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jrAEOR 15, i974 Yi ii "i i HI! SW WM Bu3St for QSv Sets Approval fL-' i I Jf ft By ALFRED MIELE A 1.76-billion city construction budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, $53 million more than that proposed by Mayor Beame last month, was approved by the City Council and Board of Estimate yesterday. News photo by Tom Cunningham Operating engineers picket outside Parkchester building at Tremont Ave. near Unionport Road. While they shrivered on picket line, tenants sweltered as supervisory personnel supplied too much heat. oiler Strike Steams Tenants By SYBIL BAKER There'll be a hot time at the old Parkchester tonight.

In fact, there's been a hot time every night for the 45,000 tenants in the Bronx housing complex since the guys who man the heating plant struck last weekend Stevens now operating the north quadrant of Parkchester as mayor will oversee the programs and recommend restructuring. Funds added to the budget Include $190,000 to renovate the nurses residence at Harlem Hospital and $212,000 to build a new residence for the nurses, $1.5 million for housing and parks on the site of the Yorkville Asphalt Plant and $3.2 million for converting the Concourse Plaza Hotel in the Bronx into senior citizens housing for the elderly. Other amendments i funds to start construction of two Brooklyn schools. Both schools, Public School 322 and Intermediate School 280, will be built at a site at Altic St. and 4th Ave.

Funds also are provided for rehabilitation of Clara Barton High School, Public School 138, Junior High School 240 and Junior High School 246, all la Brooklyn. Queens Projects Added Funds also are included for the restoration of the historic Wy-koff House, rehabilitation of the Brooklyn Central Library and for improvements to the emergency room at Coney Island Hospital. For Queens, funds were added for development of an athletic field at Andrew Jackson High School, a site for a new Public School 23 in Flushing, design funds for the Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Park. Lump-sum allocations for construction of needed storm sewere in Queens were hiked by $500,000 to $2 million and additional pav- The budget action also gives the council a chance to wrest a piece of the neighborhood action programs patronage pie from Mayor Beanie. By a series of fiscal maneuvers, the council and estimate board claimed to have "added" $64 million for schools, libraries, parks and sewers.

These funds included $1 million for renovating Central Park, bringing the total allocation up to $4.5 million. Beanie had cut an original allocation by the city Planning Commission to $3.5 million. Beame Yields Following several heated bargaining sessions at Gracie Mansion and City Hall during the week, Beame was forced into accepting a compromise on control of four neighborhood action programs which are slated to receive $3.1 million in the new budget plus $6.8 million in unspent Ostensibly, the Council argued that the four programs, the Office of Neighborhood Government, District Cabinets, the Neighborhood Action Program and the Mayor's Urban Action Task Force, should be consolidated to provide a more efficient distribution of city services to neighborhoods. In reality, local councilmen want a piece of the patronage action in those programs. Beanie confronted with a balky Council that threatened to hold up passage of the budget, then agreed to a compromise.

Under the agreement, a committee of five councilmen, two borougn presi dents and a representative of the front "of many-eyed instrument panels controlling the generation of the steam and its distribution to the 12,271 units in the project. Old, But Neat The decor is silver, red and green, all recently painted. The whole place is unusually clean considering that Parkchester was built in 1939. At midnight Saturday, the labor unrest in the boiler room boiled over when Local 30 and 30A of the International Union of Operating Engineers voted to strike the Parkchester Management Corp and Brown Harris The supervisory personnel, who are minding the boilers, can't turn the heat dovn at night (it would take too many hours of work. So while the building firemen and operating engineers shiver on the picket line, Park-chester's tenants have heat to burn.

"Omigosh," said one woman yesterday. "I've got all the windows open and I'm still suffocating!" Parkchester's heating plant on Tremont Ave. is probably the only boiler room in the city that looks like a Hollywood set. Four boilers, five stories high, rise in condominiums. Rix R.

McDavid, the executive vice president of Parkchester Management who was a marine engineer on The Leviathan before his 35 years at Park chester, arrived on the scene. A courtly gent with a whisper of a Southern accent, McDavid is hardly the type to abandon ship and throw his tenants to the icebergs. He organized his supervisors, and they've been burning 30,000 to 40,00 gallons of residual oil every day and every night a sort of sur plus-energy crisis. Two of the supervisors have been spelling each other at the work continuously since batur- day, sleeping on the premises and now flourishing astronauts' beards. Fifth Ave.

I I 1 A Fantastic Story, And It's All True Has Marrow Escape By ELEANOR SWERTLOW A demonstration scheduled to protest a proposed widening cf Fifth Avenue a victory celebration yesterday when protesters learned that under no would their beloved thoroughfare be altered. mg tunas ol million vert included for Queens. News photo by James McGraTh would suggest to the board that Fifth Avenue be named a stite landmark to preserve it as it im. gniw i.ujm.aftt: Mil By VINCENT LEE and ARTHUR MULLIGAN Dear Mrs. Rita DiPippo: That fantastic story that your fireman husband, Vincent, 38, told you when he finally got home on his day off yesterday was entirely true.

If you're wondering why he took so long to go to the" dentist, believe us, he did go to the dentist. But first, as he told you, he did help a Housing cop arrest a man and he did save four people from a burning building. We have the Police and Fire Department records to prove it and he may even get a citation from the Fire Department, if not the Police Department also. We know how skeptical wives can be, especially on guys' days off, when they sometimes disappear from home for hours at a time and they have promised to take you shopping. But really, Rita, this is what happened.

His Dental Appointment After Vincent left you and the three children in your Bronx home he headed for the dental appointment at 149th St. and Third which was set for 10 a.m. As he parked his car, he saw a crowd gathered around two men who were scuffling. He heard one of the men, who turned out to be Housing Authority Patrolman Harold Green, declare that he was a police officer. Vince waded through the crowd and helped the officer arrest the other guy, who was identified as Narciso Laguer, 39, of 41 Bergen Brentwood, L.I.

Vince went along to the Morrisania station as a witness against Laguer, who was charged with possession of policy slips, menacing the housing cop. with a tire iron and having metal slugs in his possession. While they were engaged in the paper work, your hubby smelled smoke. He rushed out of the station, climbed a fire escape to the fourth floor of abuilding next door, at 453 E. 160th and led Ricardo Perez, 44; his wife, Doris, and their daughters, Elizabeth, 5, and Yesenia, 3, down the fire escape from their burning apartment.

Then and only then did he go to the dentist and when you asked him, "Where the heck have you been? this is his answer. te Gathering for a mid-morning rallv at Fifth Ave. and 79th about 100 local residents learned that Transportation Administrator Michael J. Lazar had reconsidered the department's preliminary proposal to widen the avenue to make room for an express bus lane. Sees No Need "We think there is no need to widen it," said a spokesman for Lazar.

The controversy began a week ago when a representative of the department presented a preliminary proposal to Community Planning Board 8 to get its reaction. Community response was vehemently negative. Outrageous Plan On hand for yesterday's rally was State Sen. Roy Goodman (R-L-Manhattan), who called the plan "absolutely outrageous." He said that over 1,000 trees along the route from 59th St. to 109th St.

would have been sacrificed for the extra lane and the walkway next to the park would have been narrowed. City Councilman Henry J. Stern (L-Manhattan) told the group that he would introduce a bill to require community board approval before a street could be widened. Joseph Veach Noble, director of the Museum of the City of Pickets at 79th St. and Fifth Ave, who came to demonstrate their displeasure with proposal to widen thoroughfare, learn that plan has been dropped.

New York and chairman of the New York State Board for Historical Preservation, said that he.