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Talks For Martin%u2019s Sale ContinueNegotiations are proceeding well for the sale of the Martins Department Store building on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn to Rentar Development Corporation which will develop the site for Alexander%u2019s Department Stores. Times Square Stores, the present owners of Martin%u2019s, closed the downtown Brooklyn store in May, while keeping other Martin%u2019s stores in the suburbs open.Felice Bassin, spokesperson for Rentar Development, the concern which is also developing the Albee Square Mall, only a block away from the Martin%u2019s site, said that %u201c We have an option on the property.%u201d Rentar will raze the present building and create a new store of %u201c approximately 200,000 square feet%u2019%u2019 for Alexander%u2019s. Bassin could not give more information at this time since decisions have not been reached concerning the costs of the site and financing of its development.Robin Farkas, Senior Vice President of Alexander%u2019s, who is representing the store in the negotiations said that \strong, viable place%u201d for an Alexander%u2019s, but he emphasized that %u201c nothing is settled%u201d , and said that a complicated project like this one would take some time. The only Alexander's in Brooklyn at this time is at the Kings Plaza shopping center at the southern end of the borough, and Farkas said that he felt that a downtown Alexander%u2019s would %u201ccomplement%u201d the other store.Hardy Adasko, Brooklyn Coordinator for the NYC Office of Economic Development (OED) said that OED is %u201c still involved%u201d with the negotiations over the site but that the department %u201chas not been asked for anything specific.%u201dStaffmembers of OED and the Borough President%u2019s Office are predicting that the%u2019developer will probably seek tax abatements through ihe Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board, an arm of OED. as well as funding through an%u00bbt 1---- n %u2014 ~ ____ a __r ' UlUdll L#tvuupim,m uium(UDAG), a federal program channeled through OED. The Albee Square Mall is presently financed in part through a UDAG loan.Rentar will be developing the site of the main building as well as the fur storage building across the street from Martin%u2019s on Duffield Street, although the use of the extra site is not yet clear. %u201cThat%u2019s one of the things still being negotiated,%u201d Bassin said. Other small parts of the Martin%u2019s store were leased, and were not involved in the original sale of Martin%u2019s to TSS or in the present negotiations.Goya MallGrant Is ApprovedWord is in on a request by New Jersey%u2019s Zolmar Realtors developers for long-term, low-interest federal loans to help finance the construction of a shopping mall complex at 12th St. and Hamilton Ave. The $1.2 million Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG) application has been approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.The mall, which will put a 45,000 square foot Pathmark supermarket, eight satellite stores and a 405 car parking lot into and around an abandoned Goya foods canning plant on the site, has been in the works for two years during which time it has been the subject of frequent and heady community debate. Most outspoken among its opponents recently, has been Park Slope%u2019s Fifth Avenue Committee, which claims that the mall will draw clientele from linear shopping streets throughout the area, like Fifth and Seventh Avenues.Goya Mall developer Gerald Genet said that, although no final schedule had been set, he hoped construction work could begin as soon as this September. %u2014LZGN.Y.P.D.OWN BLOCK BURGLARS:Kelly Silda (23) and Juan Rosario (26) of 548 11th Street were arrested and charged with first degree burglary, criminal mischief, and possession of stolen property for allegedly breaking into a house on their block on July 15th at 4pm and removing various power tools and other items such as a silver tray. The arrest was made by Officer DeRosa of the 72nd Precinct. The investigation was preformed by Detective Muldoon, also of the 72nd. The police believe that these men are also responsible for 6 or 7 other burglaries on the same block.WINDOW SHOTS: On July 5 at 9:55 pm, Officer Joseph Valentine of the 76th Precinct arrested Nassar Ahmed, 23, of 182 Hoyt St., for allegedly firing wild shots from a .45 calibre Colt automatic pistol out of his third floor window on July 4 at 6 pm. Ahmed is charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon.MALL ATTACK: DetectiveThomas Nerny of the 76th Precinct arrested Baron Byrd, 19, of 40 Center Mall, on July 8 at 3:10 pm for allegedly attacking a man at 1 am that morning on Ninth and vaiuii ois. /ai mat nine, Byrd is accused of knocking him to the ground and then kicking and punching him repeatedly, fracturing the man%u2019s nose, injuring his lefteye, and emptying his pockets. Byrd is charged with robbery andciS S tlllltKNIFE THREAT: Albert Harris, 29, of 1353 Hancock Place, was arrested at 5:30 pm July 8, for allegedly pulling a knife on a man in the Carroll St. subway station and swinging it at him. He was arrested by Officer Blades of the Transit Police, and is charged with criminal possession of a dangerous weapon and menacing.CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: The Narcotics Squad arrested Heriberto Lender, 25, of 36 Fourth St., on July 9 at 1:50 pm for selling a controlled substance to an undercover policeman at Lorraine and Richard Sts. Police records did not reflect what sort of illicit material it was that changed hands; Lender is charged with sale of a controlled substance.BARBITURATE ARREST: For possession of alleged barbiturates, Peter Gonzales, 31, of 276 Dean St., was arrsted at 5:15 pm July 9 in front of 175 Hoyt St. The collar was made by Officer Kammerdener of the Housing Police.ARMED ROBBERY: Officer James Carlin of the 76th Precinct arrested John Powers, 27, of 238 Bond St. at 10:45 pm July 10 foro 11 r%u00bb