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ASS if! ADVERTISING 5 SECTION -i 221 33J8AT3MIT 3IVOM ML MJ 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1988 SMp-sfsp train klocht do Gar They'll kick the Utter off W. 181st St. strip By KEITH MOORE eas." Bolstad is in charge of enforcement for upper Manhattan. The retail strip at W. 181st.

is very heavily trafficked, local officials said, noting the high number of customers leave increased litter. Some of the merchants were encouraged to sponsor their own drive for cleaning up after receiving a special tax assessment on their property. But not all the merchants are participating. State Sen. Franz Leichter (D-Washington Heights-Inwood) said, "Hopefully, we will be able to get all of the.

merchants and the property owners involved." ers and the We Care About New York organization. The occasion was marked by the installation of 70 litter baskets and 40 banners on W. 181st St. from Fort Washington Ave. to Amsterdam Ave.

Baskets and banners were also placed on a permanent basis at Broadway from 179th to 182d St and St Nicholas Ave. from 179th to 183d St. Trash from the baskets will be collected by the Washington Heights Business Improvement District's supplementary sanitation crew. Assessment received A city Sanitation official, Robert Bolstad, hailed the effort, saying, "I wish there more such drives in other ar Daily News Staff Writer Merchants in Washington Heights and Inwood yesterday launched a drive aimed at keeping their prime business district litter-free. The move kicked off by business leaders and officials at the W.

181st St retail strip was the beginning of what local leaders hope will be a more widespread campaign. Said City Councilman Stanley Michels (D-Washington Heights-Inwood), "I certainly hope this is contagious and everybody catches it" Officially known, as the Comprehensive Merchant Strip Anti-Litter and Beauti-fication Program, it is being sponsored by business lead Transit officials have indefinitely postponed plans to speed up service on the Seventh Ave. Broadway local by skipping some stops along the line. "Like new Coke," a transit spokesman said, referring to the soft drink, "we thought it was a great idea, but not everybody else agreed with us." The spokesman, Jared Lebow, said similar plans contemplated for the No. 6 Lexington Ave.

local the Pel-ham Bay Park line had also been put on the back burner. He said the plans were contingent upon the effectiveness of the ones affecting the Broadway line. The "skip-stop" operation was to go into effect last Monday. Under the plan, four stops were to be skipped. They included 225th St, 207th St 157th and 125th St New train eyed A new No.

9 train would have picked up the slack, skipping five stops, including 238th, 215th Dyckman, 181st and 145th Sts. TA officials said an estimated 30,000 passengers above W. 116th St would have been affected by the move. But, Lebow conceded, "We didn't do a good job of getting the message out" Maria Luna, chairman of Community Board 12 in Washington Heights-Inwood, said she first heard of the plan in the spring in a presentation made by the TA to that board's transportation committee. "The public was never formally notified," Luna said.

But even though the public had not been put on notice, Luna set about lobbying against the plan, arguing that it would inconvenience too many passengers. Lebow said the TA would be talking in the next few weeks to elected political officials and community leaders. "We have to do a better job of educating the public," Lebow said. But Luna speculated that the skip-stop idea may be scrapped altogether. "I think the TA is just trying to save face," by postponing it indefinitely, Luna said.

Asked about this, Lebow said, "Who knows?" Keith Moore pwip I'M" 1 im jpilliint nut mi wiiia ii mm mi nm am 'Srr9 4 rn 1 Hil It VAN LIES on its side on W. 34th St. after colliding with an ambulance going north on Sixth Ave. at 2:30 p.m. yesterday.

Both drivers went in another ambulance to Bellevue, where they were treated for minor injuries. Two Herald Square pedestrians were treated at the scene. tom monaster daily news tomorrow at 2 p.m. The film documents the history of Eastern European Jews in the last 100 years. The library is located at 650 W.

235th St in the Bronx. Brazilian culture The Edenwald Branch of the New York Public Library will show a series of short films on Brazilian and black culture tomorrow at 1 p.m. Admission is free. The library is located at 1255 E. 233d St in the Bronx.

School shots Free immunization from polio, measles, mumps, rubella and other childhood diseases can be obtained at Lincoln Hospital tomorrowand Sept. 8 and 20. The shots are necessary for students to enter public schools and will be given inside the hospital, located at 149th St and Morris Ave. in the Bronx. Dance program A dance program about drums and the spirit of African society will be held Sept.

10 at the Hunts Point Regional Branch of the New York Public Library at 2 p.m. The ensemble Sabar Ak Afriq will perform in this free program. Music ralndate The final Gazebo concert rained out Monday night has been rescheduled for tonight at Washington Market Park at Washington and Chambers Sts. in lower Manhattan. Tonight's concert is "Melody of Broadway." HS registration Herbert H.

Lehman High School in the Bronx is holding an over-the-counter registration at the school's library through Friday from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Proof of residency, a birth certificate, proof of immunization and an unofficial school transcript are required to register. Free thriller The Baychester Regional Branch of the New York Public Library will show the French romantic suspense-thriller "Diva" tonight at 7:30. Admission is free. The library is located at 2049 Asch Loop North in the Bronx.

Film on Jews The Spuyten Duyvil Branch of the New York Public Library will host a free screening of "L'chaim-To Life" Firoig3ii( on Maoas Money for the housing, which will be for a mix of low- and moderate-income families, comes from the city and state. Units will be available for homeless families. Ferrer said he wanted to get rid of "the dark mean streets" in the Bronx. "The new units will provide badly needed housing and upgrade the image of our borough," the borough president said. The Hunts Point area is known for its wholesale food market and other industries.

All of the housing units" are in vacant city-owned buildings. The rehabilitation of the units will also provide hundreds of jobs, according to Ferrer. Both the Hunts Point project and the Cross Bronx Initiative are part of the city's Ten-Year Housing Affordable Plan. Ferrer said he now will be looking for additional units in the West Bronx. The housing will be managed by community-based non-profit organizations.

Those interested in applying should write to the Borough President's Office at the Bronx County Court House, Bronx, N.Y. 10451. Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer announced yesterday his plan to spearhead the rehabilitation of 600 units of housing in the Hunts Point Peninsula area. The units are in a dozen buildings east of the Bruckner Expressway near 163d St. This plan is similar to the Cross Bronx Planning Initiative in which 1,500 units will be rehabilitated.

Completion of the Cross Bronx housing is expected in about two years. The Hunts Point plan is only in the design phase, and a date-for breaking ground has not been announced..