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dXiIy news' Friday, DSceflbef jt990i I I JL jM4 I I V- Gov's rehulie bas Dinldns seeing red Hitting back at a stinging rebuke from Gov, Cuomo that the city's finances were in disarray, Mayor Dinkins said yesterday that Cuomo's criticism was inaccurate and could damage the city's fiscal well-being. "I see his comments as not useful to pur city," Dinkins said at a City Hall hews conference. "If the suggestion is we have fiscal disarray, that may cause the public, bond buyers and such to look askance at our city. It's not helpful." The mayor said the city has maintained its bond rating unlike the state and defended a 5.5 pay increase for teachers, saying it provided raises that are far less than teachers in the suburbs are getting. Approval, but Cuomo on Wednesday approved legislation clearing the way for the teachers' raise but harshly criticized Dinkins and warned that the city's finances were out of control.

The governor warned that the city needs a convincing budget plan to avoid a takeover of its finances by a state oversight panel, the Financial Control Board. The board, which is headed by the governor, was created after the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s that drove the city to near-bankruptcy. Dinkins said the contract negotiated with the United Federation of Teachers, which backed him in the mayoral campaign, was an example of the financial dilemma forced on the city by the 1 A 1EMBERS OF Coney Island's Polar Bear Club enjoy their annual 5 minutes of greatness yesterday. The water temperature was 43 in degrees, the air temperature 30 there to record scene so all went collapse. Structural problems forced the bridge's closing for two weeks in 1988.

The Manhattan Bridge has been closed to subway service in the past because of corrosion in the steel beams that support the Last month, engineers inspecting the Manhattan Bridge discovered 84 "red flags" hazardous conditions on the span. They were among 124 "red flags" found on the four major East River bridges the Williamsburg, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queensboro. on the B-39 line, which crosses the Williamsburg Bridge and runs along De-lancey St. Service to Manhattan on the and lines was suspended as workers labored to clear the mess left by the derailment, which occurred just north of the Essex St station. Garden said the TA expected service to be restored by this morning's rush hour.

David J. Oestreicher ANTHONY KSCATOftE DAILY I degrees. As usual, photogs swimmingly. The latest problems came to light Wednesday afternoon when a state engineer conducting a bi-annual inspection spotted serious corrosion in a girder supporting the subway tracks near the Manhattan tower of the suspension bridge. trains rerouted The Department of Transportation ordered the Transit Authority to shut down Brooklyn-to-Manhattan service on the line over the bridge.

That was done at 7:30 p.m., according to Bob Pre-vidi, a TA spokesman. Man-hattan-to-Brooklyn service was stopped at 11:25 a.m. yesterday, he said. line trains were rerouted, under the East River through the Montague St. tunnel.

The line normally runs on two tracks on the south side of the double-decker bridge; the and lines, not affected by the repairs, run on two tracks on the north side. The girders over the bridge support wooden ties to which the subway tracks are attached. The expansion joints compensate for extremes of hot and cold weather. frjone in JWhtJjiwi. Oursuta.K.Y.,: that lanes might have to be closed at times during the repair work.

Announcement that service on the line over the bridge was being suspended because of "imminent structural failure" underscored the gravity of the crisis swirling around the East River bridges. Williamsburg woes Three lanes of the Williamsburg Bridge were closed to traffic earlier this month after engineers found girders had corroded to near after the derailment The six-car work train, picking up trash along the tracks and at stations, derailed at 1:10 p.m. when one of the wheel assemblies, or trucks, on a flatcar jumped the tracks, Garden said. Power was restored at 3:15 p.m., and Manhattan-bound trains on the bridge backed up to the Marcy Ave. station in Brooklyn to unload their cold passengers.

They boarded heated buses By DAVID J. 0ESTREICHE3 Daily News Staff Writer Subway service on the south side of the 81-year-old Manhattan Bridge was halted yesterday because of a dangerously rusted girder, which engineers hope to repair in five to seven days. Corrosion also was found within several expansion joints connected to the girder, according to Jeff Maclin, a spokesman for the city Department of Transportation. Car and truck traffic was not affected, but Maclin said A subway work train derailed near the Essex St BMT station in lower Manhattan yesterday afternoon, stranding 400 ice-cold passengers on two trains behind it and forcing cancellation of service to Manhattan on the and lines. Termaine Garden, a spokesman for the Transit Authority, said all power, including electricity to heat the stalled cars on the Williamsburg Bridge, was cut governor and Legislature.

For years, we have been losing our best teachers to the suburbs, where the school systems have been able to provide better working conditions and higher salaries, Dinkins said. "Our contract provided a salary in crease of only 5.5 at a time- when neighboring suburban districts were giving teachers raises of 7, 8 or even 8.5." He said suburban schools can pay teachers more because those districts get a disproportionate share of state education aid. Cuomo warned the Dinkins administration not to count on an expected $329 million in additional state aid when it updates its 1991 financial plan next month. Eruio I POSTMASTER SemoHdrKi wMWmWltWifcio.wfcWWULMrl KmsitoUMtHHru Co. t17i(foiv Ny.

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