September 23, 1998

Senator Alphonse D'Amato, playing directly to upstate voters' long-standing antagonism toward New York City, broadcasts television advertisement asserting that his Democratic opponent, Repr Charles E Schumer, had written off upstate New York with statements and votes throughout his career; photo (M)

Museum of the City of New York will display pen-and-ink watercolor drawing, believed to be oldest surviving visual representation of New York City; work, produced around 1650, is on loan from Austrian National Library in Vienna; photo; Chicago Symphony Orchestra will usher in 1998-99 season at Symphony Center on September 26 with grand opening of its Eloise W Martin Center; Daniel Barenboim will lead works by Mozart, Haydn and Tchaikovsky; y soprano Cecilia Bartolli will be guest soloist; California king snake used in Royal National Theater production of Antony and Cleopatra escapes from cage, but is later caught and returned (M)

Inspection records and interviews with New York City officials, engineers, architects and landlords show problems persist with city's effort to require inspections and repairs of tall buildings; experts say laws spur visual inspections, which can miss numerous problems; cite absence of strong enforcement mechanism to require owners to make repairs; diagrams (M)

Dozens of wine stores in Manhattan offer customers free tastings on weekends; map; photos (M)

United Airlines' Parent Picks Insider as President James E. Goodwin, a longtime senior executive, was named president and chief operating officer of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, succeeding John A. Edwardson, who was forced out by the carrier's powerful unions. The appointment immediately vaulted Mr. Goodwin, 54, into the race to succeed Gerald Greenwald, UAL's chairman and chief executive, whose five-year employment contract expires next summer. [C4.]