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Daily news, "Tuesday, may 27, i960 They hope phantom parks will give up the ghost rest of the city. The plaza would be a traffic island, and you'd find as many people using it as use Columbus Circle now." The enclosed plazas at two of the city's poshest addresses, Olympic Tower at 51st St and Fifth Ave. and the Galleria on 57th St off Park where builders received bonus rental space in exchange for providing what were supposed to be active, cosmopolitan arcades akin to the Citicorp Center open space. They've turned out to be underutilized and often completely empty. A change in the ownership structure at Olympic Tower will lead to a new plan for largely unrented Olympic Place, it is said, and there are reports of talks with the fancy East Side bakery Delices La Cote Basque about opening a cafe.

City officials say that although there is a violation notice outstanding against Galleria, progress is slower there. Pledges have only recently been made that the Galleria condominium association and the owner of commercial space will finally meet to consider making the kind of improvements promised when the tower was granted an extra 57,588 square feet of space. The park at Concorde apartments at 220 E. 65th St, which, like dozens of others attached to East Side apartment towers, has been closed to the public. The Bonne Bouche restaurant, which built a large enclosed extension onto a public plaza at Murray Hill Mews apartments at 38th St and Third Ave.

Fruchtman's department served the restaurant owners a violation summons answerable in Criminal Court July 11. Since the restaurant built the extension, two more outdoor cafes have set up their umbrella-covered tables on open space around the building. By MARTIN GOTTLIEB While the city says that severe manpower cuts prevent its launching an all-out war against its phantom parks, public and private groups are zeroing Jn on six prime offenders in hopes of breathing life into some of the deadest spots in town. Among the targets ire one of the worst parks of all Bryant Park and the acre-square park planned for the $375 million New York City Exposition and Convention Center which open-space advocates fear could turn into an isolated hangout for a variety of undesirables. The other four are parks and plazas spotlighted by the Daily News as particularly ghostlike enclosures.

They are in apparent violation of zoning laws and agreements that enabled their developers to build extra floors worth millions of dollars in rent in exchange for supposedly vibrant public amenities. In a positive development, a series of new parks such as one at an apartment building at 81st St. and First Ave. featuring a sculpture-sitting area by sculptor Tony Rosenthal promises to be far better used than their predecessors. They were developed under detailed requirements fashioned by the City Planning Commission's recently disbanded urban design group.

Craw of Inspectors has dwindled But Buildings Commissioner Irwin Fruchtman, whose department is responsible for policing the zoning code, says that a sweep of all apparent zoning code violators is impossible because his dwindling crew of inspectors is also responsible for safety-related inspections of building structures. Faced with such constraints, city and private groups have targeted these six sites as particularly in need of overhaul: Bryant Park and the terraces around the Public Library building at 42d St and Fifth Ave. The terraces have become new bartering grounds for dope sellers who long ago turned adjoining Bryant Park into one of the most forbidding open spaces in town. A $75,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation has helped establish the Bryant Park Restoration which hopes to open outdoor cafes within the next couple of months. A restaurant against the wall of the library in the park is expected to follow next year.

Three businesses bordering the park New York Telephone, Republic National Bank, and American Standard Co. have agreed to contribute to a park maintenance fund that Restoration Corp. head Daniel Biederman hopes will reach $80,000 to $100,000 a year. The acre-square convention center park filling the blocks between 10th and 11th aves. from 37th to 39th sts.

Although the giant center is not expected to open for four years, the large park has already generated considerable criticism from park advocates and planners, who fear it will be nothing more than a turnaround point for buses and cabs dropping off conventioneers. "It has to go back for total redesign," says Jeannette Bamford, the Parks Council's executive director. "It has no connection to midtown. We don't think it will serve any useful public purpose. A plaza can't be in the center of lanes and lanes of traffic and it can't be an isolated-structure that doesn't have any transportation to the New Fla.

Ibr des patrol 1 si lawless fiinels fiie are the checkpoint even after the Cubans stop coming to Key West on the Freedom Flotilla from Mariel Harbor. "This is one of the most lawless sections of the country I have ever been in, and most of the people are really happy to see us," Barrett said. "They say they want to see that everybody gets documented and that we know who's coming in. They say they are really glad we're catching the drugs. "Most of the residents here are really scared about the situation.

