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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, 15, 1974 Keeping an Eye Out for Future Charge or Tenants lis a Jolt Go the iindlonk l.JZ?L -5fWl By DAVID MEDINA Under a stiffer set of regulations to be issued within a of Rent and Housing Maintenance, aparment dwellers month by city depart-will have their rents ment 3 if reduced by approximately the same total as their electric bills whenever landlords in-electric meters means that stall individual electric meters. Installation of individual tenants rather than landlords will pay subsequent bills, The new guidlines, 'which weve tied up in litigation in Queens Supreme Court for several months, are an update of a 1968 statute which was challenged in court by the Forest Hills South Tenants Association last year when their landlord. Morton Pick Boccie Tourney A boccie tournament sponsored by Sambuca Romans will be held Saturday and Sunday in Cunningham Park. More than 100 of the city's finest players, young and old, are expected to compete for cash prizes and trophies on the court at 196th Place and Union Turnpike, next to the park'a tennis courts. man, announced plans to convert -VT his building to individual meters, Tenants Won Case The association, which repre City Commerce and Industry Commissioner Murray Schwartz of Bellerose checks map of Queens with Chamber of Commerce President Harold Straus at the chamber headquarters in Long Island City.

They're looking for possible areas of industrial-commercial development in Queens keeping with Commerce Department's all-out program to keep business and industry in the city and encourage expansion of existing firms to provide more jobs. sents 810 tenants in a complex bounded by 76th Ave. the Grand Central Parkway, 78th Ave. an dOueens argued success fully that while the 1968 guide- line provided an average rent rollback of $8 for a three-room apartment, Consolidated Edison's figures showed the aminmum monthly electric bill to be $20.65. Although the tenants won their victory in March, the new guidelines were again delayed when Pickman sued the city on the grounds that he didn'tr know the rate schedule was subject to revision and would not have invested $90,000 to rewire his apartment buildings if he had.

That suit, which put the city in nthe awkward position of being a respondent against its own set of regulations, was dismissed. "Still Under Study" The revised regulations are "still under study" but a spokesman for acting Rent Commissioner DAniel Joy Confirmed that they will be forthcoming "within" two weeks to a month." Joy's office would reveal neither the average rollback figure nor the formula used to arrive at it. Under the old formula, tenants were given $1.25 reduction for each room, 75 cents for each refrigerator and $2.50 for each air conditioner. "We got assurances that the (Piping Mot Over Jet Fuel Line figures were going to be $25 across-the-board," said Robb Cohen, the president of the Forest Hills Tenants Association, who lives at 76-36 113th St. "If we don't get at least Con Ed's minimum rate, we can only assume the city has silently acquesced landlord pressure." "In facr, since Con Ed's rates By THOMAS PUGH and ARTHUR MULLIGAN Nearly 200 residents of Sunnyside plan to attend a Board of Estimate meeting at City Hall today to back up a plan for a third proposed route for a controversial jet fuel pipeline between Newtown Creek and LaGuardia Airport.

fluctuate so automatically, the original $25 offer is already obsolete," Cohen declared, noting that there has been at least one Con Ed electricity rate hike since The new proposal, to be ad vanced by Edward Zagreckim i civil engineer and member of his group won its first court battle. Queens Planning Board 2, would route the pipeline through the Board to Transfer From the I A Bus Sunnyside yards of the Long Js land Railroad and away from residential areas. Not Consulted The Board of Estimate is on the verge of. taking Decontrolled Units: No Boost Set Yet By OWEN MORITZ The reconstituted Rent Guidelines Board met and Members of the planning board say they were never consulted about the original rout of the away the authorization for a Regq Park-Fresh Meadows pipeline, which has been laid thus far from Newton Creek on the bus route from the Transit Authority, which has never run buses on it, and awarding it to a private operator, settling at least temporarily a longr-simmering dispute west to" 43d St. and Skillman Ave, and from LaGuardia Field on the between agencies, it was learned yesterday, failed yesterday to come up with schedules of new rent in east to Northern Blvd.

