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win jwuliw l- 1 't if Concern mounts Continued from cover il yy I 4 -I'jtt Lever House at 53d St. and Park Ave. Will it become a Landmarks Commission to consider 13 buildings By JOYCE WHITE Swett owns Hanratty's restaurant on Amsterdam and two other Hanratty's on the upper East Side. He also owns apartment buildings on the upper West Side and some commercial sites. Pomander Walk tenants are nervous about Swett's takeover because of his recent landlord-tenant relationships.

He was the center of controversy last year when the city charged him with 200 code violations at an SRO hotel that he was upgrading at 255 W. 95th St Residents accused him of trying to force them to move out to make way for higher paying residents. Swett, who later sold the building, adamantly denies the charges, claiming that the problems were present in the building when he bought it, and that tenants moved out of their own volition. But Borough President Andrew Stein's office is just as adamant in alleging that abuses did take place. "The tenants he was trying to move out of that building were mostly senior citizens who had nowhere else to go.

He also had a lot of pimps and prostitutes living there for a while, and that upset people," charged Martha Sickles, an aide to Stein. Pomander Walk, built in 1921, got its name from a 1911 play about a street named Pomander Walk in Chis-wick, a London suburb. Tom Healy, a successful turn-of-the-century en-treprenuer, commissioned an architect to design a housing complex exactly like the, set of the play. Next to the houses each of the cottages was a single dwelling in the early years Healy built the city's first indoor ice rink and a famous" restaurant called Sunken Gardens. Over the years, the Healy family has refused- many offers to buy Pomander Walk, but lately upkeep has become very expensive and the family decided to sell.

"Pomander is so unusual that it should never be torn down," said John Healy, the Pomander Walk tenant who is unrelated to the Healy ownership. "This is not just a unique building, but a little village." status, saying it is unnecessary because he does not intend to demolish any part of the site although high rise development is becoming rampant on the West Side. Residents are fearful that Swett will tear down Pomander and the theaters and build co-ops to cash in on the increasingly hot upper West Side real estate market. The Landmarks Commission will conduct hearings on the matter tomorrow. (A number of other key sites will be the object of hearings as well (see story on page 3).

"Developers say they won't touch a thing and then, a few months or a year later, the bulldozers come said Allen Miller, artistic director of the Symphony Space, who said he feels a complicated ownership agreement he has with the Healys will protect Symphony Space from change. Pomander residents may have more to worry about "Pomander is just something you don't find anywhere. It's a lovely little village yanked out of English history. Living here is delightful. Many of the apartments are rent-controlled or stabilized, too, and some people would have difficulty finding any other place to live at these rents," said John Healy, one of the residents and a leader in the fight to get landmark status for the tiny complex.

Healy is unrelated to the development's owners. He said the bargain rents in Pomander range from $150 to $550 a month, or about one-third of what similar-size housing would cost anywhere else on the upper West Side. "Let's face it, this area of the West Side is prime real estate, and a developer could make a fortune getting rid of low-rent apartments and putting up co-ops or condominiums," said Healy. Swett said he has an option to buy the properties he has agreed to pay $4.3 million for Pomander Walk alone and will finalize the deal later this month. But he says he plans no changes.

Walic at 260-274 W. 95th St. on the upper West Side. The other Manhattan buildings scheduled to be discussed at the hearing are: the Association Residence for Respectable Age Indigent Females, at 891 Amsterdam which was completed in 1883; the Henry B. Hollins Residence, a neo-Georgian town house at 12-14 W.

56th St which was built in 1899, and the Lucy P. Dahlgren House at 15 E. 96th a four-story limestone town house built in 1915-16. The remaining buildings are: the Joseph I. Bicknell Residence at W.

253d St. and Post Road in the Bronx, a large 2V4-story frame house that is believed to predate the Civil War; the Arthur Hammerstein House, at 168-11 Powells Cove Blvd. in Whitestone," Queens, which was built in 1924 on a bluff overlooking the East River and Little Bay, and the 103 St. Marks Place House in Staten Island, a shin-' gle-style house built in the 1890 that has been called one of the finest late-19th-century residential buildings in the city. The hearing is open to the public.

IT-pHE WOOLWORTH Building on I lower Broadway and the Lever lJ House on Park Ave. are among 13 buildings proposed for designation by the Landmarks Preservation Commission that will be considered during a public hearing tomorrow. The hearing, which will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the Board of Estimate Chambers at City Hall, will allow owners of the buildings, community-board members, public officials, community groups and the general public to voice, their opinions of the proposed desinations. Members of the Landmarks Commission will v.ote on the designations at a later date.

In addition to the Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, and the Lever House, they include: the Rockefeller apartments at 17 W. 54th St and 24 W. 55th the Hearst Magazine Building at 959 Eighth the former Tiffany building at 409 Fifth the B. Altman Co. department store at 355-371 Fifth and Pomander Taking a ride on a methadone-heroin swing of clinics and find rules being broken all the time." Lt.

James Crane, commanding officer of the Sixth Narcotics Division, told the Daily News that illegal activities at many clinics are common knowledge. "Those patients who frequently 'swing' their medication and sell it on the streets are lifelong junkies," said Crane. "Citizens who live near clinics are always voicing their anger with the situation. It's a chronic problem that we deal with as best we can." "The state took over running the (approximately) 30 clinics in the city and has enforced the regulations. Under the rules, nurses at every clinic must administer the dosage to the patient, watch him or her consume it and then speak with the patient" But many program clients say this doesn't For one dope dealer, 'swinging1 means 'green' in his pocket always happen.

Roger, 28, is receiving a 50-milligram daily dosage at the Beth Israel clinic on Second Ave. "Swinging is so. easy in some clinics because security is poor and nurses don't follow the rules," he offered. "The percentage of people abusing the programs is growing." He charged that some nurses fail to watch patients take the medication. "I've been to a number Continued from cover conduct urine tests?" she was asked.

"Sure, but you can get someone else's urine if and when you're tested for traces of heroin," came the reply. Elena, who has received treatment since 1979, walked toward the playground at 96th St and Lexington Ave. where she said she did most of her business with teenagers and young adults from New Jersey who enjoy getting high on methadone and find it easier to buy in New York City than in their home state. She sold the medication quickly to a' teenager who, in the course of a chat I had with him, said he was 18 and from Fort Lee, N.J. "I like methadone," he said.

"I usually get what I want here or down on Clinton St" Elena currently receives treatment at a state-, operated clinic on W. 118th St in Harlem. "It's tougher to 'swing' there, but it can be done," she says. Nick Titakis, the former administrator of the city's methadone maintenance program, says the problem is being blown out of proportion. "'Swinging is not impossible to conceive of but it happens to such a minimal degree that the impact is almost nil," he said.

Papo, who works at a lower East Side social club that fronts for a heroin and cocaine "factory," told this reporter that many addicts on methadone- maintenance programs sell their daily dosage on local streetcorners in the area. "It's common knowledge that 'swingers' use their dosage and any money they can get up to cop some dope," said Papo. "So what's happening is that the city is really helping some addicts to keep up their habit But that's cool it means more green -co (money) for me." Roger, who although he has serious drug prob- lems is articulate and manages to hold down a blue-collar job, sees the bottom-line effect of downplaying swinging differently. "Ignoring the problem of he tays, "will shorten the lives of people with serious drug problems.".