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Oi BrooklynCity UniversityPicks Up PiecesA Reaction To The Bloody SiegeAt City University, Page 3Incumbent SenatorFights For Her SeatJefferson and Montgomery VieFor State Senate Again, Page 5Golden Cracks Down On DrugsA Brooklyn Task Force kAppointed, Page 7P p | @ i O N 2j I XShades Of SummerThe Phoenix Looks At The LatestIn Fashion, Page 9Brooklyn\\A/hppkA Free-Wheeling Look At TheBoro From Atop A Bike, Page 13New York City Celebrates The BluesAs Part Of National Night Out FestivityBY LIZ KOCHThroughout the City, small clusters of people gathered under a darkening sky August 12 to join their local police precincts in an event dedicated to promote community participation in the fight against crime.Attendance numbers all over the City were small for the National Night Out, but those residents who turned out that night called for increased community involvement in sweeping the streets of drug dealers%u2014crack being high on the list of priorities%u2014 and police responded in kind, saying they needed the eyes and ears of the community to help them on the streets.In Park Slope marchers who gathered on Fifth Avenue took their cause over to the 78th precinct house on Bergen Street and then went on to Grand Army Plaza where speakers encouraged the police to work together with the community.The m ajor event in Brooklyn, however, took place at Boys and Girls High School in BedfordStuyvesant where Mayor Ed Koch and Police Commissioner Benjamin W ard were scheduled to address a borough-wide gathering of residents. The crowd of 150 who filled a small portion of the bleachers at the school%u2019s field, carried placards announcing their neighborhood affiliation and waited expectantly as a speaker announced the imminent arrival of the Mayor and the Police Commissioner.Fifth A venue m erchant Al C abad (le ft) leads a procession o f A m erican flagsth rougho ut Brooklyn w ith 78th P recinct C aptain C harles M a cG u ire as part of theS lope%u2019s N atio n al N ig ht Out. (P h oenix/P earson Photo)To create a note of festivity, police on duty at the gathering handed out sparklers to the audie n c e -tw o apiece%u2014 to be lit when the helicopter carrying the two guest speakers made its descent onto the field. Its appearance sent the crowd scurrying for matches and asthe helicopter descended against the backdrop of a dark orange sky, sparkles burst forth from outreached hands. To many people%u2019s disappointment, however, many of whom had never seen the Mayor in person, only W ard disembarkedContinued on Page 8Atlantic Terminal Plan Takes Two Giant StepsHealth and Hospitals and City Planning Throw Support To PlanBY LIZ KOCHPursuing development in Downtown Brooklyn these days is like putting together a sprawling jag-saw puzzle, with many different pieces to be fitted into place to bring a project to reality.Over the past few weeks, scone of the most elusive pieces for the Atlantic Terminal Urban Renewal Area (ATURA) have been fitted into place for Jonathan Rose.Favorable votes by both the City Planning Commission and the Capital Committee of the Health and Hospitals Corporation have Rose and officials at the City%u2019s Public Development Corporation viewing the future of Atlantic Terminal with a good deal of optimism as major decisions affecting the financing of the project and the iegai requirements of the plan are faffing into place caw after another.A u t y rmiming Commission unanimous vote o fapproval on August 18 represented the second step of a three-step process of the City%u2019s Urban Land Use Review Process (ULURP). Downtown Community Board Two approved the eleven ULURP items pertaining to the Atlantic Terminal project and his adjacent proposed Brooklyn Center project in June.Members of the City Board of Estimate now must hold public hearings and cast their vote within 60 days on the 11 items which pertain to zoning changes, disposition of City-owned property, amendments to the City map, and land use on Atlantic Terminal site to accommodate Rose%u2019s plans for commercial and residential development.Before the Planning Commission vote on Aug. 18, Barbara Gully, attorney for the project, announced to the commission members that attorneys for the City and Rose had reached an agreement to put the Rose firm in charge of the reconstruction of the Atlantic Avenue subway station used by the BMT and IRT lines. The reconstruction of the subway is one of the mitigation measures designed to smooth utc ,Tuw of pedestrian traffic at the station for riders arriving at the station and riders making transfers from one line to another. When the ATURA project is complete, an estimated 13,000 employees are exConiinued on Page 5