r%u00bb o H1 W r n h h in o a man with a O '\revolver in front of 235 Hoyt St. Powers is charged with robbery and criminal possession of a dangerous weapon.Fifth Avenue Committee Mentber Sarah Cromer (fifth from left) just after cutting theribbon opening Warren Svtreet%u2019sjiew mini-park.Fifth Avenue Residents Open New Warren Street Mini-Park ProjectForty residents from the northern end of Fifth Avenue in Park Slope came out last Saturday to hail the opening of a new mini-park in the area, located off Warren St. off the Avenue.The park is an interim-site project, constructed on land owned by the city%u2019s department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) with federal money from the Community Development budget. Despite its governmental origins, members of the surrounding community and the two sponsoring organizations, the Fifth Avenue Committee and the St. Marks Place Block Association, are responsible for any future maintenance or progtams needed there.According to Pat Conway of the Fifth Avenue Committee, some slight construction delays have stalled the installation of several fences along the sides of the park and separating garden areas from play areas, but John Sullivan, a member of HPD present at thepark%u2019s opening, estimated that the fencing would soon be forthcoming.There are 14 garden plots included in the design of the park, as well as open playing space and, among other features, a full volleyball court with a net. Conway said that eleven of the garden plots have already been %u201c promised,%u201d but the remaining three are still up for grabs. %u201c As soon as we can get the fences up. I%u2019m sure people will want them,%u201d she said.Board Officials Say John Jay Principal Not Up For TenureBY LINUS GELBERShades of difference sometimes make all the difference, and so it was two weeks ago with Robert Weinberger, the principal of Park Slope%u2019s John Jay High School. Several local and citywide student advocacy groups had been gearing up over the past several months to oppose what they thought was Weinberger%u2019s imminent tenure, to be discussed on July 12. As it turned out, however, Weinberger is not up for tenure at all, and will not be until sometime next year.Although initial reports last week from the Central City Board of Education (BOE) indicated that Chancellor Frank Macchiorolla had been presented with a recommendation for Weinberger%u2019s tenure at the school, Bob Terte from the BOE%u2019s Press Office explained rather that Weinberger had simply been %u201c routinely approved%u201d for the continuation of his probationary three-year stay at the school, after which tenure will be considered.While local groups, most notably the Community Committee on Children Out of School (CCCOS) and the Park Slope Together John Jay Task Force, have been dealing with Weinberger for more than three years, Terte explained that several months of that time had been spent in an %u201c interim\pacity.The current tenure system, according to Terte, does not allow an interim principal to take a licensing test to become official until five months and one day after he has entered his school. Sometime subsequent to that, he receives a license ana oegins ms tenure probationary period. Although the exact dale was not immediately available, Terte saidthat Weinberger officially became principal of John Jay in 1977, and will so be considered for tenure sometime next year.Weinberger has been faulted by the John Jay Task Force and the CCCOS for his treatment of several of John Jay%u2019s chronic problems, including an overstretching of the school day and the fourth largest truancy rate in New York City. Last year, nearly 40 percent of John Jay%u2019s 4500 students were absentConstruction resumed last week after a four week stoppage on the Fulton Mall in downtown Brooklyn. The Contractor, A.J. Pegno, returned to work after stopping on June 21 on account of a demonstration concerning minority hiring. Though agreement had been reached on the hiring issue, continued disagreement with the city about engineering questions prolonged the stoppage.When work resumed, no agreement with the city had been signed dealing with a $4 million lawsuit which Pegno had filed against the city. Spokesmen for the NYC Office of Economic Development and for the Fulton Mall Improvement Association (FM1A) said that Pegno was continuing to work under his contract with the city to build the $8.4 million Mall, whether further agreements would be reached or not.Michael Strasser, Manager of the bM lA , an organization supported through special assessments on the properlies along Fulton, said that work is now being done tofrom school on any given day. Additionally, the school is populated by 50 percent more than the 3000 students it was designed to hold, which forces the academic day to be run in two separate shifts. This causes some students to arrive in the building as early as 7:45 am, and keeping others in until 4:45 in the afternoon, nearly two hours after most schools recess.Weinberger has not responded to these charges.shore up the walls, then the ceilings, of the vaults extending under the street from the basements of some stores.Under the 1972 building codes, Strasser said, the vaults must support 600 pounds per square foot, as opposed to the 300 pounds per square foot which earlier codes required. Work will be done on %u201call or nearly all of the vaults%u201d Strasser reported. The decision on which vaults would be worked on nas been one of the subjects of negotiation between Pegno and the city.Mark Clemente, spokesperson for the Department of Highways, which holds the contract with Pegno, said that Pegno had assured the department that he would have his full work force on the job this week. Clemente could not say whether the Department had ordered Pegno back to work, but said that engineers in the department saiu tiiat dungs seem to have straightened out,%u201d in getting the job done.%u2014L.H.Fulton Mall Work Starts Again After SettlementJuly 26.1979, The PHOENIX, Page 3