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i DAILY NEWS BAYSIDE BELLEROSE COLLEGE POINT DOUGLASTON FLUSHING FRESH MEADOWS GLEN OAKS LITTLE NECK QUEENS VILLAGE WHITESTONE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1977 F.Q 1 Suit Filed iaiS'St OS Iffi Jf 0 Med I "4. By JOAN NASSIVERA A northeast Queens civic group is suing the city's Hoard of Standards and Appeals over the board's Approval last August of thi; construction of a three-story tennis hul ble and health ppa at 41-22 232d adjacent to Alley Pond Park. i It's Family vrt Jay Feigenbaum, a lawyer and member of the Douglaston Civic Association, the group which is suing the standards and appeals board, explained that the proposed tennis site, which would include eight courts and other recreational facilities under bubble, plus 36 outdoor parking spaces, "would be a visible pollutant to this area and would jut out into Alley Pond Park like a sore thumb." A 100-foot roadway would also have lo be constructed to connect the club with the street. 4 pnoto by Tom Monatter Edward Burke (left) of Salty Dog presents check for $3,000 to Police Officer Ken Auer at restaurant as Auer's wife, Joanne, watches. Watching in background are (I.

to John Sullivan, attorney for Traffic Squad Benevolent Association, Vic Riccardi, group's president, and Gene Martino, vice president. mis Lift met injure Tradition City Councilman Robert F. Wag ner the Democratic roun-J cilman for Manhattan, yesterday nounced he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for tan borough president. The same post was held by his father, former Mayor Robert F. Wagner, in 1949.

Young Wagner, 33, is the third announced candidate for the post now held by Pcrrv Sutton, who i3 running for mayor. The other candidates are Assemblyman Andrew Siein and City Clerk David Dinkins. Wagner also is socking the Liberal Party backing and it beinc: considered for backing by Manhattan Republican leaders. Frank Lombard! destructive for the city's long-range goals for the park "to permit the bubble's erection. "It is -defeating for the city to spend STiOO.OOO to develop this parkland as a wildlife sanctuary and then to commercialize an area that protrudes into it," he said.

The civic association would not oh-ject if outdoor tennis courts open to the public were built on the hind in que tion, according to Feicenbaum, but he said its saw little need for the private bubble "when there is similar structure, along with public, outdoor courts just a mile away in Alley Pond Park." A hearing on the civic association's si it is sc heduled for April in Jamaica Supreme Court. Raise 3G fo Provide a Vcn A Monday night benefit party to raise funds for a Queens highway cop paralyzed as a result of an accident last summer collected "well over $3,000," according to one of the organizers, and more money is Sees Development Hurt Feigenbaum complained that the facility, which would be on 120,000 square feet of unimproved land owned by the Samuel Mindel Hydraulic Heating and Plumbing "would be incompatible with the development of the parkland area that surrounds it." The Alley Pond Park Tidal Wet-lands begin across 45th a block away from the tennis club site. Joseph Morsellino, wpo represented Mindel in dealings with the standards and appeals board, argued that his client's proposal for a private tennis club would be in keeping with the city's master plan to acquire the land for recreational purposes. But members of Community Planning Board 11, who voiced strong opposition to and eventually rejected the proposal, contend that it does not follow the master plan, which calls for the city to purchase the land and restore it as a wetland. Calls It Destructive The city has already spent nearly S80O.0CO to preserve 70 acres of Alley Pond Park adjacent to the proposed tennis club as a wetland, and Feigenbaum maintains that it would be "very expected The partv, staged at the Dog cle by an auto making a turn, police said.

As a result of the accident. Auer, who lives in Levittown, was paralyzed from the chest down, and is confined to a wheelchair. The special van will be equipped with hand controls so Auer can drive, and with ramps so the wheelchair may be moved in and out easily. Auer was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Traffic Squad Benevolent Association of the New York Police Department. Sullivan and Burke are attorneys who represent the Traffic Squad.

Steak and Lobster Shack, 1166 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale, L.I., by part-owners Edward Burke and John Sullivan, was called "a big success." The object of the party, which featured radio personality Don Imus, was to raise funds to purchase a specially equipped van for Ken Auer, a 29-year-old father of two who was disabled in an accident in Bayside last August. Auer, assigned to the Grand Central Parkway station, was waiting to make a turn on Northern Blvd. in Little Neck, when he was knocked off his motorcy er Office Ransacked; little Taken msi iwvjsnu niiSfi selves to soft drinks from the machine in Ackennan's office, however. Ackerman arrived to find his own office a shambles with pictures torn from the walls, desk drawers emptied on the floor but his expensive electric guitars untouched. They conducted a frantic search for something," Ackerman said.

"The only things we've found missing so far are the two cameras and two calculators with a total value of over $250 or so." Alarm Out of Order Flushing police noted that the rear window of the building was broken and believe a small person slipped through. The burglar alaim system was inoperative due to a burned-out relay switch. "It's nighly suspicious. They ripped through papers, took pictures off the walls to look behind them and just made a mess," said the publisher, who last month resigned as editor of the paper to announce his candidacy for councilman-at-large. The break-in did not delay the deadline of the paper Editor David Oats said the story would be in the next issue.

By THOMAS PUGII Burglars yesterday ransacked the offices of the Hushing Tribune, a weekly owned by Publisher Gary Ackerman, in a shopping center at 46-25 Kissena and took two cameras and two calculators. "I haven't the slightest idea what they were looking for," Ackerman said yesterday as he took inventory of his storefront newspaper and advertising shops. "If anybody wanted any information all they had to do was ask me." At some time between 11:30 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m yesterday morning when Jedd Moskowitz, assistant to the publisher, entered the offices, burglars tore up Aekerman's private office and the office of his partner, Hank Levy. Filing Cabinet Rifled File cabinets containing personnel records, bank deposit slips and other business matters were rifled.

Expensive business machines, some small change and typewriters were left untouched. The intruders helped them -W, I. Publisher Gary Ackerman looks over Lis ransacked office at 4l 25 Kissma lilvd..