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Newsday from New York, New York • 21

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Newsdayi
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New York, New York
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21
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mm, irwm CITY Queens Man Kills Wife, Kids, Self yellow Chevrolet Impala one block away, said CapL Patrick Carroll, commanding officer of the 108th Precinct. Carmella Brenta, 15, had been shot dead in the kitchen of the familys third-floor apartment, and her sister, Marie, 12, the only one alive when emergency workers arrived, was pronounced dead after she was taken to City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, Bany said. Each had been shot once in the head, Carroll said. Edward Brenta, 41, had come by the family apartment yesterday morning to taka his younger daughter to a Christmas show, police said. Yesterday morning, as relatives and neighbors removed bags of Christmas By Biddle Duke and Alison Carper What began as a trip to Radio City Music Hall ended in a shooting rampage yesterday when police said a Queens him killed his estranged wife and two daughters, set the familys apartment on fire and then shot himself A pistol was found in Edward Brentas hand when firefighters discovered his body in a living room chair in the family apartment at 50-11 Fifth St, Long Island City, at 8: 18 a.

Officer Hugh Bany, a police spokesman, said. Edward Brentas wife, Judy, 38, her body covered with a blanket, was discovered in the front seat of the family's Please see DEATHS on Page 25 Its a Boy For Woody And Mia By Bob Drury In Act 1 we meet the baby, who looks like Edward G. Robinson and is named after either a rubber-armed Negro League pitcher famed for his one-liners or a horn player nicknamed Satchel Mouth. Mother of Mercy, Rico, what is this? A peek at the latest supersecret script from Americas premier comedic director, Woddy Allen? Not quite. In another example of life imitating art, the 51 -year-old Allen became a father over the weekend when actress Mia Farrow, 42, gave birth to a 9-pound, 4-ounce baby boy in an undisclosed Manhattan hospital, said the actor-director-jazz clarinetists spokeswoman, Leslee Dart.

The Woodman is treating the blessed event his first child in the same manner he makes one of his films. That is, the birth of Satchel Allen has been surrounded by a shroud of secrecy. All Allen would say. Please see BABY on Page 25 NEWSDAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER City Panel Rejects Illegal Skyscraper Built 14 Feet Too Tall going around the city, said Eichners their approval. We were prepared to do certain things, he said.

attorney and representative, Howard extra cement added to each floor brought the building to almost 813 feet or 14 feet beyond what the permit allowed. Eichner then ran into political trouble cm Oct. 8 when Community Board 5 voted 23-1 to recommend that the Planning Commission reject Eichners re- 2 quest for a waiver from the permitted height. At issue was not the extra feet, but the integrity of zoning law and the citys ability to say enough is enough, board Chairman Joseph Rose ji said then. They did the right thing, a jubilant Rose said after yesterdays vote.

22, 1 By Michael Moss Holding fast to zoning law, the city 'Planning Commission yesterday rejected a developers plea to approve City-Spire, the luxury midtown Manhattan skyscraper that was built 14 feet too talk The unanimous vote, which forces developer Ian Bruce Eichner either to sue the city or spend an estimated (10 million to lop off the illegal footage, ftrnnmad from growing public opposition to large projects in Manhattan, greed the developer, his critics and government watchers. Yesterdays vote on CitySpire comes about from the confluence of antidevelopment feeling that has been CitySpire a 72-etory office and condo complex on West 55th Street that is largely complete ran into legal trouble when Eichner discovered his architect had made at least one mistake: He had underestimated the curb height by 3 feet. The architect, Helmut Jahn, also didnt realize until after the city approved the building at 799 feet that it would need additional girth to prevent Horns tein, a Planning Commission member from 1976 to 1984. Heres the teend," said City Club President Sally Goodgold, a regular anmmuBdfln observer, citing the public furor over the proposed Columbus Cir-cle superbuilding and other controversial projects. For several hours prior to yesterdays vote, Hornstein met privately with commissioners in their offices behind the public hearing room, but refused to Hiarai what he offered to win AVK- 1 r.

44, la 1 This was not a matter that was open the condos on top from swaying, Horn- stein said. The correct curb height and Please see TOWER on Page 25 i..

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