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DAILY NEWS UuSfft) 1 V. AT Sf lf i'? Guilt ew Iforkers' favorite trip: 'EW YORKERS love to debate, argue, quarrel, and most of all psychoanalyze themselves got And you hear some people say they should have caught him, but they shouldn't have worked him over. So you got all kinds of opinions." So once again New York is in a dither, its favorite condition. When nobody helped Kitty Genovese, society was callous. When an angry mob jumps a knife-wielding mugger, maybe that's callous.

That movie critic could be right. Maybe Woody Allen should be New York's official shrink. Myself, I take a simplistic view. When somebody pulls a knife on a law-abiding old man, he does so at his own peril. The fact that he's still alive makes him a lucky young man.

And it means that the crowd either showed some restraint or they all had small fists and feet I guarantee that if 50 people from my old neighborhood in Chicago had chased him down, by the time the police arrived, they wouldn't have found enough of him to take a fingerprint. 1989 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE those who caught the man gave him one hell of a beating. He was in far worse shape than the old man who was knifed, who had his facial wounds stitched and went right home. Now there is a debate over whether it was right or wrong for the crowd to take it upon themselves to try to stomp the mugger into the payement. Most of the Jews who live in that project at least those quoted in the New York press say they think that while the crowd might have been overly enthusiastic, what they did was basically just and proper.

and each other. In what other city would the leading movie critic jump all over Woody Allen for making a movie that was simply funny, rather than using his gifts of insight to tell New Yorkers about their inner selves? That actually happened. And Allen apparently took the critic seriously and stopped making funny movies. Now he makes dour movies that are viewed only by his fellow neurotics. What New Yorkers enjoy most, though, are guilt trips.

They like experiencing them and, even more, they enjoy sharing the guilt with others. One of the all-time great New York guilt trips occurred almost 25 years ago when a young woman named Kitty Genovese was murdered on a street in Queens. More than two dozen people heard her screams, but only one called the cops and none left their homes to help her. This became known as the "Genovese Syndrome," and more than 1,000 articles and books were written on the case, asking the question: Why didn't anyone help? The question was never fully answered. Some of the do-nothings were afraid of getting involved.

Others weren't sure what was happening. A few were callous. But it made New Yorkers feel guilty, and many of them said it reflected a national indifference to the suffering of others. Which was nonsense then and is nonsense now. Every day, all over America, ordinary people help strangers, often at their own risk.

What made the Genovese case news, something unusual, was that no one did anything. "OWEVER, IN THE black neighborhood a few blocks 1-5 Now New Yorkers are wrestling with another ethical and moral issue. Or at least that's the way it is being presented. A headline in The New York Times described it as: "A Mugging and a Mob Evoke Debate." What happened was that a 67-year-old man got on an elevator in a housing project in Brooklyn. Also on the elevator was a much younger man, age 24, who drew a knife and demanded the older man's money.

Before the robbery was completed, the younger man had slashed his victim in the face with the knife. When the elevator stopped and the slasher got off, his victim began screaming the word chaptzum. In Yiddish, this means "grab him," or something to that effect. In that particular part of Brooklyn, there live many Ha-sidic Jews. And when they hear someone yell chaptzum, they react.

So dozens of them came running out of their homes, shouting chaptzum, and chased the elevator mugger. They caught him and were apparently zealous in making sure he didn't get away. By the time they finished restraining him, he was really restrained. When the cops and medics arrived, he was unconscious, and at the hospital the doctors put him on the critical list. The New York Times, which has a dignified style, didn't come right out and say it, but it appears that many of where the young man Ballerina dances in Soviet again LENINGRAD Ballerina Natalia Makarova returned to the stage she fled nearly two decades ago.

Her homecoming marked another lowering of barriers in President Mikhail Gorbachev's drive to open Soviet society. Makarova 48, performed a special pas de deux from Tchaikovsky's ballet "Onegin," at the famed Kirov Theater, the Tass news agency reported. Makarova defected in 1970, saying she wanted to broaden her Career. The Associated Press lives as an unemployed street person, they think the crowd was unnecessarily brutal. "It was outrageous," one man was quoted.