They're afraid their area is going to experience an economic decline and they're apprehensive." The traffic checkpoint was set up May 2 along a quiet stretch of U.S. 1 by Barrett and two dozen other border patrolmen temporarily assigned here from other parts of the country. Calls it a waste of time But they say they are wasting their time. "The public congratulates us on the job that we're doing and they don't know that we're not really doing anything," By MIGUEL PEREZ Staff Corrataondant of Tha Nawa Florida City, Fla. A new U.S.

border checkpoint set up early this month on the highway between Miami and the Florida Keys to prevent the new wave of Cuban refugees from sneaking into this country illegally has been catching everything but Cubans, officials here said yesterday. The seizures, which have been made by the 25 border patrolmen assigned to this new post include many illegal aliens from Central and South America. In addition, the patrolmen have found a variety of drugs from Latin America, including a record haul of 410 pounds of cocaine found last week in the trunk of a car driven by a Miami man. "We've had about seven or eight armed encounters, and caught about a dozen Mexicans, 6,000 pounds of marijuana, 15,000 Quaaludes and a lot of cocaine," said Patrolman Edward Barrett a former New Yorker who has been temporarily reassigned to the new checkpoint from El Paso, Tex. "The Cubans are not coming in illegally because we're letting them in free and they want to be documented." Barrett said there is talk of retaining Chart FrattlnlDalty Dm In step with the weather Youngster enjoys a run along beach at Coney Island yesterday.

Weather was just about perfect for a holiday weekend and today should be good, too, with fair skies and temperatures in the 70s. Boat fumes cited in 26th flotilla death said Patrolman Albert Hibbert, who pointed out that most of his colleagues are discouraged to see that the illegal aliens they catch usually manage to stay in this country. Hibbert who normally chases Mexicans across the Rio Grande in Texas, said the illegal aliens getting caught here are people who are not aware of the new border checkpoint and find themselves in handcuffs when they head back to Miami after a pleasure trip to the Keys. The patrolmen stop every car heading north on U.S. 1.

Aliens must show immigration papers and Anglo-type Americans are sometimes waved through without a single question. Nervous driver stopped "Hello. Are you a United States citizen?" the officers ask. Depending on the response and the way drivers react, the officers may choose to ask for identification or search the car. When drugs are found, people in the vehicle are detained and turned over to local authorities.

One who couldn't conceal his nervousness, police said, was Richard Pasapera, 24, of Miami, who drove up to the checkpoint in a late-model car last week. Patrolman S.A. Dutcher noticed that the car's rear was nearly scraping the road. He asked Pasapera to open the trunk and allegedly found 185 plastic bags containing 410 pounds of cocaine the largest cocaine bust ever in the United States, with a value conservatively estimated at $10 million. pushed the 36-day refugee total near 80,000.

As of late yesterday afternoon, 1,963 new refugees aboard 28 boats had arrived at processing docks here. The Coast Guard said severe thunderstorms, in the Florida Strait had no effect on the stream of vessels from Mariel, the Cuban harbor. A Coast Guard spokesman said that reports vary, but that there may be as few as "100 to 200" boats still at Mariel. Since the Coast Guard is preventing boats from going to Cuba, the boatlift operation could end this week; if the current pace of 30 to 50 returning boats a day continues, officials said. Meanwhile, a disabled Cuban tugboat was towed yesterday to the U.S.

Coast Guard base, where at least four of the seven crewmen said they wanted to stay intheU.S. The Coast Guard said the tugboat Second of December was found "adrift and disabled" late Sunday and was towed by the cutter Cape Starr after the guard's boarding party found the crew split into "two factions." The captain was piloting the vessel for Key West when his chief engineer balked and cut the boat's motors and refused to restart them, the Coast Guard said. 12 Cubans flee camp; all are captured Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (UPI-A dozen more Cuban refugees jumped a fence in a new break for freedom from confinement at the tent city camp outside Eglin Air Force Base Sunday night, the Air Force said yesterday. All 12 were recaptured, as were two others who fled in a rock-throwing rampage Saturday night that resulted in nine injuries, spokesman Maj.

John Toner said. "We had 12 go over, and we got 14 back. Some were recaptured immediately by security police, others were turned in by local authorities," Toner said. As many as 50 of the 8.400 refugees scaled the six-foot chain-link fence in the disturbance, apparently angry over delays in processing. Only 1,234 Cubans have been released from Eglin in the past three weeks because of delays in medical and security clearances and in obtaining sponsors.

Key West, Fla. (AP) The Freedom Flotilla of refugees from Cuba to the United States claimed its 26th victim yesterday when a 19-year-old youth apparently died of carbon-monoxide poisoning from exhaust fumes aboard the packed pleasure boat St Christopher. The Coast Guard said two other refugees who were overcome were flown by helicopter to a Key West hospital and were in critical condition. Alan Lisle of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the dead youth had relatives in the Miami area and recently was released from a Cuban prison. He was not identified.

Bef ugees total about 80,000 The death toll from the boatlift includes seven Cuban-Americans who died making the crossing, an elderly refugee woman who died shortly after stepping ashore, three refugees who died in an earlier carbon-monoxide poisoning incident, and 14 refugees lost in the sinking of the pleasure boat Olo Yumi on May 17. The St Christopher was among a steady stream of boats yesterday that.