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DAILY NEWS MJ 3 Friday, October 28, 1988 By JARED McCALUSTER Daily News Staff Writer Elderly and disabled persons from throughout the city are scheduled to protest discrimination in the city's reduced-fare policy by demonstrating today outside Metropolitan Transportation Authority headquarters in Manhattan. The protesters, from a coalition of organizations including the Brooklyn-wide Interagency Council on the Aging and the Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled want the Transit Authority to recommend re MTA's meeting, which is open to the public. Shirley Genn, executive director of the Brooklyn-wide Interagency Council on the Aging, charged that TA officials reneged on promises to change the half-fare policy, which she said has a "negative" impact on New York's financially strapped elderly and disabled. Genn said the coalition is also asking that the MTA do away with rules that prevent the reduced-fare tickets from being used at the station where they were issued. At a meeting last July, Interagency Council members, representing the coalition, met with TA executives, who, Genn said, assured the seniors that time and station limitations would be voted on at a September MTA meeting and put into effect this month.

The officials also promised to consider the request to use the passes on buses, she added. But, Genn said, the TA position changed and the seniors were told the vote may be pushed back. Gardner denied that these promises had been made. reduced-fare tickets. Gardner explained that the changes would first have to get MTA approval and that the process may not be completed until early next year.

He added that the use of train transfers on buses would be a "cumbersome process." 'Negative' impact Today's protest will be held outside the Madison Ave. headquarters of the MTA board, which has final approval over the changes. The protesters plan to take their placards and posters into the moval of time limits on the use of the half-fare passes and to approve the use of the half-fare transfers on buses. Extension eyed A spokesman for the TA said the agency is currently examining proposed changes and will try to get some of the requests implemented by early 1989. TA spokesman Termaine Gardner said the agency is expected to recommend that the current three-day time limit be extended to seven days.

Also planned are changes in rules restricting the use of Mot airfts erafteir 2 innovative groups named for South Ferry to landmark, was built in 1907. The exterior and main waiting room will be stored by the developer. The total cost of the project is $400 million, with the city contributing $79 million dollars from the capital budget for public amenities. In addition to Campbell, Mayor Koch, Manhattan Borough President David Din-kins, and Kitty Carlisle Hart, chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts, attended the ceremony marking the event Many prominent artists, including composer Philip Glass also with a smile, "And I am going to start buying more Lotto tickets." The Department of Cultural Affairs has contributed $50,000 to the arts groups for architectural planning and has given legal and real estate expertise to the arts groups. Development plans call for a 60-story office tower to rise above a new Staten Island Ferry Terminal; a waterfront park, and observation decks.

The project is scheduled to be completed in 1993. The Battery Maritime Building, a city and federal fat? City is now completed. Outdoor shows Creative Time will continue to produce outdoor projects around the city, but will use its Battery Maritime Building space for offices and a gallery. "This is recognition by the city of the contribution of the arts to the city's economy." said Cee Brown, executive director of a Creative Time. Although happy with the new space.

White said that his dance organization still faces a crisis. "The problem is the interim time between now and when the new space is ready, he said. "Our current location is not secure." rm i fj mi-ill 0 -I, -CMMMWWWBiiJJWil mm Vm -Jflrr participated. Both arts groups specialize in presenting new artists and artistic ideas. Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W.

19th SL was founded in 1965, and has evolved into a major presenter of dancers and other performing artists. Creative Time, founded in 1973 specializes in producing art events in unusual outdoor locations. Its best known project is Art on the Beach, which was originally done on the landfill of Battery Park City. It was relocated to Hunters Point in Queens this year because Battery Park i i By JOAN SHEPARD Mannattan Cultural Affaire Editor Two well-established, nonprofit arts groups have been named by the city as primary tenants of the South Ferry Center for the Arts, which will be built in the old Battery Maritime Building as part of the $400 million redevelopment of the Southernmost tip of Manhattan. The groups.

Dance Theater Workshop and Creative Time, will use the building, which is adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. The building is part of the South Ferry Plaza project, expected to be completed by 1993. The waterfront site is being developed by the Public Development Corporation and the South Ferry Associates, which is a joint venture of the Continental Development; the Zeckendorf World Wide Holdings Arthur G. Cohen Properties, Zev Wolfson and KG Land New York Corp. It is the first time the city required developers to provide space for cultural activity as part of a development on city-owned property.

Space issue Cultural Affairs Commissioner Mary Schmidt Campbell said, "The lack of affordable space is the single most critical issue facing New York's City's cultural community. If New York is to continue to attract artists. we must insure that arts groups and artists have spaces." The groups will occupy at total of 30.000 square feet, half of which will be rent-free. The remaining 15,000 square feet will be rented to them at $15 per square foot The two arts organizations will have to raise about $4 million to renovate the interior into the needed theater space, studios, rehearsal and gallery space. In addition, the two groups must pay for maintenance and operating costs.

"It will take a sufficient contribution," said David White, executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, "from the surrounding financial community." He added i 7 OH! ANTONOV1CHI: Willow Bay models a black ranch mirm coat donated by Daniel Antonovrch (I.) that will be raffled off with other prizes at the Girls Club of New York's Masked Ball on Halloween nignt. Josepnine Pampniie executive director of tne Girts CtuD. said that the proceeds from the raffle will benefit more than 2,000 girls and boys who participate in the club's programs. i.