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DAILY NEWS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1973 C5 tot Am ii in nm (c i (ii ii wk jiu o) miiuii nuuii By SAM ROBERTS In a tiny, room on the first floor rear of a six-storj' tenement on East 65th Mrs. Gabriele Parker suffers from the. only illness for which the cure is worse old age. Reflecting on 72 years here and in Hungary in an apartment crowded with memories and dominated by a pray gas meter, she explains: "I'm not scared I don't have anything or anybody anymore so I don't have to fear if they kill me. We are strangers.

We are here to die." A couple of blocks up on 69th architect William Gleckman works on the ground floor of a brown- feoJ5f" 1 If0 smrm if -sit lii df faliiilillliliiiiiliiro ITS only February, but the mayoral race in New York City is already off and running. With the primary already in view, platoons of politicians are scrambling for what has been called the nation's most miserable job. In speeches and press releases, in inter- -views and TV talk shows, the candidates are busy telling as what the people are thinking, what they want, what they are worrying about. But the people themselves the ones who really count are hardly heard. Their voices are lost in the campaign din.

Time and again, we discover that the politicians are wrong about the electorate. We are ambushed by changing attitudes we didn't expect and election results that the experts didn't predict. In an effort to cut through the political fog and find out what is really on the minds of New Yorkers, The News is planning to monitor five representative neighborhoods. Obviously, we cannot talk to every New Yorker, but we can and we have talked to virtually every kind of New Yorker in every borough: rich and poor, black and white, native and foreign born. Catholic, Protestant, Jew, apartment dweller and homeowner.

Five reporters are doing the legwork and the listening in a neighborhood in each borough. In the coming months, at regular intervals, we will take up the specific issues raised by city dwellers in these borhoods. Cur goal is to convey to all News readers bat most of all to the mayoral candidates what it is that really bogs the ordinary New Yorker and what it is he really wants from his government. The title of the series is "Neighborhood Closeup 73" and we want to start out by telling you what our target areas are like. In the first part today, reporter Sam Roberts, a specialist in politics and government, examines Manhattan's upper East Side.

Sam Roberts, left, has done this closeup of lower Yorkville, a neighborhood in transition, where the new and the old uneasily coexist. stone he bought for $53,000 10 years ago and. spent "much more than that" to renovate into a sand-colored structure topped by a balcony resembling a battlement and a modernistic metal gargoyle over the garage. Sporting a white work coat, he opines: "We've been robbed four times, so I put in iron grilles and high walls. When you return to feudal times, you build a castle." Like most of the -upper East Side, the area from 64th to 69th Sts.

between First and Third Aves. is more than a tale of two cities, rich and poor. It is an area of increasing isolation and depersonalization as workingmen's tenements and brown, stones, small delicatessens and groceries, reluctantly yield to mammouth mountains of mortar molded into vertical Levittowns. Squeezed between Hunter College on the west and hospitals on the east, it is an area where developer-oriented zoning and inflated land costs have boosted (Continued on pagm 12) NEWS photos by Paul DeMaria (top) and Richard Corkery Very Fair Climate Aondl ISiQicEieifelbir vms a litte By SAM ROBERTS 1 Customers of the new red-carpeted Legislative Dining Roomwhich opened last week in the South Mall in Albany, are being nourished with food served by yellow-uniformed' waitresses and prepared by a subsidiary of a firm in which Gov. Rockefeller has a financial interest of at least $10,000, THE NEWS has learned.

The food service firm is a sub Cancer Test For Women Free cancer screenings for women of all ages will be held from noon until 8 p.m. today through Wednesday in the Einhorn Auditorium of Lenox Hill Hospital, 131 E. 76th between Park and Lexington sidiary of Interstate United a Chicago-based conglomerate in which Rockefeller has an interest and which is known to have at least three contracts with the state Qr its agencies. Two of those contracts, including the agreement to feed the legislators and their staffs, have been questioned by the state controller. The Only Company Interstate United is the only firm in which Rockefeller listed a personal interest last year in a financial statement required- of state officials who have an interest of $10,000 or more in a firm which may be subject to the jurisdiction -of a state regulatory hM agency.

nual automatic renewals to the one-year contract and explained why negotiations were not reopened with another firm which was the original low bidder but which was subsequently sold. Levitt's office said it wanted the contract cut to one year because of "the lack of formal competition and the newness of the facility." The state will pay the operating firm. Cease Commissary Service, $7,500 for administrative expenses and a management fee not exceeding 3 of total receipts, which the firm estimated at Another Interstate United subsidiary, Jones Beach Catering has an exclusive license for food and drink with the Long Island' State Park Commission, first signed in 1965 and renegotiated In 1970. The controller's office had objected to several items, including the fact that the commission rejected a substantially higher offer from the Canteen Corp, a subsidiary of ITT. The commission's general manager replied that "we believe the Canteen offer to be unurealistic and based more on a desire to win the contract than on an evaluation of our standards and current costs of operation." Interstate United, whose Brass Rail subsidiary was the largest food service operator at the New York Worlds Fair, also has a contract through a subsidiary with Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.

Under trust holdings "over which I have no power or control either with respect to the pur of information that would either support it or detract from it was not at hand. The Public Officers Law states that "an fficsr or employe of a state agency should abstain from making personal investments in enterprises which he has reason to believe may be directly involved in decisions to be made by him or which v. ill otherwise create substantial conflict between his duty in the public interest and his private interest." It was not known whether Rockefeller was even aware of the contract for food services in the dining room on the seventh floor of the South Mall's new Legislative Office Building, which is heavily marbled and includes a waterfall in its basement. The contract, which went out for bid in September 1971, was initially rejected by the office of Controller Arthur Levitt but was approved last Jan. 22.

The office of General Services agreed to strike-a clause grantim four, an chase or sale of assets or the distribution thereof," Rockefeller listed International Telephone Telegraph Corp. and bonds issued by the state Housing Finance Agency and Power Authority, and the Port of New York Authority. A spokesman for the governor declined to disclose how much of an interest Rockefeller has in Interstate United or when it was acquired, except to say that "the governor has listed all his holdings as required." The spokesman said yesterday the information obtained by The News "obviously would require some examina- UPI photo The temperature has Just topped 80 degrees with fair and milder weather predicted as Katie Williams arrived for day of surfing suburban Sydaey, Australia, beach. Katie's a student with hopes of becominff a TV weathergaL.