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DAILY NEWS Friday, July 12. 1991 4 oaycare center in finlffan rilcmita rj3 i Phones Brooklyn News Boreal (718) 875-4455 Fax (718) 875-7795 Home Delivery 1-800 692-NEWS 3 oeep report points ringer at Stagg facility; that's a Stagg's director. Pago 4 wo fr mw Edge seen for district leader Robinson ganization, Assemblyman Clarence Norman. "It's an interesting phenomenon to have been on both sides (of the fence)," Robinson commented. "It means that government has opened up in Brooklyn." Taylor, however, charged that the Brooklyn Democratic organization and its one-time archenemy, the Coalition for Community Empowerment, have joined forces to become the new establishment Others credited Robinson's front-runner status to Norman's behind-the-scenes effort to unite most Bed-Stuy leaders behind One By FRANK LOMBARD! Daily News Political Editor The last time Annette M.

Robinson ran for the City Council, she was an underdog who came within 300 votes of deposing veteran Bedford-Stuyvesant Councilman Enoch Williams. But this time, the political wheel of fortune is spinning her way. Robinson is considered the front-runner in what is now a three-way race for the new open seat in the 36th Council District The Council districting plan patched together the district primarily from parts of William's current 26th CD and Mary Pinkett's 28th CD. Robinson is the female dis- trict leader in the 56th Assembly District, where she has long been allied with Assemblyman Albert Vann, the male leader of the 56th AD. Since 1989, she has worked as the district director for Brooklyn Rep.

Major Owens. Both Vann and Owens are supporting her City Council bid. At least two other candidates are circulating petitions for the Sept 12 Demo-cratic primary: James Sullivan, a member of Community Planning Board 3, and Richard Taylor, a former Democratic district leader. Sullivan is being backed by two former district leaders, Carl Butler and Evelyn Dixon. Taylor briefly held Vann's district leadership several years ago after Vann was knocked off the Democratic ballot on technicalities.

Vann won his leadership back two years later. The one potential rival who could have given Robinson stiff competition said she has decided not to enter the race. She is Carolyn Saunders, a Democratic district leader in the 55th AD and an aide to Council President Andrew Stein. Saunders said she is neutral "at this time." When Robinson ran against Williams in 1985, the Brooklyn Democratic organization had backed the incumbent This time, Williams is out of the picture because he's running for reelection in the 41st CD. And Robinson has the backing of the new leader of the Brooklyn Democratic or- HmMb man is given life in tenant slaying By JAMES DAP Daily News Staff Wnter iff it V'-.

--c i i i -v SPUSH SPLASH: Joseph Rosano, 6, enjoys dip after renaming and dedication of Red Hook pool to Sol Goldman pool bv Mavor Dinkins and Goldman's daughter. The family gave city $2 million to help keep 32 pools open for kids this summer. jimmy hushes dailynews An Albanian immigrant who gunned down Thomas Gonzalez brother of the slain anti-drug crusader Maria Hernandez was sentenced yesterday to 15 years to life. "It's not going to bring Thomas back," said Gonzalez' sister Thelma. "But at least we won't have to see him (the defendant) on the street again.

Now we can get on with our lives." Zenel Seit, 64, was convicted of murder in the second degree for pumping four shots into Gonzalez on New Year's Day 1990 after a quarrel outside Seit's Glendale, Queens, home. Gonzalez was a tenant in a Bushwick building owned by Seit Claimed self-defense Seit argued that he shot Gonzalez because he feared the husky, 28-year-old former sailor was going to attack him and his family. But prosecutors described the shooting as an intentional homicide. Ellen Yaroshefsky, Seit's attorney, said he would appeal the verdict Relatives said that at the time of his death, Gonzalez was just beginning to recover from the death of his older sister. She was killed Aug.

8, 1990, allegedly by drug dealers she and her husband had tried to drive off the family's Bushwick block. "He was just a kid, just beginning his life," said his wife, Jacqueline, 25, outside court, grasping the hands of her two young children. 'Now we'll never; see him again." By FRANCES McMORRIS Dinkins unveiled the new green Parks Department plaque bearing her late father's name. "We're talking about $2 million and that ain't chopped liver any way you slice it," the mayor said. He issued a plea for another $800,000 from any other private source to keep the pools open the full nine weeks of summer.

The reopening of the pools also means jobs. Persian Gulf War veteran, Cesar DeLeon, 21, is a lifeguard at the Goldman pool. DeLeon, of Bushwick, earns $9.71 an hour and said he can't imagine working at another city pool. "I'm used to the crowd here. I know most of the people.

Working at Jones Beach would be too far. Red Hook is 15 minutes away." DeLeon said. through Goldman's daughter, Jane, means the city's 32 municipal outdoor pools, slated to be kept closed this summer because of the fiscal budget crisis, will be open for the next five weeks. Born and bred in the working-class Red Hook community, Goldman became a real estate baron whose empire once included the landmark Chrysler Building. Now caught in a family feud between his widow, Lillian, and his children, his estimated $1 billion estate is the largest ever to be fought over in New York Surrogate Court 'Not chopped liver' But yesterday, the focus was on the billionaire's legacy to the city's pools.

Jane Goldman smiled approvingly Daily News Staff Wnter Neighborhood youngsters may still know it as the Red Hook pool, but yesterday it officially became the Sol Goldman Pool. Six-year-old Joseph (Joey) Rosario, the first child to leap into the newly renamed pool, had other thoughts on his mind as, wearing a rubber tube around his waist, he took a flying, joyful leap into the water. But city officials, including Mayor Dinkins and Parks Commissioner Betsy Gotbaum, renamed the pool and put a happy end to what could have been a closed pool. A $2 million donation from the charitable trust set up after Goldman's death saved the day. The May 14 donation to the city.