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Newsday from New York, New York • 14

Publication:
Newsdayi
Location:
New York, New York
Issue Date:
Page:
14
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City Considers Park Plan For Times Square New York A plan for a tint could remove live eex entertainment and peep shows from Times Square and transform the district into a plsjrland that the entire family could enjoy has been disclosed by sources dose to the Koch administra- rraiimiiiRKiflifc amaui j- s- AMERICA'S LARGESTARTWARimOuS iiMtE shot S3SSS smsip SALE WES wan Him nan im PAINTINGS 4 a 8x10 City Hall sources said yes- terday that the administration was considering a plan developed with Find Foundation money to turn the center -of the pornography district a hind of amusement park The theme park which would not include -amusement rides was described asa cross between San Ghirardelli Square and a "permanent Fair Under the proposal the city would exercise its right of eminent dnmam to acquire rundown property on both idea of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues One city official saidit was not clear exactly how the lend would be acquired but added that the plan if adopt- ed would require a public -and private partnership Other sources said that buildings worth saving such as the New Amsterdam Theater would be spared In a related action the City Planning Commission approved a soning resolution tint would make permanent the current moratorium on new massage parlors in the City- Mayor Edward Koch who is vacationing in Paris this week was to announce an anti-pornography plan next week It could not be learned however whether the propos- al for acquiring the 42nd Street properties would be included in the plan Body of Man Found in Bay East Ialip The body of 88-year-old Harold Parson a par tient at Creedmoar State Hoe- pital was found in Great South Bay at Heckaber State Park in East Islip yesterday according to Long Island State Parkway police 'Police said that Parson had been at the park Wednesday afternoon cm an outing with 81 other patients- and eight tuapt1 staff members Police said he reportedly walked into into the water folly i-wiiwl and disappeared According to police five witnesses saw Parson enU the water and went to get a lifeguard from the nearby park pooL Police said that when they returned Parson could not be found The body was discovered at 6:15 PM yesterday by a woman on the Police said 'the body was identified by a hospital employee and taken to the Suffolk County morgue for an autopsy Parson had been a patient at Creedmoor since 1962 aey 4 1 cording to police OVE 100 COME EARLY FOR BESt EHTIBE stock mow -09 12x16 VALUES TO 55 iSsTOCKHOW 16x20 VALUES TO 75 Cj entire stock now I I 1 MV- 11 94x36 1 I onlCBS ENTIRE STOCK HOW lo 150 DUrONT ST PUUIWIEX XT (515) 122-3200 SSW1 DAILY ASON 10 i 111 DIRECTIONS: FROM IX EXPRESSWAY: Oat oR SunnvuMa BM ExH turn North on Sunm Turn rtghl on Fairchild to Dupont St Lott on Dupont Ip dond and FROM MORTHSRW STAIR FKWV: Out oP Exit 3P Turn uouth on Sunpyaldo BM ma Fairchild Dunont At Lott on Dupont to dud and i FabchM Am Turn Mtatar ClMraa Vtas.

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