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Japanese Restaurant Sushi Bar i Going to the Beach Is a Breeze tions offered by Adventure on a Shoestring and other groups touring Manhattan. On Sunday at 3 p.m.. Adventure on a Shoestring will tour the historic area. Among the sights are the cobblestoned Washington Mews, where houses were formerly stables, the famous Provincetown Playhouse, where Eugene ONeill first staged Emperor Jones, and the narrowest house in the city, less than 10 feet wide. ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OPEN 7 DAYS: Lunch Dinner AM LUNCH DINNER SING-ALONG TAKE OUT NOW SERVING COCKTAILS SUSHI SEAFOOD TERYAKI STEAK WE DO CATERING 2089 NEW YORK HUNTINGTON STATION 351-9888 1 1 Block North of Jericho Tpke.

$5.00 GIFT CERTIFICATE Good Toward The Purchase Of ANY 2 DINNERS Com aC bwd With AeyOUMr Offer With KOHAKUCwpae-EitimMlM Special Events Are Celebrated At SOUTHrtmPTOM INN HOTEL, BANQUET CONVENTION CENTER LOCATED IN THE BEAUTIFU mm VILLAGE OF SOUTHAMPTON LET US CREATE YOUR SPECIAL EVENT FOR INFORMATION CALL US AT TIIE SOUTHAMPTON INN (516)283-6500 OH TOLL FREE (800) 832-6500 NaindvMidiaai E. Adi historic courtyard in the Village By Audrey Clinton WHEN SIZZLING August days make the city pavements radiate heat, you can bypass hot subways or traffic-jammed roads and take a cooling journqy to the beach by water. Board the UKfToot Northern Eagle or the Texas Eagle and be ferried from Manhattan or Brooklyn to Rockaway Beach with a sea breeze as a bonus. Midweek as well as weekend trips are offered this summer by Manhattan Express Marine Services, a private ferry organization. Departures are from 34th Street and Pier 11 in Manhattan and Fulton Landing and 69th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

On weekdays there is free minibus service to the ferries. MANHATTAN EXPRESS BEACH EXCURSIONS. Departure weekends, 10:30 a.m. 34th Street, Manhattan; 10:45 a.m. Fulton Landing, Brooklyn Heights; 10:55 a.m.

Pier 11, Wall Street, Manhattan; 11:15 a.m., 69th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; arrival Rockaway Beach noon, 116th Street, Rockaway Beach; return, 4:30 p.m., $9 round trip; weekdays Tuesday-Thura-day, 9:45 a.m. Pier 11, Wall Street; 10:05 a.m. 69th Street, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; arrival Rockaway Beach, 10:50 a.m.; return 5:30 p.m., $9 round trip, (718) 627-2628. Creative Cookery Class Tired of eating vegetables? Try flowers. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is offering a course on Cooking with Flowers on Sunday that will end with a flower buffet from soup to dessert Instructor Helen Ross Russell will explain which flowers are safe to eat and how to identify them.

According to Russell, the Chinese have been using chrysanthemums and roses in cooking for centuries. Other edible flowers include day lily, hollyhock, nasturtium and violets, she said. CREATIVE COOKERY CLASS. 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington $30, all materials provided, (718) 622-4433.

Greenwich Village Tour While uptown, many Manhattan neighborhoods are being turned into look-alike canyons of modem glass towers, downtown Greenwich Village retains many of its charming nooks and crannies. Thats one of the reasons its one of the regular destina A GREENWICH VILLAGE TOUR. 1 p.m. Sunday, for meeting place and reservations, call (212) 265-2663. WE COULDNT FIND IT.

BUT OUR FRIENDS THEY LOVED IT! COMPLETE DINNERS I i EE 1 AppMizar- Emm Sited PoUM WgMfate CoSm Dnswt For the Price off an Entree Alone MondqrmughThundqr(Mr LIVE MUSIC EVERY SUNDAY Fum pm ei ar waotmtih ahMhbniAwiWk EARLY BIRD SPECIAL SdOpn-iaOps 7 DaytlWaak Take imii Off Your Total BW Alfresco Arts Show City art and craft aficionados traveling to Long Islands East End will have a variety of outdoor shows to patronize between beach jaunts this weekend. Guild Halls annual Clothesline Art Sale takes place tomorrow on the grounds and in the galleries of the East Hampton institution. This is the 43rd year for the popular East Hampton sale, which draws large crowds looking for an original oil or a sculpture at prices ranging from $25 to $600. The sale, showcasing the work of many East End artists, alBO has acrylic paintings, watercolors, prints and photographs. Another popular long-running show that draws crowds will feature more than 100 artists from around the country exhibiting their work up and down both sides of Main Street in Westhampton Beach.

The Westhampton Beach Chamber of Commerce has been running the show for more than 20 years. CLOTHESLINE ART SALE. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. tomorrow, Guild Hall museum grounds and galleries, 158 Main St, East Hampton, free, (516) 324-0806. WESTHAMPTON BEACH OUTDOOR ART SHOW.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday, Main Street, free, (516) 288-3337. ill COME LAND OR SEA BOAT SUPS AVAILABLE ccan ae PIsesSlaaQ JUST NORTH OF 1HE LONG BEACH BRDGE 1 JUUAN FIACf. LANDMIK.U IIMM-7HS HOUSE Landscape Paintings on the Horizon ART from Page 21 OLD BETHPAGE village restoration 1850's farm village. Oxen.

Sheep. Antique-furnished houses 8 shops. Crafts, music 8 celebrations. and the way that sometimes you cant tell the difference between the sky and its reflection. In Light Before Heat, there is hardly an inflection between mist-laden sunset and its image in the water, so that the whole painting is a plane of hesitant blues and rosy blushes, and the most presence is that of three rocks, standing stalwartly upright, but dissolving in water.

Where Freilichers paintings hum with the changeability of light and weather and Yorks bubble with complex undercurrents, Gomiks are so still they want to stop time. Taken together, we have here three painters with three such unrelated takes on painting, that you have to ask of this exhibition: Whats the point? Variety is not enough. i 1 i 7 with a theatricality that belies drab color and hoary history and makes of them thorny, memorable works. April Gomiks vast opuses hit you in the eye with the instant nostalgia of a classic movie still. You get the idea the 36-year-old painter has looked at a lot of photographs by Andre Kertesz, for instance as well as at the Yellowstone National Park variety of landscape paintings of the 19th Century.

She likes to bathe her paintings in the kind of washes the 19th-Century luminists liked an effect that is actually best achieved in the developing lab. In Still Flood, the trees are spindly punctuation against a wash of yellow sky and water from the setting sun. She both mist and water spill light ('i i 'J 1 1' I i LIE exit 48. Round Swamp Rd. Open all year.

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