Daily News from New York, New York • 373

KL 3 DAILY NEWS Sunday, November 9, 1986 -v-rpv 1 I iT ITmi STILLWELL Ave. Bridge was given a "poor" rating by Department of Transportation and will require massive repair. -ffaroDDDD Ddit ft amODail'Saini By ALBERT DA VI LA Brooklyn tower. Additional future construction contracts call for the replacement of the main cables and suspender ropes, modification of the anchorages and replacement of the towers and stiffening trusses for cable replacements. The contracts also call for replacement of the outer roadways on the approach spans, and inner roadway replacements on the main bridge and approaches.

The contracts call for the removal of the existing cables and saddles and rehabilitation of the pedestrian promenade and lighting systems. 1889-89, the bridge is slated to be rebuilt next year. Also slated for major reconstruction is the Ninth Ave. Bridge over the Gowanus. The department is seeking a consultant to determine what work will be needed.

The bridge probably will be closed to traffic when construction begins. Because of its poor condition, the Department of Transportation opted to build a new bridge to replace the Greenpoint Ave. Bridge over Newtown Creek. The new $32 million bridge presently is under construction right next to the old one. Once it opens, the old one will be demolished.

The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority's major construction work in Brooklyn is the expansion of the toll plaza to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The $6 million contract started last January and calls for the In addition to these major bridges, renovation of the 82-vear-old Third St. Bridge has been completed at the cost of $4.9 million. A few blocks away, the Carroll St Bridge, the old est reixacme onuge in ine country, remains closed to traffic. Built in Daily Newt Staff Wriiar Alfred Allegretti is the only guy in the City of New York who can boast that three bridges open exclusively for his use.

The Bayside Fuel Oil Depot Corp. at 510 Sackett just two blocks from the end of the Gowanus Canal, of which Allegretti is president, is the sole user of the Union Carroll and Third St bridges. "These three bridges operate exclusively for Bayside Fuel Depot for bringing in oil by barges," he explained. But if Allegretti had his choice, he would close all three bridges, throw concrete over that portion of the canal from Third to Sackett Sts. and make the whole thing a sewer.

In 1972, Allegretti proposed that the city do just that, providing they helped him finance and install a pipeline that would run from the Hamilton Ave. Bridge to his terminal. He said that, at the time, he got a rough estimate for the pipeline of $1.2 million from a consulting engineer. 'I told the City of New York I would be willing to pay a certain premium per gallon of oil that would be delivered to my terminal toward the payment of this pipeline," he explained. "Within a matter of 10 years I would have fully paid for the pipeline.

I would have owned it, maintained it and the cost to the city at the end of 10 years would have been zero," Allegretti asserted. He added that, at the time the waning days of the Lindsay Administrationthe city rejected his offer. He has not brought it up again since the mid-1970s. Allegretti said he doesn't know what the price of the pipeline is in 1986. expansion of booths from 12 to 16.

The work is expected to be completed in January or February of 1988. In addition, new sodium vapor lighting lamps were installed in the tunnel, which was opened in 1950 after a 3V4-year delay caused by World War II. The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel handled 20 million vehicles last year and its annual revenue was $30 million. Bridge in good shape The authority reports that a major painting contract was completed recently at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. A spokesman said the bridge is in good shape and only regular maintenance, such as minor road repairs, is being conducted.

The bridge last year handled 57 million vehicles and recorded a revenue of $92 million. The authority said, however, that it had recorded revenue losses of $2.7 million during the period between March 20 through Aug. 31 because of the one-way toll experiment The authority also is responsible for the Gil Hodges-Marine Parkway Memorial Bridge, which it says is in good shape and the recipient of such regular maintenance as painting and minor road-repair work. In 1985, 7.8 million vehicles crossed the bridge. Revenues for that year were $5.8 million.

The New York State Department of Transportation is responsible for the Kosciuszko Bridge. A spokesman said that the bridge is in fair condition and is in need of major repair work. Recently, the bridge was painted to retard corrosion. The department will be seeking bids in the near future from consultants who will analyze what sort of repairs the bridge needs, the spokesman added. BROOKLYN Bridge will be rehabilitated at a cost of $135 million..