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A2 i i sim Friday 11092001 Cafe au Play In his latest work Neil Simon dishes out laughs inspired by Cafe Edison a Theater District landmark it Chapter 13 There are high hurdles but bankruptcy filers can still get mortgages with a little help IWEATHER Windy and cool with hig in mid-50s lows in upper 30s Page A53 Photo by Dabra Un Lisa Steinberg 0 draw wida attention The Mini death of B-yeer-old Elba hqnlerdo braeght institutional change Horrors Endure ANN LANDERS DEAR ABBY B24 PI fifry CLASSIFIED Gairiing Converts COMICS PUZZLES B32-34 death notices 74 Missionary work fuels the editorials viewpoints 48 expansion of the Church of horoscope 133 Jesus Christ of Latter-day KIDSDAY B35 Sainta MOVIE LISTINGS 84 neighborhoods 45 ran STOCKS J6S STUDENT BRIEFING 20 THIS DAY IN HISTORY ASS ft ti 1 ft i 5 Michael Bloomberg first visited with Anthony Santa Maria in then had breakfast with outgoing Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and later stopped at City Hall during his first day as mayor-elect A story in edition incorrectly ordered the events and misspelled Santa name The Take 5 numbers drawn Wednesday night were 1 2 21 30 and 36 The numbers were incorrect on Page 2 yesterday The Antiques and Decorators Showcase in Sands Point will be from 11 am to 5 pm Sunday at the Community Synagogue 150 Middle Neck Rd The location was incorrect in a Coming Up listing in Home Gardens pages NY Pick 10: 5 7 8 9 12 13 20 22 24 26 36 38 41 54 55 62 63 71 73 79 Daily Hunter 994 Win Four: 8915 Tate 5: 1 20 28 30 39 WedMiday Latta: 8 18 21 22 26 49 Baaaa Ha: 7 HJ Pick 3 314 Pick 4: 9946 Janay Cach 5: 3 4 14 17 19 Taentoy's Big Sana Latta: 3 11 15 99 VI Big Meaty Ball: 2 Caaa MIB-Day 3: 444 Mid-Day 4: 8570 Play 3: 128 Play 4: 6607 Caili 5: 6 15 21 26 34 Wednesday Pewerbail: 2 4 6 17 25 PB: 31 Pawer Play: 1 By Pete Bowles STAFF WRim The Administration for Services the city agency created to protect children from abuse was born from tragedy: the 1995 death of Elisa Izquierdo who was tormented and fatally beaten by her mother though several public agencies had known of her plight Six-year-old -Elisa died Nov 21 1995 from an act of child abuse so horrible that many New Yorkers were reduced to tears Bom of a crack-addict mother she was imprisoned rather than sent to school beaten burned and used as a mop with her curly hair She became a symbol fin: everything wrong with the city bureaucracy charged with protecting children Her story became a national disgrace and its impact lingered long after mother Awilda Lopez was sentenced to from 15 years to life in prison for murder After her death' Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in January 1996 abolished the Child Welfare Administration rebuilt it from top to bottom and replaced it with the new Administration for Services But the new agency despite unprecedented sanctions against incompetent caseworkers millions of dollars of additional funding renovated buildings and new laws could do nothing for Sylena Herm-kind the 3-year-old malnourished Staten Island girl allegedly killed by her abusive parents The family had a long history with the agency which often investigated then dis- i 1 i 1 i I i missed allegations of abuse lodged against parents Sylena joined a number of highly publicized deaths of children whose cases somehow had alij through the cracks: Lisa Stein! Elisa Nadine Lockwood and Dayt-won Bennett Each of their deaths brought public outrage and cries for reform In a case that riveted national attention on domestic violence Lisa Steinberg 6 died in 1987 at the hands of Joel Steinberg a lawyer who had beaten Lisa and his longtime companion Hedda Nussbaum 1 for years Joel Steinberg who had received Lias at birth from an unmarried teenager and never put her up far adoption was convicted of first-de- gree manslaughter and was sentenced to 8Vs to 25 years in prison A 16-month-old boy who was found tethered to a playpen in the filthy Greenwich Village apartment eventually was returned to his natural mother on Long Island Nadine Lockwood a month shorty of 5 was found starved to death in her Washington Heights apartment on Aug 31 1996 She weighed 15Vs pounds Her mother Carla who had nine other children later pleaded guilty to murder mid was sentenced to a minimum of 15 j-years in prison The mother told authorities that she hated her daughter referring to her as At her sentencing Carla Lockwood whispered: "The media -has already created a monster of me but I am a very loving and car- ing til A 80-02 Kew Gardens Road Kew Gardens NY 114154610 235 Pinelawn Road Melville fiY 11747-4250 NEWSDAY FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2001 For high-quality article reprints rf 100 or more contact Reprint Mnnsenment Services at (717) xs-m Nrnmhy fUSPB 38S-TBQ1 pufaMiri dafy tecnet Sondnr tar Nteiadmr Ine 2S6 PtatriMwnRiMd N11747-4aSO Rteiadicah poatMi paid a Tlimtiiwfnn Station rfiMMM la Nmiday 836 Pbwfanmi Rd lMvQla NY 11747-4250 8un i nunnw imp pnoi ly nmr nc MtelAilMigfrrtmH nil MIAOW htquiSwwwjiewBdayxom An e-mail directory is available on the Newsday Website (718) 575-2550 Ts Fiscs SB (71 KM000 1-7321 -4 9.