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7717 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING IN THIS taten Island 11 1990 Golden: Cleanliness a must needed before leases By SHARON B30USSARD Daily News Staff Writer Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden yesterday blasted a city plan to renew leases for three ill-maintained day-care centers, some of which his staff said neighbor vacant lots piled with mounds of garbage. KS! 1 were surrounded by vacant lots piled high with garbage. A complaint Gail Bailey, the director of the Johnson Center in Bush-wick, which cares for 141 children from the ages of 2 to 12, said that her landlord, Rabbi Natfali Steinmetz, had ignored numerous complaints to clean a lot filled with garbage near the schooL "You would be scared to enter the building," she said during the public hearing in Borough Hall. "You have an abandoned yard that looks like a junk yard. You have abandoned cars in front of the building." Similar problems were found at three other centers that were up for renewal last month, Golden said.

Although a city official said that the properties had not been formally inspected yet, she said that no leases would be renewed until the facilities are given a "comprehensive inspection" and the owners agree to make repairs. "We are in the process of doing everything he has stated. We're just doing it in a different time frame," said Cynthia Ayala, a land-use analyst with the Human Resources Administration. She explained that inspections are done after the agency is granted the right to renew the lease. 150 centers citywide The three sites are part of an estimated 150 day-care sites citywide whose 20-year leases made with private landlords are up for renewal.

The leases were made under a federal program that paid cities to lease land from private landlords for day-care centers and hire private operators for them. Golden, who has 30 days to make a recommendation about the centers to the city's Planning Commission, urged the city to sign shorter leases with landlords. He asked the HRA, which leases the sites to day-care operators, to accompany him on a visit to the troubled sites, and HRA officials said that they would. "All of these problems must be announced now, before the city signs 20-year leases with the individuals and corporations which own these sites," Golden said. "We are asking the city to insure that services at these day-care centers, are safe.

and. appro pr i ate qtj It hikirerr before more money funneled tq Wednesday, July Center on Atlantic leased at $66,000 a year; the Audrey Johnson Day Care Center on Moffat St, leased annually at $87,000, and the Haitian-American Day Care Center on Bedford leased at $93,750 a year reported many of them had leaky ceilings and toilets and the Council's Public Safety Committee who teamed up with Dear, added that only 26.3 of the funds allocated to the city's district attorneys went to Brooklyn, while 31.7 went to Manhattan. A partner in the intense talks surrounding the redistribution of the crime-fighting funds, Albanese concluded that he was happy to see "the gross inequities in the funding formula" rectified. But nobody was more pleased than Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. "I'm pleased with the help we have received in our efforts to combat crime and im- prove the quality of life in yn.

fctynest i the newsupf the i "We understand they can't turn the property into the Taj Mahal, but we expect them to inspect property before they make 20-year leases," Golden complained at a public hearing on the day-care centers. Golden said that staff members who inspected the three sites the Atlantic Day Care IMMIMII Ulll.M. lyn than in Manhattan last year, according to city statistics. The funding disparity, according to Dear, was further evident in the money earmarked for both boroughs. Manhattan was slated to get $48.35 million for 1990, compared to $39.9 million for Brooklyn.

Councilman Sal Albanese (D-Bay Ridge), a member of By CHARLES EATON and SHARON BROUSSARD Daily News Staff Writers A 16-year-old Canarsie youth was shot in the head yesterday in front of his school after he fought with another boy suspected of stealing his coat last winter. The wounded youth, Peter Andrews, was listed in critical condition in Brookdale Hospital after being shot in front of South Shore High School on Flatlands Ave. in Canarsie. Police said Andrews was shot at 11:45 a.m. near the front door of the school after he accused a boy of stealing his winter coat and got into a fistfight with him.

Pulled a gun While they were fighting, a third youth pulled a gun and shot Andrews in the head, police said. School officials said they did not know if Andrews was a student at the school, but Rodney Harrison, 16, a friend of Andrews, said the youth was taking a math class at the school. The youth with whom Andrews was fighting and the shooter fled the school grounds. Detectives from the Foster Ave. stationhouse were still searching for witnesses and suspects late yesterday afternoon.

"I have no idea what happened to him or why anyone would want to shoot him," said Harrison. By ROBERT FLEMING Daily News Staff Writer Noting an imbalance between the money allocated to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the appropriation to combat crime in Brooklyn, two borough coun-cilmen won a battle yesterday to obtain more funds for the beleaguered Brooklyn District Attorney's Office. Acknowledging yesterday's council victory, Councilman Noach Dear (D-Borough Park) said that the Brooklyn District Attorney's office had not received adequate funds to meet the rising level of serious crimes in the borough. Manhattan has always received more," "Deaf" said. "They were going to get more "3 J3 W- WASH WEAR: Anthony Loman gets cooled off by his friend, Kanm Davilla, as the two friends opened up a fire hydrant at 4th and Butler Aves.

The weather is supposed to cool off for the remainder of the week, so the hydrant should get a rest. momca almeida daily news again. But if you give the funds by the number of crimes, more of the money should go to Brooklyn. I'm proud to have been of service for the DA, a man who works with us to fight crime, who does what he can." The figures bear out Dear's contention. There were 14 more felony trials, 19 more felony indictments, and 30 more felony trials in Brook if you give the funds by the number of crimes, more of tlie money should go to j.

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