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By TOM POSTER ItQ, MM ViT W1 I 4r I oat 3A Mary Lindsay: For her, Gracie Mansion was a political place. nv BEVY of Democratic dis- trict leaders and elected officials turned out for Bet ty Goetz Lall when she opened her headquarters for her bid for the congressional nomination in the Silk Stocking District. The district, which runs from the Brooklyn Bridge up the East Side to 95th St, is held by GOP incumbent Rep. S. William Green.

Lall is director of Cornell University's Labor and Urban Affairs program. She has the nod of the Liberal Party and the National Organization for Women and has a lot of union support. A spokesman for Green asked: "Aren't these the exact same people who backed Bella (Abzug) when she ran, and lost, against Congressman Green?" Oh, yes, oh, yes. Muriel Siebert and Whitney North Seymour Jr. will go at it nose-to-nose tomorrow before the Manhattan Women's Political Caucus meeting at the Harvard Club.

The match may be hotter than uimii.ni nmn.ni. i the boring gubernatorial debates because both Siebert and Seymour have been getting unusually good receptions upstate in the boondocks. Siebert the first woman to hold a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to be state superintendent of banks in New York was endorsed by the Washington-based Women's Campaign Fund. A $1,000 check came with the endorsement. More comes if she gets the GOP nomination.

It's not easy standing on a busy corner handing out campaign literature. People think you're passing out massage parlor advertisements. So David Goldstein, Republican-Liberal candidate for the City Council on the East Side, found wary passersby on Second Ave. and 40th St. "Hi, I'm Dave Goldstein!" he said, greeting shoppers outside a supermarket.

"Who?" they asked. "Please take one," he said, offering literature. "Naah!" came the response. Oh, well, said Goldstein: "Well, have a good day anyway," Two young men walking on 20th On eve of By KATHARINE LAKE kOROUGH PRESIDENT Andrew Stein says he will JrtJ vnto aeainst the Lincoln West luxury housing complex when it comes before the Board of Estimate tmorrow unless the developer reduces the number of housing units by at least 1,000. A spokesman for the developer responded that such a reduction would be "out of the question" because it would undermine the finan OV trict leaders and elected St near First Ave.

with signs on wooden sticks for Rep. Bill Green were caught by surprise as two other young men came charging at them. One was carrying a TV set. From behind the runners came a shout: "Stop them!" Green's guys leaped to the rescue. Ken Theobald hit the one carrying the TV with his sign and Dan O'Dell tripped the other with his stick.

The bandits dropped the TV and dashed to their car. One got in on the driver's side, and while the second couldn't get his door open, the car raced off. No, the thief won't be voting for Green, because he'll probably be in jail by Election Day. Should Gracie Mansion be used for political purposes? The answer has always been emphatically that it should not but it always has been. Robert Wagner entertained John F.

Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson there while they were battling for the presidential nomination and Wagner was friendly to LBJ because it was possible that the "mayor could become a vice presidential candidate with LBJ. And Mary Lindsay had a thriving political operation going from the basement during John r4 jf. Becker: mad at bar association. Lindsay's eight years there. A wide variety of national and statewide candidates, including Jimmy Carter, courted Abe Beame at Gracie Mansion, and Ed Koch allowed Ronald Reagan to make a campaign speech from the back porch.

Now, with the intense pressure of the gubernatorial primary on him, Koch has used Gracie Mansion to win ethnic support He has brought various groups to the mansion for wine and cheese parties, all aimed at wooing their support. Naturall, the taxpayers pick up the expenses. But, a Koch apologist says: "wine and cheese is a lot cheaper than cocktails." Judge Jerome Becker has a bone to pick with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Becker complains that the group's judiciary panel reported him unqualified for Manhattan Surrogate, and named opponents Judge Edward Lehner as qualified and Renee Roth as highly qualified. But, Becker explains, the panel never made public the reasons why it found Becker unqualified.

The reasons, insists Becker, are simply that the legal establishment is upset with him for vote in favor of the project, Stein said. The five borough presidents each has one vote on the Board of Estimate. The mayor. City Council President Bellamy and Controller Goldin have two votes each. Last week, Bellamy also indicated she might not support the project unless certain changes were made, including reducing the number of units, increasing the percen-.

tage of rental units versus condominium units, and contributing more money for neighborhood improvements. trying to do a hard day's work in an almost impossible situation. Is the Manhattan surrogate race going to get nastier now that it's getting down to the wire? Could be, because the three-way race is so tight it's difficult to predict the outcome. Something may explode in the closing days and a variety of rumors are being supplied from all sides. The latest to hit the street is that Herman Farrell, the Tammany Hall leader, has been able to line up big banking contributors to Lehner's campaign by using his office as chairman of the Assembly Banks Committee.

Well, it's true that Lehner has had several fund raisers and that banking execs were present. One was at the Princeton Club and another at the Citicorp building. Does this mean that Lehner is the candidate of the banking community? No, but it does mean that Farrell has a lot of clout and perhaps the bankers are grateful for some of the favorable legislation that came from Farrell's committee this year. Gee, guys, isn't that what makes for a political horse race? Lincoln West Associates previously agreed to provide $30 million to renovate the IRT station at 72d St. and Broadway and to pay for other amenities in the area, including a 13-block public park" and promenade.

Michele DeMilly, spokesman for Dr. Carlos Varsavsky, chairman of Lincoln West Associates, said the developer is holding discussions with Stein and Bellamy concerning changes in the project, but she emphasized that substantial unit re-i ductions would be "impossible a. 8. vote, Stein says no to Lincoln West 5T 3 If cial feasibility of the plan. Stein said Monday that he objects to the proposed development, to be built on the former Penn Central railroad yards, along the Hudson River from 59th to 72nd because it will bring 10,000 additional residents to the already conjested neighborhood.

"You can hardly walk on Broadway and Columbus Aves. on the weekends, and the transit facilities are already overtaxed," he said. The planned 4.700 units of housing in 20 buildings would have to be reduced to 3,700 before he would if i I.