Newsday from New York, New York • 19

LandfiWRoils Waters in Beechhurst But Environmental Control Board staff mem-berg, who have seen the plans, have said that the proposed landfill would "not have ignifienut negative impact on the environment." The legislator said he called yesterdays protest a "walk on water" because the route that he chose through the landfill area appears on maps as a Class A waterway designated by the Interstate Santitation Commission. Hie proposed landfill site is suitable for fishing, boating and swimming and the wafers are populated by bass, flounder, bluefish and mackerel, according to waterway maps. Ciampa Bells attorney, Vincent Albanese of Garden City, said that Stavisky is "exploiting thin issue for political purposes. Albanese charged that Stavisky originally had agreed to the project but bowed then to a vocal minority in opposition. Some residents have said that if the developer final approval from state and federal officials, fear that construction debris containing asbestos and other cancer-causing agents will be used in the landfill.

Others object to the plan because they want to save the beachfront property from Beechhurst Assemb. Leonard P. Stavisky (D-Whitestone) took waterfront residents for what he billed as a "walk on the water" yesterday to dramatize his concern for a plan to turn a piece of waterfront into a landfill. He charged that a developer has begun landfill work in the area without having received official approval. The landfill would permit the developer, Ciampa Bell to build two-family townhouses in a wetlands area along the East River.

The landfill plan was scheduled to be the subject of a public hearing by the State Department of Environmental Conservation today at 10 AM at the department's Manhattan offices. Ciampa Bell, which is operated by four brothers, has built more than 700 housing units in Queens. The plan for the site at 154th Place and Riverside Drive calls for two rows of three-story, two-family town-houses. Each unit would have two or three bedrooms and go on sale for about $130,000. A sea wall with a promenade above it would be built, and trees would be planted to screen a manufacturing plant to the west, according to the developer.

The area along the shoreline has been the subject of a controversy for several months among resi dents, Stavisky and the developer. Ciampa Bell has submitted plans to fill in 10,000 cubic yards of river. The application for approval of the landfill plan is coupled with a request for a change in the areas zoning regulations from light industry to residential. The site extends 500 feet into the East River, from 154th Place to 158th Street, just west of the Throgs Neck Bridge. Stavisky charged that the developer has begun work on the site already, without having received -final approval from state and federal officials.

He said that residents of the area were prepared to Bubmit affidavits to the state "indicating that they have observed illegal landfill activities before and after the present owner took title to the property in 1973." Hie residents were said to have photographs of the area which show a cove eroded by what Stavisky called illegal dumping. Stavisky said that the City Planning Commission, which has approved the developer's plan, and the Department of Environmental Conservation, which has yet to rule on it, "have an obligation to preserve the proposed landfill site, which he claimed was "threatened with extinction by urban pressures. Nnmlkjr Fholai by In a Wiles Refurbished subway train called the Diamond Jubilee Special pulls into the abandoned IRT City Hall station yesterday, above, as motorman Stanley T.A Reid pmrs out, at right. Riding Back (but Not for a Nickel) something with the City Hall station so the public can see it. The reason for eliminating many of the stations, Donne explained, was that the trains became longer as the passenger load increased.

The 18th Street stop was eliminated when the IRT train going down Lexington Avenue became so long that the first car would enter the New York Jeanne Nicholson was only 9 years old when the first subway line, the Interboro Rapid Transit system, began operating in 1904, and time has not diminished her enthusiasm for the subway. Mrs. Nicholson, now 84, was one of 250 buffs who paid up to $10 apiece yesterday to ride the subway. Of course, it wasnt just another ride on a battered ana graffiti-riddled train. The train consisted of five restored cars, three from 1917 and two from 1922, and its destination was the long-abandoned subway stations of the IRT line.

The Diamond Jubilee Special was brought into service by the Municipal Art Society for what was billed as a "one-time-only tour of the abandoned stations and original IRT routes. And the trip was made to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the opening of the subway system. The Diamond Jubilee Special renovated in the 207 th Street painted in the original colors, Tuscan red with orange sashes and gold trim. The seats were upholstered in cane. It appeared to bring back memories for many.

Mrs. Nicholson said that she had been an IRT subway buff from the Btart. "Within a month of its opening, I took a ride on it with nty stepmother," she said. "The big thing I remember was the damp smell of plaster and a little feeling of oppression. She said she rode the new subway line for only a short distance that first time.

"My stepmother was worried so we only went four or five stations." Stanley TA. Reid was the motor-man on the Diamond Jubilee Special. The T.A. stands for Thomas Algernon. This, to me, is a treat ana a real pleasure, he said.

"These old cars are better than whats out there. Reid, who has been a motorman for 10 years, said that on the Special, however, it took the over- alls and white cap-for the occasion, he said, "Whenever I do passenger service, I dress like this. The abandoned City Hall station, the last stop on the ride, was the icing on the cake for passenger Les Honig, a law student at NYU who had worked for an electric engineering firm. "I saw subway stations in various stages of construction and I got interested," he said. And like many New Yorkers, Honig said, he has been intrigued by flickering glimpses of abandoned stations that the regular subway trains speed past Many of those stations are sealed off from public view.

At the City Hall station, Hugh Donne, MTA consultant for community relations, assured the passengers that "the TA has worked within reasonable constraints to its architectural treasures. For passenger Joe Gagliano, the trip was a busmans holiday. He is an MTA clerk. "I put in for a day off for this. Fm proud to work for the MTA, he said.

"They should do station before the last car had left the 23rd Street Station. Similarly, the need for longer trains doomed the City Hall station, which was closed in 1945 because its shorter platform made it dangerous for trains to stop there. The green- and white-tiled City Hall station with its arched ceiling, chandeliers and the rotunda section where change was made evoked a grandeur not often associated with the subway system. And at that final stop, the conductor added another note that riders don't often hear "Step carefully, not lively. We have nothing but 4ma 0 stop jiCenqji Jsfepdstrata yard and was.

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