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Rally %u2018Round The Church, Boys:St. Ann%u2019s Patrons Look To RaiseFunds To Keep The Church GoingSt. Ann%u2019s and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights (Occhiogrosso Photo)Police Prepare for NewPrecinct Line ChangesBY LIBBY HAYMANWhen the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights was opened in 1847, the Brooklyn Eagle commented on the %u201c tolerably large open ground%u2019%u2019 which gave an unhindered view of the Gothic building. Now Holy Trinity, which has become St. Ann%u2019s and The Holy Trinity, is hemmed in by Montague and Clinton Streets and an IRT subway exit nestles beside. But inside, the view opens up again, where pointed arches soar and stained glass glows.When the Church was built, its %u201c benefactor,%u201d Edgar John Bartow, had planned to build it as a gift, but his finances took a tumble and the church%u2019s governing body found itself raising $30,000 to avoid foreclosure. Now the fundraising for the building is going on again, as a campaign is launched to rescue the building and the glass, both threatened by age, pollution, vandalism, and inexorable trembling of the subway underneath.On October 16, the campaign to save St. Ann%u2019s and The Holy Trinity will begin with events which will alert several communities to the Church%u2019s needs. One of the communities is, of course, the Heights, where the public will be welcomed for guided tours of the building from 5 to 7 p.m. and for a concert by the Brooklyn Heights Symphony at 8 p.m. to benefit the Church renovation fund.The same evening, a community of foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals will be hosted by Brooklyn Union Gas, at the Brooklyn Club, and they will hear from Brendan Gill, a New Yorker Magazine editor, who is chairing the campaign. The building%u2019s situation may be serious, but those trying to save it are a cheerful andTRAFFICKING POT: David Ross 25, of 414 Columbia Street, was arrested on Sept. 12 at 9:40am by Officer Mike Fischer of the 76th Precinct for carrying a quantity of alleged marijuana. Ross is charged with criminal possession of marijuana, as well as a group of traffic violations including expired registration and inadequate muffler protection.KNIFE THREAT: For allegedly stealing a woman%u2019s food stamp booklets and then threatening to cut her with a knife when she asked for them back, Robert Bryant, 39, of 453 Columbia Street was arrested on Sept. 12 at 2:50pm. Bryant was nabbed at Court and 9th Sts. by Officer Dooly of the Transit Police, who charged him with criminal possession of a dangerous weapon, criminal possession of stolen property, and menancing. The food stamp books were recovered.CELLAR ENTERING: Officer Walter McDonald of the 68th Precinct arrested Richard Bowden, 16, of 416 Columbia St., inside 76th Precinct territory in front of 514 Court St. on Sept. 12 at 6am after surprising him trying to break into a store there by climbing in from the cellar. Bowden is charged with burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and possession ot burglar%u2019s tools.DOUBLE POT BUST: Two men, caught holding eight ounces of alleged marijuana by 76th Precinctconfident group.The decision to save the Holy Trinity building has been made gradually over the last two years, since a Park Slope resident, Gail Guillet, became concerned about the building when she was working nearby at the Long Island Historical Society. She was soon joined in her concern by Evelyn Ortner, a noted historic preservationist and the two convinced the church%u2019s rector, the Rev. Franklin E. Vilas, Jr., that the task was an important one. Guillet, now the City Landmarks Preservation Commission, is still involved with the campaign, while the New York Landmarks Conservancy, a group which has been instrumental in saving the Custom House and other Manhattan buildings has come to Brooklyn for the fight. Coordinating the fundraising events is Frances Hauser, a member of the parish who also volunteers her time for Landmarks Conservancy efforts.The building is a designated historic landmark, by the way, because it is in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.Brooklynites who have repaired leaky roofs, rotting wood, and ruined detail in their brownstones are hardly surprised to learn that a treaured building is decaying. But the building of St. Ann%u2019s and The Holy Trinity has a turbulent history which may explain, not why it is crumbling, but why such a massive effort is needed to rally people round it.The Church functioned as the Episcopal parish of Holy Trinity from the time it was bailed out in the 1850%u2019s until a hundred years later. Then, when a young clergyman, Willian Howard Melish, came to Brooklyn to succeed his father, John Howard Melish, as rector ofOfficer Norbert Wernicke, were arrested at 10:10 and 10:15pm on Sept. 11. Wernicke nabbed Winslow Simmons, 19, of 81 Winthrop St., and Gary Marcial, 19, of 591 Ocean Ave, and charged both with criminal possession of marijuana.FOOD THEFT: Detective William Keenan of the 76th Precinct arrested a 15-year-old juvenile on Sept. 11 at 3:30pm for a robbery that the boy allegedly committed at 9:15pm on Sept. 3. On that date, the youth is accused of attacking a man on 1st St. between Court St. and Hamilton Ave., hitting him on the back of the head with his fist and pushing him to the street, then stealing $9.39 worth of food from him. The juvenile is charged with robbery and petty larceny.OUT-OF-STATE: On Sept. 10 at 2am, Roland Dancy of 1132A Persiline Boulevard in Reading, Pennsylvania, was arrested in front of 198 Bond Street for allegedly stabbing a man in the left side of his chest with a kitchen knife. He is charged with assault and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon.PAPER BOY ROBBED: Louis Aviles, 18, of 266 17th St., and Hector Gonzales, 18, of 291 20th St., were arrested on two counts of robbery and harrassment of a paper boy. Anti-crime officers Barbtert, Gaynor, and Macrt ot the 72nd Precinct arrested the youths on Sept. 21 after the victims had threatened and robbed the paper boy on two previous occasions.the church, a storm blew up. The Church had developed a program of community service under Melish, Senior, and now an already %u201c liberal%u201d parish was to be taken over by someone