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3 fBif 2inan stps info classic confrontatioft- By OWEN FITZGERALD fljl 'J 0 A 1 -T Former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman's entry into the race for Brooklyn district attorney yesterday sets the stage for a classic confrontation between the Democratic organization and party independents. Holtzman's decision to challenge party nominee Norman Rosen, executive assistant to retiring DA Eugene Gold, in the Sept. 10 primary election returns her to the limelight of city and state Democratic politics. The Holtzman-Rosen contest should rival for attention the citywide fight for controller between incumbent Harrison J.

Goldin and Bronx Assemblyman John Dearie. IF ELECTED, HOLTZMAN would become the first women prosecutor in city history. The Brooklyn struggle will pit a 39-year-old unmarried liberal lawmaker who attracted national attention for her role in former President Nixon's impeachment proceedings against a little-known Bay Ridge family man who served as Gold's key aide for 12 years. Her announcement was made before an applauding audience at the Brooklyn Club that included her parents and supporters who worked in the bitter U.S. Senate campaign last fall won by Republican Alfonse D'Amato.

Holtzman offered a sweeping criticism of the performance of the Kings County DA's office in which she carefully avoided any direct complaints against Gold. No sooner was she finished than the voices of Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Meade Esposito and candidate Rosen were heard and their campaign theme of Holtzman's inexperience sounded. "Liz is a wonderful girl but this is not her cup of tea," said Esposito. "She is inexperienced and we have crime on the rampage here. "I have tremendous respect for her but she is making a big mistake," he said.

"We will do everything we can to defeat her." ROSEN, WHO SOME POLITICAL observers felt might drop out of the race if Holtzman entered it, adamantly stated he was in the campaign to stay. Rosen said Holtzman was "a fine woman and has Liz Holtzman announces she'll seek Brooklyn district attorney post 3 HOUNAM DAILY NEWS developed a reputation as a national legislator." "But she is absolutely not equipped to handle the job of" a' local prosecutor," he said. "She has no administrative experience to lead this office, the largest in the state and the third largest in the nation." In his prepared statement, Rosen questioned Holtzman's concern as a congresswoman about the war on crime and challenged her characterization of the "business-as-usual" attitude of the DA's office in the face of rising crime. Holtzman, said Rosen, was "disturbingly silent" on the needs of the DA's office in the past "Can she now convince us that her entrance into this race is not for personal political gain?" he asked. HOLTZMAN WAS BORN in Brooklyn and graduated from Lincoln High School.

She went on to Radclif fe College and Harvard Law School and then burst onto the national political scene' with her startling 1972 upset of the late Emanuel Celler, who had held his seat in Congress for half a century. In her announcement yesterday, Holtzman cited anticrime legislation she had sponsored in Congress, ranging from child pornography to the bootlegging of cigarets. She spoke of her efforts to fund the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administraion. She vowed to be "a people's advocate" if elected and to serve the full four-year term in the position. Holtzman, Rosen and the Republican candidate for DA, Aaron Schacher, have until midnight to file their nominating petitions with the Board of Elections.

Holtzman said she expects to win the Liberal party endorsement, which would keep her on the Nov. 3 general election ballot regardless of the outcome of the Democratic primary- Park Slope plan stirs community controversy By RUTH MARKS STOUT $117,000, with- a down payment of $10,000. The rental units are expected to bring in about $325 each a month. A local community group, the Park Slope Improvement Committee, charged that the board completely ignored the recommendation of its housing committee. THE COMMITTEE recommended the plan put forth by Baltic Associates, which calls for a larger supermarket and masonry rather than frame housing units.

Baltic also said it planned to build additional housing on nearby lots, while the chosen developer plans a city park instead. The Improvement Committee also charged that the chosen developer planned to put in a Key Food supermarket that would be owned by the same company which operates a Key Food market in the central Park Slope area, thus "destroying competition." Commissioner Anthony Gliedman said yesterday of the proposed development that in conjunction with the city's shopsteading program along the Fifth Ave. corridor, it "will bring much-needed shopping to the area along with housing priced to maintain the economic integration of the neighborhood." Former site residents, he said, will get priority in purchasing the homes. Construction is expected to begin in February 1982. The development plan must still, however, go through the city's Uniform Land Use Review Pro-deedure, which calls for review and formal approval by the Department of City Planning, Community Board 6, the 'City Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate.

By BOB KAPPSTATTER Amid a swirl of local controversy, city housing officials announced yesterday their choice of developers to build a supermarket and townhouse complex on a vacant lot in Park Slope. The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development said it went along with Community Board 6's recommendation of the plan, which calls for a supermarket and about 50 three-family homes in the deteriorated area near Fifth Ave. and Baltic St in the North Slope area; A public school now stands on a corner of the vacant block. A local community group charged last month that the community board went against the choice of its Housing and Land Use Committee, which recommended another developer. THE DEVELOPER chosen by the local board and HPD for the supermarket is Baltic Associates, which consists of Louis Rosenberg, Samuel Feiner-man and Pick Quick Foods, Inc.

Urban Housing Association of Staten Island will build the houses. The developers are being sponsored by the Fifth Ave. Committee, a local nonprofit agency that has been struggling for several years to upgrade the Fifth Ave. corridor. Under the development plan, each home will contain an owner's unit, two rental units and a two-car garage space.

After various financing programs, chiefly involving Aetna Life and Casualty the $125,000 estimated cost of each home will be reduced to The city has revoked the licenses of a Bed-Stuy junkyard where falling debris killed a 9-year-old boy last August In addition, the Department of Consumer Affairs has ruled that any "pending or future applications for renewal are to be denied with prejudice." The boy, Dwayne Whitehead of 940 Prospect Place, was found lying on the sidewalk next to Born Again Salvage 762 Bergen St. He had been "crushed under the weight of a flatbed truck had been serving as a partial fence," a police officer testified at the Consumer hearing. Although a letter informing Born Again's owner," Trudy Parker of Cedarhurst, L.I., was sent out last Friday, the junkyard was still operating yesterday. Dwayne Whitehead's grandmother, Mary Whitehead, who lives across the street from the yard, told the Daily News yesterday: "They're still there. They're still working." A phone call to the yard itself was answered by Sylvester Simmons, who said he worked at the junkyard.

When asked if the yard was open for business, Simmons answered: "Yeah." Trudy Parker, reached at her home, declined to comment when asked when the yard would be closed. Parker's husband, Tyrone, is the manager of the yard and is an officer on the Housing Authority police force. Warren general counsel for the Department of Consumer Affairs, said that Born Again is iri violation if it has received the letter from his department "We can assume that they have received the letter," he said, "but when the receipt comes back from the Post Office, it would be final Traiger said that his department "intends to follow up on the hearing officer's findings immediately and vigorously. We will send out an inspector, and if he finds that the yard is still operating, he will issue a Criminal Court summons." The mother of the dead boy, Faith Whitehead, has filed a $2 million suit against the operators of the junkyard and the city. The suit charges that the city failed to enforce regulations governing junkyards.

Yesterday, Faith said that the yard "Deserved to lose its licenses. There have been complaints about the place for years." However, Faith didn't know whetherrthe yard was still operating, even though she passes it "every day" on her way to work. "I didn't really pay attention to it any more. I don't look at it," she said quietly. I'.

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