Daily News from New York, New York • 166

DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY? MARCH 26, 1975 its Jems By GEORGE JAMES In the four-story, red-brick, checker-front apartment building at 491 E. 94th in East Flatbush, the tenants spoke yesterday in hushed, fearful tones about the brutal suffocation of 71-year-old Abraham (Al) Pome-rantz in a first-floor apartment Monday morning. It is an apartment building, said tenants, that in recent times has seen a blind tenant mugged in a corridor. Three weeks ago the apartment of a woman was vandalized and burglarized only a day after she died of natural causes. Outside, on a street of low, brick, 3 and 4 story apartment buildings, duplexes, and private homes, neighbors, black and white, spoke with indignation about how the street has changed from a peaceful place to one of fear of muggings within about five years.

Five years ago, 150 feet down the street an around the corner on commercial Church a deli owner was shot and killed and his wife wounded when he told a young man he had no apple pie. Like a Father' About nine years ago, Al Pomerantz, a former Pitkin Ave. deli owner, later a Manhattan counterman, came to live in the building in which he died Monday. Several years ago, he started to visit the first-floor apartment of his friend Eleanor Eig. She had been burglarized once and was feaful, a neighbor said.

"He was like a father to me," Mrs. Eig said yesterday. "He was so good to me. Fine and decent. An ace of a man.

I say my husband, who died 13 years ago, sent this man down to take care of me." Pomerantz and Mrs. Eig had something in common both had been mugging victims. Ten years ago on a summer evening, on her way home from work, she was mugged in front of her apartment in East New York. He was mugged twice when he lived on Howard Ave. "He didn't tell me what they did, but he was alive," she said.

'Take anything I got, but don't hurt he told them." Used a Pillow Monday, Mrs. Eig said the were planning to go to the laundry together and later change the plates and dishes for Passover. She went out to get a newspaper on Church Ave. Before she left, she said she saw three youths at the mailbox. They told her they were ringing an aunt in an upstairs apartment.

They left. Police are looking for them. At about 11 a.m. she went out. She came back about 25 minutes later to find the door chain-locked.

She called the police, who broke in. Pomerantz had been in a room facing the street. Police think the killers came in the front door and threw Pomerantz on the convertible couch that served as Mrs. Eig's bed. They cut the white telephone cord and a lamp wire, tied his hands and feet, and suffocated him with her pillow.

They must have heard her at the door. They walked past the plastic flowers, past pictures of her two grown children, parted the thin green curtains, and dropped out the window five feet to the ground and ran to the sidewalk. News photo by Ed Molina rl Eleanor Eig weeps in apartment in which Al Pomerantz was slain. mm Dedicate New Co-op For Mixed incomes; in Future Housing Dim By SYBIL BAKER Crowning efforts by the Yorkville community, the new Euppert Houses was dedicated yesterday as a cooperative development for a mix of income groups. Public officials on the dais called the long awaited housing a dream come true but after the ceremony comments were more gloomy, as one official predicted that this could be the last subsidized housing to go up in the city in the luture.

ay s-vist hi News photo by Frank Russo Maj or beame, on Ed Charles Luce (center) and EPA's Robert Low sign contracts at City Hall. Mayor Beame, in a reference to the coalition of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups that had sponsored the development and joint work of federal, state and city governments that had made it possible, termed Ruppert House "a monument to cooperation." But Housing Administrator Roger Starr said after the ceremony that such projects won't be built anymore "unless the banks get back into the mortgage business." "At End of Road" As far as this city's subsidized housing goes, "we're at the end of the road," Starr said somberly. "If the city can't borrow, how can we lend?" Predicting that the banks won't furnish funds anymore without government guarantees, he By OWEN FITZGERALD Consolidated Edison, the city and two private engineering- consultant firms signed a $340,000, nine-month contract yesterday to prepare plans to burn garbage to generate electricity. paying the entire $340,000 cost of the study, it may be eligible to get 50 back from the state under the Environmental Qual ity Bond Act of 1972. If the plan proves feasible, garbage-into-power may be possible before 1980, Low said.

recommended that the city take advantage of guarantee provisions in the new federal Housing and Community Development Act. And while the officials and clergy lauded the tenacity of the community which ultimately won a long battle to keep the rents in the $27.8 million project comparatively low Arthur Bromberg, a vice president of Sulzberger-Colfe the development's managing agent, talked of marketing difficulties. The new development, which lies between Second and Thid Aves. and 92d and 93d has G52 apartments, of which 65 are reserved for elderly with incomes of less than $5,000 a year, and 9 of the remaining ones are subsidized by either federal, or Mitchell-Lama pro-grams, Bromberg said. Notes Vacabcies Even the apartments for the elderly still have vacancies, he said.

"Because people who have $1,500 for the down payment usually have assets that put them above the income limit," he explained. Bromberg said that the other apartments are "still half vacant." In these, he said that for the same apartment, the down payments and carrying charges vary, depending on the tenants' income. For example, a two-bedroom apartment would cost a family earning $9,600 to $14,500 a down payment of $2,700, and monthly carrying charges from $210 to $276. The down payment of a family earning from to 140,300 would be the same, but the carrying chare would rit to about moathT ly. Flicker of Landmark Elegance The plans will lead to a pilot project in which the city will supply 1,000 tons of refuse daily to be shredded and mixed with oil in Con Ed's No.

20 boiler at its Arthur Kill power plant on Staten Island. A similar experiment is under way in St. Louis, where one of the consultant firms, Horner Shifrin, working with the Union Electric is burning 300 tons a day in a power generation demonstration project. The operation is expected to start using 8,000 tons of St. Louis garbage shortly.

Mayor Beame, Environmental Protection Administrator Eobert Low and Charles Luce, board chairman of Con Ed, hailed the local study program as a step toward dealing with the problems of energy supply and solid waste disposal. State May Help Low said the city's population produces 28,000 to 30,000 tons of garbage daily and that landfill space will be exhausted in the 1980s. Incineration is becoming too Ha said although the city is By ROBERT CRANE A skyscraper, a mansion and the Gay Nineties-style interior of a Brooklyn restaurant were bestowed protection as historic sites yesterday by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission. Designated as landmarks were the U.S. Courthouse at Foley Square, the DeLamar Mansion at 233 Madison both Manhattan, and the Gage and Tollner restaurant interior, the first com-merical interior to receive landmark designation.

The designations go before the Board of Estimate, which has 90 days to accept, reject or modify them. The courthouse designation was the third landmark feather in the architectural cap of the late Cass Gilbert, whose designs for the Wool-worth Building and the U.S. Custom House have already been designated. The DeLamar mansion, epitomizing the turn-of-the-century La Belle Epoque" style of French architecture, was built for Colorado gold mining czar Joseph DeLamar in 1902. Notable features include a regal entrance way, contracting design patterns and a crested mansard roof.

For years, the mansion was-headquarters for the National Democratic Club, and is now owned by the consulate general of the Polish People's Republic. Gage and Tollner, at 372 Fulton has elegant bay windows, unusual wall coverings, and a series of tall, arched mirrors framed by dark cherry wood trim. Original gas and electric fixtures, which were installed in 1888, provide what may be the only gas-electric illumination in a city restaurant. Beverly Moss Spatt, chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said the interior is "one of the few in New York City that lhe courthouse, completed in 1936, Is a neo- MjlasscaViiskysjjijafiei! with a gold i leaf--cored mak-available; to public1 a glimpse, of th roof and flanfcern topping a 20-story tower. elegance and charm of early Brooklyn.".