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The party will be at the Endicott, 444 Columbus between 81st and 82nd Streets. Paul Sperry, a noted lyric tenor who has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, will sing during the party. Proceeds from the party will pqy for the organizations efforts to obtain landmark protection for historic districts and buildings. For information, call (212) 496-8110. Phone Items to (212) 303-2850 bulldozers to block than from digging at the McKean said.

I'm very happy. Its been a long battle, he said. Biddle Duke DOWNTOWN Rabbi tc Speak On Jews in Early America How Colonial Jews Observed Their Judaism in 1750 will be the subject of a lecture Dec. 17, at 12:30 p.m., in the Fraunces Tavern Museum. Rabbi Malcolm Stem, president of the Jewish Historical Sodety.of America, will talk about the colonial era, when Jewish clergymen where in short supply.

He will talk about the period from early colonization until the American Revolution and examine the customs and practices of Jews, then a small minority in a young country. The museum is at 54 Pearl St. Admission to the lecture is free, but you first must pay regular admission to the museum. UPPER WEST SIDE Tenor To Perform at Fund-Raiser Landmark a nonprofit organization con TUDOR CITY Judge Spares Parks From the Bulldozer 4 Two parks in Tudor City once eyed by one of Manhattan's biggest real estate firms for apartment development will forever be spared from the bulldozer, according to a decision handed down this week by a Manhattan State Supreme Court judge. Last January, the two half-acre parks on either Bide of 42nd Street off Tudor City Place were given to a private nonprofit company bent on preserving than.

The company was directed by residents of the 12 buildings in the area, said John McKean, president of the Tudor City Association. The Tudor CSty Association is a tenant group in thearea, and was one of the groups that filed the original suit to preserve the buildings in 1978. The court decision handed down Wednesday, by Justice Martin B. Stecher assured the preservation of the property under its new owner, Tudor City Greens Inc. The judge ruled that all tenants of Tudor City rent-stablized and cooperative tenants will be allowed to use the park, which can never be developed or destroyed.

The suit was filed first in 1978 and then again in 1979 when the owner of the 12 buildings in Tudor City, the Helmsley -Spear real estate firm, threat- ened to build on the property. On one occasion angiy tenants threw themselves in the path of UPPER EAST SIDE Experts Examine U.S. Jews, Israel Two of the leading experts on Jewish life, Leon Wieseltier and Ira Silverman, will talk about the relationship of American Jews and Israel on Dec. 14. The program begins at 8 p.m.

in the Temple Ea nu-EI, 1 E. 65th St Wieseltier and Silverman will talk about financial, political and religious support of Israel from American Jews. MANHATTAN CLOSEUP Roosevelt Island Sheds Its Image By Scott Ladd Once disparaged as Welfare Island a drab collection of mental institutions, city jails and municipal geriatric hospitals Roosevelt Island is dramatically shedding its image as an erstwhile city haven for the aging and dispossessed. The latest step in the transformation of the East River island came Wednesday, when scores of city and state officials gathered inside a white tent whipped by a chilling morning wind for a groundbreaking ceremony that marked the start of a five-building housing complex. It is the second phase of a development known as North town, designed to raise the islands current population of less than 5,200 by nearly 50 percent, and one that seems destined to farther alter the face of Roosevelt Island, city officials and local residents say.

The ceremony lured Gov. Mario Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch, among others, and each lauded the project aa one that will expand the citys pool of affordable housing. Yet a vast majority of units will be rented at market rates, said Rosina K. Abramson, executive director of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.

Projected rents for 80 percent of the units will run from $1,100 for a one-bedroom unit to $2,900 for a three-bedroom apartment, Abramson said. Only 20 percent of the units will be reserved for low-income residents. Construction is expected to be completed in 1989, 'die said. Abramson said the corporation she heads, established fay the State Legislature in 1984 to oversee administration and development of the island, expects a steady demand community of mixed income and racial composition to complement the city hospitals and offices that would remain. It called for a projected population of about 20,000.

Not all island denizens were as enthusiastic about the program of growth. Last December, a lawsuit brought by the Roosevelt Island Residents Association against file project claimed the project would strain transportation services and would racially segregate low-in-come residents in one of the five proposed buildings. But a Manhattan judge rejected the complaint and paved the way for a development of 884 market-rate apartments in four buildings and a fifth structure with 222 subsidized units for low-income residents. On Wednesday, one longtime resident thrust a sign urging housing for the homeless instead, saying the move toward market-rate units will spoil the existing character of the island. My concern is not for the middle-income people who already have a comfortable place to live, complained Josephine Farrell, 38, a resident of the Eastwood section of the island.

Francoise Richards, the president of the residents association, said there is a lingering bitterness over what she said was the citys unwillingness to bring island residents into the development process. We are now doing what should have been done a long time ago involving the community, she said, noting city officials have promised to solicit input from residents in future developments. She said most of the associations members want to put differences with the city aside. People are tired of the lawsuit, she maintained. You have to work with the city and the community to make it the best possible.

Newaday Christopher Hatch Gov. Mario Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch at the groundbreaking ceremony this week. NEWSDAY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1967 hoods of the Upper East Side. We have ballfields, we have open spaces, schools where students get the highest scores in the city, and theres less crime, she said.

The. first new housing housing development on the East River island in a decade, it will be subsidized by more than $174 million in tax-exempt bonds issued by the citys Housing Development Corporation. City and state officials say the Northtown II development is a small piece in an ambitious, 10-year plan to build or rehabilitate 252,000 units of affordable housing citywide. wont be fully satisfied by the current 10-year projection. We need maybe a half a million units of housing, and were not going to get it, he said, citing prohibitive costs and an apparent lack of interest in the federal level in footing the bill.

-With the groundbreaking, the second phase of the Northtown project also signals an ongoing evolution of the narrow, two-mile island in the East River between Manhattan and Queens that was reserved until the 1950s, officials Bay, mostly for city institutions. By 1968, a movement was afoot to increase the number of apartment units. William Eimecke, the states director of housing; said the Roosevelt Island of two decades ago was a little village of 5,000, but a master plan released in 1969 envisioned a CO for the low-income units, and for You cant attract people to come the more expensive models, even here unless you have affordable though the market-rate apartment housing, Koch said. But Cuomo rents are of the kind normally asso- said the demand for low- and mod-dated with the affluent neighbor- erate-income housing in New York I.