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DAI LI Nws BurMU (718) 793-3328 Fax (718) 793-2910 Horn Delivery 1-800-692 NEWS rtrn 1 PflrUW ebrr 1 Qs Ml SS3eBSSSSKSwiiinnOTi tassmnxs DAILY NEWS CALOOR scheduled to open next year on former Alexander's store site on Queens Blvd. in Rego Park. new office complex at Jamaica Ave. and Parsons Blvd. In Brooklyn, Caldor just opened a store in Flatbush, and Sunset Park residents were waiting for a store on Third Ave.

to be approved under the city review process. The discount chain also has a store under construction at the Atlantic Terminal Center in downtown Brooklyn. Existing Caldor stores in Queens are located on Roosevelt Ave. in downtown Flushing and Metropolitan Ave. in Middle Village.

Staten Island has one Caldor near the West Shore Parkway in Travis. Alan Millstein, a Manhattan retail analyst said the Chapter 11 filing was the direct result of a weak economy in New England, where most Caldor stores are located. The chain has 166 stores nationwide and six stores in New York City. "New York City should feel little effect from the bankruptcy proceedings. It will probably slow the growth of new stores," Millstein said.

That's what merchants in downtown Jamaica fear. Caldor proposed a store on the site of a parking lot above the Archer Ave. subway station. "We used to have a Gertz, Mays, Macy's and Lamstons on the avenue. A Caldor would have brought a lot of customers here," said Jayne Cain, co-owner of Collective Gallery, an Afrocentric crafl shop inside the Jamaica Market on 160th St Claude Brodwell.

manager of the Card Palace on 160th St. recalled that the parking lot Caldor eyed across the street from his shop once had 12 retail stores. "They were torn down during the Lindsay administration in the late '60s. That was tax revenue that was never replaced," Brodwell said. By CLAIRE SERAWT Daily News Staff Writer For several months, Kathleen Reilly watched construction work on a Caldor discount department store in Rego Park slow to a crawl.

Yesterday, the Norwalk, retailing chain announced it filed for bankruptcy protection, confirming Reilly's worst suspicions. I hope this doesn't jeopardize the Queens Blvd. site," said Reilly, district manager of Community Board 6. "They were supposed to open in the fall of '95 and they pushed it back to sometime next year. The work was slowing down." And now civic and business leaders in Queens, and Brooklyn areas where the national discount chain was eying expansion fear the Chapter 11 filing might cripple Cal-dor's growth in the city.

Merchants in a number of neighborhoods were banking on a new Caldor store to bring more shoppers to their area. But Caldor officials say it's too early to tell what the impact the bankruptcy filing will have on new store growth. "The development of new stores is premature to address. It's the first day of the filing." said Wendy Kopsick, a Caldor spokeswoman. In Queens, Caldor is slated to share the former Alexander's department store on Queens Blvd.

with a Sears store that is scheduled to open next year. A Caldor is also under construction in the former Mays store in the Glen Oaks Shopping Center, and the planning board in Long Island City recently approved Caldor's move into the former Gallo Wine site on Northern Blvd. and 48th St Downtown Jamaica also expected to get a Caldor and a fcj KKQ fiw mm By STEPHEN MC PARIAN Daily News Staff Writer A pilot program in which nurses deliver healthcare services at senior citizen centers and similar sites in western Queens has opened a new headquarters in Long Island City. The Queens Community Nursing Organization, directed by the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, is one of four such programs in the country, and serves about 1.100 senior citizens in the borough. The programs were established about a year and a half ago under a federal program designed to test whether nurses can deliver some medical services under Medicare at a lower cost than physicians.

The Queens CNO delivers healthcare services at 27 senior- citizens centers and other Patrick McConnell of Astoria, a retired men's clothing salesman, went to the new headquarters Friday for blood pressure and cholesterol tests. "It's very convenient that the service is there and you can drop in," McConnell said. Ruth Mitchell, executive director of the Queens CNO, said the program emphasizes preventive services to keep enrollees healthy. It also utilizes alternative therapies such as therapeutic touch, she said. Enrollees able to maintain existing relationships with their physicians, but the nurses managing their care can authorize home health visits, monitor their condition, undertake physical examinations and review medication.

These areas of care normally require physician authorization under Medicare. "I think studies have indicated that the average face-to-face time between physicians and patients is about five minutes." she said. "The nursing case managers can spend more time with each enrollee." sites in western Queens in addition to the new headquarters on Steinway St It also delivers home nursing services as required. fad ff 0 (M ODDS By DONALD BERTRAND Darty News Staff Writer Thousands of federal flood insurance policyholders could see their rates double or triple under measures being considered by Congress as part of budget-tightening proposals. The House Banking Committee is set to vote today on proposals that would increase the premiums under the National Flood Insurance Program.

The Budget Committee recommended that the premiums on so-called subsidized policies be tripled to full actuarial rates. The Banking Committee also is considering a proposal to double the rate on such poli- Rep. Charles Schumer (D-Queens, Brooklyn), whose district includes the Rockaways and Broad Channel two flood-prone areas opposes any increase in the rates. Also affected would be homeowners in coastal areas of Long Island, Brooklyn, Staten Island, the Bronx and Westchester. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, about 3.000 flood policies are in effect in his district about 1,200 of them subsidized.

"Americans vulnerable to forces of nature beyond anyone's control should not be punished to pay for tax cuts to be enjoyed by the most fortu-. nate among us," Schumer wrote last week to Banking Committee chairman James Leach (R-Iowa). Policyholders could see their annual premiums double to an average of almost $900 under the Banking Committee proposal, or triple to about $1,300 under Budget Committee recommendations, Schumer said. "Current premium levels are already high enough for many of these people. They cannot afford to pay more, and we should not ask them to do so," said Schumer.

"The subsidy comes from the national insurance fund," said Mary Colvin, manager for the national flood insurance program for New York State. "It is not subsidized by taxpayer dollars. We offer these rates because if those structures were rated actuarially, the premiums would be extremely high." According to FEMA, which tabulates flood program policyholders by congressional districts, there are about 2,000 policyholders, 1.300 of them subsidized, in the district of Rep. Floyd Flake (D-St Albans) and 1,600, 1.000 subsidized in the district of Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Bay-side), which covers parts of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

The rest of Long Island has more than 36,000 flood insurance policies. Flood insurance is available only through the federal program and can be purchased from any licensed propertycasualty-insurance agent or from private insurance companies writing flood insurance under arrangements with the Federal Insurance Administrator, i to a 3 cies. I to ID cn.