"Fifty people beating up on one dude." And others, of all races and religious persuasions, are chiming in. I phoned a friend of mine in New York, and he said: "Yes, some people are saying it means we are going to have an outbreak of vigilante behavior, and they are worried. Some of them say that if he wasn't poor and homeless, he wouldn't have to steal, that society drove him to it. Then there are those who say that poverty is no excuse, and he deserved what he 1 White Plains I YORK I While Plains I New Haven 1 321 Dock TODAY: Rain. High 37, low 25.

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Hall of Board, 110 Livingston Brooklyn. Parades: Chinese New Year Parade begins at midnight Sunday at Canal proceeds east on Canal to Mott south on Mott to Bayard St, east on Bayard, reversing on Bayard St. to Mott St. Proceedings: 10 a.m. Jury selection in trial of Todd Scott, charged with murder in slaying of Police Officer Edward Byrne.

Queens Supreme Court, Kew Gardens. 10 a.m. Jury selection in trial of Jean-Louis Sasha, charged with decapitating two men. Queens Supreme Court, Jamaica. Sun rises New York 7:06 am.

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10 a.m. Rent Guidelines Board public meeting. Loft Board, 116 Nassau llth-floor hearing room. 10 a.m. Unveiling of plaque commemorating achievements of Nikola Tesla, Yugoslav-American engineer, scientist and inventor, who died in 1943.

Lobby of United Engineering Center, 345 E. 47th St. 11:30 a.m. Mayor Edward Koch, Borough President David Dinkins and other officials take part in topping-out ceremony for scaffolding at the Municipal Building. Rear of City Hall.

3 p.m. Inflation of 32-foot-tall Pink Panther balloon in front of huge red heart for Valentine's Day. Macy's Herald Square marquee. 4 p.m. U.S.

Postal Service conducts first-day-of-issue ceremony dedicating 25-cent stamp honoring A. Philip Randolph, the 12th in the Black Heritage stamp series, at M.B. Rosenhaus Center for Human Rights, 345 E. 46th St. 4 p.m.

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The following are from police reports: A bartender was found fatally beaten yesterday inside the East Side restaurant where he worked. Police said Edward Faber, 42, of Corona, Queens was severely beaten about the face and body with a sharp instrument as he cleaned up the Via Mia Restaurant at 55 E. 59th St. after hours on Wednesday. Police said an undetermined amount of cash was removed from the bar area and a nearby office was ransacked.

A restaurant employe made the discovery yesterday at 6:55 a.m. The body of a man in his late 20 's was found fatally shot at the rear of 433 Lafayette St. in Brooklyn yesterday morning, police said. The victim died from a single gunshot wound to the back of his head. Police said a gunman fired a shot from the sidewalk, fatally wounding a man in his 20s who was riding in a cab Wednesday night at the comer of 128th St and 7th Ave.

in Harlem. The unidentified victim was taken Motorists are advised to use York and Second Aves. Monday: Light traffic expected, 90 of normal volume. Tuesday: Light to moderate traffic expected, 95 of normal volume. Wednesday: Moderate traffic expected, near normal volume.

Thursday: Moderate traffic expected. Friday: Moderate to heavy traffic expected, 105 of normal volume. fanes of the westbound exit ramp leading to Park Ave. closed for roadway repair through February. From 7 a.m.

until 3 p.m. Saturday, the westbound exit ramp will be closed. Motorists wishing to access Park Ave. should exit off the first ramp leading to Blvd. East.

Sunday: Extremely light traffic expected, 75 of normal volume. East River Drive southbound roadway will be closed between 63d and 34th Sts. from 12:01 a.m. until 8 a.m. This forecast is based on a computerized analysis of traffic volume over the past decade and on upcoming events: 5 Tomorrow: Light traffic expected, 90 of normal volume.

Lincoln Tunnel on the New Jersey side has one of two.