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MPD A Yi DECEMBER 15 1975. Bam Protesters Say MX Down fte'Hferay I By FRANK MAZZA Charging Rep. Bella Abzug- (D-Manhattan) with "selling out" to party bosses, more than 100 anti-highway protesters demonstrated in front of the congress woman's Home yesterday against her amendment to a federal highway bill. Representatives of the West uses," she said. "The way I view it, that's anti-mass transit and pro-roads," Gabel insisted.

Rep. Abzug, who was in a hospital yesterday visiting a daughter, was unable to meet with the demonstrators in front of her home at 37 Bank St. But in a telephone interview with The News she said that the option to spend the trade-in money on mass transit or roadways was in her view the way to kill any chance of developing the West Side Highway into an interstate roadway. She explained that Mayor -Beame and Gov. Carey had told her they were unable to take advantage of the trade-in because the dilapidated West Side Highway was in desperate need of rehabilitation and the city and state did not have the funds to do the repair work.

interstate roadway and pour it into -mass transit improvements. The highway measure has yet to come before the House for a full vote. Rep. Abzug noted in Tier report that the trade-in funds could increase the -present $500 "million now permitted under the Highway Act to nearly $1 billion, if Congress approves the 1975 Highway Act as is. While environmentalists and West Side residents who are asainst including the West Side Highway, -in the interstate system would normally hail such legislative action, they claimed there is a catch.

Under existing legislation all trade-in money must be used for mass transit. Bunny Gabel Friends of the Earth revealed. "But under Bella's amendment cities will have the right to spend it for mass transit or other highway Side. Ad Hoc Comittee Against the Interstate Highway and Friends of the Earth an environmental group said the amendment would weaken any attempts to trade in federal funds from a planned Interstate West Side Highway, for mass transit use and would instead increase changes for the further development of roadways and highways in the city. John McNally, a leader of the ad hoc committee, called Ren.

Abzug's action "a turnaround" for the congresswoman which showed 'she is in bed with the Democratic machine." Last week Rep. Abzug reporat-ed that the House Committee on Fublic Works and Transportation approved 'an amendment to the 1975 Highway Act- which would nearly double the amount of money that the city and state could receive should they decide to scuttle plans to convert the West "Side Highway into an News Dhoto by Jim AAooney Assemblyman John Dearie speaks during Tudor City demonstration. Tenants dally to (Continue Sent Controls By MARTIN KING Tudor City tenants rallied around po'itical leaders yesterday in an effort to get the Legislature to continue rent" control and stabilization. On hand in a Tudor City park were Manhattan GOP leader Staten Island were thing we can to protect your interests." "Vincent F. Albano Jr.

and state well-as the- New York State ruTt Sens. Rov Goodman (P-Mant-i Tenants Coalition. Nab 2 Teens In Slaying Two teenagers were arrested yesterday and charred with murdering a nonmedallion cab driver in a predawn robbery Friday, police reported. Detectives John Grosso and Joseph Ebert of the 13th homicide division saW the youths were arrested at a friend's flat at 217 Hart around the corner from where the bodv of Edscl Curtis, 29, of 356 E. 98th Brooklyn, was found behind the steering wheel of his taxi.

Curtis had 'been shot in the back and the chest. No money was found on his body. One of the suspects was' identified as Robert Steeple, 16, of 178 Pulaski SL. The name of the second outh was witheld becuse of his age. He is 15.

--j r. Tlw ieaerauv lunueu aiiu without state contributions considered middle or upper-income families, the -rents are relatively low because of the development's history of rent control. The coi plex, which includes a 600-room hotel, wa3 originally constructed by the Fred L. French Organization but was sold to real estate titan Harry B. Helmsley in 1971 for a reported $56 million.

It is considered one of the last pockets i the. East Side of elegant but reasonable living. "Maybe this was not a massive meeting," McKean said at the close of yesterday's rally, "but it did, in, fact, represent thousands of people throughout the New York area." iau; auu oacK xruii3tuii wt wnnvi f11 "'j Queens). McKean said', "and we have to The rally was kicked off by get ready we have to get set Assemblyman John Dearie, we, to let the landlords Bronx) who warned: 'If the government took its finger from the officials in Albany know the housing market, vo" would be that we are RinK to "t- paying at least twice what you Represents District "This is the kind of housing all of us need," he said. Tudor City runs from 40th to 43d Sts.

and from First Ave. almost to Second Ave. Built in 1927, it was one of the nation's first private efforts at major are paying in rents today. i Goodman, who represents the urban renewal John McKean, president of the Tud cu Tudor City Tenants li uiiaings urged those present to write situated. assured the tenants The development onsists of 12 Gov.

