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fa A I i 25 i Redrawn 7th Battle Is On only to underdog Queens) and City Councilman Thomas Ognibene (R-Middle Village) While gamering support from his own powerbrokers Shea has been hoping to capitalize on the anti-incumbent mood apparent across the nation He has urged district voters to oust Manton because of his votes accepting a congressional pay raise and increasing taxes also hit Manton for supporting racial quotas skin color more important than merit and is turning into the year to throw the bums out and what we are hanking said press secretary Patrick discontent out there and this guy Manton has never had any kind of serious opposition Manton though believes he not Shea will benefit from the anti-incumbent mood by riding the mattaila of Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton who has been leading in the polls they'll throw out the guy he Shea is supporting George Bush the guy who really has to get thrown out" said strategist Marty McTiighlin While political pros give Shea much of a chance of victory in the general election Manton associates say he is taking the Shea threat seriously in part because the new district takes in parts of the Bronx that Manton has never run in before About 35 percent of the district is new turf to Manton although 10 percent of the new area is in Queens communities In a generally conservative middle-class district where 21 percent of the voters are Republicans compared to 14 percent citywide Shea is seeking to portray himself as the more conservative choice The district has put Repuhlicamrtn office the By Joe Calderone OTAFr WRITER Ann Pfbeer Darby a retired high school teacher running for Congress in the 7th District plan to spend more than a few thousand dollars on the race She eqjoy great name recognition and leaders of her own Republican Party consider her a fringe candidate and have barred her from speaking at various meet-the-candidate nights in Queens But Darby 58 does have one thing going for her Of the three candidates from both parties vying for the seat in an area that takes in parts of western and northern Queens and a sliver of the Bronx she is the only one who resides in the new district the community person lived here 53 years the only one that she said So it goes in a redistricting year when some incumbents have been pitted against each other and others including Queens Democratic Party leader Tom Man-ton also running in the 7th found their homes drawn out of the new boundaries Astoria home is blocks says his spokesman Marty McLaughlin The 7th District is one of the few in the city even having a Republican primary next month Duty a member of the local community planning board is expected to have an uphill battle against Dennis Shea a well-financed ex-staffer to Sen Bob Dole (RrKan) Shea a lawyer who moved back from Washington DC to his Forest Hills home in order to run against Manton has picked up a number of endorsements including ones from likely mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani State Sen Guy Velella (R-Bronx) Ronald Lauder state Sen Serphin Maltese (R- southern part of the district Maspeth Middle Village we have Senator Serphin Maltese and Tom Ognibene As you move northeast you have Councilman Michael Abel in College Point and Whitestone and State Senator Frank Padavan and then you go across the bridge into the Bronx and you have Guy Velella" said fed we have an advantage in the new parts of the said are conservative middle-class But Manton supporters say the former City Council member will have no problem in the new areas of the district Given his high-level party post he should receive solid support from the Bronx Democratic organisation Of Shea spokesman McLaughlin says a guy unknown in Queens and now going to be unknown in Queens and the TA Sent Back To (Times) Square 1 By Edward Silverman STAFF WRITER An ambitious project to renovate the grungy Times Square subway station has been scrapped marking the latest setback in what was to have been the largest urban redevelopment prqject cleaning up 42nd Street The subway upgrade with its $165 million price tag has been derailed because four office towers that were to have served as lynchpins for the prqject be built in the near future the Transit Authority said a large degree back at equate Jerome Forman the senior vice president said yesterday TA is committed to rebuilding the train station but at this point we know what going to The developers of the office towers had been counted on to invest $90 million toward the cost of the prqject which included reconfiguring street-level subwqy entrances fay connecting them to lobbies inside the four proposed buildings But earlier this month state and dty officials allowed Prudential Insurance Co of America and The Park agreements to build the towers after they expressed fears of contributing to an office glut in an already depressed real-estate market As originally conceived the subway renovation was ambitious The main mezzanine was to have been transformed into a rotunda inchid- ing space for numerous shops Elevators for the elderly and handicapped were also planned To accomplish this one block of Seventh Avenue was to have been raised Forman said Additionally a new platform would have been constructed for the shuttle that runs between Times Square and Grand Central Station The TA board will meet during the next week or two to review other options and what we can do for $75 said Forman noting that funds have already been earmarked in the capital budget for some form of renovation at the station $75 million do the project as we currently see he said not going to happen this year and not going to happen next year This will rally get done between the day the real estate market Return arrives at Heathrow She had not been seen In public since topless pictures of her were published last week Tower Group to renegotiate hei cppiesjbach and I i 'i st 4 1 1 r-s i 91 Jr J3Jrfi i.