and 68th Two resolutions to accomplish creases for nearly one million tenants living in 400,000 A two-mile gap remains to be the coup are scheduled for action finished and the contractors, the decontrolled apartments here. i it routes, was approved for the Transit Authority in January, so long as the authority agreed to at today's Board of Estimate Buckeye Pipeline Co. of Ohio, ran Emanuel Tobier of New i Prof. meeting, and vote counters pre York University, chairman of the nine-member board, said it will dieted yesterday that, barring submit annual profit, loss- and passenger statistics to the bu into a snag when it was learned that the original route would run through the rear of property pri last minute changes, both items try again on Aug. 26.

reau. The bureau is an arm of Lack Data Working with little economic vately owned by the Ronzoni will pass. The items bring to a head data, the board is trying to de for tenants renewing leases of one to three years on the next 12 months. Charge "Windfall Profits" Tobier refused to say whether the same rates might be imposed on tenants renewing leases in decontrolled apartments. The problem is that the State Legislature enacted vacancy decontrol, effective July 1.

1971 meaning land Spaghetti Co. at Northern Blvd. and 50th St. dispute spanning several years in which the Transit Authority has termine just how much in increases tenants now living in decontrolled apartments units formerly covered by rent control and refused to account for any of Up in Arms When it was decided to route its surface trasportation opera tions to the city's Franchise Bu rent stabilization should pay at lease renewal time. the Board of Estimate and makes recommendations on applications for bus routes.

To date, the route has not been used and franchise officials yesterday said the Triboro Coach Corp. has submitted a bid for the route. According to the agenda for today's meeting, Triboro would be authorized to operate the route on an experimental basis until Aug 31, 1975. i Robert Crane it instead along Barnett a residential area, the residents got up in arms and asked for today's reau. The board decided last month Earlier this year, for the first on increases of oVz, 10 and Board Estimate hearing on the time, the bureau and the Board issue.

12 for tenants living in apartments built since World War II of Estimate teammed up to de No one reallv wants the DiDe- mand financial information from line near any property belonging and covered by the city's quasi- the Transit Authority, using the lords could charge whatever they want for new tenants no one has kept tabs on just how much in increased profits have been gained by landlords for these apartments. Yesterday, even before the guidelines board met at 20 E. 40th the Temporary State Commission on Living Costs and th eEconomy charged landlords ha din fact reaped "windfall to him because of the fear of fire or explosion, opponents say. public rent stabilization law. The rates of 8, 10'2 and 12 are proposed bus route, to be known as Q88, as the carrot.

Had to Account Accused Slayer Tested Anew The route, which would link Rego Park, Elmhurst and Fresh Meadows with connections to four privately serviced bus profits under vacancy decontrol." Assembly Andrew Stem (D-Manhattan), the commission Floyd Steele, 56, who allegedly shot a hostage to chairman, demanded a moratorium on any rent increases for death during a 33-hour siege in a South Jamaica apart ment two months ago, has been found incompetent to tenants in decontrolled units. Fiar Marke ta Question Tobier said the Tenants Protec- stand trial at this time and was ordered returned to the hospital for further mental tests. tion Act of 1974, enacted by the State Legislature in the closing Steele's court-appointed at hours, merely mandates the guidelines board to come up with torney, Marvyn Kornberg, told "fair market for tenants re Supreme Court Justice William Giaccio that the finding was in newing leases, but failed to spell 6Super Cops' Get Award The Loyal Order of the Mooser an international fraternity with over a million members has presented its Policeman' of the Year award to "super cops" Dave Green-berg and Bob Hantz, the so-called Batman and Robin team, who became the subject of a book and-movie. They received the award at the fraternity's state convention in the Holiday Inn Downtown, Rochester. out just what constitutes fair cluded in a preliminary oral re market.

port given him by Dr. Daniel Tobier said any Increases au chief psychiatrist at thorized by his panel will be retoractive to July 1 for those Kings County Hospital. sent to the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, court observers said. A Family Victimized During the siege, which began June 11, Steele reportedly killed Fred Kinsler, 34," and held his wife, Peggy, 32, and her daughter, Avril, 5, as prisoners in their apartment at 109-10 160th St. Steele served time In North Carolina for manslaughter and 10 years for murder in this state.

Kornberg said that Schwartz tenants whose leases have come due for renewal since then. i Floyd Steele recommended Steele be returned to Kings County for further tests, and the court so ruled. If he is still found incompetent to Of the 400,000 units which have been decontrolled since July 1, 1971, about 300,000 were origin- ally under rent control and 000 under rent stabilization. stand trial when he reappears in court on Sept. 10, he may toe.