcsnan noted as an example of what will be studied is that %u201c a number of bridges arc neglected and arc needed to move people around.%u201d Bv next spring both studies should be finished an have present specificproposals for the next budget year.Clinton LandmarkHearing NearsYears of painstaking study of Clinton Hill%u2019s nineteenth century buildings by its residents has now developed in a comprehensive proposal to declare the area a landmark of New York City.The City Landmarks Preservation Committee (LPC) in its proposal cites the %u201c impressive number of freestanding mansions%u201d on Clinton Avenue, %u201d as well as some of the city%u2019s first examples of Romanesque Revival rowhouses.%u201dOn October 9 at Brooklyn%u2019s Borough Hall the LPC will hold a hearing, a first since its meetings are always held in Manhattan, on the proposed Clinton Hill HistoricDistrict. Included in the proposal arc five buildings on the Pratt Institute Campus, the 1859 St. Mary%u2019s Episcopal Church at 230 Classon Avenue, and a Romanesque Revival structure that houses the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew at 520 Clinton Avenue.Several other downtown buildings for which landmark status seems long overdue arc the former First Free Congregation Church, built in 1846 at 311 Bridge Street, now part of the Polytechnic Institute, and the 1857 Friends Meeting FIousc at 110 Schcrmcrhorn Street.In Brooklyn Heights the interiorof a Packer Institute building, the former St. Ann's Church at Clinton and Livingston Streets, is also considered to become a landmark.Plans MovingOn Atlantic Anticlhc limes have changed, but the thought is still the same: and this year%u2019s Fifth Annual Atlantic Antic, scheduled for the late date of October 14, is blustering on ahead with all due speed, preparing to stuff the street between the Waterfront and Fourth Avc. withall the traditional array of vendors, games crafts and entertainment acts.In addition to the old mainstays, the Antic this year takes a symbolic bow to the newest and faddicsl of fads with a roller disco celebration, as well as catering to older homier pleasures with roving clowns and jugglers and animal rides. The Antic Coordinating Committee, led by Judy Bush, has arranged to bring down a calliope organ from the Independent Savings Bank above and beyond standard street musician fare, and will also stage blucgrass recitals.The day%u2019s festivities start at10:30am in Prospect Park with a Run For Fun 2.3 mile mini-marathon sponsored by the Joralcmon St. YMCA. Following that, the focus swings to the Antic proper at noon and its extra attraction, a Solar Energy Fair in the Brooklyn Academy of Music parking lot, running concurrently with the larger street fair. For more information on any of the Antic activities, call Judy Bush at 522-1846; to register in the marathon, call John Noonan at 788-0687 or Lcn Noviek at 768-7100. A marvelous time is guaranteed for all. LZG| f j omSjStudents of the Montessori School of Brooklyn hold signs spelling out its new name. The newly-dubbed %u201c Carroll Street School%u201d is located at 701 Carroll Street: parents, students and teachers gathered there Sept. 20 to celebrate the name change. (Hayman Photo).September 27.1979, The PHOENIX. Page 3