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Daily News from New York, New York • 83

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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Jr I Wiw If jj: f' EDWARD MOUNARI DAILY NEWS pushr spillover By ALBERT DA VILA The intensive police raids on dope peddlers on Manhattan's lower East Side has not resulted In a "spillover" of pushers onto the streets of Williamsburg, police and community leaders reported yesterday. Police, however, were continuing to keep close tabs on the area to prevent drug dealers from moving in, officials asserted. In late 1980 and 1981, similar raids in "Alphabet City" as the lower East Side is also known because of Avenues and produced an influx into Williamsburg of drug peddlers and buyers seeking "safer ground" across the Williamsburg Bridge. "The word came out in 1980 to go to Williamsburg because things just got too hot for dealers on the lower East Side," a sergeant attached to the Narcotics Division explained at the time. "Williamsburg is just a short walk across the street" Once the raids ended, dealers returned to the Manhattan neighborhood, and even though similar operations are under way again on the lower East Side, Williamsburg appears to have been spared.

"There's a large uniform force in the area," said Sgt. Michael Montemar-ano, of the Brooklyn North Narcotics Division. "There is nothing conclusive, but it appears that there is no spillover." Gerald Esposito, manager of Community Board 1, also said that a large police presence in the area appeared to have thwarted drug dealers from once again occupying the neighborhood. "The pest control people are once again working buildings that they once were afraid to go into," Esposito said. "It's the police presence." But although a spillover from the lower East Side seems to have been averted, drugs still can be bought here.

"We have a permanent population of drug dealers in Williamsburg," said Montemarano. Snows of yesterday Guiding toddler with one hand and pooch with other, Brooklynite strolls through yesterday's early morning snow in neighborhood park. According to weatherman, today and tomorrow will be clear and cold, but keep those snow boots handy: Another light dusting is possible later in week. mw9 ffsiBX By CHARLES EATON ride the city's buses when they presented their identification cards. When riding the subway, seniors presented their cards and upon paying full fare received a coupon for the return trip.

With the fare increase to 90 cents, the senior citizens' fare rose 10 cents to 45 cents. "There are more than 650,000 elderly New Yorkers," Williams said. "Most of them live on fixed incomes and participate in the half-fare program." At the committee meeting, Williams stated that any fare increase, no matter how small, would present a financial burden to people living on limited resources. Williams brought six senior citizens representing the Brooklyn North Coalition of Senior Citizens' Centers to testify at the hearings. He said that since the fare increase, he had received numerous individual and collective complaints concerning the burden that the higher fare places on seniors.

"Most seniors have no alternative but to use public transportation," Williams added. "For many who live at or. near the poverty line, a few cents can' mean the difference between going to their doctor's appointment, or a recreational center, or a friend's house; and staying home." The New York City Department for the Aging issues the reduced-fare identification cards to city residents who' are at least 65 and do not work at a paying job for more than 20 hours per week. A resolution that would freeze the current 45-cent transit fare for senior citizens is due to come to a vote in the City Council today. It was recently passed unanimously by the Council's Transportation Committee.

At the committee hearings, Brooklyn Councilman Enoch Williams (D-Brownsville) called for support of a bill he introduced last month. The resolution was co-sponsored by Transportation Committee Chairman June Eisland (D-Bronx) and Council-'-man Fred Samuels (D-Harlem). Prior to the New Year's Day fare" hike, senior citizens paid 35 cents to Be-bop pianist at free LiU jazz class today iE-BOP PIANIST Barry Harris will demon wmmm pwii mm igp n-mTin- wr mini win iiinni.i gar'-- 113 strate and discuss his art at the first jazz master class of Long Island University's Send news of your civic group, school or organization to: Bulletin Board, Daily News, 16 Court Brooklyn, New York 11201 Brooklyn events contact the Women's History Month Steering Committee, Office of Borough President Howard Golden, 16 Court St, Room 809, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11241. SENIOR SERVICES All senior citizens residing in the service areas of Community Boards 6 and 7, Sunset Park, Park Slope and Red Hook, are invited to attend the next meeting of the Senior Social Action Council of the Park Terrace Council of the Aging, at 10 a.m.

tomorrow at United Seniors of Sunset Park, 53d St and Fifth Ave. The focus of the meeting will be fighting cuts to Medicare funding and the proposals for a National Health Service. (499 9814). COTERMINALITY CONFUSION A special meeting on police co-terminal ity and how it affects the neighborhoods surrounding Brooklyn College will be sponsored by the Junction College Development Corp. at 8 p.m.

tomorrow at the corporation's headquarters on the second floor of 1569 Flatbush Ave. (434-0977) The evening will deal specifically with the boundary line changes of the 63d, 67th and 70th Precincts, and representatives from each precinct will participate." spring semester, to be presented from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at LIU's Triangle Theater on the Brooklyn campus, Flatbush Ave. Extension and Dekalb Ave.

The lecture-demonstration is being sponsored by the Brooklyn Campus Music Department The public will be admitted for free. LIU students can attend the lectures for credit Harris, a major exponent of Bud Powell and Theolonius Monk, has toured and recorded worldwide with his own trio and quartet and with Joe Henderson, Lee Morgan and James Moody. Currently, he is teaching an improvisation workshop at the jazz Cultural Theater. For more information on LIU's Jazz Plus Program, cail Peter Yellin, coordinator, at 403-1051. FOR ADOLESCENTS' PARENTS The Center, for Family Education is forming support groups to help parents cope with the problems and stress of parenting a teenager.

The group discussions will cover such topics as sex, drugs, school performance, ongoing battles and lack of communication. The groups are led by trained psychologists and are informal and non judgemental. Single, parents and couples are welcome. To register, call 287-1719. SCOUT LEADER TRAINING Cub Scout leader training will be offered by the Stuyford District of the Boy Scouts of America for four consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning at 6:30 p.m.

tomorrow at the Bethany Baptist Church, 460 Sumner Ave. Boy Scout leader training will be offered from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday from March 10 to March 24 at the Janes United Methodist Church, 174 Reid Ave. The fee is $3.

Call 7784850. WOMEN'S GROUP LECTURE A lecture on the beginning of the National Council of Neighborhood Women (388-6666) will be held by the NCNW from 9:30 a.m. to noon today at 249 Manhattan Ave. Admission is free. The lecture is part of Brooklyn's celebration of Womeris History For' a free schedule of.

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