Daily News from New York, New York • 316

4 Bx 3 Sunday. November 29. 1987 DAILY NEWS asm Mimed bj soar id i 4 iT- el a v. 1 1 1 I Sit land. In Manhattan, $3 million is earmarked for a visitors center on Pier A at Battery Park and a smaller center aboard a 150-foot, dry-docked ferry at the South St Seaport They will be models for visitors centers to be established in a New York Harbor Park, which will include Battery Park, South St Seaport, Snug Harbor, Liberty and Ellis islands and the Fulton Ferry-Empire Stores section of Brooklyn, according to Elizabeth Goldstein, the Parks Department's director of planning.

Also in Brooklyn, $1.88 million of the state funding is intended to restore a long bikeway along the Shore Parkway-Belt Parkway between the 69th St pier in Brooklyn and the Cross Bay Parkway in Queens, Goldstein said. In the Bronx, $900,000 is to be used to buy 23 acres along the Bronx River, the aim being to turn the Bronx River shores into a green parkland, she said. Another $700,000 is to be used in Staten Island to buy four acres that will link Lemon Creek Park directly to Lemon Creek. The riverside land now is a mixture of city-owned property and private residences. The federal program came out of the Federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, which was legislated after the 1970 census indicated that the population was migrating toward coastlines.

The government moved to provide for planning that would protect natural resources and guaranteed to honor state programs when it did anything affecting a shoreline. BEFORE NEW MARINAS are built, developers will be asked to include in their plans esplanades and rotundas, such as those shown here at Rushing's World's Fair Marina. jomn pom daily news die boats, water taxis, sailing boats, sightseeing boats to Fort Henry and an anchored submarine open to the public. 3 The city still has some clout in cases where a developer does not need its favor, as when a construction site is already zoned for his purposes, Haff said. A proposal to build a marina on a site already zoned for such use might not come before the city, but cause construction in waterways re-1 quires state and Army Corps permits, "the city will get a chance to say the shoreline that may be improved with an eye toward creating recreational sites, she said.

She mentioned Soundview and Ferry Point parks in the Bronx and Drier-Offerman Park in Brooklyn as "just sitting there with bare landfill edges." The city's long-range plan to refurbish its waterfront was developed after the 1981 passage of New York State's Waterfront Revitalization and Coastal Resources Act, which made the state eligible for federal aid in planning waterfront developments, money that can be parceled to New York City and other municipalities. Last month, the state handed $6.48 million to the Parks Department to buy parkland and improve existing way to do this is to open up public access to the water, she said. To be ready for new requests from developers, the commission is interviewing waterside residents to determine what may be appropriate for public use on the waterfront, she said. The Parks Department also has studies under way to determine how best to use its waterfront sites for public recreation. "There is a revived public interest in waterfront recreation, because water is cleaner and people want to look at it again, and sail boats in it, and maybe some day swim in it again," said Ann Buttenweiser, the Parks director of waterfront planning.

Some parks have empty landfills on sometning about it, she said. Where someone has a long-term lease on city-owned waterfront property, the city can require open-space improvements. The most expedient 4q fpo -b; fib' -o io, JL- 3 is 8fi 2 5 FACE OF CfTY waterfront areas will turn green if city planners and Parks Department officials have their way. Photo shows East River Drive at 107th St MBM OUL NBNS MMMMtlMMMI'l stow.