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Daily News from New York, New York • 45

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New York, New York
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45
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Thursday, November 9, 1989 DAILY NEWS 45 mm rUDOdl OTDOgODOg o)g Dave tells plaBS for the maBsioe "I'm not saying you should turn all of Gracie Mansion into a playground," Dinkins said. "But it would be nice for the mansion to have a child's view, too." Life certainly will change for the Dinkinses when they move from their llth-floor, $600-a-month, three-bedroom, Mitchell-Lama apartment at Riverside Drive West and 157th St Dinkins said he had not decided whether to keep the subsidized flat but state law says he may. Built in 1789 Built in 1789 by Wall Street merchant Archibald Gracie, the mayor's official residence comes with a live-in chef, a seven-member service staff and a police security detail. Dinkins will have a police driver for his official limousine with the flashing light and siren that will allow him to run red lights at will. Mrs.

Dinkins was resting after the ordeal of the campaign and was unavailable for comment about plans to redecorate. Koch said he would give her a top-to-bottom tour next week because "it's hers but it's mine until Dec. 31." By MARCIA KRAMER Oady News Cny Had Bureau Chtef Gracie Mansion may be losing Peewee the rabbit but will gain a dog and a swing set After 12 years as a bachelor pad, the 16-room mansion with panoramic views of the East River is going to get a new First Couple with new eccentricities. Gone will be a 3-foot black and white papier-mache rabbit that Mayor Koch kept in his bedroom because "when you get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night it's nice to see a famil-. iar face like Peewee's." Joyce and David Dinkins want to make the mansion child-friendly.

Dinkins wants a dog. "I've never had one and it would be good for my grandson," he said yesterday. He said it also would be nice to put a swing set on the front lawn. A child's view Dinkins said it would hot just be for his grandson, Ja-mal, 3, and a grandchild on the way (daughter Donna is expecting). It would be for children of his staff and other city officials.

Or Ik 1. if, I "maim iinilMiiMi i Mil mill 1 i i irr rrT' 0 ini NEW FIRST COUPLE: David and Joyce Dinkins will give new look to Gracie Mansion. MONICA ALMEIDA DAILY NEWS odd oono ff9 DM UUd CSdbo month in the shooting of al- leged drug dealer David Morrison, 22, on Aug. 4 on an East New York street corner during a fight over drug territory. Morrison, shot twice in the By PATRICE O'SHAUCHNESSY Daily News Staff Mnter A "dangerous" suspect indicted in one Brooklyn slaying and suspected in several others was arrested in Con mother's home in Waterbury.

Robles, who has a dozen arrests for armed robbery, weapons possession and other crimes, was indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury last necticut, police said yesterday. Luis Robles, 35, of Sutter reportedly dubbed "The Knife" by drug dealers, was arrested Tuesday outside his neck by Robles' pal with a gun allegedly handed to him by Robles, died Aug. 23. In addition to the warrant in the Morrison slaying, po-lice have evidence to seek indictments against Robles for eight other killings, detectives who went to Waterbury to pick him up said. Deputy Chief Vincent Pizzo of the Housing Authority police said Robles is also wanted for questioning in the slayings of two men and two women in the Unity Plaza project in East New York Pizzo did not describe Robles as a suspect in the quadruple homicide.

Brooklyn Detective Chief Joseph DeMartino said Robles "has a reputation for being very dangerous," DeMartino said. "He is well-known in the community." Waterbury Chief Inspector John Griffin said police acting on a warrant arrested Robles without a struggle. are brought there by barge and truck daily. "If we had to ship that out of state, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year if we could find someplace to take it," said Sexton. The city's only other active landfill, the Edgemere Landfill in the Rocka-ways, takes about 1,200 tons of municipal waste a day.

It will close in July 1991. Jorling's order seeks penalties of $76,621,000 against the city for allegedly allowing conditions that pollute water; failing to submit complete per- mit applications, allowing litter into nearby waterways and failing to control odors. Owen Fitzgerald fortunate for all New Yorkers that the city's refusal to negotiate this issue in good faith has led to this action," said Jorling. But City Sanitation Commissioner Brendan Sexton called the move "outrageous." He said the city has spent "tens of millions of dollars" improving the landfill and "has shown nothing but good faith" in meeting state directives. The matter will be reviewed at an administrative court hearing Jan.

30 when, Sexton said, the city will contest the order. If the landfill on the Arthur KU1 was. closed, the city would face a crisis, he said. Nearly 17,000 tons of solid waste State authorities want to fine New York City more than $76 million for violations at its huge Fresh Kills garbage landfill on Staten Island, and they've threatened to close it by July 1, 1991. Thomas Jorling, state environmental conservation commissioner, said the city has reneged twice on commitments in the last decade to correct conditions at the dump.

In 1981, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classified Fresh Kills as an "open dump," requiring that it be upgraded or closed. "After months of negotiations, the 1 city has refused to discuss closure in i the event of a permit denial. It is 1.

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