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.5 Saturday Mafcrf Sdf 1 DAILY JW mm ru rift (feM Breakdown of felonies committed since Jan. 1, 1990, in the Graybar Building passageway to Grand Central Terminal: 246 grand larcenies 59 robberies 25 assaults 35 other felonies (i.e. arson, riot, criminal tampering) By DEAN CHANQ A passage connecting the Graybar Building with the 7, 4, 5 ,6 and shuttle subway lines, the most dangerous of 15 corridors to be closed by the TA, was shut yesterday. N.Y.P.O. Grand Central Station 44th ST Pan Am Building Closed underground tunnel Graybar Building nv mmammmm 1 Grand Central Terminal If dth RT 1 sageways by Thursday; public hearings will be held afterward.

They include nine in Manhattan, four in Brooklyn, and one each in Queens and the Bronx. 'Heartbreak Hotel' But the TA wasted no time closing its most crime-filled corridor, dubbed "Heartbreak Hotel" by security guards. "It takes a lot of heart to walk through there," said Milton Williams, a commuter standing across from the newly padlocked gate leading to the corridor. The passage is deceptively long and treacherous, its path littered with sleeping homeless people and puddles of urine. "That has to be the worst smelling area in all of the subways," said Scott Fer- North Dairy News Staff Writer Dimly lit and seldom traveled, the stench-ridden corridor in Grand Central Station was a crime scene waiting to happen.

The 120-foot stretch of urine-drenched concrete connecting the Lexington Ave. subway lines with the Graybar Building was a virtual commuter's gantlet: 365 felonies were committed there since Jan. 1, 1990. No more. The Transit Authority yesterday shut down the corridor, a move precipitated by last week's rush-hour rape of a New Jersey woman in a tunnel connecting the 34th and 42d St stations on the Sixth Ave.

line. In all, the TA plans to close 15 of its most dangerous pas Mezzanine I Main stairway Chrys.er ana escalator to Main Concourse 5 Buiid.ng -'Hyatt it i fwrthe E. 42d ST. south -V To Shuttle TVn Mezzanine booths Ch3nm I i Bowery Mobil Buitotng Building Source: Transit Authority TOM LYNN DAILY NEWS ranti, who regularly used the corridor to and from his office in the Graybar Building. "I definitely felt threatened," he said.

"It's a great access to Graybar, but it gets pretty desolate at times." TA spokesman Bob Previdi said the passage's position behind a token booth made it difficult to patrol. "It's a very isolated corridor, especially during off- hours," he said. "We recently put new lighting in, but it didn't seem to have any effect." He remembers On the Graybar side of the corridor yesterday, James Johnson sat outside the gate, looking in on what once served as his home. "We used to sleep down there last year," he said. "Me, two other guys, and my lady.

But I was afraid of going down there myself. I used to see crime, robberies all the time. Used to be a lot of crack being used down there also. "But we weren't the problem. When we weren't laying around, that's when the muggers came around.

We didn't -want them there. We just wanted to panhandle." Despite the high crime rate, some would rather see the passage open. "This isn't the answer," said Ferranti. "They ought to patrol it more, say with two cops. By using this tunnel, I don't have to go outside." CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF CRIME: Gate blocks entrance to a Grand Central Station passageway that linked subway and Graybar Building.

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