Newsday from New York, New York • 46

ms 4 Wt Kids Lived In Mansion Way Back In Fun City Newsday JohnPBnalceraa VICTORY HUG Rudolph Giuliani embraces his wife Donna Hanover Giuliani during victory speech early Wednesday morning Cheers Fears Meet Giuliani In Harlem Visit brought the kids up to not destroy But the dogs were less trainable Taffy a cocker spaniel had a penchant for rug-chewing Jet a German shepard liked two cops one on the day shift and one at night and all the others As well as raising her own brood Lindsay organized a play group for Jose the toddler son of a single mother on her housekeeping staff so he'd have friends his own age at the mansion What rare concerns she had about security tended to surface at birthday parties spawned not by outside threats but by the rambunctiousness of the young guests she said Margie was a preteen we had 40 girls over for a slumber party and suddenly they were everywhere: in the house on the grounds I know if gone over the fence or she recalled time they wrapped the house so tight with twine that we had to cut ourselves out the froht door with a pair of When the Giulianis move into Gracie Mansion it will be 20 years to the day since the Lindsays moved out Mary advice to them? Keep the kids out of photographs they can travel freely around the city" and let them taste the thrill of being interviewed a very nice man from Look magazine wanted to interview Johnny their youngest and I said she said have loved it but it would have made him too big for his By Molly Ciordv STAFF WHI1 Fl The last time small children lived in Gracie Mansion was so long ago that the mayor's son needed no bodyguard and could ride his bike alone to elementary school There was a playroom in the attic a treehouse built by the Parks Department and a passel of neighborhood kids who had an open invitation to play baseball on the lawn New York was called Fun City then and Mary Lindsqy was its first lady raising four children who ranged in age from 5 to 14 when her husband John was elected mayor in 1965 wish them well" she said of Rudolph and Donna Giuliani and their two children yesterday think it will be interesting for them And I think the kids will have a ball" The Giuliani children Andrew 7 and Caroline 4 will be moving from a two-bedroom apartment with no yard to a 14-room showplace with sweeping grounds Lindsay regarded it as a mixed blessing "I understand the tours are very popular but they might find they have to back of a bit of that stuff" she said couldn't live with thousands of people trooping through and I told John either we live here or we go back and live in our apartment but we have to have a modicum of privacy" Childproofing the mansion a problem Lindsay said because "I Dinkins on the Day After DINKINS from Page 5 Dinkins very positive he did come he did take questions from people actually in the said Henry who runs the elderly home-care program at the church and who supported Dinkins has portrayed himself as a law and order prosecutor type This makes black people afraid When that police officer was killed in Washington Heights recently and the mayor said he would review the towing policy Giuliani said the mayor gave in to That was ignorant" Ashaki Sealey a day-care worker at the church want to talk about Giuliani She preferred to grieve over the pain of loss did a lot in four she said trailing off But the pain will subside Henry assured like everything else next week this time be water under the she said But back outside Robinson had a concrete list of problems for the new mayor that she could snap off in an instant: housing jobs crime drugs To illustrate the last she pointed to the gaggle of young drug dealers who openly peddled their wares behind the church Giuliani had just exited Robinson has been looking for a job since she got laid off from an office furniture company almost on the day Dinkins beat Giuliani four years ago Now on welfare and attending classes at the College of New Rochelle saw him go in there with all the security around she said he afraid of? He needs to call a press conference with black people so we can ask him questions I think going to run away from By Nick Chiles STAFF WRITER Once she had a chance to hear him talk Yvonne Henry of Harlem felt maybe Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani such a bogeyman after all He even made some nice promises she said even if it was just talk think this is an excellent Henry said after the session in the Salem United Methodist Church he keeps his word about being fair and bringing people together people here will respond" Jacqueline Robinson 30 hear the talk because she among the approximately two dozen Harlemites invited to the meeting yesterday afternoon From where Robinson stood on 128th Street next to the St Nicholas Houses where she lives in a three-bedroom apartment with her mother sister her baby and her own three children she said Giuliani still looked pretty scary was looking at his ad campaigns on television like when he was talking about putting the homeless out after 90 die said are they going to go? On tire street? Or is he going to take them into Gracie In the dim basement beneath the grand red church Giuliani was humble and eager pastor the Rev John Brandon was a prominent Giuliani supporter and yesterday's audience clearly contained more than a few Republicans and Giuliani backers some wearing buttons from his campaign His introduction brought a standing ovation from half the crowd and many of his statements were greeted with bursts of vigorous applause a contrast to turnout in which as much as 95 percent of the black vote went to Later in the afternoon Dinkins who had changed into a black windbreaker spoke to more than 80 commissioners agency heads and deputy mayors who work under him He asked for help in a quick efficient transition from the grim-faced group many of who will lose their Jobs under the new mayor When he finished speaking everyone in the room gave him a standing ovation The mayor then headed uptown to meet campaign workers at Dinkins campaign headquarters on West 42nd Street They greeted him with tears next for Dinkins? He has told friends like to write a book and do some public speaking Yesterday he had more immediate concerns be deciding how going to pay the rent where going to hie said going to have to start thinking about that real soon find a place with a good laundry But last night he went home to Gracie Mansion where stay until the Giulianis move in New Year's Day Bob Liff contributed to thie story don't know whether she goes for tea" Dinkins said So these two men from two different political parties two different races with constituencies representing separate segments of a divided city walked together into the blue room in City Hall Dinkins wore a black double-breasted blazer white shirt and black and white polka dot tie and Giuliani a blue suit with notch lapels blue and white striped tie and a handkerchief in his left breast pocket The night before some Dinkins supporters including US Rep Charles Rangel (D-Harlem) insisted that some whites refused to vote for the mayor because he is black but yesterday Dinkins urged his supporters to dismiss that sentiment smooth and voluntary transition of power is a hallmark of American Dinkins said things that unite us in this city must stand taller and weigh greater than the things that divide i.