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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1970 C5 IF" NEWS photo by Jack Smith NEWS photo by Jac'r Clarity Ltintl tnftllr OPfQfOIIQ High Bridge, which spans the Harlem River, and building at 680 Park Ave. (right) have been kUIIUIIIUI Ii VCWIglVilg named official city landmarks. Park Ave. edifice is former home of Soviet Union's UN mission headquarters where Premier Nikita Khrushchev sang, joked and gave his opinions on international politics from balcony in. 1960.

Three mansions adjoining No. 680 were similarly honored by city's Landmarks Pi'eservations Commission. Bear Among the Doves te seeking more open space, are now exploring New York's development the city's 4,156 acres of cemeteries. Government officials, last frontier for inland urban II: i turn Housing has been proposed by the organization that built Co-op City in the Bronx and Rochdale Village in Queens. The more likely prospect is the creation of playgrounds and parks out of cemeteries that are themselves becoming fast exhausted.

St. Mark's in the Bowery in the East Village has already turned a graveyard into a busy playground for children. Pulaski, used a $147,318 federal grant to turn an abandoned cemetery into a smart-looking park. London has more than 100 parks on former hp ma; day as plans for four housing developments in three boroughs were announced. In Manhattan, the U.S.

Housing and Urban Development Department released plans for a 182-apartment, project at 104th St. and Manhattan Ave. The site is occupied by an abandoned school. Regional Administrator S. William Green said one third of the apartments in the 17-story building will be reserved for the elderly.

Green also announced a 167-unit $4.6 million moderate-income development at Pitkin and Pennsylvania Aves. in Brooklyn and a 193-unit public housing project costing $5.6 million in Coney Island. In the Bronx, the Daughters of Jacob Geriatric Center, an agency of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, released plans for a 227-unit apartment residence for senior citizens. posal comes from Harold Ostroff, executive director of the United Housing Foundation, the city's major builder of middle-income housing developments such as Co-op City on the defunct Free-domland amusement park site in the Bronx and Rochdale Village on the old Jamaica Race Track. Ostroff has proposed that cemeteries here be moved to suburbs and rural areas.

The vacated space would then be utilized fgt housing. El the Pulaski, demon-sn project, city fathers relocated markers as design elements in the park, while memorial slabs with inscriptions were mounted on a rough stone wall. The federal government estimates that there are 37,000 fair-sized cemeteries in the country, totaling 2 million acres. Owen Moritz 4 Housing Proecfs Planned for City The city's lagging housing scene improved noticeably yester graveyard sites. In a report, the United States Housing and Urban Development Department point-out New York City's dilemma: "Nearly one third of its property is tax-exempt.

Even though huge blocks of land are assigned to cemetery use the available land reserved for future burial is fast disappearing. New York is also plagued by vanishing open spaces for park reserves. Associated Press Wirephofo Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko watches the pigeons scatter in St. Mark's Square, Venice. Gromyko last week visited the Vatican.

Yesterday 100 right-wing youths protested the visit with demonstration during Pope Paul's weekly blessing from window of papal apartment. It was the second week in a row that demonstrations took place during Pope's appearance. One logical conclusion is to integrate the parks and cemeteries." The most- far-reaching pro- Asks Me to ffiire Mew TTA Cops Faced with a severe budget crisis along with demands for more police protection on the subways, the city's top transportation official called on the state yesterday to hire more police with state Plot for Bus (Monopoly Seen by Schools Head By BERT SHANAS The president of the Board of Education asked yesterday that a city probe into school bus contracts be expanded to include allegations "that there is a conspiracy to drive small bus companies out of business" and create a monopoly for larger bus firms. funds. Presently, the city reimburses the Transit Authority more than $57 million annually to pay for the Transit Police Department.

Last year, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency and parent body of the TA, asked the city for 774 more Speaking after a special board meeting which was held yester day in an attempt to work out a solution to the three-week bus strike that has left 30,000 Man AIRDEX ri hattan and Brooklyn children i 1 cial vehicles from parkways, a move to encourage express bus service on these arteries. "We have a bill going into the Legislature on that," he said. "We feel that that should be within the discretion of the transportation administrator and the commissioner of traffic." However, he went on: "I don't want to see heavy amounts of commercial traffic on the parkways. Many of them were not built for this." He also commented on a city-hired consultant's study of the Transit Authority's plan to dig up the southern portions of Central Park for two subway tunnels connecting E. 63d St.

with Sixth and Seventh Aves. The study is almost completed, he said. "The consultant has come up with a slight revision of the alignment which we have to test out in the field. If that works, there is a possibility that we can lessen the damage (to the park) without bus service, board Presi 1 WEALTH FyL -I transit cops at an additional city cost of $11.4 million. The city, however, has been sitting on the request.

Questioned about this. City Transportation Administrator Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff replied: "If more police are necessary, the Transit Authority has, after all, got the power to hire more police itself. It's a state agency." Appearing on the WOR-TV program New York Report, the city transportation chief said that the state, agency should hire more transit cops "and charge it either to the fare revenues that it gets, or let the state give some assistance there." Law on Parkways He continued: "The state controls this, the state appoints the members of the authority. Let the state provide some money there The city has a real budget crisis right now." Sidamon-Eristoff also said that the city is seeking to change a state law that prohibits commer dent Murry Bergtraum said "there have been several allega UNSATISFACTORY. tions by smaller bus companies that such a conspiracy exists." tors "that they are being harassed by unions, some city officials and some employes of the Board of Education." Thi board contracts with 15 private bus companies, three of which it considers large.

Charge Contract Violation At yesterday's emergency meeting the board passed a resolution assessing a total of $464,000 in damages against the striking City Wide Transportation claiming violation of its contract. But the board put off a move to officially cancel the contract. On Friday, the Board of Estimate voted to appropriate $1 million to buy out City Wide's fleet of 380 buses, fe ACCEPTABLE cooo4 fw24lir.Per!ol Ending 3:00 im. Yesterday. Won't Be Specific Bergtraum would not name spacif ic sources.

He said only that "the board has heard there is a drive on to oust the small operators and recreate the monopoly situation that existed here a few years ago." He said that there were charges A number of the jsmall opera TODAY: Pollution levels are expected to be unsatisfactory. Dept. of Air Resources.