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6-Block Landmark Viewed as Too Costly By Caryn Eve Wiener za and skating rink, "with the RCA Building as the W. rtf. standard-bearer. The area the dty has proposed fens out from the original block toward the International Building, the Warner Communications Building, the Simon Schuster Building and Radio City Music Hall where the interior was declared a landmark as a means of warding off the buildings destruction in 1976. Most of the 21 architectural and planning experts who spoke at the two-hour hearing, such as architect William C.

Shopsin, pressed for swift approval of the more comprehensive, Bix-aquare-block plain. Shopsin, a consultant in historic preservation, denounced the center managements minima of added maintenance costs as exaggerated, although specific costs were not enumerated at the hearing. "It is ironic, Shopsin said, "that Rockefeller Center management and Columbia University are challenging this designation in any way. Columbia University, which boasts prominent graduate training programs in historic preservation, apparently doesn't believe in practicing what it preaches. William Whyte of the Municipal Art Society and the New York Landmarks Conservancy, said that in a nation where most business complexes are becoming recessed and "suburban-style, without streets through them, "the greatest lesson Rockefeller Center has to offer, perhaps, is the street There is great vigor of its street-level life.

The Associated Press Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan was designated a city landmark last night The designation by the landmarks Preservation Commission came on the eve of the National Conference of Olmsted Parks. Olmsted Brothers, the firm once headed by Central Park landscaper Frederick Law Olmsted, designed the 66-acre park, which houses the Cloisters museum. If the city decides to call the six-square-block area at the heart of Rockefeller Center a landmark, the centers owners and managers say they will call it a mistake. Thats what representatives of Columbia University and Rockefeller Center Inc. the owner and manager, respectively told the I landmarks Preservation Commission yesterday, citing increased costs.

Speaking at a public hearing at City Hall, attorney John Zuccotti and architectural consultant Paul Byard said that although they would welcome a landmark designation at the Midtown business and retail complex, it should cover a smaller section. The commission is studying whether to confer landmark status on the core of the complex, where 13 buildings are bounded mainly by West 48th and West SlstStreets, Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. Chairman Gene A. Norman said that a vote has not been fhndnlftd ami that the wwnmissinn would eontin-ue hearing testimony. A tourist attraction for millions of visitors, the complex was declared the citys symbolic center when it was nominated by the commission last month.

"Designation is an encumbrance, Zuccotti told the panel yesterday. Zuccotti added that if the Rockefeller businesses at the complex, which are responsible for upkeep, must comply with stringent landmark regulations in the six-square-block area, it will impair their ability to do it well or frugally. The businesses lease the land from the university. ZuCCOtti Said lmuhnurkimr should be limited to the original block built in the 1930s, "the part where the design intentions of the center were worked out That area, he said, contains the British Building, the Maison Francaiae, the Channel Gardens and the sunken pla HmdvJSIekTitMod Statue in front of Rockefeller Center is marked for landmark status in owners' and comission's plans. Critics See Sex Bias in Schools cent to 21 per cent.

In the other categories, Levy said, the proportion of women declined significantly or stayed about the same. Levys charges were echoed by Greitzer and Beatrice Kachuck, an education professor at Brooklyn College and coordinator of the its womens studies program. The boards director of the Office of principals, and three of his top six administrators are women. Tucker said, however, that she welcomed the Education Committees look at the boards hiring practices. Greitzer, who said she had been trying for 10 years to get the Education Committee to study the issue, said she was gratified that it is being done, "I think once you get somebody shining the spotlight we will get fester results in the next short period of time than in all the cumulative years up until now.

The next hearing is to be scheduled within the next few months. Macchiarolas tenure began in 1978, "many efforts have been undertaken to increase the number of women in supervisory positions and to review and improve the supervisory selection process. Tucker said that since Anthony J. Alvarado took over as chancellor in May, he has included the elimination of sex discrimination as one of his top priorities. She said Mscchiarola had appointed 33 men and 24 women as high school principals and appointed two women and three men as borough high school superintendents.

Alvarado has appointed seven women and 11 men as nigh school ird has not deliberately discriminated and that especially since former Schools Chancellor Frank J. New Talks Set in School Strike By Peggy Brown Several critics of the citys public school system charged yesterday that the Board of Education discriminates against women by not appointing them to positions of power an accusation that the board denies. The charges, originally made in a resolution by Councilwoman Carol Greitzer (D-Manhattan), were repeated at the first of a series of hearings by the City Councils Education Committee on sex discrimination in the public schools. "I am not contending that the Board of Education has practiced discrimination the purpose of these hearings is to determine that, said the committees chairman, Councilman Herbert EL Berman (D-Brooklyn). "If the board has practiced discrimination, then the committee will attempt to vigorously correct the situation.

The first of four witnesses. Marguerite Levy, secretary of the Womens City Club of New York, said that in comparing the numbers of women supervisors in 1964 and last spring, "It is dear that there has been no improvement in the inequitable sex distribution at the upper levels of public education in New York City. Levy said 84 per cent of the districts school superintendents are male, as well as 79 per cent of the high school priori- -pals, 81 per cent of the intermediate and junior high school principals, 76 per cent of the special-education principals and 69 per cent of the elementary school principals. The only category that has shown improvement is high school principals, in which the proportion of women nearly doubled from 1978 to 1983 from 12 per in Poughkeepsie, and John Coleman in Kingston. They have a total of 11,000 students.

There are 53 other Roman Catholic high schools in the archdiocese operated by local parishes or the Catholic community, and those were not involved in the strike. Yesterday, school officials said 209 out of 405 lay teachers in the high schools were out on strike, five fewer than on Monday. The Rev. Peter Finn, director of communications for the archdiocese, said 62 priests, 115 religious teachers and the nonstriking lay teachers were "maintaining educational programs in the schools as best they can under the situation. But Elizabeth Larroando, vice president in charge of negotiations for the union, said the strike effectively disrupted classes.

Larroando walked a picket line at Cathedral High SchooL1 1 think the issues are bo small, I think its time to settle," said Henry Kielkucki, president of the union. At issue are what Kielkucki called "takebacks demanded by the archdiocese in the proposed three-year pact that was rejected by the union on Saturday. These include restrictions on days off for personal reasons and requirements for documentation of illnesses. The teachers also want to be paid when they fill in for absent teachers and to get longevity pay. Lay teachers started the school year Sept.

12 with an average salary of 313,000 a year. The 11 schools are Moore Catholic and Monsignor Farrell in Staten Island; Cathedral in Manhattan; Cardinal Spellman and Cardinal Hayes in the Bronx; Maria Regina in Hartadale; Archbishop Stepinac in White Plains; John Kennedy in Somers; John Burke in Goshen; Our Lady of Lourdes The Associated Press As Catholic high school teachers walked picket lines yesterday in a two-day-old strike, federal and state mediators failed to dose the gap between the strikers and their employer, the Archdiocese of New York. State mediator Roger Maher and federal mediator Frances Dunham met with both sides separately yesterday for 1V4 hours without ending the dispute. They scheduled another meeting for 9 AM Saturday. The archdiocese, which ministers to 1.8 million Catholics in metropolitan New York, runs 11 high schools.

About half of the 405 lay teachers at those schools walked off the job Monday. The archdiocese has refused to increase its raise offer of 10.5 per cent a year, but the head at the 300-member 1 my Faculty Association said yesterday hat the strike could be settled without MAAIkeiV If more money. ,4.,.