Carey. that he and other lawmakers buildinars contpinhig 3,300 units, Bronx. Brooklyn, Queens and "will join together and do every-1 and while most residents are udgeters Send a Freezing Draft Manhattan's Way cHv's black communities and scholars ments that local neighborhoods care about have been almost entirely shelved. "The sad thing," said Robert Castel-" lenette, an assistant to Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams, "is when community people have come to hearings year after year, finally get a project to the construction stage, and the bottom drops out. They feel they've been led down a primrose path." -As- an example, he cited Soundview Park in the heavily populated Board 8 a which has been mapped as a park for more than 40 years but ne'er completed.

Also, the- Parkchester' area, Which has many elderly residents, has never had a senior citizens' center, although it has been requesting one for five, years. Both projects have been "deferred." Contract Terminated In Belmont, a 'contract had to be terminated in order to halt work on the new Belmont Library and Enrico Fermi Cultural Several housing-rehabilitation projects top priorities in the South Bronx, Hunts Point and Morrisania areas will not be funded, either. Aston Glaves, chairman of Board 4 in the Chelsea-Clinton section of Fanhat-tan, said there is "tremendous discouragement" among community activists over the draft budget. 1 JRecreation A a By LAWRIE MIFFLIN The old Lindsay-era complaint about Manhattan being the favorite borough, if it was ever true, certainly does not hold up as far as the 1 976-1977 draft capital budget is concerned. The budget, prepared by the City Plar-'ing Commission and up for scruti-ny during three days of public; hearings starting today, has not one penny listed for new construction projects in Manhattan.

In fact, many projects already under way will be frozen. Granted, the other boroughs fared, little better in the long list of zeros that makes up the budget document. When it comes to new construction, the Bronx will see one new school wing built, work, will, continue on the Queens subway line, Brooklyn will get some major sewernn-Swallatiors, and Staten Island will see work begin on a badly needed Transit Authority bus garage. In addition, some projects in each rough will receive enough funding to be compelled but a great many more have been halted, either in the design stages or farther along the path toward construction. Note of Pessimism And the lists of community' priorities submitted by each local planning board the schools, parks, libraries, health ppntprs ann.ar.rppr.

anil sawpr -ln-oi-ovp-. outside the city, according to John Edwards, director of the Mayor's Office of Upper Manhattan. "Some of the old documents in the present library at 135th St. and Lenox are deteriorating for lack of proper climate he said. "And this is one of the nation's most outstanding collections on black history and Park Plans Shelved Fxcept perhaps for housing prora' is, which are often partly funded by the state or federal government, the priorities listed most often by community planning boards were parks.

Here is a list of most of the park ehabilitation, renovation or new construction projects, shelved under the draft In Manhattan: Washington Square Park (Board 2), Columbus Park Cultural Center (Board 3), 10th Ave. Park (Board 4), Union Square Park and Garment Center Park (Board 5), Ea-t River Waterfront Park (Board 6), Upper Broadway Malls (Boards 9 and 10), Morningside Park (Boards 9 and 10), Blake Hobbs Park, Harlem River Park, and the E. 107th St. recreational pier (all Board 11). In the Bronx: St.

Mary's Park (Board 1), Crotona Park East (Board 3), Macombs Dam Park (Board 12), Seton Falls Park (Board 13) and John Kennedy. High ahlef ic iejds nasium was demolished in the late 60s, 's more than halfway completed, yet will frozen by the new budget. "Community people fought to get that center, they can see it under construction, they think they have it, and in the middle it's stopped," Glaves lamented. "And without even a commitment to resume work later." Glaves echoed the sentiments of several board leaders when he said that "some of us wonder what the use will be" of even going to City Hall to testify for their priorities at the budget hearings. Edith Fisher, who heads Board 8 on the upper East Side, said her board feared the East River Drive "will have to fall apart like the-Wst Side Highway before anyone does anything about reconstructing it." That was a Board 8 priority deferred.

Board 3 on the lower East Side requested an overpass across E. Houston St. at Avenue near PS 188, but in vain. Blacks Are Upset "The Planning Commission says it requires further study," said Chairman Benjamin Greenstein. "What they need is for a few more kids to get killed that will be enough study." The halt to design work on the hew Schomburg Library and Countee Cullen Center, in central Harlem has fupsets member of the?.