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DAILY NEWS, JHUESDAY. JST6 1 ML 7 i- i i 4 '1 5 Unvel Mratffi for CfcteS fas to Laid By BRYANT MASON A newly modified draft of legislation to permit construction of a 51-story hotel "adjacent to but not over" the landmark Villard Houses was released yester marks Conservancy challenged the guidelines and said her group "continues to be concerned with the maximal preservation of the significant interiors of day by the City Planning Commission. public hearing sched vtn a uled June 16, the city was racing i the Villard Houses." The group i of five buildings around a court the legislation is to keep Helms-ley from withdrawing from the project as he almost did last July. Kevin McGrath, a lawyer for Shea, Gould, Climenko and Kramer, who represent the Archdiocese said only after frantic negotiations last July did Helmsley renew his option. City officials view the project, on which construction could begin in six months, as a shot in the arm for the building industry and the city's economy.

But further delays could lead Helms-ley to break off his option because of the a year he is paying in taxes, maintenance and security on the site. extra space 13 estimated at, 15Te to lSCc The commission, noting the "present financial condition of the city and the impact of the density on municipal services," decided against the larger building and the greater cost to the city, Marrero said. Besides the reduced space bonus, the legislation specifies that the developer must outline a plan to maintain the landmark in perpetuity and permit public accessibility. But Susan Jones of the Land Commission Chairman Vi-tor Marrero said the new legislation does okay more floor space than normally permitted for building, but this is subject to approval by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The commission must issue a certificate reporting that it finds "no effect'' on the protected architectural features of the adjacent landmark.

The new legislation replaces and reduces plans which would have permitted 20ro to 44' arMitioral buiUlable space. The to approve the new regulations bofore the developer, Harry Ilelmsley, can exercise on June SO his option to withdraw from the $65 million project. For IS months Helmsley and the Archdiocese of New York hive appeared before several city agencies trying to obtain special aprrova's for the hotel. It is to rise on a site running from 50th to 51st Sts. behind the Viilard Houses, which front on Madison Ave.

yard are in the Italian Renaissance palazzo style and were designed by the architectural firm of MeKim, Mead and White in the 1880s. Ms. Jones declined to go into detail yesterday but said that her group plans to appear at the public hearing on June 16, which is expected to draw members of Community Planning Boards 1, 5, and 6. The urgency of approval for Brave Men Honored HFi MB -WV 0 r. Aid Mem ussi Terms Til j-5 T( i 1 A By OWEN FITZGERALD A community housing- group challenged yesterday the city's application for $102 million in federal Community Development Act funds and warned that if the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development did not revise the city's proposal, it would start a Federal Court suit against the New York plan. The group, known as the New i lork City Housing and Corn- Senate fks-iys munity Development Coalition, charged that the proposal forwarded Tuesday by Mayor Beame to area HUD officials ran counter to development act requirements and would "ex-culde" racial minorities and low and moderate-income New Yorkers from federal aid benefits. Objections Cited The coalition filed a petition with HUD authorities to amend the city's plan and cited four spending proposals worth S26.2 million as the "most objectionable." It said they are $10.7 million for staff costs in the city's Housing and Development Administration, 5.1 million for sewers in middle income areas of Queens and Staten Island, $6.6 million for shopping centers in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens and $3.8 million for new elevators in the Whitman-Ingersoll public housing project in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. "Planned Shrinkage UG Curbs Albany, June 2 (News Bureau) A bill imposing curbs on the storage of LNG (liquefied natural gas) passed the Senate by an overwhelming vote today. Sponsors of the legislation in the Assembly, where it awaits action, have proposed amending the bill to exclude those LNG facilities under exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government from review by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Sen. John Marchi sponsor of the bill in the Senate, opposed the change because he said it could exempt the Rossville Staten Island LNG import plant from review, and that amendment was not okayed by the Senate. Claire Spiegel News photo by Frank Russo DaOKhter Julie looks at medal her father. Julian Tavalaro. received yesterday at the Fire Department's annual Medal Day ceremony in the Pace University gymnasium.

