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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1974 ML7 4 Marmi vi. U. $. veir4S Mik Gateway Stri By MARY ENGELS The inclusion of a four and a half mile strip of beach between Fort Wadsworth and Great Kills Park in Staten Island as part of Gateway National Park has developed into a fight between federal authorities and State Sen. John Marchi it was 1 BROOKLYN ff VEWMNO- f0mm ISLAND jj Si I Atlantic Ocean jpGREAT KILLS 0 WILES eral officials to include the strip of beach for the Gateway development, Marchi said he felt that Staten Island residents have not had the opportunity to be advised through public hearings or elsewhere how the project would affect their everyday living.

Robert Straniere, counsel for Marchi, said he has met with Midland and Oakwood Beach civic groups. "The people are surprised when they hear how Gateway could cause overcrowded conditions and property loss," he said. Marchi said he has invited State Environmental Conservation Commissioner James L. Big-gane to make a general tour of the waterfront area Thursday. learned yesterday.

The U.S. Department of Interior and its National Park Service division insist that the land is needed so that they can go ahead with the overall plans for the project. However, Marchi claims that the transfer of the property to federal authorities might not be in Staten Island's best interest. Marchi was responsible for introducing the original state legislation authorizing the city to cede to the federal government 26,000 acres of land at the mouth of New York Harbor for the development of the Gateway National Recreation area. He later amended the bill to exclude the beach from Great nth- Siiiia John Marchi' I its i "''liP 4.

4. (ja By OWEN MORITZ Symbolizing the occasion with the planting of an acorn, tenant groups from four apartment complexes gathered in the South Park of Tudor City yesterday to form the Society of Tenant Organizations from Projects (STOP) owned by real estate giant Harry Helmsley. Kills to Fort Wadsworth. Marchi said the devlopment of the area for Gateway would require condemnation of private residential property immediately behind the beach strip in order to provide access parking. Marchi said he view3 with "trepidation" a program which would provide recreation facilities for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and Jerseyites in a borough with a population of 370,000.

"The implication of providing services such as transportation, police and fire protection, for these huge numbers of people, is awesome to contemplate," he said. In refusing the request of fed JtW 1 S'-iWt" News photo Dy uan rorza velt Island and Bowery Bay water pollution control plants. This is part of a $2 billion program," the spokesman said, which, when completed, will give the highest degree of secondary treatment to city sewage in the area." Some Change Noted In a reply to Vallone, Lang noted that at those portions of waterfront directly accessible to the public such as Astoria Park, there has been some perception of change in the quality of the river. In a sense, this is an acknowledgement of the beneficial effect the Roosevelt plant has had throughout the years." He said that during the expansion period, the pollution of the East River is nearly three times the normal load. By mid-1975, the pollution load of the river will begin to be reduced with the upgrading of the Wards Island and the Bowery Bay plants.

Lang added that work on the various water pollution control plants began in 1972. The plant is scheduled to be completed in 1976 and the Bowery Bay plant 'rrr I97S. r' 6' John McKcan, president of the Tudor City Tenants Association addresses park meeting. 1973: Blue fish; 1974: Pollution By BERNARD RABIN A Democratic councilman declared yesterday that last summer's run of blue-fish in the upper East River, the first time edible fish had appeared there in many The residents of four developments, Tudor City, Parkchester in the Bronx and Fresh Meadows and Windsor Park in Queens, anticipate condominium campaigns by Helmsley, the city's biggest private builder-owner. "Our purpose," said John F.

McKean, president of the Tudor City Tenants Association, "is to protect and preserve homes of about 70,000 people who live in apartments being, or about to be, sold out from under them as condominiums." Billed as a "tenants defense rally," the several dozen people who turned out renewed demands for an immediate moratorium on further Helmsley condominium moves pending action by the state Legislature on proposals to reform the condominium and cooperative laws. Have Strength The acorn, McKean explained, is a symbol "of the strength of the oak that will grow from this combination of tenant groups." Helmsley already has won state permission to convert one quadrant in huge Parkchester into a condominium the apartment counterpart of home ownership. He has announced intentions to convert the three remaining quadrants to condominums and has filed preliminary plans for a condominium at the Essex, 325 E. 41st within Tudor City. McKean said: "Everybody liv-York State is treatened, because ing in a rented apartment in New landlords all over the state know they can minipulate the law to sell apartments to tenants at twice what they can get on the market." Closing Put Off Meanwhile on Manhattan's west side, the owners of the Decause 01 increasing- water pollution, I ') Harry Helmsley Rivoli Theater at Broadway and W.

49th St. have extended the closing of the theater to make way for a motel at least another month. Earlier, employes were told the place would close Feb. 28, but management says now the closing won't come until March 28, if then. The 57-year-old movie house is doe to be razed later this year to make way for a high-rise 610-room Holiday Inn.

The Rivoli is the last of a breed of big name, large sized movie houses that once dominated Broadway and were often the sites for major movie premier. years, may not occur tnis year The city's Department of city Department Water Resources also agreed tiat pollution may increase in coming months but said it was only a one to two-year problem caused by necessary construction and upgrading of water pollution control plants in the area. Councilman Peter F. Vallone (Astoria) said he and members of the Astoria Civic Association have become deeply concerned" in recent months with a high concentration of rodents, unsanitary conditions, waste and sewage along the Astoria waterfront especially in the vicinity of Shorefront Park. The major complaint, he added, is about the offensive odors coming off the East River which are particularly noticeable in the Astoria area at low tide.

We Were Happy When bluefish began running last summer for the first time in years," Vallone said, we were happy in the thought that the pollution control measures were finally cleaning up the waters of the ypper East River. We hope the pollution control measures will continue and increase." Ina letter to Water Resources Commissioner Martin the as HIS Dictum On Lottery State lottery tickets are not tax deductible unless you won the lottery and want to offset your winnings, according to Robert J. Dath, district director of Internal Revenue Service for Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. Dath said some taxpayers who filed early in his district had mistakenly deducted lottery tickets as a state tax. councilman asked for information on any constructive steps being taken by the department to process sewage and waste in the northwest Queens area, as well the upper east side of Manhattan and the South Bronx in the Triborough Bridge area.

A spokesman for the city agency agreed there has been a reduction in the treatment of sewage in that section of the river. It was attributed to the up grading 'and Christinas at Srcleiiliam Robert H. Christmas has been named executive director of Sydenham Hospital, a 209-bed general care hospital at Manhattan Ave. and W. 123d the Health and Hospitals Corp.

announced. Christmas, assistant director of hospitals and clinics. University of California-San Francisco Medical Center, wilt assume his new duties in April. The appointment was made on recommendation of the. Sydenham search committee, with She approval of, Sydenham' community board,.