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ft mi sEtyscr iv over Hfit a project of By JOAN SIIEPARD Lack of imperils CityC The proposed 69-story mixed skycraper over City Center is one step closer to Pirn 4n small backstage area. Excavation has already started under as-of-right zoning. "We are hoping to deliver the 10,000 square feet to City Center very soon," Howard Hornstein, attorney and spokesman for the developer, said yesterday. "We are hopeful," said Hornstein, "that the public process will be completed by May." According to Squadron, work on City Center's backstage renovation will be done in the summer of 1986, when City Center is "dark," so as not to interrupt the scheduled season. THE LANDMARKS Commission has been deliberating over the proposed tower since October.

The developer had to submit a preservation plan outlining its ideas on preserving City Center, built in the 1920s as a colorful Shriners' meeting hall and later converted into an auditorium. "The proposed building," said Adolph Placzek, the commissioner who made the motion for approval, "is original and dramatic. Through its slender profile and complex series of setbacks culminating in a tower capped with a dome, it harks back to the prototypical skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s." 1 Mr iL8 tower that will rise above 56th reality. The tower certificate of received a appropriate ness on Tuesday from the Landmarks Preservation Commission after an executive session voted 7-3 in favor. Commission approval was required, because City Center is a designated landmark and the new building will share a wall with it Final approval must be given by the City Planning Commission.

The Landmarks Commission will file for approval on behalf of City Center. "WE ARE delighted," said Howard Squadron, chairman of the board of trustees of the 55th St Dance which operates City Center. The corporation and two other arts groups leasing the center stand to share $10 million when the tower is built In August, the Board of Estimate approved the sale of City Center air rights to the developer, W. 56th St Associates, which must purchase a minimum of $10 million of air rights. "We are hoping that we will be able to get a long-term lease, 20 years, on the center," Squadron said.

UNDER THE developer's plan. City Center will receive additional space to expand its posure could be unhealthy. Messinger's bill would enable the city to seize any oil that violates federal clean-air standards for sulphur, and violators would be required to reimburse the city for the cost of disposing of the fuel. Messinger suggested that the department's findings he! to By JOAN SIIEPARD If a Greenwich Village, program that aids hundreds of lower Manhattan senior citizens doesn't get some donationsright away it may have to close within a week. Funding for the Greenwich Village Senior Citizens Assistance Project, 349 Sixth at Waverly Place, is fast running out The project, which was started in April, received money for six months from the Public Development Fund, which matched half the funds raised by the project "We made the money last for nine months," Maria Nuc-ciarone, executive director, said yesterday.

"I thought that because our work was so worthwhile we would get help from the private sector, but so far the only donation we have gotten is $1,000 from Fairchild Publications." THE PROJECT serves senior citizens from 14th St. to Canal St by helping them' to secure benefits, providing shopping service and escort service to banks, and acting as a general advocate. "Seniors are very vulnerable and open to exploitation, not only by landlords but also by relatives," said Nucciarone." As an example, she cited an instance of a home-bound woman whose life savings were taken by a relative. To qualify for city or fed-, eral funding, the project needs a track record of at least one year, Nucciarone said. At its next meeting, on Wednesday, the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce will launch a fund-raising drive to assist the group.

SINCE ITS establishment, the project has helped 1,017 older people. "Some are short-term problems," said Nucciarone, "but others are ongoing. "We helped one 97-year-old blind man get plumbing repairs in his apartment and to get his Social Security checks cashed. In addition, we gave him a birthday party." Office space is donated by Gilbert DiLucia, president of the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce. DiLucia charges $700 a month rent, but returns it as a donation to be contributed toward the matching grant.

Donations may be sent directly to the project or to the Greenwich Village Chamber of Commerce, 149 W. Fourth New York, N.Y. 10012. Qited '0KK IZBiigJ 3 Stiff 1 l. Artist's conception of 69-story St.

fly sb, By SALVATORE ARENA and RICKI FULMAN Manhattan councilwoman Ruth Messinger said yesterday she expects to hold public hearings within 30 days on a bill she has introduced in- the City Council that would allow the city to seize contaminated fuel from oil tankers, storage tanks and fuel distributors. Messinger said yesterday that she already had several co-sponsors for her bill, which was spurred, in part, by the steady stream of complaints her office receives about the city's poor air quality, she said. She introduced the measure on Tuesday. "People see murky green smoke coming out of buildings and they call us," she said. "We regularly track down the complaints." MESSINGER said her bill "addresses the serious danger created when 4 Joxic 92d St.

offers walk tours "may just be the tip of the iceberg." William Andrews. a for McGough. noted that the city already prohibits the sale, transport or storage of oil contaminated by sulphur, and provides that violators be punished by fines ranging from $200 to $3,000. photographer Marc Kaz-marek, and musician Richard Peck. On Feb.

4 at 5:45 p.m.. Amy Gristede will lead a tour through Phillips Auction House, 406 E. 79th St. Phillips, a London house founded in 1796, is reportedly the third largest auction house in the world specializing in fine art and unusual collectibles. Fees for these tours range from $11 to $13.

For information and reservations for those tours and others that will be held during the 427-60 wastes are mixed with fuel oil before their sale" to consumers. But city environmental officials said that it might be difficult for them to enforce such a measure. Last spring, a Daily News investigation revealed that as many as one in 10 fuel shipments into the city contained dangerously high levels of sulphur, chlorine and lead. Random surveys conducted by the city's Department of Environmental Protection turned up 56 apartment buildings that were burning oil that violated federal clean-air standards for sulphur, and also found that some contained high concentrations cf lead. HOWEVER, Environmental Protection Commissioner Joseph McGough maintains that department tests indicated that burning tainted fuel posed no health risk to neighborhood residents.

He said that only long-term ex a. Walking tours to artists studios, auction houses and newly built midtown skyscrapers are being offered next month by the 92d St. YM-YWHA at 92d St. and Lexington Ave. On Feb.

3, from 1 to 3.30 p.m. a tour to seven studios in TriBeCa will be led by painter Berenice D'Vorzon, whose studio will be included. Artists' studios also on the tour are those of Carol Alonge, totem artist; painters Brad Langdale, Martha Keller and Nancy Pierson; mi 14. A Htm ti.