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6 XQ DAILY NEWS Monday, April 2, 1990 nn l. I A If Hi fl TU. Residents of Roosevelt Island push City Hall to keep aerial line running By OWEN FITZGERALD Ddily News Stuff Wnter The tram that spans the East River just north of the Queensborough Bridge may be facing the end of the line as a result of deficits caused by competition from the new 63d Street Subway. Roosevelt Island residents have appealed to a City Council panel to support their efforts to assist the deficit-, threatened aerial tramway that links the island community with the fare be 5 cents more than a subway fare, and provide for reimbursement for the 200,00 free tram rides 600 Roosevelt Island school children take each year. The fare now is $1.25 for a one-way ride on the tram.

Dryfoos, the head of the State Legislation Committee, and Councilwoman June Eisland, who is the chairman of the Transportation Committee, said that another hearing on the issue will be held shortly at a Roosevelt Island location. last October. Tram officials expect a $350,000 deficit in the coming fiscal year, he said. Dryfoos and other officials urged the city to scrap its annual franchise fee which amounts to to $136,000 this year, eliminate the requirement that Councilman Robert Dryfoos (D-Manhattan) is the prime sponsor of a resolution urging state and city action to preserve the tram. At a hearing at City Hall on Friday attended by the Roosevelt Islanders, he said that tram ridership is down 45 since the subway opened a station on the island ijusmg rasG mm OfllBfaCi 5 By JAMES DAP 4.

3 MEMBERS OF Oneness Pentecostal Tabernacle (above) start procession from their former home at 221-01 Linden Blvd. to their brand-new sanctuary (I.) down the street at 198-01. New building, the culmination of many years' planning and work by the congregation and Pastor Lincoln A. Graham, was dedicated Saturday. Guests came from as far as the West Indies and Africa for the ceremony.

i -t i- i CARUSO DAILY MEWS Daily New Staff Wnter Amid a sea of complaints against the closing this summer of three Long Island Rail Road stations in Queens, LIRR officials have vowed to re-open the stations by Sept 4 "no matter what," Community Board 6 officials said. The stations in Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, and Wood-side are to close June 29 so the railroad can rebuild an aging switching center in Long Island City. The closings are expected to cause severe commuting delays for Queens residents who use the LIRR. Nearly 150 users of the Kew Gardens and Forest Hills stations turned out for a Board 6 meeting last week, to voice dismay at the station closings and to demand that the LIRR ensure that the work is completed on schedule. "They (the LIRR) promised on the record that if work is not done by Sept 4, the trains will be restored nonetheless-no matter what," Board 6 Chairman Anthony Atlas asserted.

No confirmation A LIRR spokeswoman could not say whether the stations would be re-opened if the work were not completed. "But we are very serious about honoring this schedule," she said. Board 6 also demanded that the LIRR lock and secure the stations while they are closed -to keep drug addicts, prostitutes, homeless people, and teenagers from using them. The LIRR has said it wants the stations left open in case of emergencies. It said it plans to assign patrols to the stations, but agreed also to review the request to lock them.

Board 6 has also asked the LIRR to consider running rush-hour shuttle buses between Kew Gardens and Forest Hills to the railroad's Jamaica Station, as well as express buses dirvotly into" Manhattan. i sdn(0)3 uW Hull too? ayfe Mono By STEWART AIN the way around." Queens Borough President Claire Shulman has urged since January that Sophie Davis move to Queens and become a degree-granting medical school, which it is not now, whose graduates would serve inner-city neighborhoods. Sophie Davis students now receive their clinical training and degrees from one of eight participating medical schools. Some courses and -clinical work are offered in Queens, but most classroom work is at City College in Manhattan. Shulman has spoken with York College President Milton Bassin, who said he Would be- happy to make space for Sophie Davis on.

his campul lit Janiaica. Daily News Staff Writer The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at City University has a new dean who, although committed to starting a City University medical school, is unsure whether it should be based entirely in Queens. "My basic commitment is to what's best for the medical school," the new dean, Dr. Stanford Roman said. "I appreciate the strong desire and the strong need for a medical program in Queens." Shulman backs it "But it's premature (to say it should be all in Queens)," he added.

"I think that for the City University to have a medical school is something il that would be in. the best the city, Queens, medical school, a time that is critical in convincing the students to remain in the city after graduation, Roman noted. The first five years, now at City College, are not as crucial and could be offered in Manhattan even if the clinical campus was in Queens, he said. Asked how soon he believes the City University could establish a medical school, Roman said, "The state has a severe budget crunch now, and that will affect any new development. But my work is to develop a desirable plan that-will assure that the school becomes accredited." "This program is seriously needed in the city," Roman said.

"I hope that by 1995, we'll have a clear direction of where we are going because it takes about four years to prepare for accreditation." the move, as does a committee of faculty and staff at Sophie Davis. But City University officials have yet to give their blessing. Roman, who was appointed by the City University trustees and who takes office April 16, said he has talked with several Queens hospitals about the future of Sophie Davis. The hospitals would form a consortium to provide clinical training if Sophie Davis becomes an accredited degree-granting medical school. Crucial years "I hope to go to all the hospitals and evaluate what would be needed were they to become the clinical component of the school," Roman said.

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