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IFF to! Sets new beach, park 'quiet zones By JOHN MELIA and DON GENTILE PLAYING OF RADIOS OR TAPE PLAYERS WITHOUT EARPHONES IS PROHIBITED park ranger at Orchard Beach. "We haven't issued any summonses." THE SILENCE at the Bronx beach was so soothing that four new zones, marked by signs, were added yesterday in other parts of the city. They are: The Sheep Meadow, near W. 67th St. Coney Island, Brooklyn, Bays 18 and 19 (W.

25th to W. 27th from the water's edge to the northern edge of the boardwalk. Rockaway beach, Queens, from Beach 77th to Beach 79th from the water's edge to the north edge of the boardwalk. South Beach, Staten Island, from the lifeguard station to the middle of the parking lot. Parks Commissioner Henry Stern said police and rangers from the New York City park enforcement patrol would hand out summonses to anyone playing a radio or tape player without earphones in the designated zones.

The radio will be confiscated and returned upon payment of the $50 fine. "IT'S A good thing. Those New York City yesterday tried to insure a bit more tranquility for its citizens. City officials announced that New Yorkers now have "quiet zones" designated at sections of four beaches and in Central Park's Sheep Meadow. In those zones, the city has banned the use of radios and tape players without earphonesand violators risk a $50 fine.

"We are taking this step because people go to parks and beaches to escape the noise," said Mayor Koch, who came to the 15-acre Sheep Meadow complete with a 2-foot-wtde blaster to demonstrate how peace and quiet can be shattered. Conquering a fear that he would "get a hernia," Koch picked up the radio and turned up the volume to the point of annoyance, and the point was made. The program, which may be began on Memorial Day at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, in a radio-free zone at the northern three bays of the beach. "People are good about the ban once we explain it," said Kevin Culhane, a city '4 2 Mayor Koch sounds off In the Sheep Meadow at Central Park yesteraay.T0M monaster da.lt news visit, stopped for some Sheep Meadow sun yesterday as the ban was announced. "We have those big radios in Germany," she said.

"I wish they'd ban them back home." la Buff 18, was glad to hear the ban doesn't affect musicians who play their instruments quietly. Artist Marie Wagner, 34, who returns to West Berlin on Sunday after a two-month blasters are obnoxious," said model Jayne Modean, who was biking around the Sheep Meadow yesterday. Ron Ferrante, 16, who was gently strumming his guitar in the Sheep Meadow for Car-' i i Police qet trie 0 0 JL mum mm By DON FLYNN on fheft suspect By JOHN RANDAZZO and LARRY SUTTON A token booth clerk testified yesterday that accused subway vandal Michael Stewart did not appear to be intoxicated when arrested in a Manhattan subway station the night he allegedly was beaten fatally by Transit Authority cops. But under cross-examination by a lawyer for one of six cops on trial in connection with the death, subway clerk Robert LeBright added that he was "too far away" to tell if Stewart was drunk. LeBright told the jury in Manhattan Supreme Court that Stewart, 25, entered the BMT station at 14th St and First Ave.

about 2:30 am on Sept 15, 1983, walked past his token booth and entered the subway without paying. LeBRIGHT SAID he told the man, "Please pay your fare," but Stewart paid no attention and kept going toward the train platforms. About five minutes later TA Police Officer John Kostick entered the station, and shortly after that brought Stewart back up to the token booth with his hands cuffed behind him. LeBright said Kostick came over to the booth, showed him a Magic Marker pen and said he had arrested Stewart walked toward the station exit The clerk said he told Kostick, "Your prisoner is walking." LeBright said Stewart "walked fast" toward the exit and disappeared up the steps with Kostick behind him. The witness said he did not see Stewart and Kostick after that Lawyers for the six accused TA cops contend that Stewart "bolted" up the steps and did "a header" onto the pavement Kostick and two other officers, Anthony Piscola and Henry Boerner, then took him to a TA precinct at Union Square Park.

PROSECUTOR John Fried has charged that at Union Square, Stewart was beaten, kicked, choked and tossed into a police van. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he arrived at 3:30 a.m. He died 13 days later. Lawyer Barry Agulnick, representing Kostick, told the jury in his opening statement that Stewart was "fighting drunk," that he had consumed enough alcohol to make "two people drunk," and that his frenzied, drunken exertions while resisting arrest brought on a fatal heart Kostick, Piscola and Boerner are on trial on charges of negligent homicide and assault while Officer Susan Techky and Sgts. Henry Hassler and James- Barrya are -charged with rperjury7iy5 sa-ifcwtt-a c-a Things were going well for Omar Panama Ceville yesterday when wham! the roof fell in.

Police said Ceville had successfully completed three street stickups between 2 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. But a passerby witnessed the third incident and ran to tell the nearest cop. Officer Arthur Sekunda, patrolling his beat on the upper East Side, listened to the witness and rushed to the scene of the alleged crime at 81st St and Lexington Ave. There, police said, he spotted Ceville heading for a nearby supermarket, the Food Emporium, 1450 Third at 82d St Sekunda ran into the supermarket, and three other cops soon followed.

Sekunda looked left and saw nothing. He looked right and saw nothing. Then he looked up. Ceville had climbed up an exposed pip1 and dropped ceiling and the actual ceiling. According to cops, the officer watched the ceiling sag as Ceville moved about SECONDS LATER, there was a thunderous crash.

Ceville came tumbling through the ceiling and landed in the deli department "He fell just like that," said Sekunda. "Ceville was a former employe of the supermarket and he knew where to hide." Ceville, 19, of 354 S. Second St, Brooklyn, was charged with armed robbery. Police said he used a 10-inch knife to rob a 35-year-old stockbroker of $140 before running into the supermarket Sekunda said Ceville is believed reponsible for eight other knifepoint robberies in the neighborhood during the last six days-including two others yesterday. He said Ceville was fired by the Food Emporium; several ago ccufied of Stettin, 3 crpwkd into apace ibetween a.