who was chairman of the National Council of American Soviet Friendship.The time was the McCarthy era, and the fear of communism seems to have been the key factor in a decision by the Episcopal Diocese to shut the Church. The congregation dispersed to other churches, then, when another church, St. Ann%u2019s Church at Clinton and Livingston was sold to Packer Institute in 1969, the St. Ann%u2019s congregation under Canon Melville Harcourt came to Holy Trinity, and worship and community service developed there again.The campaign to save St. Ann%u2019s and The Holy Trinity is a drive to save a historic building so that it can continue to be a home for music, theater, forums, and other community needs. Public funding may join the private funding in the effort.Meanwhile, the Episcopal Diocese is developing the parish as the home of an urban ministry. The rector, is a specialist in community mental health and priest, Canon Henry Hucles, who spent thirty years at a church in Bedfored Stuyvesant now carries on a Brooklyn-wide ministry from a Holy Trinity office at 122 Pierrepont Street.Everyone involved with the building campaign, including William Howard Melish, who lives in Boerum Hill, and who is helping the effort emphasizes that the two development are separate. In fact, the service of St. Ann%u2019s and The Holy Trinity to the Heights and to Brooklyn will be enhanced by both.City PicksDevelopersThe City%u2019s Housing and Preservation Department (HPD) announced that developers Wids dela Cour and David Hirsch of Poplar Street Associates have been chosen by HPD for Block 207 in the North of Brooklyn Heights.In May eight developers had presented plans for the 1.28 acre lot bounded by Henry, Poplar and Hicks Streets. Both HPD and the Block 207 Ad Hoc Community Committee %u201c worked closely together,%u201d Martha Gershun of HPD explained, to make sure that %u201c both the community and HPD%u201d would be happy with %u201c whatever plan%u201d was accepted.Right now parts of the lot is overgrown with weeds and several abandoned buildings stand boarded up. The plan requires that the seven existing structures be renovated and a garage and public playground be built. Two landscape architects, Sonja Locke and Donna Walcavage, have also been approved to do the area%u2019s landscaping.The Poplar Street Associates%u2019 proposal, according to Gershun, will be presented to the Landmarks Preservation Commission and then following the lengthy Uniform Land Use Review Procedure it will go to the Community Board, Planning%u201c construction can start before the next winter season,%u201d Gershun said.%u2014I.V.S.BY IRENE VAN SLYKEOn October 29 the Police Department will realign its precinct lines in Brooklyn to conform to local Community Board boundaries. The realignment is the first step of redrawing boundaries of all city agencies service districts such as Sanitation, Parks & Recreation and Health districts by January 1980, to implement the voter-approved City Charter of 1975.Borough President Howard Golden, however, has asked the Police Department, before implementing the switch, to supply information on what level of manpower each precinct will function. %u201c We have not as yet reviewed it and none of the Community Boards or the Borough Board have,%u201d said Harvey Schultz, Executive Assistant to Golden. %u201c We do not presume there are issues but we made a commitment not to implement until the Borough Board has seen the data,%u201d he continued.With the information to be received from the Police Department by October 8 and a Borough Board meeting scheduled before the October 29 deadline Schultz said that it was still possible to start the precinct line changes on that date.The Police Department reported that it is ready for the change. %u201cThe biggest technical problem was to reprogram the SPRINT system of 911,%u201d Sergeant Breslin, Chief of Patrol said, explaining that the SPRINT system automatically prints out the precinct of any street address in the city. The Department also has to change the individual radio frequencies of each precinct.Breslin did acknowledge that manpower allocations are still a matter of discussion. %u201cThe reallocation of manpower has not been determined yet,%u201d he said.Community Board Two, which includes Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill. Boerum Hill and the central Downtown shopping district will be divided bedifferent precincts now.Community Board Six (Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, Red Hook and the Waterfront), now part of three precincts, will be divided between the 76th and 78t'n precincts.Community Board Seven (Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park) will be served by the 72nd Precinct.Community Board Eight, which lies between Atlantic Avenue and Eastern Parkway and stretches from Flatbush to Ralph Avenues will be wholly within the 77th precinct.Community Board Nine, South of Eastern Parkway between Prospect Park and Utica Avenue, will remain within the 77th precinct.Sewage Plant Costs OverrunBY LINUS GELBERThe controversial sewage plant under construction in the Fort Greene Navy Yard was once again in the public spotlight on Sept. 13, when the Board of Estimate approved an extra $1 million for excavations, currently in progress, for the foundations of the plant. This brings the total costs for the diggings in the Navy Yard up to nearly $35 million.The extra million was pulled out of the hat following a temporary shutdown of the work in the Yard last year, when the blasting of granite pilings to make way for new construction shook adjacent houses in Vinegar Hill and showered th adjoining neighborhood with small chips of shatterer rock. In the long run, what was at first a liability to the surrounding area became a liability to taxpayers all around, adding to the tab of the construction work.According to the resolution passed by the Board of Estimate, the delay was imposed while engineers toured Vinegar Hill checking the soundness of nearby buildings. %u201c This together with other delays, affected the contractor%u2019s scheduled construction activities and resulted in a reduced laiv- ui piwgiv/oo anu uiCiCaSCu costs due to extended overhead idle equipment, insurance costs and other related expenses,%u201d reads the item.N . Y . P . 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