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THE KARAT SHWP diamonds gold Helmsley Selling 2nd Tudor Holding The Associated Pres Real estate tycoon Harry B. Helmsley, who calls rental, housing an impossible business to be in, is negotiating to sell off a second of his apartment buildings in the Tudor City complex, a spokeman said yesterday. The building for sale, the 215-apartment Manor at 333 E. 43rd St, was being considered by a firm that specialises in conversions to cooperatives, said Helmsley spokesman, Lee Estes. He said that Helmsley, 74, believed he was doing too many conversions and that he would rather sell his Tudor City holdings.

The buildings conversion would further reduce the declining stock of choice rent-controlled or stabilized housing in Manhattan. Helmsley sold the 62-apartment Hermitage at 330 E. 43rd St, for $3.3 million last February. Alvin Schwartz, one of Helmsleys partners, said Helmsley headed corporations that owned eight buildings in the Tudor City area, which is bounded by First and Second Avenues and 40th and 43rd Streets. Built in the late 1920s in the English Cottage style, the apartment buildings were bought in 1971.

Estes declined to identity the company negotiating for the Manor. The state attorney generals office has to approve conversions to cooperatives or condominiums. Helmsleys conversions include the Park West Village on Central Park West, north of 97th Street, and the Parkchester apartment complex in the Bronx, which has 12,270 apartments. Diamond Pendant Diamond Engagement KG ASeL S10 ilcL IS 40 aSd ISO 75 243 1-SSet. 663 Sound Oval JMI e0 Met i 1140 taut! 7m lard mm 9tn LMd MO laid Nf J7d TOO 1-SSet 104 Md SM l.7d 4SM J4d 7U 7110 7 Said 10JH M7 Diamond Stud Earring 37et 9148 AGet 34? a 7et 184 410 aSet 383 aid 518 JOd 333 iad 733 AWwMHd AeyUia 1 Shop and Compare Finest Jewelry for Legs! Work Shuts Bridge Lanes The Associated Press Work crews closed one-third of the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday for the start of what will be two mow the of traffic-snarling inspection and repair of cable anchorages on the 100-year-old landmark.

The left traffic lanes in inch direction will be dosed throughout the work on the 6-foot-thick stone and concrete anchorages. Two lanes in each direction will remain open. "Its the last resort, but its the only way we can get in there, said David Seaton, spokesman for the State Transportation Department They have to be rehabilitated. Traffic on the two open lanes to Brooklyn was extremely heavy yesterday morning, said Victor Rom of the city Bureau of Traffic Operations. The left lane to Manhattan was not closed until after the morning rush.

Tomorrow will tell, Rom said. "It'll be pretty crowded. Seaton said the work was part of a project to repair the anchorages, cables and promenade deck of the bridge. More projects will follow, with work continuing into the 1990s, he said. i Railroad Awards Contract The Associated Press Metro-North has awarded a contract for designing a pedestrian passageway to the commuter railroads platform in Grand Central Terminal, the lines president, Peter E.

Stangl, said yesterday. Under the contract. Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade ft Douglas will design acceM from the terminals 45th Street entrance north to 47th and 49th Streets, Stangl said. A second contract, for $492,106, was awarded to Lee Harris Pomeroy Amman ft Whitney to renovate 10 passenger elevators and a freight elevator in the budding. "Due to the proliferation of new office buildings in the Grand Central area, the number of Metro-North customers who work north of 45th Street has grown to 80,000 over the past 25 years, Stand said.

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