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1 DAILY NEWS, Friday, May 13, 1988 ML MJ 1 Modern masterpiece The Seagram Building, regarded as a masterpiece of modern architecture, will be considered for designation by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday. Little or no opposition is expected to surface at the fa" State to assist drug rehab center By KEITH MOORE i 'i fQ hearing, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. in City Hall. In fact, both the current and former owner of the building, designed by Mies van der Rohe with interior design by Philip Johnson, are in favor of landmark designation. The building, at 52d and Park, was completed in 1958 and was sold by the Seagram Company in 1974 to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, a nonprofit pension fund.

"Part of the condition of sale was that we would support landmarking," said a Teachers Insurance spokesman. Ill fe fcw riiiri ttiT SEAGRAM BUILDING up for Daily News Staff Writer Addicts Rehabilitation Center, a pioneer residential drug rehabilitation program, got some good news yesterday when the state agreed to assist in raising enough funds for the program to expand. ARC, as the program is known, had been squabbling with the state Division of Substance Abuse over the de-gree of the program's planned expansion. The agreement means that ARC, at 1881 Park can proceed with plans to open another facility at 128th St and Madison officials of the state agency said. Work on finances "We will meet with them next week to work out the finances," said the Rev.

James Allen, who heads the drug program. ARC is the oldest residential drug rehabilitation program in the state, having started in 1957. Money from the state to build the new facility had been predicated in part on private funding. But because ARC is a grassroots operation, its sources of private funding are not as extensive as some other groups. Reduced size The Division of Substance Abuse had suggested that since raising funds was a problem, then maybe the new REV.

JAMES ALLEN (r.) leads rehearsal of Addicts Rehabilitation Center Gospel Choir. facility should be reduced in size from four to three stories. But Allen persisted, noting the need for an expanded program in Harlem. "I can't say no to somebody who says I have a problem and I need your help," he said, "I just cant" Allen's residential program has 200 persons. The planned new facility will have room for another 200.

But he said. he would still have a list of some 300 persons most of them crack addicts waiting to get in. The group plans a fundraiser on July 10 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem when the ARC Gospel Choir, whose members are graduates of the program, will perform. "They are one of our chief fundraising sources," Allen said, noting the popularity of the group in minority areas. landmark status.

a great building but along with its plaza, it is one of the great urban spaces in the world," said Kent Barwick, president of the Municipal Art Society. "We gave the building an award for excellence when it was built" In fact, in 1976, the Seagram Company, much to everyone's surprise, asked the city to landmark the bronze and glass tower. But the building was too young. To be eligible for landmark designation, a building has to be 30 years old. When Seagram asked for the designation, then-Mayor Beame was stunned.

"It's the first time I've ever heard of anyone wanting their building to become a landmark," said Beame. Many prominent architects are expected to testify on Tuesday, including Philip Johnson and a representative of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects as well as Phyllis Bronfman Lambert Lambert is the daughter of the late Samuel Bronfman, one of the founders of the company, and it was she who urged her father to commission an important modern architect to design the company's Park Avenue corporate headquarters. The commission will also consider the interior of the Four Seasons Restaurant, designed by Philip Johnson, for designation. The owners, Paul Kovi and Tom Mar-giatta, have said they are in favor of landmarking. Another unusual aspect of Tuesday's hearing is the commission's interest in a modern building.

Most of the commission's time is devoted to saving 19th century buildings designed in classic European styles. The Seagram building is one of the few modern buildings that ever come up for landmarking. The Lever House on Park Ave. was landmarked in 1982 after intervention by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Joan Shepard Manhattan Cultural Affairs EdKor help.

Mpiess 1Mb By GUS DALLAS Daily News Staff Wnter Child victims of homeless-ness and crime were the subject of two conferences in Manhattan yesterday. State Legislature committees held a joint hearing at the World Trade Center aimed at creating legislation requiring special training for law enforcers involved with child crime victims. At Manhattan Community College, a large number of child-care and welfare agencies met on the first day of a two-day conference in hopes of pooling experiences that may develop better care for homeless children. Policy goals Workshops and a draft statement of policy goals for child-care for homeless chil in shelters in the city and half of them are pre-schoolers," declared one of the conference's planners, Antony Ward. "There are 800 publicly-funded slots in care programs and the proposed city budget aims to cut this to about 500 slots," said Ward, executive director of Child Care a non-profit information and referral agency.

Dorothy Hartigan, education director for the day-care center at the Prince George Hotel, a shelter for homeless families on E. 28th said there were 465 families and 1,100 children in the hotel. "We have children in the hotel who were born in shelters and at 4 they are still living in shelters," she said. "What are we going to do?" After the legislative hearing at 2 World Trade Center, ment in the criminal justice system, said that a new law would establish a curriculum for a child-victim education course and require all police, prosecutors and court officers in the state to take it Zimmer conducted the hearing on his 1986 law the Child Victims Bill of Rights. It seeks to minimize the number of times a child must recount a crime, lets "a supportive person" be present, during questioning and allows the use of dolls and drawings in testimony.

"It's working well," Zimmer said, "but I believe we're; going to need to mandate; education of law enforcement personnel in general, because I see that we've; made some progress with training, but not all the progress we could make. "The courtSjhilemoyini Church in Harlem, are among those being honored. Luncheon tickets are $50. For more information, call Denise Glaude, 250-5943. Mother Hale Mother Clara Hale will be grand marshal at the 21st annual Martin Luther King Jr.

memorial parade at 11 a.m. Sunday at 44th St. and Fifth Ave. The parade is organized by the 369th -Veterans Association. Honoring women The National Council of Negro Women will honor several outstanding New Yorkers tomorrow at its annual luncheon, which takes place at noon in the New York Hilton, Sixth Ave.

at 53d St. Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner, and the Rev. Carolyn Knight, founder of the Philadelphia Baptist dren are scheduled for today Assemblyman Melvin N. Zim- -at-the TtmfereraTrrcarleTt mef rDTauseiraTrfiroToTa a bit slower, are moving in mere are n.uuu cnuaren crime victims from mistreat- mer said..