September 7, 1980

Faced with an increased demand for on-campus housing, university officials and housing administrators in the New York metropolitan region are leasing off-campus space, carving extra rooms out of lounges and other campus buildings and increasing the number of students in rooms.

GREENWICH N a 29-acre mill property that spans the Byram River in Greenwich, a new sort of suburban development is taking shape. It may well pave the way for the conversion of dozens of other 19th-century mills

Three years after Merrill Lynch decided to go into the residential real-estate brokerage business it has acquired five major agencies with a sales staff of almost 1,800 people. Smaller agencies are feeling the impact of its competition.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. IT is a hot summer's day in this Washington suburb, a sleepy, Southern town saturated in the political heroes of the past. A descendant of Washington's political system-a local member of the Virginia Senate--is down to shirtsleeves in the 90-plus heat, wielding a soggy handkerchief as he lectures his audience. The listeners are white, young and married --...

WHEN a youngster takes up Irish dancing, the regimen usually becomes a way of life for the whole family. Take Kathleen and Brian Lyons of

WARSAW, Sept. 6--Stanislaw Kania, Poland's new leader, said today that the Communist Party would honor the agreements it made last week with striking workers but he also warned "antisocialist elements" against seeking to turn the country's troubles "to their own purposes."

FREEPORT IT has been nearly two years since the Freeport Mall, a $1.7 million Community Development pedestrian plaza project on Main Street, was dedicated in an atmosphere of hope and cautious optimism. Although village officials and many of the mall's merchants hold...

HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE "WE'RE coming back," heralded the proud statements of Hempstead Village authorities last winter. But now the late-summer sun reflects off the still-empty storefronts and the for-rent signs in the shop windows, as if to challenge the...

Brooklyn Union Gas Company customers on budget plans that divide their heating bills evenly over a 12month period opened those bills last month to an unpleasant surprise

CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Sept. 6--Once someone lived in a small house on this point of land, shaded by old firs, lulled by the trill of the Toutle River, bewitched by the sweep of the river's curve past the stand of forest on the flats on the other side.

TRENTON SCHOOL superintendents in urban districts see the classification of public schools by the state's Department of Educa tion as an opportunity to focus greater attention on those schools in dealing with the minimum-basic-skills problem. The department ratings showed

YONKERS NEW Federal laws that will radically change the method by which Westchester County disposes of liquid waste have resulted in a three-way legal battle among the county, Yorkers residents and the Environmental Protection Agency.