Tavalaro was one of 32 firemen honored yesterday for acts of bravery performed during 1973. With Tavalaro are daughter Loren and wife Marie, holding Julian, 3. Puerto Phn W-Buy Fe By JOHN LEWIS Senores Senoras Ladies and entlemen. For the first time ever, Fiestas Patronales Del Barrio will hold a 10-day street festival in East Harlem with entertainment, exhibits, rides, dancing and all sort of tasty exotic foods. Coalition leaders attacked the i Beame development act applica- A spokesman for the HUD tion as designed to implement agency said, will be gald to The festival, beginning tomor city HDA administrator Roger get the coalition's views and will Starr's "planned shrinkage" give them our careful attention, proposal to withdraw city serv- Well carefully study the city's ices from sorely deteriorated application and, if warranted, we "There will be an art sTiow by the first weekend.

The mayor of the Association for Puerto San Juan. Carlos Romero Barce-Rican-Hisnanic Art and a wres- lo, will be there. So will Man- tling show by The George hat tan Borough President Percy areas. One coalition offical-said will ask the mayor's office to Espada Wrestlers," he said. Sutton and Rep.

Charles Rangel. in a statement that the entire respond to the coalition peti- About 250.000 persons are ex- The event will end with a six- $102 million federal grant should tion." pected to attend the festival, i mile marathon foot race along be earmarked exclusively for the Beame said the city "stands I poor. with the biggest turnout during I the East River Drive. oy us pian. Fisherman of Souls Meads Aquarium, Too row, will extend irom mum to 116th Sts.

along Third and over 100 merchants rom the East Harlem area will participate. The Alvin Ailey Dance company will be there, and so will the Puerto Rican Dance Theater, entertainers Charlie and Eddie Palmieri, and Bobby Rodriguez, the Pedro Martinex Dance Troop and the Ballet His-panico, and much more. Roberto Anazagasti, director of the East Harlem Community which is sponsoring the event, said that although Puerto Ricans have lived in East Harlem for 50 years, they have never had a festival of this kind. "Why shouldn't the Puerto Ricans have a festival of their own where they can eat their own food and enjoy their own music and dancing?" he asked. "East Harlem is the oldest barrio (community) in America and most migrants from Puerto Rico came here when they first landed in America.

"Puerto Ricans have contributed much to the culture of the community. Cafe Bustello and Valencia Bakery got their start in East Harlem, he said. Anaiagasti said that the response from the community for the festival has been overwhelming. All sorts of groups associated with Hispanic culture, have indicated that they want to take part in the event, he said. Ruggieri on Philadelphia's South Side, a neighborhood of working-class Italian immigrants.

Father George graduated from St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, a Jesuit institution, where he stayed on teaching for two years before joining the Jesuit order in 1950. "We have a heavy commitment to education and the Jesuits have been pretty well known for scholarly research," he said. Referring to his priesthood and his scientific activities, he added, "Certainly there is no conflict between the two." Father George, as a Jesuit, is not connected with any parish. "I do weddings and baptisms and things like that strictly for relatives and friends," he aid- At work, research into fish diseases and administering the research labs and the exhibitions center take up all his time that is, unless someone taps him on the shoulder and wants to talk to Father George.

Then his- PhD is momentarily set aside. "I often have given marriage counseling here and, as long as there was privacy, I have often heard confessions over lunch," Ruggieri said. TT cleric Is known as Father George by nis friends in the restaurant, where he averages about 10 meals a week. Eleven blocks away, in the aquarium and the Osborn Laboratories of Marine Sciences, he is known as Dr. Ruggieri in recognition of the doctorate in marine biology, he earned at St.

Louis University in 1960. He was just plain old George Ruggieri -when he first showed up at the Aquarium in 1958 to do research toward his doctorate. He was studying local sea nrchirs, found off the Rocka-" ways and other local waters. He did research on and off over the years at the aquarium until he came to stay in 1967. Father George was one of nine children born to Gervasio and Theresa By DANIEL O'GRADY A crucifix, a microscope and a ready-smile just about circumscribe the life of George Daniel Ruggieri, the 51-year-old Jesuit priest and marine scientist who took over Tuesday as director of the New-York Aquarium in Coney Island.

The scientist-priest, whose religious vocation and professional career have been intertwined since his ordination in the scholarly Catholic order in Woodstock, Me, in 1962, "Both give me tremendous satisfaction." That was evident as he animatedly spoke of vertebrates and invertebrates, of marine worms and of his naosual -ministry, is minus a missionary pulpit or a teaching post. Over lunch at Gargiulo's Restaurant on W. 15th St. in Coney Island, the priest motioned to the people eating at surrounding tables and said: "Here is my flock.".