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LOCAL SPORTS GOOD LIVING Inside Celebrating Passover -1M4M8ii- IBirTOMlyoii nign scnooi Daseoail roundup Page 0 Wednesday, April 18, 1906 8 4 i 'I FT I -V 'J Sl.s.. I i. -4 i-iii i i i i 'V the Manhattan Bridge produced A bound trucks were pushed over to the bridge's right lane, traffic was backed up along Flatbush Ave. all the way to Grand Army Plaza. According to Transportation Department spokesman Victor Ross, the Traffic Department's efforts to send tow trucks to the scene were hampered by the huge volume of traffic.

Traffic Commissioner Samuel Schwartz said the closing of the upper roadway is expected to affect 25,000 cars daily, and he cautioned motorists that it won't be easy going for quite some time. DAILY NEWS Court officers Councilman Sal Albanese (D-Bay Ridge) and John Cardinal O'Connor will be installed as honorary state court officers at the annual dinner of the New York State Court Officers Association Friday night at the Claridge, Avenue and E. Second Bensonhurst. Familiar voice Radio's John Gambling will be guest speaker at the annual Recognition Luncheon of the Salvation Army Brooklyn Advisory Board on April 30 at Gar-giulo's Restaurant, 2911 W. 15th Coney Island.

Pratt award Former Sanitation Com missioner Norman Steisel will be presented with Pratt Institute's 1986 Engineering Alumni Award on Saturday when the school marks Engineering Alumni Day. Steisel will speak on Engineers in Government at the day-long affair, which will include workshops on Management Blunders and Why They Occur and Update on Computer Networking. Patti Page The sweet sounds of Patti Page, a singer whose popularity spans four decades, will be heard at the Brooklyn Center for the Arts at Brooklyn College at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Known as "The Singing Rage," the songstress gained acclaim for such hit records as "Tennessee Waltz," "Doggie in the Window" and "Gentle on My Mind." She will be joined in the concerts by Guy Lombar-do's Royal Canadians, conducted by Art Mooney.

For tickets call 434-1900. Special ed The Board of Education's Division of Special Education and Long Island University will conduct the third annual "Building Bridges Institute" on Saturday at LIU's Brooklyn campus, DeKalb Ave. and Flat-bush Ave. Extension. The conference theme will be "Quality Education for AH." Speakers will include Helen Greene, dean of the college's School of Education, and Edward Ser-mier, chief administrator of the Division of Special Education.

traffic snarls yesterday and It's Si All in all, it was not a promising opening rush hour; and the two Manhattan-bound lanes on the upper level are scheduled to remain closed for at least a year while the upper roadway is being replaced. The bridge work is part of an ongoing program to rehabilitate the East River span. The program, at a projected cost of $136 million, is expected to be completed by 1994. The current $45 million contract calls for the replacement of the upper roadway, rehabilitation of the 1 I fit Rf km iiwmiiiiiiii ii. i REDUCED TRAFFIC lanes mm By CHARLES EATON Daily News Staff Writer Over the next year, motorists in lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn can expect traffic to be tied up in a variety of knots that probably not even auto-minded Boy Scouts could unravel.

Yesterday was the first full day of reduced traffic lanes on the Manhattan Bridge and a normally bad situation turned worse when two trucks broke down in two of the three lanes that were still left Though the Manhattan- By SUZANNE GOLUBSKI and ALTON SLAGLE Daily News Staff Writers Forget the thrill of the Cyclone for a while. The prospects that the famed Coney Island roller coaster will run this summer appear "very dim," its operator said yesterday. The 58-year-old city-owned ride has been knocked out of commission by the same state-wide insurance crisis that for a time recently shut down the Roosevelt Island tramway. A $5M policy City Controller Harrison Goldin has said that he doesn't want the Cyclone to open with less than $5 million insurance. But Jerome Albert, president of Astro-land, which has operated the; on going to got worse before It gets TONY PtSCATOM DAH.V WS supporting structural steel, and stiffening of the side span.

Future contracts will be for stiffening of the center span and truss supports, rehabilitation of the lower roadway and approaches, new drainage and lighting, and the cleaning and painting of the entire bridge. The bridge project is expected to take a heavy toll on the two main streets leading to the bridge, Flatbush Ave. and Canal St. It will also put an added strain on the Brook-lyn Queens Expressway, which is closed to tralfic at Flushing Ave. Henry Stern disapproves of the idea of losing "irreplaceable beachfront property" worth millions of dollars.

"If we sold parkland every time we had a problem, we would have no parks left." Stern said. "Save the Cyclone; don't sell the park," he said, calling the ride "an anchor that brings people to Coney Island symbol." Noting that "the risk is relatively small," he suggested that the city pick up the insurance liability over $1 million. "We want to make a case for either a new attempt to get insurance, or to show why it's worth their while for the city to help out," he said. Both he and Albert warned that once the roller coaster is abandoned for any length of time, it may deteriorate "and be lost." Wk liBEflSiGDOSS BEBay ml High insurance cost would shut attraction legislative action and competitive bidding, and could take years. The only solution, he said, would be for the city to accept a top of $1 million insurance, which Astroland now has.

In that case, he said, the Cyclone, which normally operates from Easter to Labor Day, could be rolling In four to six weeks. Opposes sale Although Goldin's spokesman, Steve Matthews, told the board that the Controller's Office was the first to suggest the sale of the property, Parks Commissioner ride for 11 years, said that no company will sell it a policy for more than SI million. He noted that the largest claim paid by Astroland to date was' $25,000. Yesterday, a spokesman for Goldin appeared before the Concessions Review Board, which must approve all uses of parkland, to suggest that the Cyclone and the land on which it sits could be sold to Astroland. "That's a wonderful suggestion; we're 100 behind it," Albert said.

But he added that the solution was "not feasible." He noted that a sale would require state.