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an -nrniinn 'in i- n- Daily News, Thursday, November 17, 1983 Nt By CHARLES EATON XA il: 3 '1 I CHARLES FHATTINI DAiLY NEWS Anthony Melillo of Brooklyn Museum hangs copper plate from which etching at left was lifted. In prints, faces of Picasso With the Transit Authority's proposal to close the Court Street Station subway entrance at Clinton and Montague Sts. scheduled before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board tomorrow. City Council President Carol Bellamy, other politicians, and residents of the Brooklyn Heights community are preparing to do battle. The proposal also calls for two other subway entrances to be shut: one at the Pacific St.

and Fourth Ave. Station and the other at 103d St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan. The Transit Authority initially said that design preference of the architect was the primary reason for closing the Brooklyn Heights subway entrance.

Now the TA is citing safety as the reason for all three closings. -THOSE TWO closings (Pacific St. and Fourth Ave. and 103d St. and Lexington Ave.) will have the benefit of increased security." said Bellamy, who also is a member of the MTA board.

"However, that was not the reason originally cited for the closing of the Clinton St and Montague St entrance." "If the closing can't be justified as a security measure, it should not be approved for esthetic reasons alone," Bellamy said. "That entrance is being closed because it is too far away from the token-booth area." insisted Donna Evans, a speaker for the TA. "There is a rather long passage leading from the token-booth area." A spokesman for Bellamy's office said that there are ways to provide more safety without closing off the changing stylistic modes. The exhibition traces the broad range of Picasso's development. It includes examples of his work in different print media including lithograph, serigraph, etching, woodcuts, linoleum cuts and monotypes.

A complex succession of styles and expressive moods is represented in the exhibit. Picasso first worked with etching but later moved into lithography and aquatint, pushing each medium to its outer boundaries to gain higher levels of expression. Through his control of the various styles and techniques, the art of Picasso is clearly demonstrated in the exhibited prints. By CHARLES EATON An exhibition of 253 Picasso prints selected from the private collection of the artist's granddaughter, Marina Picasso, will open at the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow. The exhibition will run U.rough Jan.

8. The prints, which have never1 before been on public display, represent the full spectrum of works. Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, the collection is owned by Marina Picasso. Throughout his career, the artist worked simultaneously in various media of print as well as painting, sculpture an'd ceramics. His prints mirror his constantly entrance, which would leave the BMTs Court Street Station with only one entrance and exit for the public.

City Councilman Abe Gerges also voiced opposition to closing the entrance. "I have written to the MTA requesting that they abandon the plans to close the entrance." Gorges said. "If the MTA is looking to increase rider-ship, I think that they are going about it in the wrong manner." "It's ludicrous that they should even think about closing such a busy access point to that station," said Tony Man heim, the president of the Brooklyn Heights Association. According to Manheim. there are more than 8.500 commuters resident in Brooklyn Heights.

Replacing bridge not ruled out By CHARLES EATON While sticking to his earlier state ment that the possibility of having, to build a new bridge to take the place of the Williamsburg Bridge was remote, an official of the State Department of Transportation admitted yesterday that the style of a replacement had been discussed and the cost had been estimated. All three suspension bridges over the lower East River have seen better days; and repair work is now under way that will ultimately cost more than S400 miiiion. The Brooklyn Bridge is undergoing a S100 million renovation that will take about eight years to complete. The Manhattan Bridge has recently seen train service over it returned to normal after certain repairs, but that is only the beginning of the work to be performed on the structure. "We will be spending $100 million on the Manhattan Bridge to strengthen it and rid it of the torsional deflection problem." said John A.

the regional director of th" Transportation Department. Torsional deflection (twisting) occurs whenever a train crosses the bridge. The weight of the train pushes one side down, causing the other side to rise correspondingly More than S400 million will be spent to repair the three bridges, but if it is necessary to replace the Williams-burgh Bridge, the bill will come to much more. "There isn't any more of a possibility that the bridge will be replaced now than there was a month ago. but we have to give it some thought." Manr.o said.

IT F7 mnmmm i to ssnU tgP heads of 18 Community Board, mapped out strategy at a Tuesday night board meeting. Mayor Koch incensed many Brooklyn politicians and residents alike with the announcement that the city planned to convert the Brooklyn Navy Yard Detention Center, 136 Flushing Fort Greene and the privately owned Army arsenal at 201 64th St. on the Bay Ridge-Sunset Park border, into short-term prisons to ease the city's overcrowded jails. "This has happened repeatedly in Brooklyn," said the spokesman. "Brooklyn is willing to have its fair share, but we want to participate in the site selection, so that it does not jeopardize economic revival and the creation jobs." Meanwhile Gerry O'Brien, Republi can leader of the 51st Assembly District, said the Bay Ridge community is "united and determined to beat" having a prison in the area.

"This is the wrong neighborhood for a jail." he said. O'Brien announced a meeting to be held at Bay Ridge High School at 8 p.m. Monday to fight the issue. He vowed that his staff would call more than 1,000 local residents to guarantee a good turn-out. Charging that "Koch is railroading this down our throats." Bay Ridge community activist Tom McDonald promised to go to court or, if necessary, use "militant action" to close the Gowanus Expressway at 65th St.

on Monday morning at 9, if Koch does not change his mind about making the arsenal a prison. By SUZANNE GOLUBSKI Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and the Brooklyn Borough Board, along with irate local citizens' committees, informed Mayor Koch of their strong opposition to two possible prison sites in the borough. Golden is now preparing a letter on behalf of the entire board "expressing outrage at the lack of consultation, and asking the mayor to send appropriate staff to the Borough Board to give a full briefing," said a spokesman for Golden A committee has also been established by the board to investigate the prison sites, she said. The Borough Board, presided over by Golden ancj compris.Qd. of.

the Brook-, lyh' City Council delegation and he.