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Boerum Hill Residents M eet With Judges Over ProstitutionBY LINUS GELBERComing to Boerum Hill with the winter weather, says resident Joseph Mohbai of the Boerum Hill Association, is the return in force of prostitution and solicitation along the tree-lined streets of the area.Local prostitution had abated after residents protested during the summer in front of the BethlehemLutheran Church on Third Avenue and Pacific Street. They then met with police and generally raised a huge hue and cry, but now it seems prostitution is cautiously returning to its old niche.down the street, you can see sodomy going on in doors and stoops, in cars, bv day and bv night.%u201dLast Friday, Mohbat met with Borough President Howard Golden%u201c After the very dramatic gains of and a group of clerks and judges August and September,\from the Criminal Court, the body warns, %u201cour prostitution problem is in charge of setting fines for beginning to manifest itself again, prostitutes that are arrested. HeIt%u2019s open and flagrant: just walking explains that the meeting was, in aBoerum Hill Residents ComplainAbout Factory%u2019s Noxious OdorsBY STEPHEN HABERSTROHThe recently-formed Boerum Hill Clean Air Committee is raising a stink over the Ulano Corporation at 280 Bergen St., and the %u2018nailpolish%u2019 smell they believe is being emitted into Boerum Hill%u2019s atmosphere by this film-producing factory.The Clean Air Committee%u2019s first meeting was held Tuesday night, Oct. 16 at 460 Atlantic Ave., where three dozen neighborhood residents complained of noxious and possibly hazardous fumes, signed a petition of protest, and posted letters to Congressmen, Councilmember Bob Steingut and Abe Gerges spoke sympathetically but a representative from the Ulano Corp failed to appear.The Ulano Corp., which has been at the Bergen location since 1954, was put through an inspection by the City%u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The day after the meeting, Oct. 17-prompted by complaining phone calls-and was found to be operating %u201c in compliance with the law,%u201d according to John Cunningham, EPA Deputy Director of Public Information. Councilmember, Steingut, who sees this as %u201c a very serious problem,%u201d said at the meeting that should Ulano pass the inspection, he would question the governments standards.Clean Air Committee co-chairman Michael McCann labeled this as %u201c an industrial hygiene problem that is being controlled in other situations,%u201d and proposed the installation of either an afterburner or a charcoal absorption system. Lester Bradack, Executive VicePresident for Ulano, does not believe the Clean Air Committee has a legitimate grievance. %u201c I really don%u2019t think it%u2019s that bad aproblem. When the government has new standards, we will be the first to comply. But we don%u2019t want to install something that doesn%u2019r work.%u201dThe %u2018nail-polish%u2019 or %u2018banana oil%u2019 odor is caused by the presence in th emissions and the atmosphere of non-toxic butyl acetate. The chemical toluene came under sharp criticism at the Clean Air Committee meeting for it%u2019s alleged carcinogenic effects. Bradack said toluene is odorless and added, %u201c There is no health issue, as far as the government and Ulano are concerned. I don%u2019t notice the smell, because smells are subjective.%u201d According to Bradack, the odor is most perceptible on days of %u201c atmospheric conversion%u201d when the air is stagnant. He added that a representative from Ulano would attend a future meeting of the Boerum Hill Clean Air Committee.way. a follow-up to %u2022 unilar conferences that he and other members of the Boerum Hill Association (BHA1 had attended in the past with police. Having met with one side of the justice system, the neighborhood is now turning to the other. %u201c No matter how good a job the police do, it doesn't work much good if the people they arrest are back working the streets the next afternoon,%u201d he pointed out.While no specific goals, such as sterner fines or sharper sentences for captured courtesans, were setMohbat says that he had gone into the meeting to %u201c present Boerum Hill as a trying-to-be-reborn community,\other areas like the midtown Manhattan districts where prostitution is often a problem. Just as there were no commitments asked of the judges, so there were no promises extracted, but Mohbatnoted that, %u201c The judges were very receptive,%u201d adding that at least one had volunteered that he felt it was a valuable session, and that it w'as new to him to consider prostitution in a residential-neighborhood light.The steps of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church on Pacific Street and Third