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Tuesday, April 21, 1992 DAILY NEWS 1f DDQ pOisft OHQOiigiQODg Brooklyn man, 24, arrested at his home By LARRY CELONA and BOB KAPPSTATTER Daily News Staff Writers A 24-year-old Brooklyn man was rousted from his bed by detectives early yesterday and charged in the mugging of a Brooklyn priest. The suspect, Todd Brown, was charged with being a member of the team that last Thursday pistol-whipped Msgr. James Haggerty, pastor of St. Saviour Church in Park Slope. The attack occurred as the priest, wearing clerical garb, deposited school tuition money at a bank.

his hand and the gun in his belt Wells said the witnesses have been able to identify two other members of the alleged robbery team through mug shots. Detectives have identified the suspects, including the driver of the getaway car, as a loose-knit group suspected of several similar robberies at commercial banks over the The 69-year-old priest was listed in stable condition yesterday in the intensive care ward at Methodist Hospital, recuperating from a concussion and head cuts. Police disclosed that as many as three others may have been involved in the robbery of a deposit bag containing $700 in cash and anywhere from $15,000 to $40,000 in uncashable tuition checks rpis tiaf past five to six years, he said. When detectives went to Brown's home on Bainbridge Bedford-Stuyvesant, Wells said, the suspect's mother let them in and they found Brown asleep. Brown was charged with assault, robbery and possession of a weapon.

The gun used in the assault on the priest has not been recovered. "The park will be far safer than its previous incarnation," says Daniel A. Bieder-man, executive director of the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. "The park is now more accessible and more visible from the street" Most New Yorkers came to shun the park in the 1980s because its nooks and crannies had been taken over by drug dealers and the park had become run down. Two murders didn't help.

The park was closed in 1988 to permit construction of a two-story storage addition to the New York Public Library. Matches street level In the interval, the restoration group came into being, raised $3.9 million from public and private sources and reconstructed the park. The biggest job was lowering the 7-acre park to street level, eliminating the corners and widening entrances. In 1934, Parks czar Robert Moses, backed by federal WTA funds, had elevated the park 4 feet so it would be a green retreat from the city's noise and grit Sponsors also renovated two landmark park houses that were built in 1911 as and later closed. The women's restroom on 40th St became a Parks Department office.

The men's bathroom at 42d St will reopen with two well-lit, secure and free public bathrooms for men and women. It will contain a baby-changing table, full-length mirrors and a full-time attendant "It will be New York's flagship restroom and, we hope, a model for other restorations," says philanthropist Joan Davidson, whose J.M. Kaplan Foundation put up $50,000 of the $185,000 it cost to renovate: for the church's school on Eighth Ave. Identified in a lineup Detective Capt. Charles Wells said Brown had been identified in a lineup by two witnesses who had been in the bank.

Brown was allegedly seen fleeing from the Chemical Bank branch at 401 Flatbush A'e. with the deposit bag in parents' objections "will be given consideration in evaluating continuing the plan." "We want school-based-management to be real here, as it is in other schools," said Messinger, whose office runs a parent training program at Graphic Arts and other Manhattan high schools. "We want courses to be real. We want parents listened to." Parents Association President Donalda Habersham said most parents were unaware that their children i getting -out of school 1 -eaiiy on Mondays. About 90 7,4" fWI I i-1 By OWEN MCRITZ Daily News Uroan Affairs Editor Bryant Park opens today amid a whirl of superlatives.

It cost $8.9 million to rebuild and restore, and will cost $1.2 million annually to maintain. It may have the world's most costly john $165,000 to build, $100,000 a year to operate. It will have its own security force. It will host HBO comedy shows. It will be ah island of 20,000 bulbs, mostly tulips, in a sea of asphalt Shrubbery will be wired with burglar alarms.

Lamps will simulate moonlight Experiment begins The four-year reconstruction of Bryant Park, at 42d St between Fifth and Sixth ends today, and a new experiment begins: Can visitors safely escape the city's frenzied pace in a privately run public park? of the parents surveyed opposed the plan. "We would like our full school day back at least" Habersham said. "Students graduate from here not knowing how to fill out a job application." Indian Ocean spill MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) The stranded Greek-owned tanker Katina has spilled an estimated 1 million gallons of oil near Mozambique's coast, and crude is washing onto beaches and into Maputo Bay, the national news agency AIM reported Hasidic outing at Astroland Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn. It was the first day of three-day Choi Hamoed festival anthony pescatoue daily news GLEEFUL YOUNGSTER handles the wheel of auto ride as dad, Dov Elefant, hustles to keep up with daughter Tzipora, 6, yesterday duringannual By LYNNELL HANCOCK Daily News Staff Writer Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger and parents of Graphic Communication Arts High School students called on the chancellor yesterday to review how the school-based-management team is working. As the Daily News reported in yesterday's editions, the staff at the vocational school on W.

49th St. releases students early, at 1:30 p.m., every Monday to provide time for the management team to meet during the day. Special GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION School-based management does not require releasing kids early. An editorial. PAGE 34 classes offered that day are attended by an average of only 40 of 1,350 students.

"It was a good idea run amok," Messinger said. "Apparently no one came to the school to see whether it was working or not" In a statement, a spokesman for Joseph FernandezsaKi the I.