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NEW YORKREGION www.nyjournalnews.com RK The Journal News Sunday, April 1 8, 1 999 3A wark man charge a witn lauing on lie Suspect heid on $1M bail in the April 8 slaying of an Orange policewoman The Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. A Newark man authorities had traveled to Georgia to find has been charged with killing an Orange police officer. Condell Woodson, 25, was ar- 14 arrested at club where drug was sold NEW YORK Undercover narcotics officers arrested 14 people early yesterday at a popular Manhattan nightclub where the drug Ecstasy was allegedly being sold, police said. One patron at the Tunnel club on the West Side suffered a drug overdose and was taken to a hospital during the buy-and-bust operation, said Detective George Nagy, a department spokesman. tor's office said no other details about the circumstances of the arrest were available.

Authorities on Friday went to Georgia, where Woodson has lived, to question him because he was believed to be linked to the gun used in the shooting, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported for yesterday's editions. They were there the same day a man wrongfully charged with the crime was released from custody. Terrance Everett, 24, of East Orange was charged last week with Carnegie's death. Carnegie, 38, was the second policewoman in the state to die in the line of duty. She was shot to death after she had stopped her patrol car to question a man about an armed robbery.

Everett was arrested because he resembled a sketch of the suspect but was freed Friday after producing an alibi that placed him in a fast-food restaurant across town at the time of the shooting. Authorities traced the gun used in the shooting to Woodson, and said they believe he was living in Orange when Carnegie was killed. WITT, Woman's crusade reclaims a park US I ,3 Sefh HarrlsonTh Journal Christine Foreman of the Bronx stands in Seton Falls Park, which she saved from development by forming a neighborhood coalition to battle builders' plans. Nine were charged with selling the drug, three with possession and one with disorderly conduct, Nagy said. The club manager was arrested for allegedly having an underage person near the bar while police said Ecstasy was being sold.

The raid at the club on 12th Avenue in lower Manhattan was conducted between 1 am. and 4 a.m. by the undercover narcotics officers. Nagy didn't know how much Ecstasy police had confiscated. The names of those arrested were not immediately released.

Three months ago at the Tunnel, a teen-ager collapsed and died of an apparent drug overdose. The nightspot is operated by Peter Gatien, who also owns the Limelight Last month, he and his wife pleaded guilty to larce-f ny and tax evasion charges. Last year, Gatien was ac- quitted in a federal narcotics 1 case. Prosecutors claimed he had allowed sales of cocaine and other drugs to his customers. 2 shot, 1 killed at Brooklyn cinema NEW YORK A gunfight in a Brooklyn movie theater left one man dead and two others wounded, police said yesterday.

Jermaine Cox, 21, of Brooklyn died just after 4 am. at Kings County Hospital. He was shot about 10 p.m. Friday during a dispute over seating at the theater on Church Avenue in the Flatbush section. The names of the two other victims were not immediately released Police said both were in stable condition at Kings I County.The exact circumstances of the shooting were under investigation.

Compiled from wire reports. Baychester activist helps block development, gives Seton Falls Park new life BILL VARNER The Journal News NEW YORK In a letter to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former New York Knicks forward Charles Oakley described Seton Falls Park in 1996 as "nothing more than a very deep hole filled with trash and litter which during the summer months is occupied by drug addicts and prostitutes." Oakley was acting as the sponsor of a company that wanted to fill the streambed running through the park with concrete and asphalt debris. The idea was to level it off and install tennis and basketball courts, a baseball field and a parking lot It would all be done, Oakley promised Giuliani, at no cost to the city. The proposal sounded good to many people in the north Bronx community of Baychester, a dozen blocks south of the Westchester County border. They needed more recreational facilities, and Oakley was right Seton Falls was in bad shape.

The community was not using the 40-acre park, the rusted bodies of stripped-down cars littered Rattlesnake Creek and there were problems with drugs and prostitution. But the plan did not sound good to Christine Foreman, a community activist who organized successful opposition to a similar development proposal in 1992. 1 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Foreman cares for Seton Falls Park because she learned it was the site of a Revolutionary War skirmish and was owned in the 19th century by the family of Saint Elizabeth Seton, and because it is the last natural forest in the Bronx. The Parks Department acquired the land in 1914.

Hulse remembers going across the street to get water from the falls before her home had indoor plumbing. She also remembers seeing red foxes roam the forest "I didn't know about the park until one day in the early 1970s my son came home and said, 'Mama, come with me, I'm going to take you somewhere beauti-ful)'" Foreman said. "It was so lovely." It was, and then it wasn't Gradually, the neighborhood changed and the Parks Department ran short of funds in the I InflEnSiisi rested yesterday and charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, and weapons offenses for the death of Officer Joyce Carnegie on April 8. Woodson was taken into custody in Newark, Essex County Prosecutor Patricia Hurt announced in a statement. He was in custody in lieu of $1 million bail.

A spokesman for the prosecu Foreman learned the history of Seton Falls Park, taught her neighbors and formed the Seton Falls Park Preservation Coalition. By 1996, the coalition had influence with the local community board, with the neighborhood's political representatives and with the New York City Parks Depart-mentOakley and his project didn't have a chance. "They figured they could ram it through, that the neighborhood would go along with Oakley because of hero worship," said Marion Hulse, who has lived across MaroUa Place from the park for 60 years. "But it did not work that way on account of what Christine did." Thanks to Foreman, most of the junked cars and the junkies are gone, and the people are back. Foreman's coalition celebrates Earth Day at the park Thursday by sponsoring a cleanup and planting by students from four local schools.

Oakley, who now plays for the Toronto Raptors, did not answer a request for a comment on the park. The woman who stood in his way is a 70-year-old widow who has dedicated her retirement from a career in hospital management to improving life in Baychester. Preserving Seton Falls Park is Foreman's No. 1 mission, but she has served on a variety of neighborhood and block associations, as well as the local board of Moor banaing 634-3479 Free Estimates 98 Audi A4 27,893 Red, 4 door, auto, 4 cyl, 1 .8 ac Quattro, MSRP $29,585, in, Jut CTSrVH A. late 1970s, so the park was neglected.

People dumped trash in the streambed and stripped stolen cars. Construction in the area blocked off Rattlesnake Creek, creating a swamp that killed many trees and, ultimately, reduced the falls to a trickle. But that didn't stop Foreman. She got the Parks Department to start its programs. She wrote a grant proposal that yielded $7,000 for a "Classroom in the Forest" educational program.

She went to Albany, successfully lobbying for a $275,000 state Clean Water-Clean Air Bond Act grant which the city matched. That money will be used to dredge the creek and plant native flora "Now people from all over are coming to the park," Community Board 12 district manager Carmen Angueira said. She put Seton Falls back on the map in the northeast Bronx." Ran, IHfe Give You Tf1 Missed check fails to move budget talks JAY GALLAGHER Albany Bureau ALBANY Lawmakers didn't blink last week in their showdown with Gov. George Pataki over a new state budget even though they missed their first paycheck because of a new law that holds up their salaries until there's a new state spending plan. "Why should you hold my pay up when I'm here to represent my constituents, and this budget may not be adequate for them?" asked Assemblyman David Gantt, D-Rochester, one of the lawmakers who has vowed to sue to get their pay.

The April 1 deadline is fading into history, with some observers in Albany talking about a protracted deadlock like the one two years ago, when the budget wasn't approved until Aug. 9. Gov. George Pataki wants to spend $72.7 billion this year, an increase of about 2 percent over last year. The Senate wants to spend $700 million more than that while the Assembly wants to spend the most about $74.7 billion.

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