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Daily News from New York, New York • 8

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New York, New York
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1977 Pitches lealty Sale Set Thumb in Bronx MEDINA By DAVE An anti-blockbusting order ba ival estate brokers went into effect hot, Charged Npwei Dhntn hv Anthonv Pescatore rring all forms of solicitations by yesterday in 34 neighborhoods in the eastern half of the Bronx. The area is bordered ry Wakefield in the north. Throgs Neck in the south. City Island in the east and the Bronx River in the west. The order, issued by Secretary of State Mario Cuomo, restores a previous ban in the Edenwald-Williamsoridge-Woodlawn section of the borough, which was allowed to expire over the summer by the City Commission on Human Rights.

Reports of Harassment "We have confirmed that some brokers have been harassing homeowners in the east Bronx neighborhoods near the existing non-solicitation area," Cuomo told a group of community leaders at Allerton Ave. and Boston Road. "We are taking this action to put an end to such harassment and to encourage the middle class to stay in what are by and large, vital, integrated coiiimuni-ties." Cuomo, a mayoral candidate chose the site to announce his plan because of a proliferation of 30 brokerage houses whose offices are situated near that intersection. His order forbids solicitation by letters, post cards, telephone calls, door-to-door canvassing, window signs, billboards or handbills. With Assault By THOMAS PUGH A scuffle between the son of a Department of Correction officer and a neighbor resulted in the neighbor being shot by the officer and arrested for assault, police said.

According to cops, the fight took place near the corner of 105th Ave. and 171st Place in Jamaica around 9 p.m. Monday night between Correction Officer Dennis Trotter's teenage son and Ronald Young, 21, of 171-43 105th Ave. Young angrily left, but warned that ne would return, police said. Young did return a short while later with two German shepherd attack dogs.

The elder Trotter attempted to intercede, police said, and was cut on the face, neck and arms with a shiny instru ment the police believed to be a knife, knife. In one of the city's lighter moments, Mayor Beanie, Alex Parker, owner of Number One Times Square, and Sidney Baumgarten, head of the Midtown Enforcement Project (I. to stand before newly rekindled Times Square sign. Times Square Sign Is On a Prosty Raid Is, Too By MARTIN RING and ALBERT DAVILA Hours after the famous Times Square electric news sign went on again after being turned off for nearly five months to protest crime and pornography in the area, city officials closed a W. 40th St.

hotel on grounds that it allegedly was a haven for prostitutes. ine raia Dy me miaiown amorce- Say Bryant Park Cleanup Fouled Up ment Proect at the Travelers Hotel, 274 W. 40th led to the relocation of six persons all male to other hotels at a cost to the city of nearly $600. Earlier, during the sign-lighting ceremonies, Sidney Baumgarten, the head of the enforcement project, said that 175 sex-related establishments had been shut down since January. 1976.

Baumgarten, who led last night's raid on the hotel, joined Mayor Beame at a press conference in front of Number One Times Square, where Alex Parker, the building's owner, turned the lights back on. Parker had vowed to keep the sign dark until he received 100,000 signatures on petitions to rid the area of pimps, prostitutes and other criminals. Yesterday, however, Parker refused to rest his cleanup campaign, although he has gotten the signatures. He said his next major target is the city's Criminal court judges. "These judges," Parker saia, "must be made to understand that they can no longer hand down soft sentences." According to court documents, there were 40 prostitute-related arrests in the past months at the Travelers Hotel, a four-story building that rents rooms at $7 per day.

By CLAIRE SPIEGEL The efforts to rid Bryant Park of derelicts, muggers, and drug pushers this summer failed apparently because most of the money for the project was spent on salaries for the organizers or never materialized. (If the S5.500 raised by the Bryant Park Community Fund for its cleanup drive, about S1.50H remains, according Al Larsse. a fund coordinator. Large said about $3,000 was jpent on salaries lor Gartner, a coordinator, and two of his assistant. The money was contributed by four corporations with offices near the park.

"'This w'nle cleanup el fort in a lot of lip." charged Gary BerK. tile executive director ot the nonprofit Sidewalks of New York organization which brought entertainment into the park one week in June for which he said lie was not adequately reimbursed. Still smarting from what he said were "broken promises" by the community fund to reimburse the organization, Beck said, "We were promised between $1,500 and $2,500. But we only got $650, and that was after a desperate fight." Gartner denied having made any promises. The community fund was established last spring to step up and coordinate fundraising, upon the recommendation of a City University report.

William Kornblum, professor of sociology at City University who directed the study on Bryant Park, said, "I was never very optimistic about getting great amounts of money from the corporations, although many of them said they were very interested in giving. A lot of them simply changed their minds. There's a feeling that they shouldn't be forced to do the city's job." A member of the Bryant Park Steering Committee disagreed, saying that the fund-raising effort failed because the corporations were not approached in the right manner. "They went to the corporations with a budget that showed most of the money going to set up an office. And they didn't know exactly what the office was going to do.

Businessmen just don't find that kind of thing very appealing." The Sidewalks of New York was welcomed into the "park by the local community planning board with the hope the activity would draw respectable people into the area along with extra police protection which would chase the undesirables out. The board is trying to come through with some money for both Sidewalks and the Juil-liard School of Music, which also gave performances. Police on patrol, however, say that the concerts have backfired. "Criminals like bands, too." said one cop. Another added that the "respectable" noontime office workers have provided pushers with a business bonanza.

"The guys in three-piece suits come here to buy. It's an open-air drug exchange. The music provides a good atmosphere, and everybody gets together." Dinkins, Eldridge Beep, Beep at 2 Democratic Rivals By CLAIRE SPIEGEL and HARRY STATHOS David Dinkins and Ronnie Eldridge, both Democratic primary candidates for Manhattan borough president, yesterday lashed out at two of their opponents, Robert Wagner Jr. and Assemblyman Andrew Stein, for allegedly spending upward of a half -million dollars in an effort to "buy the office." ing on the steps of the New York Public Library at 42d St. and Fifth Ave.

to give their strong support to Wagner, including Richard Wade, professor of history at City University of New York. Issue Call for Action Dinkins and U.S. Ambassador to the UN Andrew Young issued a joint statement in which they said that tomorrow's Democratic Party primary election "will be a severe test for residents of New York City. Our communities are being bombarded with drugs, high unemployment, deteriorating housing, filth in the streets and violent crime. "The most effective way for New Yorkers to change such conditions," they said, "is by participating more forcefully in the political system." Eldridge said Wagner was "naive" to think that he had won the endorsement of the media on his own and he accused the candidate's father, former Mayor Robert Wagner, of "twisting arms" on his son's behalf.

Appearing first in a debate on cable television and later on Mid-Day Live on Channel 5. Wagner needled Stein for his "absenteeism" in the assembly. Stein said he missed some votes because he in the field," serving his constituents. Wagner then needled Stein, asking him if he would find Board of Estimate meetings equally "boring." Stein replied that he would not. Meanwhile, several dozen prominent New Yorkers gathered yesterday morn i4ews photo by Tom Wonasier David Dinkins and U.S.

Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young who urged New Yorkers to get out and vote..

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