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DAILY NEWSi, MONDAY JULY J906, y- KaU mm MmM mmf 1 i "1 I 1 j. 4 I Ifiva IV rf If A Mucn oi riayiana amusement paric at nye is almost leveled itoto ieiti and one ride (toto ngntJ is de- stroyed after fire of undetermined origin swept park yesterday. More than $250,000 in equipment was ruined in blaze which lasted two hours. Despite damage, amusement park was open for business later in the day Tan Kaon Urges CiGv Take ioGjijeir iiitoe By WILLIAM RICE The Port Authority and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority are not paying their fair share of real estate taxes, Michael Freyberg, president of the City Tax Commission, declared yesterday. Denouncing windfall profits, political favoritism, governmental fumbling and built-in rent gouging in middle-income housing projects, the State Commission of Investigation has called on the Legislature to place all such projects under the control of the office of the state attorney general, it was disclosed yesterday.

In a stinging report assailing 'f. cir ot, I 1 full information on the I and state be required to cross-! check" the bids. i None of the sponsor's law-j yers, and no persons holding office in political parties be permitted to, take a financial interest is hous-; ir.g projects. called for sweeping changes in the Mitchell-Lama Act, the state's limited-profit housing law, in order, it said, to end corruption background and financial interests of all their officers with the attorney general. Subcontractors be required to bid on the projects, and the city Freyberg, who also heads the which saddles unsuspecting tenants with back-breaking rents.

Coo Contestant The commission, which has been probing housing for months, disclosed that it completed its report last month, while the Legislature still was in session. Department of Real Property Assessment, said he was reluctant to go into detail because the city and the PA were dickering over the proposed world trade center and other PA properties. He said, however, that the two agencies' tax burden "could easily be increased." Speaking on TV's New York Report program, Freyberg disclosed plans to review "all of the policies and procedures which this department has followed over many, many years." Pondera Soaie Abatement Also being studied, Freyberg disclosed, was the feasibility of further tax abatement and tax relief programs to encourage new business and industry in the city. On another TV program. Direct Line, Dr.

Howard Brown, the city's health services administrator, said that he was eyeing the 84.3 million that had been trt Michael Frybrg Cmd meting mi mm earmarked by the City Councilamounted to an illegal subsidy. and Board of Estimate for the the fare went to 20 cents. I However, for some unexplained reason, the SIC report and recommendations never reached the floor and now must wait for action until the 1967 Legislature is convened. In the meantime, it was disclosed, Mayor Lindsay has ordered that copies of the SIC report be forwarded to City Investigation Commissioner Arnold G. Fraimari, Bronx District Attorney Isidore Dollinger and Brooklyn DA Aaron E.

Koota. Here, according to the SIC, is a case history of what goes on in middle-income housing. Boilding Costs Inflated A project sponsor buys land cheap at public auction from the New York City Department of Real Estate and then resells it to himself at a fat profit. The new, inflated, price is then listed as the land cost when applying for mortgages and tax abatement. Then, pocketing his windfall profits on the inflated cost, he uses those costs to justify inflated rents.

In i ts report, the SIC cited a case in which "an application to sponsor a large housing development in Brooklyn was delayed for years because that borough's president refused to approve the project unless it was shared with another builder." The report did not say whether the officeholder was the incumbent, Abe Stark, or his predessor, the late John Cashmore. But, presumably. Mayor Lindsay sent the SIC report to Koota to run that down. In recommending that the entire limited profit housing program to Transit Authority. The funds were provided in the city's 1966-67 budget to help the TA maintain the 15-cent fare.

When Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin ruled that this Brown said he was meeting with Mayor Lindsay this week to see if. he could get some of the $84.3 million to improve hospitals and Health Department facilities and services. hi Cops vo Aid Firemen Who Shirt Hydrants City firemen have been under an order since Saturday to call for a police escort when they have to enter a "hostile" neighborhood to turn off illegally opened fire hdyrants, it was learned yesterday. The new rule was put into effect because several firemen in recent weeks have been injured rected that, when police protection was not available, firemen should permit the hydrants to remain open if any "overt hostility" was shown.

In no event, the order added, were individual firemen to be sent out alone to close the hydrants. The Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity reports that at least 200 hydrants are opened illegally in Manhattan alone on a hot summer day, such as yesterday, when the temperature climbed to 91. WtTOIlaW wnen, trying 10 turn on nyaranis, they have been "bombed" from rooftops by residents who wanted the hydrants kept on flow for playing children. The departmental order di be placed under the attorney general's office, the SIC urged major changes in the state housing law providing that: Housing sponsors be required (UPITelefotol Marion Heinricn, Miss Germany, waves greetings as she cools off in Miami pool. Marion will be one of 6t beauties competing for title of Miss Universe Jaly 16.

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