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Brooklyn HasGone Fishin%u2019The Prospect Park FishingContest Began Last Week AtThe Boathouse, Page 20Fun Times InThe SummertimeFor A Complete List Of ThingsTo Do This Week In BrooklynSee Our Centerspread CalendarNewspaper of Brown stone B rc c ......Volume XV, Number 2 35 GentsJuly 31,1986Police Craick DownOn Arms Drug RingPolice Raid The Brooklyn ArmsHotel And Arrest 12 ResidentsIn Crack Connection, Page 4State Hears CaseAgainst IncineratorThe State DEC Heard TestimonyOn The Planned ResourceRecovery Plant Here, Page 5Pollution Solution TunnelB Y L I Z K O C HCongested traffic and air pollution levels have reached the point of no return and city planners are even looking underground for solutions to Downtown Brooklyn%u2019s traffic woes.Preliminary reports by Urbitran Associates, the firm contracted by the City to solve the air quality and traffic problems in downtown Brooklyn suggest a variety of mitigating solutions, including the construction of a tunnel to the Brooklyn Bridge, and forbidding one-passenger cars on the Bridge during peak travel times.Air pollution caused by traffic congestion is already severe in several spots in downtown Brooklyn, and is a problem that is expected to worsen with four major projects planned for the downtown area that would bring yet more slow moving traffic onto the streets and exacerbate snarls experienced during rush hour traffic.In upcoming months, two separate reports will be released by Urbitran Associates Inc., a Manhattan firm contracted by New York City%u2019s Office of Business Development (formerly the Public Development Corporation), outlining a series of air quality mitigation measures that call for rebuilding some of downtown%u2019s roadways and explore the feasibility of banning one passenger vehicles fromContinued on Page 3T h e p ro p o s e d th re e la n e tu n n e l w o u ld d ip u n d e rg ro u n d at A d a m s a n d J o h n %u00adso n S tre e ts (fo re g ro u n d ) a n d s u rfa c e at th e B ro o k ly n B rid g e . (P h o e n ix /K o c hP h o to )Assemhlymembers Almost Tossed Off BallotAs Primary Battles Heat Up In Brooklyn RacesBY ROB TAYLORThe battle to knock opponents off the September primary election ballots began last week at the Board of Elections Office in Manhattan and Assembly members A1 Vann from Bedford-Stuyvesant and Roger Green from Ft. Greene were two near casualties.The ten-member board met for two days, July 24 and 28, ruling on the specific objections raised against 51 Brooklyn candidates running for State Assembly, Senate and Party District Leadership. Six Brooklyn candidates in Downtown Brooklyn races were removed from the primary ballots, but the discussions hit painful chords July 28 when the board had to decide whether Vann and Green had properly filed their nominating petitions.Specific objections were filed against Vann and Greene stating that improper cover sheets accompanied each volume of petitions. Bob Muir, the attorney hired by Vann and Green opponents to file the specifications, argued that a decision by the State Court of Appeals in the Matter of Russel vs.Pecoraro set legal precedence for a boara decision to invalidate the petitions of both Vann and Green, leaving them off the September ballot.The decision, reached in August, 1985, says that when candidates have joined together on a petition that is longer than ten pages, a cover sheet has to be included that lists the total number of signatures for each office and the pages on which they may be found.Both Vann and Green had filed petitions on a combined slate that included their Democratic district leaders candidates. Vann, who is running for re-election in the *6th A.D. as both Assen.blymember and Democratic District Leader, filed 2,488 signatures along with Democratic District Leader Annette Robinson. Green%u2019s slate in the 57th A.D. included Democratic District Leaders Ed Hightower and Kuby Nonage anu imu 2,792 signatures.%u201c It%u2019s clear that in Pecoraro there were three candidates from the same district and the same geoContinued on Page 3