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(Paramus. W.T.C. Mohegan Lake closed Sunday) No mail Of phone orders, We honor MasterCard Vise at all ol our locations. PI Poor rich Harry Macklowe. The Manhattan developer has just been hit with two more investigations into his real estate empire.

That's five in little more than a month for the reclusive fellow who buzzed out of nowhere to become one of Gotham's hottest properties. Yesterday, both the Buildings and Consumer Affairs departments confirmed they're looking into his Metro-. politan Tower at 148 W. 57th St, which Macklowe is, promoting in industry advertisements as a 78-story building. Trouble is, Macklowe only has approval for 65 stories.

Angelo Aponte, the consumer affairs commissioner, dashed off a letter to Macklowe seeking data on Metropolitan Tower. "We are currently investigating this situation and will take appropriate action," an Aponte aide said. At the same time, Buildings Commissioner Charles Smith Jr. has ordered his Manhattan borough office "to review the (tower) plans anew and to advise me forthwith." This follows complaints from James and Faith Stewart-Gordon, owners of the Russian Tea Room, which sits next door to the construction site. The Gordons say Macklowe's workers are drilling into their property.

Macklowe, of course, is under investigation by the city and the Manhattan DA's office as the alleged instigator of this month's illegal demolition of four buildings on W. 44th St. Sol Goldman, the owner of record, insists that Macklowe is the real owner, having made a $1 million down payment, and that Macklowe ordered in the demolition team without permits. Macklowe apparently has gotten one monkey off his back and maybe with it, a DA's investigation. Facing up to $42,000 a day in court-ordered fines, Macklowe has signed a consent order with tenants at 30 East End Ave.

He has agreed to restore full services and make repairs by Feb. 25. Score one for the building's tenants, who had taken Macklowe into Civil Court, before Judge Harriet George, after a suspicious explosion in the building. A boiler blew up, injuring 14 tenants and eight firemen. "I'm happy with the agreement," says Kent Carlson, the tenants' attorney.

The numbers game The busy signal you hear these days is the new campaign called, "I Hate 718." That's the area code you have to dial, after you dial 1, to call anyone in Brooklyn, Queens or Staten Island from outside those boroughs. There are even "Ban 718" buttons, an idea of Susan Knopf of Knopf elmacher- Associates at (212) 869-3050. "Why dial 11 digits to reach neighbors in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island?" she asks. She quotes one doctor, who estimates it will take a generation to overcome the "psychological damage done by the new area code." Says Knopf: "New Yorkers unite! Don't let New York become segregated." On the waterfront STOEEWIDE SHEEPSEON CLEARANCE 2,000 dock workers are paid to do nothing, although the longshoremen's union and shipping companies say they must go outside to hire checkers those people who keep inventory of cargo as it's loaded and unloaded. The Waterfront Commission already has told them to forget it and retrain the present force.

Union and management answer that "excess laborers are not necessarily qualified to be checkers." Well, Salvatore DeMeglio of Brooklyn, a longshoreman for 40 years, has decided to challenge the shippers and his union. Yesterday, he petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to investigate why he and others are not given cracks at being checkers. DeMeglio says he's paid $640 a week to do nothing. "They've robbed me of my dignity," DeMeglio says bitterly. "They'd rather pay me $640 a week than let me go to work.

An idiot I am not I have four years of high school, two years of business study at Kingsborough Community College." DeMeglio has worked as a checker at Howland Terminal on Staten Island. He asks: "Why pay $640 a week for someone outside who's never seen a ship?" Still, union and management are pressing ahead to bring in new checkers. A proficiency test was given recently, but the results haven't been made public. The excess work force results from a switch years ago to con-tainerization. DeMeglio thinks the desire to bring in outsiders is really a plot to pump fresh money into the welfare, union and pension funds.

City slickers Duncan Elder, a leader for 30 years in the campaign for decent housing, was properly honored at a bash last night Elder has retired as president of Phipps Houses, a nonprofit organization which has developed more than 4,000 units of moderate-income housing in Manhattan, Bronx and Queens. Retired Queens attorney Stanley Sragow, frequent source of information for this space, has reason to gloat these days. His son, Queens-educated Darry Sragow, now a Los Angeles lawyer, has just been appointed cam if BMF J- is 5 IFF! reg. retail Our Entire Inventory of Men's Women's Garments Vi, FULL LENGTH COATS BOMBERS VESTS MUCH MORE Intermediate rrwkclowns may have been taken RA-H at The Fur jx s-ai wa-a i vvarenoube Nothing in this space over; the 216 West 29th Street ust west of 7th Ave. (212) 564-8374 paign manager- for the reelection mrvn'tfie hn: cranorrifoi be tniih open 7 daysrTnajortrei CafdSAirwrturjiw Hours: M-f: 9:30 5:30: Sat.

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