Newsday from New York, New York • 3

CITY REGION For around-the-clock local updates go to newsdaycom All dressed up for Pulaski Day Young girls wearing traditional and Polish immigrants for their costumes make their way up Fifth Avenue yesterday during the 69th Annual Pulaski Day Parade honoring Polish heritage contributions to the United States The festive route was from 31st Street to 53rd Street bon voyage Kidnap charge for sitter A baby-sitter who walked away with a six-month-old infant left in her care at the Macy's in Herald Square and turned herself in later to police was charged with kidnapping police said Crystal Corbet 20 was supposed to be watching Nyckay Mallory while the aunt Natawa Sales was engaged in an hour-long job interview at the store at 1L30 am Friday police said Nyckay's disappearance caused police to conduct a citywide search that ended when Corbet turned herself in Saturday night at the 84th Precinct station house in Brooklyn with the child Nyckay evaluated by doctors and found to be healthy was reunited with her mother Tanya Mallory 3L of Harlem police said Corbet was also charged with unlawful imprisonment and child en-dangerment police said LUIS PEREZ been its home as the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum In addition some areas that have been closed to visitors including crew living quarters in the lower decks will be fixed up so that they can become part of the tour when the museum reopens in the fall of 2008 The 27000-ton carrier a key component of the US Pacific Fleet during World War II was scheduled for the scrapyard when Zachary Fisher a real estate developer rescued it and brought it to New York in 198L It opened as a naval and air museum the following year Florence Harrington of East Side had never visited the Intrepid before yesterday even though she lives just across town something that should be she said a very important part of Salmanowitz and Slane are among hundreds of former Intrepid crew members who are still alive Many serve as hosts and tour guides young generation have any idea what it means to be in the said Salmanowitz 69 of Pompton Lakes NJ Salmanowitz got to see the After more than 20 years the floating museum featuring the World War II carrier leaves for renovations THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bob Salmanowitz remembers the food on the USS Intrepid so good that men from other ships would come aboard to eat used to have a Texas breakfast steak and eggs on said Salmanowitz a mate on the famous aircraft carrier from 19SS to 1958 Ralph Slane an air traffic controller on the Intrepid from 1966 to 1968 during the Vietnam War remembers the six pilots shot down during one eight-month cruise The two men joined other former crew members and a steady stream of visitors yesterday for the last day as a floating museum before being hauled off to drydock for a two-year renovation The $58-million overhaul will include repainting the hull and rebuilding the Hudson River pier that has PHOrOMGoeb AMAN Sea Air Space Museum which it is to reopen in the fall of 2008 NEWSDAY MONDAY OCTOBER 2 2006 1 The main deck of the Intrepid has closed After renovation world when the Intrepid sailed to the Mediterranean the Caribbean and the North Atlantic where he nearly went overboard in high seas Most of his memories are enjoyed being on he said Slane 74 of Queens has been a tour guide since the In trepid opened in 1982 and has run into several Navy buddies who happened to be visiting the museum when he was there we were in the service we really never thought want to come he said years later like a second.