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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1976 ML'7 1 Needi stion ts wane 1 Vinicio Donato, chairman of Queens Community Board 1. "But-you can't put a garbage truck on the tram so we have to service it. And some people here feel that if we have to service it we should represent it." "Their elected officials come from Manhattan and if you assign them to Queens they wouldn't really have representative government," argued Stanley Lewis, chairman of Manhattan's Board 8. Meeting With Islanders To help prove his point, Lewis, Manhattan Bor-ovgh President Percy Sutton and Manhattan Councilman Carter Burden met with about 150 Roosevelt Inlanders on June 1. Thesentimentontheisland, Lewis contends, is pro-Manhattan.

"They are Manhattan-oriented basically," said David Ozerkis, the chief engineer of the project. "Right from the beginning the project was identified with Manhattan." Indeed, many residents seem to view Roosevelt Island's high-rise apartments as a way to enjoy the benefits of Manhatan living without the noise and grime. "Astoria, with all those industries and bakeries and two family homes well, that's another world," one resident insisted. "We're tryng to see if there is any possible area of compromise, said Jchn McGettrick of the Mayor's Charter Implementation Committee. "Such as joint representation." By DICK BRASS Roosevelt Island is (pick one) a.

part of Manhattan b. part of Queens c. both d. neither. That, believe it or not, is the question confronting city politicians and planners and the residents of Roosevelt Island these days.

An answer is required by Oct. 1. The problem is that Roosevelt Island, the new 2.100-9;partment unit project in the middle of the Eat River, has connections with both Manhattan and Queers, and no one is sure whether it should be handed over to Queens Community Planning Board 1 or Manhattan Community Board 8. Garbage, police and fire service for the island community come from Queens.1-The only bridge on the island connects to. Queens.

Many. residents shcp in Queens. Brit a Manhattan school district and Manhattan elected officials serve Roosevelt Island. The only aerial tramway on the island connects with Manhattan. And many residents think of themselves as Manhattan types.

All this confusion becomes important because under the new city charter, passed by the voters in November, the boundary lines cf community planning districts are being redrawn. And the question of who gets Roosevelt Island goes before the Board cf Estimate by Oct. 1. "We haven't taken any position officially," said Airview of Roosevelt Island. Who Gets It" Franciscans Give Bread to the Poor Stationary Printer Bedevils a Project fell, r-vSR tevv jf pS Li i By BRYANT MASON A Manhattan printer who has refused to move his business out of a Greenwich Village factory which is being converted into a swanky apartment house has offered to buy the building in order to remain.

Nat Sorkin, president of Tabard Press at 405-421 Hudson charged that a move will wreck his business. The eight-story factory building in a all commercial district is being redesigned to contain 188 apartments, a rooftop restaurant and a health club. Sorkin, who has the consignment for all the Board of Election materials, feared that eviction would throw into chaos his schedule for printing ballots, tally sheets and vote cards and other materials for September primaries and the November general election. "You don't just pack up 55,000 suare feet of printing equipment overnight. What do you think we have, a stationery shop?" asked Sorkin, a vice chairman of the mayor's task force to keep the printing industry in the city.

But Samuel Lindenbaum, News photos by Bill Stahl Jr. The Rev. John Felice, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church, 135 W. 31st blesses bread to be distributed to the poor in the area.

The church revived an old ceremony known as St. Anthony's bread for the poor in 1974 as a reminder to those Americans who have to share with those who haven't. 1 M'--J i I A A I rtjtffcKUiiymmarfvf jnrftltorw mini Helmsley Pushes City on Hotel Nat Sorkin lawyer for the owner, Bar nett Liberman. has already taken Sorkin to court to evict him By OWEN MORITZ Real estate developer Harry Helmsley said yesterday he will drop his option to build a $65 million hotel and office tower behind the landmark Villard Houses on Madison Ave. unless the City Planning Commission moves this week on needed legislation.

Helmsley said. "I'm fed "This thing has been kicking for occupying four stories more than a month after his lease has expired. When told of Sorkin's offer to buy the factory, Liberman said, "He can't afford it, that's nojisense." He said he wants to know how Sorkin proposes to operate a building which costs a year to keep open and has no other tenants. Sorkin has said he pays $2 million in salaries for 100 skilled workers. The city would lose taxes as well as the salaries if he were forced to go out of business, he said.

The court eviction case has been delayed pending next Tuesday by th; Board of Standards and Appeals. The issue drawn the attention of the neighborhood. Although Community Planning Board 2 opposed the variance in the manufacturing zone, it did not reject to further consideration of the proposal, according to Doris Deither, head of the zoning committee. The factory building is across Hudson St. from James J.

Walker Park, between Clarkson and LeRoy Sts. Other manufacturers in the area, such as Mrs. Lee Graham of Red Bow Food Products, oppose the idea of having children and families using streets which are heavily traveled by trucks. Red Bow abuts the Liberman building. But other residents, such as Rev.

Joseph Bono of St. Alphonsus Church at 308 Broadway, would like to see an apartment house and children after years of watching pari-shoners move away from the neighborhood. "The area is dying because of a need of low-rent housing," added Vincent Vincentelli of the Knickerbocker Council 221 of the Knights of Columbus. Paul Gurion, a neighborhood resident, said he felt that Sorkin was not serious about his offer to buy the building. Gurion wants the apartment house variance.

"I believe that Sorkin will move away as soon as he's finished printing the election ballots," Gurion said. from the project would be a severe setback for the mayor, who has publicly tied the future of the city to a reversal of its economic fortunes. The Helmsley project is the major real estate venture on the drafting boards at present. Bonuses in Legislation The legislation would give builders bonuses of up to 62 in additional buildable space if they agree to build around landmarks. The legislation has been tailored to make Helmsley's possible, City Hall sources say, but is applicable to a number of other landmark sites hence the interest of other community planning boards.

"I suspect dirty pool," said Romaine Weil, a member of Planning Board 6. "Nobody has seen this latest legislation in time and now they want to hold a public hearing. I don't like it. I don't like it one bit." asked that the public headings be delayed. At last report, the hearing was still scheduled for tomorrow.

Helmsley, the city's biggest private owner of real estate and the pace-setter for the real estate community, has an option to withdraw by July 1, at which time is supposed to pay $700,000 a year in real estate "Too Many" Hurdles In an intervieaw yesterday, Helmsley said he will exercise that option to withdraw. "If I don't build there, I don't think anybody else will either. There are just too many hurdles," he maintained. If Helmsley does pull out, the site would revert to the Archdiocese, which has already moved its pastoral, educational and charitable operations to a new 20-story building at 1011 First known as the New -York Center.r The withdrawal of Helmsley around for a year. I've made concessions and we have to get finished with it." In what observers regard as a major test of the Beame administration's new stress on economic development, the Planning Commission is to hold public hearings tomorrow on special legislation.

That legislation would smooth the way for Helmsley to build his 51-story tower, called New York Palace, just behind the Villard Houses at Madison Ave. and 51st St. The site is owned by the Archdiocese of New York. Facing a July 1 deadline, the planning agency has circulated at least four separate drafts of the new legislation and the latest draft did not reach members of Community Planning Boards 2, 5 and 6 all of whom have a stake in the new legislation until late last week. Suspecting a power play, these boards have formally.