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Ground1 4 c t n t n R E r ' c , ; _ \\ C B M BreakingJ E j J k H | , 4 S I ^ V BROOKLYN PUBLIC t \\ B W%u2022 Florist Turns a Developer /%%u2022 Church Transformed to Homes%u2022 Coalition Makes Housing PuslrSpecial Section Starts Page 15p e r io d ic a lBROOKLYN P g r a n d a r m vBROOKLYN.ROOML. I & ft A ftEnvironmental Concerns Next forAction in Atlantic Terminal ReviewAnti-Sliver ZoningProgress for HeightsBut Developer is OptimisticHe Will be Able to FinishHis Building, Page ThreeBY ARTHUR KROEBERThe $230-million Atlantic Terminal project has taken two more short steps to completion in recent weeks, with the completion o f an environmental impact statement that will form the basis of the project%u2019s public review process, and the announcement that a Federal grant program crucial to the project%u2019s financing will continue to be available this year.The draft environmental impact statement, issued for public comment in the middle of April, concluded a nine-month process that began in July 1985 with an airing o f public concerns about the mixeduse development, which residents o f Ft. Greene, Prospect Heights, and Downtown Brooklyn knew would significantly alter the texture of their lives. A public hearing on the statement will be held June 5 at 101 Willoughby Street at 6pm.The statement, prepared by the consulting firms AKRF and Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, took four months and $200,000 more to complete than originally planned. As a result o f this the groundbreaking date for Atlantic Terminal has been set back to January 1987, from the originally hoped-for July 1986.Several chapters were released to CommunityContinued on Page 5Vote Is In for BoardScala and Associates Pick UpSix Seats; Kaplan, BuHalano areRe-Elected, Page SevenThe Long IslandRailroad Term inal,above, will be razed and the stationm odernizedunderground aspart of the A tlan %u00adtic Terminal plan,now getting aseries of hearingsleading toward itsapproval underthe C ity%u2019s landuse review process. Right, som eof the wide openspaces the project will fill.SECTION 2Vindication for an Activist MinisterBY LIZ KOCH%u201c History has a way of vindicating those who are faithful,%u201d said the Reverend Arthur E. Walmley, Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, on Sunday, May 25, at a special service at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. It was a special service to mark the 50th anniversary of the ordination of the Reverend William Howard Meiish and the words summed up the message that the service in the Brooklyn Heights church delivered.With parishioners old and young filling the church, the long agony of Meiish was recounted by Walmley and proof of the Vindication was the crowd that gathered that morning to honor a man whose life and goals at one point became a Supreme Court case, and at other times touched the youth ofDrawings of theScene of the DigNew Show at Museum ofScene in Egypt, Page NineProud o f Progress%u25a0 - n r n r gt*ghah r > %u201e ! ___Rev. W illiam How ard M eiish Is greeted by friends, both young and old. atthe service in hie honor on May 25. (Phoenix/Pearaon Photo)Brooklyn Heights and brough civil It is a different world. If he said. H e pointed to the i l l d v - d v - u i i v c right awareness to the Heights when nothing else, we should celebrate change in the church%u2019s role in soda!he assisted W.E.B. Du Boss, NAACP founder, to purchase a %u2022 home in that until that all white neighborhood.the fact that we are here,%u201d Walmley act%u2019on, one that Meiish heralded said. %u201c We have survived a genera- back in the 1940's and 1950%u2019s with tion and more in the midst o f the his work toward nuclear disarma East-West struggle and the Vietnam continued on Page 36Endowment Drive Well on theWay to $250,000 Coal, Page 11