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Report: Elevators At Subway Stations Going Down Fast What it means TO YOU Just In case you plan on boarding a subway station elevator anytime soon, based on outages In the six-month period ending Sept. 30 here are the worst elevators at each of seven stations: 111st Street-1 RT feet). One of its four elevators experienced 41 outages and was out of service 23.4 percent of the time. ISIst Strset-MT (104 feet). One of its four elevators was out of service the entire time.

ISIth Strset-WT feet). One of its four elevators experienced 40 outages and was out of service 25 percent of the time. ItOtfe Strsst-IID fast). One of its three elevators experienced 14 outages and was out of service 73 percent of the time. 181st Strest-MD (187 lest).

One of its three elevators experienced 18 outages and was out of service 73 percent of the time. Clark Stsst-MT (8t feet). One of its three elevators experienced 24 outages and was out of service 23.4 percent of the time. Cesrt $trset-BMT (37 feet). One of its two elevators experienced 19 outages and was out of service 3.2 percent of the time.

Nwmdqr Jonathan Fin Edward Ayala outside Montefiore Medical Center where he stays by his daughter. Charged Bronx Aunt Beaten, Brother Says By Joseph A. Gambardello STAFF WRITER Elevators at seven of the citys deepest subway stations are old, poorly maintained and prone to breakdowns and have entrapped hundreds of passengers for anywhere from one-minute to more than two hours, an MTA report released yesterday said. Fourteen of the 23 elevators are either so old or in such bad shape they should be replaced, according to the report released by John Pritchard III, the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys inspector general. The audit, which covers the same six-month periods in 1990 and 1991 and echoes long-time complaints of riders, faulted the Transit Authoritys elevator maintenance department, private contractors and TA management of the contractors for the poor state of repair.

TA President Alan Kiepper agreed with many of the reports findings and said the agency had instituted or planned to institute recommended changes. But he noted that the report made no mention of vandalism as a cause of some of the disrepair. Five of the deepest stations are on IRT and IND lines clustered in hilly Upper Manhattan while the other two a ft at Court Street and Clark Street in Brooklyn. The lifts cany passengers distances ranging from 37 feet at Court Street to 173 feet at the 191st Street IRT station. The report said that in the six-month period ending Sept.

30, the elevators were taken out of service a combined total of 632 times, compared with 583 during the same period in 1990. The study said that in 1990, which receives most of the reports attention, the average outage lasted less than 10 hours but that seven of the elevators were out of service 57 percent of the time, including one at 190th Street that was broken the entire time. Overall, the elevators were out of service 23.4 percent of the time in 1990 and 19.2 percent last year, the report Baid. There were 16 instances in 1990 when a station was without any elevator service at all for periods ranging from 30 minutes to 4 Vi hours, the report said. Yesterday, the Transit Authority said only one of the 23 elevators one at "a i rj Edward Ayala recounted how he has spent the last 23 years of his life in and out of state prisons.

In that time, he and his childhood sweetheart, Norma Za-bala, had eight children, including Stephanie and Milliaen. He blames himself and his life as a drug addict and felon for what happened. I gave almost 23 years of my life to the prison system, said Ayala. I wasnt there for my children. You get tired of telling them you love them in letters.

They dont know you. Now its too late. Norma Zabalas children were placed with relatives in 1989 after she was charged with neglect allegedly for leaving the children alone while she disappeared for days on drug binges. Milli-sen was placed by Family Court with Maryann Ayala. Stephanie was placed with another relative, but eventually came to live with Ayala.

Zahala, whos now in a residential drug rehabilitation center in the Bronx, could not be reached for comment. By Ray Sanchez and Rita Giordano STAFF WRITERS Maryann Ayala, the Bronx woman charged with killing her 6-year-old niece for taking Valentines Day candy without permission, was herself a victim of child abuse, said her brother, who is the dead childs father. Edward Ayala, 35, said yesterday that both he and his older Bister, Maryann, 36, were beaten by their father, who died in 1990. My father would drink and slam us around, said Edward Ayala. She was a victim of abuse, physical abuse.

Im not saying what happened was right, but this was how we lived." Speaking of his daughters he said, If I were someone else, I could bury my sister. But I wont. He said the whole thing was an accident and that his sister just snapped. Ayalas daughter, Milliaen, died last Saturday. The city Medical Examiners Office revealed yesterday that the death was caused by hypothermia from forced immersion in frigid water, according to spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.

Police have said that Maryann Ayala beat and placed Milliaen and sister Stephanie, 4, in freezing water after they ate some of Ayalas Valentines Day chocolates without permission. A Bronx grand jury is due to start hearing evidence against her today. Stephanie, meanwhile, was in stable condition at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. I want to go home, Stephanie said yesterday. I want my toys.

Edward Ayala, whos been at Stephanies bedside since Monday, said his daughter has bruises on her neck, apparently from being grabbed by the throat. But he wouldnt say what Stephanie told him happened in her aunts Bedford Park apartment last Saturday. He detectives interviewed Steph- fpnit yesterday for the first time. it if it ft ft Clark Street was completely out of service and had been since Feb. 4 because of a water condition that was being repaired.

The report said most of the outages were due to equipment malfunctions, especially involving doors and equipment that keep an elevator level with the floor when it stops. Kiepper said that the majority of the door problems are vandalism related and that this was often the case at the five Manhattan stations. But Aida Na-zerian, spokeswoman for Pritchard, said the auditors would have mentioned vandalism if it was a major problem. The report showed that a total of 512 passengers were trapped cm elevators in 65 breakdowns during the study period last year, compared to 457 passengers in 56 outages in 1990. The average wait on a trapped elevator was 34 minutes, the report said, but in one instance in July, 1990, three people were stuck in an elevator at 191 Street for more than two hours.

The study said the TA expects that, based on industry standards, an elevator will operate for 30 years before requiring replacement or a major overhaul. Six of the elevators, the report said, are over 30, and two of them date from 1932. Eight other elevators, ranging in age from 27 to 29 years, are in a bad state of repair and should be replaced, the report said. $30,000 Yacht Destroyed In Bronx Boatyard Fire Fire marshals said they are investigating whether the two blazes are related and whether the boatyard shared common ownership with the restaurant. However, Deputy Fire Marshal Donald Forster, who heads the Bronx arson investigation squad, said that early indications are that the fire that destroyed the 44-foot boat, a 1969 Glastron, could have been accidental.

A $30,000 yacht went up in flames during a fire at a Bronx boatyard yesterday, fire officials said. The fire came a day after a three-alarm blaze across the street struck Thwaites Inn, a restaurant at 536 City Island Ave. that had been closed for about a year, fire officials said. That fire has been declared an arson by fire marshals. umiffHtiififiiimnmrmmi I.