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It Thursday, December 21, "1989 DAILY NEWS j- i MJ 3 Commission names Riverside-West End Historic District ter potential tenants learned that the buildings were under the commission's scrutiny. Says file is lost Gerwin testified that the additional bureaucratic procedures were an expensive proposition for small businesses. The owner of 315 Broad Broadway Building; and buildings at 315, 325 and 359 Broadway. The Home Life Building is cited as an example of an early skyscraper. The hearing took place last week solely for public comment.

The commission will vote on each building at a date to be announced. difficult. The bulk of properties on the Landmarks Commission's calendar were in lower Manhattan in the City Hall area, including Home Life Insurance, 253 Broadway; Rogers Peet, 258 Broadway; Broadway-Chambers, 273-277 Broadway; Mutual Reserve Fund, 305 Broadway; the 311 way, which was built in the 1890s, also objected to landmark designation. "There is no data to support the fanciful description of this building," attorney Allan Green, representing the owner, said. Green also complained that the Department of Buildings had lost the file for 315 Broadway, making research i if as--.

iE-sr. kiss? i. sr 1 11 4 A By JOAN SHEPARD Manhattan Cultural Affairs Editor The Landmarks Preservation Commission put a new historic zone on the Manhattan map this week by designating the Riverside-West End Historic District. Its boundaries are 85th St. to 95th St.

along Riverside Drive and West End Ave. from 87th St. to 84th St The area, according to the commission, contains a large concentration of architecturally distinctive buildings dating from 1884 to 1939. The historic district designation means that alterations to any buildings in the district cannot proceed without approval by the commission. St.

Mary the Virgin too The panel also landmarked the Free Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 133-145 W. 46th St. and 136-144 W. 47th St.

The landmark designation includes the church, the clergy house, the mission house, the rectory and a chapel. At its final public hearing of the year, held earlier, the commission listened to public testimony on 38 proposed landmark buildings, 34 of which are in Manhattan. The star item was the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Ave. at 89th St. Major preservation groups, including Friends of the Up-.

per East Side Historic Districts, the Society for the Architecture of the City and the Municipal Arts Society, testified in favor of landmarking the interior and exterior of the museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in October 1959. Guggenheim Museum officials did not oppose the proposal for the museum, known around the world for its double rotunda design. "The museum is in total support of designation," museum spokesman Thomas Sansone said. "We want to restore the building to its original integrity." Annex under way The museum is undergoing restoration and constructing an annex. Current expansion plans were not subject to jurisdiction by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The museum secured all permits before it was placed on the commission's calendar. However, not all building owners were happy with the thought of their property being landmarked. Owners of 45, 47 and 51 Murray St. and 53 Warren St. objected so strenuously to landmark designation that commission chairman David Todd invited them to meet with him so he could explain the property owner's responsibility under the Landmarks Law.

Arthur Gerwin, attorney for the Murray St. and Warren St. property owners, testified that the owners could not get commercial-rental tenants af It's a great morale booster for all of us," said Karin Hirsch, administrator of the dialysis unit. She said the staffers would look the other way if the patients cheated a little on their diets at the gala. Blumetti has suffered from kidney disease since 1942.

He has been on dialysis to cleanse impurities from his blood since 1976. The state bill would require local health officials to keep a record of each infant born with a disabling condition; provide family services to the crack-addicted baby and his family; annually review the infant's status, and notify the local school district of the need for special educa-Mon for the infant. ft PARTY TIME: Host Oreste Blumetti listens as fellow dialysis patient Dialysis Santa overcomes Marcel DeTaranto plays Christmas music for guests -oan chonin daily nevis snow and own disabilities By JACK LEAHY Daily News Staff Writer Despite the frigid weather and his own infirmities, nothing could stop Oreste Blumetti of Sunnyside, Queens, from hosting his 14th Christmas party for fellow dialysis patients. Each year for the past several years; the 67-year-old retiree has felt the annual party at the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care tions of gift items, wine, cookies, cakes and other goodies for the celebration. He brought them with him Tuesday, in the ambulette" he uses three times a week to get to the hospital for his dialysis treatments.

The hospital provides the other necessities for the party, which was held in the auditorium. The 250 guests included patients, their relatives and staff members. nonaddicted babies. The study advocated early intervention for babies born with crack and an expansion of hospital beds for crack babies. Following the recommendations of the study, State Sen.

Roy Goodman (R-Man-hattan) called for passage of the Early Intervention Services Act of 1990. irs sad) Center on Fifth Ave. at 106th St would be his last. "I live in constant pain," he said. "My bones and nerves are no good anymore and I have to use a wheelchair.

But I go right on living. It must be for a reason only God knows." As he does every holiday season, Blumetti managed to contact local merchants in Sunnyside for contribu crack-addicted infants. The report found, for instance, that infants of drug-addicted mothers are three times more likely to die in the first year of life than other infants; crack-addicted infants have a much higher incidence of syphilis, and crack babies are 50 limes more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) than tepirO: (odd mdi pedtere Crack cocaine has a "devastating physical and emotional" effect on unborn and newborn children whose mothers use the drug during pregnancy, according to a state report issued yesterday. Many of the findings of the report, "Crack Babies: The Shame of New York," have by now become depressingly familiar to doctors dealing with.