Daily News from New York, New York • 33

Thursday, January 21, 1993 Neighborhood happenings For inforrnabon on ckic groups, entertainment, and ottier happenngs, see the Bulletin Board. -PftfaSS Phones News Boreas (718) 875-4455 Fax (718) 875-7795 Home Delivery 1-800 692-NEWS vraail 1 si. STATE ISLAND Hb oo far. By DEAN CHANG Slmlge plant plan blasted Busloads of angry residents from Sunset Park hit City Hall yesterday to oppose the city's plan LJJ ouea1 ntAIHUR AVI. STATION MAN II STRUT ItJ TAIWMlJ i as.

5 STATION I I 1 FRANKLIN AW. STATION HAwiATTAW ps. STATION A 0CT CONCVmAMO FRANKLIN AVE. STATIONS 1. Completely rebuid shuttle station.

2. Provide enclosed free transfer between shuffle and IND platforms. S. Provide elderly and disabled to a platforms. 4.

Bufld new combined enuaoie to both shuffle and outbound IND, with escalator to sftutOe leveL DEAN ST. STATION 1 Permaoerrtty dose and remove station PARK PLACE STATION 1. Completety rebuid station. 2. Provide new entrance on Prospect Place, accesstole to trie elderly and disabled.

5. Relocate existing entrance on Park Place. BOTANIC GARDEN STATION FRANKLIN AVE. STATION QOOO im Completely rebuid shutne station. 2.

Provide elderly and disabled accessttefty to shuttle platforms. X. Provide enclosed free bensfei between shuffle and IRT platforms. 4. Renovate and reopen west mezzanine of IRT Frankbn Ave.

station. PROSPECT PARK STATION QOO 1 Station to be rehabilitated under anotf er project. Daily News Staff Writer The Franklin Ave. subway shuttle the five-station Brooklyn line that the Transit Authority once wanted to close is now scheduled for a $50 million overhaul. The three-year project, scheduled to begin in 1995, would completely rebuild the badly dilapidated Franklin Park Place and Botanic Garden stations, making them accessible to the elderly and disabled.

The project also would turn the Botanic Garden station into a transfer point between the shuttle and the 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines turning the seldom-used shuttle into a conduit connecting the A and lines, the and lines and the 2, 3, 4 and 5 lines. "That's something that the community has wanted for years," said TA spokesman Termaine Garden. Shutting one station But the rehabilitation is not without its price; the.TA plans to permanently shut the Dean St station. TA officials said the station has the fewest paying passengers in the system, averaging 100 on weekdays. TA officials said affected passengers could walk four blocks north to the Franklin Ave.

station or three blocks south to a new Prospect Place entrance to the Park Place station, which will be rehabilitated under another project The TA plans to hold a public hearing on the proposed project next month. to build a huge sludge processing plant in their neighborhood. They joined elected officials in condemning the project at a hearing before the city Planning Commission, which is scheduled to vote on the project next month. Borough President Howard Golden said the project will drive out local businesses, inconvenience residents with foul odors and clog already-congested roads with trucks bulging with sludge. "Sunset Park is a neighborhood poised for revitalization.

The proposed sludge facility will be a step backward for this developing waterfront community," he said. "Merchants along Fifth Ave. wonder who will go shopping on a hot summer's day when the sickening smell of composting sewage sludge is creeping through the streets." State Sen. Martin Connor CD-Brooklyn) called the proposal "one more injustice to our community," adding: "Sunset Park has been forced to endure the siting of an asphalt plant, a public dump, a federal detention center, two sanitation garages and two waste transfer stations." For years, the city loaded the sludge onto towed it out to sea and dumped it at a site off New Jersey. But federal law halted ocean dumping in July.

The proposed plant would turn the sludge into compost, which would be sold for use in the city and beyond. The plant would be built at Bush Terminal, on the Brooklyn waterfront Funny smell? Call N.J. New Jersey has set up a hotline for Staten Islanders to let the Garden State know when it stinks, Staten Island Borough President Guy Molinari said. The number, established by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, will field complaints about air pollution wafting over from New Jersey industries. The number, (609) 292-7172, is open from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. "This signals a new relationship between the island and New Jer 1 "aft urn (j sey, since their DEP has never before responded to our complaints or even provided a mechanism for to register them, Molinari us --'it 1 Mary Engels said. FIREFIGHTERS WET DOWN wnat's left ot frame nouses mg. Four tamiites naa to oe movea to lemporaTr sneaer. No on Middteton Williamsburg, early yesterday.

Three-alarm injuries were reported. fire broke put ir vacant house and spread to. adjoining build-. nurumwiWAi From Daily News bureau and wire service reports t-r TT.