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A2 ft Station Has Makings Of 72nd Street stop for Victory? The president has signed a law that will put a V-chip blocker in all new TVs but how to rate shows for sex and violence? Story in A Part 2 Ul on Page VIEWPOINTS: A52-5B Marie Cocco ASS James Pinker ton AS5 Letters ASS BUSINESS: AB1-S4 Bank Rates ASS Robert Reno ASS NEWS: A2-39 A72-77 Flash! A14 Liz Smith A13 In the Subways A2 Queens Profile A38 Neighborhoods A39 City A3? WorldNation A25 27 Death Notices A76 Obituaries A77 Student Briefing A45 EDITORIAL A52 Scoreboard A82-84 PART 2: B1-52 Ann Landers B14 Dear Abby B14 Books B6 Fun Comics B34-36 Horoscopes B35 Movies B8B10 Style File BIS Irene Virag B31 TV LISTINGS: B50-51 CLASSIFIED: BS7-47 Stock Charts ASS-71 SPORTS: A1 04-79 High Schools A85 Racing A79-81 ncoRREimQriaBBnngBi In a story Sunday on the rape of a brain-injured 29-year-old nursing-home resident a description by Dr Dwight Rosenstein was incorrectly reported Rosenstein a neurologist at North Shoe University Hospital said the woman was permanently brain-damaged Because of a transcription error Newsday incorrectly stated the opacity of Deep Blue the computer playing chess with Garry Kasparov It has a calculating capacity of 200 million moves a second Dennis Duggan TIPs ment affairs spokesman for the TA He says that bemuse of community disagreements over what to do to repair the subway it was pushed out of the current capital program which started in 1992 and which runs through this year Fed up with the broken promises of the TA and frustrated by internal argiunents over what to do about the station a group of West Siders last year reached out to a Chicago activist group inspired by the late Saul Alinksy a sociologist at the University of Chicago and a street activist They got in contact with 30-year-old Vonda Brunsting an organizer with the Chicago group who now lives in Upper Manhattan She helped form a coalition of 26 churches synagogues and civic groups that made its debut last March idea was reweave the fabric of the West Side she said in the basement of a synagogue yesterday morning The coalition called West Siders Together has since met US Transportation Secretary Federico Pena MTA chairman Virgil Conway and its new executive director Marc Shaw and will meet with Shaw again on Monday March 4 They are an in-your-face group and as Brunsting puts it: are not going to go away They going to put a lollipop in our mouths and expect us to be she says The plight of the station has united politicians like Queens Assemb lywoman Cathy Nolan who calls the TA lea-deriess Nolan is regarded as the most important voice on mass transit in Albany Last week she called a public hearing on the proposed four-year capital plan with Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger who complained in a letter to outgoing TAi itions at the station The TA promises it will award a $2 million design contract in June and a $55 million construction contract with a completion date of 2002 to be awarded in 1997 but the West Siders have heard such promises before And the coalition says it needs something now before a tragedy occurs They are seeking a new emergency exit at the south end of the station and a shuttle bus that would take the overflow from the station whenever needed convinced a shuttle bus would ays Strauss perhaps the three regular bus routes near the station could be Last month the coalition staged the kind of event that attracts the press having one of their members in rock-climbing harness rappelling down' the narrow steps to draw attention to the station Marsha Flowers one of the' coali-i tion members who is a longtime West Sider steeped in the politics of a city that pays the most attention to its rich and powerful citizens says: who use the subways the people who are in power in this IN HIS 19 years of work inside the subways Tommy Crawford has found himself in gloomy outposts in dangerous ones-and hi buoy station token booths where he now works and where he eats lunch with one hand while the other counts tokens Crawford knows subways and yesterday morning he gave a thumbs down verdict to the claustrophobic Broadway and 72nd Street subway station and shook his head saying: this is one place where none of us want to Crawford has been in some tough situations He is a Vietnam veteran and a 19-year veteran of the subway ware and his words cany the weight of experience He is also chairman of the station division of Local 100 if the Transport Workers Union and gets attention and respect from the 5800 workers he represents right says Anthony Cooper who has been on the job for 24 years place is a madhouse and worse it is a dangerous madhouse because at those narrow stairways and narrow platforms" Cooper looks around at the steady stream of commuters trooping into and out of the tiny station that is dwarfed by the explosion of building prqjects all around it But it is during the morning and evening rush hours that the limitations of the 72nd Street subway station transform it into an accident waiting to happen Manhattan Assemb Scott Stringer saw one of those accidents last foil when an elderhr women fell from the crowded stairwell plunged to the platform and broke her collarbone I saw her come thundering down the stairs I was praying she be says Stringer maybe this station is going to require a human sacrifice before the Transit Authority pays attention to It is a station that New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson described as a Peruvian in his book Local Downtown Express" because of its design But he added that is rather dim reasonably smelly and foil of noise and It is also a station that has fallen between the cracks in various capital pirns of tiie MTA An engineer familiar with the project said deisgns were submitted two decades ago for a rebuilding program there is one station that is going to need a lot more than a coat of he says That seems apparent but despite the agitation and the lobbying by groups such as the West Side Chamber of Commerce headed by transit activist Andrew Albert who is also co-chair of the transportation committe of Community Board 7 the station has become an anachronism surrounded by glass-walled towers and multi-theater cinemas with Trump City and the promise of station money from Donald Trump Still Hanging in the air take some at the blame for the says Steve Strauss govern- HWEATHEfflfli Today: High around 40 but colder with chance 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