Avenue, in front of which enraged residents first started their purge of the neighborhood, are now clear of solicitors, thanks in part to constant 78th Precinct patrols, but Mohbat says the neighborhood has hardly been cleansed. Many of those displaced from the Lutheran Church, he claims, have moved their trades down a block to the Church of the Redeemer, others have simply moved to other streetcorners or to one of four cathouses that Mohbat says are functioning on Pacific Street between Fourth and Flatbush.Goldin%u2019s Audit Of New Muse Shows Success And FailureN . Y . P . D .BY STEVE HABERSTROH%u201c Some of the programs were successful but others fell short of their goals,%u201d is the conclusion of a nine month audit by City Comptroller Harrison Goldin of the New Muse Community Museum. The audit was requested by the U.S. Department of Labor of methods by which federal Comprehensive Education and Training Act (CETA) funds were used subcontracted by the Museum to a dozen community organizations.Goldin%u2019s study cites as inadequate the Uhuru Sasa Home Educational Project located at 357 Sumner Ave. and the %u201c Focus 52%u201d gallery project of the New Muse. On the other hand, the Wyckoff Gardens Tenants Assoc, located in Boerum Hill and the Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council were singled out as being successful.Andy Gill, the Executive Director of the New Muse, %u201c agreed%u201d with the audit but pointed out that during the audit a hiring freeze was clamped on the organization so that programs were carried out with a 10 percent reduction in staff. Gill also claims that his institution has lot money because of the onus ofbeing audited. %u201c No one wants to pump money into a program that%u2019s under investigation,%u201d says Gill %u201c and the auditors informed all of our funding sources that we were.%u201dThe comptroller%u2019s Office found the Uhuru Sasa program %u201c to have fallen short of their goals.%u201d With a $138,000 budget it benefitted only 21 students and 16 families instead of the 80 children and families targeted. Gill disagrees saying that the auditors %u201crefused to acknowledge%u201d requests for %u201c modifications in the program's goals.%u201dTne Fort Greene Council at 966 Fulton Street %u201c was deemed successful%u201d with its budget of $112,121 for an outreach program for homebound and incapacitated seniors.Goldin criticized the City%u2019s Department of Employment for %u201c administrative weakness%u201d which contributed to shortcomings in the programs.The New Muse had a total of $1.2 million in CETA funds. In March Edward Regan%u2019s State Comptroller%u2019s Office released an audit of state grants made to the institution and said that %u201c the records were generally properly maintained.%u201dSTREET THREAT: On Oct. 16 at 4:20pm, 76th Precinct Officer George Klingberg arrested Angel McDaniels, 32, of 304 W. 151st St., after he allegedly held up a man, took money from him and threatened to beat him up on the corner of Clinton and Warren Streets. McDaniels is charged with robbdry and criminal possession of stolen property.GUN ATTACK: After he allegedly accosted a man in front of 423 Baltic St., brandished a gun at thim and tried to rob him, Ronald Lee, 18, of 423 Baltic St., was arrested at 1:10am Oct. 17 by Officer Hart of the 76th Precinct. Hart actually caught up with him at Smith and Bergen Sts. Lee is charged with robbery, criminal possession of a dangerous weapon, and resisting arrest.THREE DOORS: On Oct. 28 at 2:20am, Genero Testaverde, 26, of 457Court St., was arrested by 76th Precinct Officer Ray Dufresne. Testaverde allegedly broke into an office a 522 Court St., smashing three doors worth more than $250 along the way. He is charged with burglary, criminal possession of stolen property, and criminal mischief.18 CRIMES: A rash of burglaries in Brooklyn Heights led Police Officer Greg Fleetham, of the 84th Precinct, to arrest Tyrone Graham, aged 19, on October 16 at the suspect%u2019s apartment. Fleetham had spotted someone ducking into an alley near Hicks and Remsem in the early morning of September 28 and saw him return after 20 minutes with a T.V. set. Fleetham lost the suspect after pursuit, but identified him from police photo files. Graham is being held on $2,500 bail and is charged with 18 counts of first degree burglary, after admitting to 18 such crimes. He is also charged with possession of stolen property, about $2,000 worth of items having been found in his apartment.KNIFE AND GUN.s Burglary and attempted robbery were the charges against Frank Ramirez when he allegedly broke into a rooming house at 356 11th St. at 7:35 pm. He reportedly threatened the tenant with a knife and gun, then fled. 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