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Ox RIDGEWOOD SUNNYSIDE 0 WOODSIDE REGIONAL NEWS ASTORIA CORONA ELMHURST FOREST HILLS GLEN DALE JACKSON HEIGHTS LONG ISLAND CITY MASPETH MIDDLE VILLAGE Be Hurt Before Site Is Safe By VINCENT COSGROVE Residents of a Long Island City apartment complex fear that a mountain of dirt being dumped in a nearby vacant lot is creating a danger-ridden "playground" for local kids. The lot, at 33d Ave. and 14th is of the mound lot, could be ruined if the mountain were to collapse. "When it gets wet, the pressure will move that dirt," Mutoli said. "And that would destroy our parking lot." The fence surrounding the lot Is col News Photo by Tom MIddlemiss Mounds of debris is piled in illegal dump at 80th St.

and South Conduit Blvd. OK Bus Service Extension adjacent to the North Queensview Homes, a cluster of seven privately owned co-op apartment houses. Frank Mutoli, a member of the technical and energy conservation committees for the housing complex, said yesterday that residents were upset that trucks, carting the dirt away from a subway excavation site at 41st Ave. and 21st were dumping the debris and bulldozers were then pushing it into one side of the lot, creating a 30 foot high mountain. Watched Youngsters Play Mutoli, a mechanical engineer who has lived in the apartments for 19 years, said that he noticed kids playing atop the mountain last week.

He fears that one might fall or be buried by the dirt and possibly smothered. Mutoli said he called the local precinct, the district attorney's office, the borough president's office and a local councilman's office to warn them that a hazardous situation existed in the lot. Fearful of Cars "It was exasperating. It amounted to an experience in futility," he said, adding that he was either given the run-around or told that nothing could be done if no one had been hurt at the site. "Does that mean that some child has to be hurt before something can be done?" he asked.

Mutoli added that residents of the apartment were also fearful that their parking lot, adjacent to the south side lapsing in several spots and holes have 5 been poked through the wire to permit 3 access to the mountain. A section of a new fence, made of chicken wire, has recently been erected on the 33d Ave. side of the lot. Mutoli tugged at the flimsy fenced and said that he doubted very much if, it could keep any child out. A spokesman for the Department of Real Estate, which leased the land to the Horn Construction said that an inspector had been sent out to the site yesterday to check on safety conditions.

On Temporary Basis "They're supposed to put up a fence. They're not supposed to do any more dumping until then," the spokesman said, adding that the site was being used as a "temporary" dumping area for the company. A spokesman for Horn promised that the company would examine the problem. "I'll send our project supervisor out to take a look right away," he said. "If anything is endangering private or public interests, we'll take care of it immediately." Meanwhile, Frank Mutoli keeps his eye on the site from his ninth-floor apartment and asks: "Do you have to wait for some kid to get killed before something is done?" tended service has built up both resi-dentially and commercially since service was instituted on the line in the early 1930s.

The principal beneficiaries of the extension will be residents of the 740 tenant Forest Park Co-operative on Union Turnpike, north of Woodhaven Blvd. and employes of Better Brands of New Ynrk, a beer distributor located across the road from the co-op. Others who will benefit are homeowners In the vicinity of Metropolitan Avt. and Union Turnpike, who now have no bus service. At a Planning Commission hearing on March 30.

David Love, an assistant administrator in the city Department of Administration, testified as a resident and supported the extension. Former local planning board chairman Joseph DeVoy also urged its approval. By JOHN TOSCANO The first extension of bus service in almost half a century on a route serving Forest Hills won the approval of the City Planning Commission yesterday. Action on extending the Q-23 route of the Triboro Coach Corp. Now goes to the Board of Estimate for final approval.

Who Will Benefit The route now runs from LaGuardia Airport to the vicinity of 71st Avje. and Metropolitan Ave. in west Forest Hills. Under the proposed extension, the bus would continue west on Metropolitan then south on Woodhaven Blvd. and north on Union Turnpike, back to Metropolitan Ave.

The area to be covered by the ex Couple of Dudes Play Ponies Bring Home Losers ran through an open part of a fence into the playground. A teenager with a sheep dog closed in on one side while the police closed in with Mrs. Vogt. No One Noticed Them A fence around the swings even closed the net tighter. The two tired ponies realized they were trapped and surrendered meekly a half hour after the chase began.

Then came the comic part of marching the "prisoners" the three miles back to the Flushing station at Union St. and 37th Ave. An emergency truck, which arrived after the capture, was put to use when the ponies were tied to light poles on the rear of the truck. The weird parade started with German and Linder taking up the rear with the flashing overhead lights blinking away. "We took an awful lot of kidding as we came down the College Point Causeway to Northern then up to Main down Main to 37th Ave.

and up here to the precinct," said Linder. Comments suchas "Are they for short "Hey, I bet on that one in the fifth" and "Are you taking them down to the OTB?" were just a few of the barbs, Linder and Gernon received. "Toby Esposito owns the ponies and he uses that one there to pull a small vegetable cart through the local streets," Gernon said. "I guess thats the one that was used to travelling around. He knew where the park was ad was leading the other one to greener pastures." "When they were trapped and realized it, they sort of looked at us with that "You got me" look and they just died there," said Gernon.

Later, Toby Esposito came up and claimed the nags. When asked for the names of the pomies, the worker just said "Stupid and Stupider." By THOMAS PUGH Two shaggy Shetland ponies slipped out of their stalls, stampeded through the quiet streets of College Point and were finally corralled yesterday morning in a playground by two in-shape police officers, a couple neighborhood women and a girl with a dog. The ponies, according to one pony ponderer, probably were looking for greener pastures and had headed west from their quarters in the rear of Adventurer's Inn hard by Flushing Airport. The two nameless nags had seen better days when they pandered to the delight of thousands of youngsters who rode them in the pony ride area of the now-closed amusement park. Apparently, Police Officers Tom Gernon and his partner, Tom Linder, of the Flushing station said, one of the ponies sought freedom during the night an led the other off on the trek west.

No One Noticed Them Somehow, they managed to hoof it through the streets of College Point unnoticed until they reached McNeil Park, which is a dead end for fleeing steeds. That's when Gernon and Linder were called in. When the leader of the wayward tea, saw the radio car approaching, he led his buddy into the 29-acre hilly, grassy park and the chase was on. Gernon took off on foot while Linder tried heading the two toward a corner of the park with the radio car. On the scene came Joan Vogt, preisd-net of the College Point Taxpayers Association, who had been called by a neighbor.

"The two went from hill to hill chomping on the grass until we would get close" said Gernon. "Then, they'd leap and take off every time we came close." Persuers Closed In The two truants made one mistake when they News photo by James McGrath Youngsters from nearby day care cent pet pony after it was corralled in McNeil Park..