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Reports that a man shooting at bathers in upper Manhattan late Saturday afternoon reflected an uneasy tension at the Highbridge Pool, where people escaping the heat are next to gangs staking out territories. Reason behind shooting; Gang presence at pools; New precautions.

Reports that three men and two boys were arrested and charged in the Halloween rampage on Wards Island in which nine homeless men were injured and one, Carlos Melendez, 35, was killed. Details.

Reports that three men believed to be members of a Vietnamese gang called Born to Kill were found shot to death in an execution-style slaying yesterday in New York City, in what law-enforcement officials said was the latest in a series of gang-related shootings that have spread from Chinatown.

Tells of the shooting deaths of four employees of the newly opened Madison Tire Corporation in Brooklyn, by two men who barged into the store. The shootings had the earmarks of an execution, but robbery is not being ruled out.

Says that a crowd in a crime-ridden Bronx neighborhood took justice into its own hands on Wednesday night, surrounding a fleeing robbery suspect and stabbing him to death--and then disappearing into the dark. Stumped by uncooperative and silent residents, the police had few clues to the killing.

Reports that Pierre La Roche, a 5 and one-half-month-old boy, was shot in the head yesterday in Manhattan when a bullet tore through an apartment wall as he lay sleeping in bed with his grandmother. He is the sixth child hit by a stray bullet in the last 15 days in the city. He is in intensive care.

Announces that New York City transit police officers will be allowed to carry a more powerful handgun that has been resisted because of its possible danger to the public. Description of the 9-millimeter pistol; Matching the growing firepower of street criminals.

Discusses New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez's recommendation that the schools completely revamp their mathematics education, requiring all students to take algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, requiring teachers to take brush-upcourses, and offering lessons to parents so they can help their children. Possible effect on dropout rate.

Tells how Lenox Terrace, a high-rise luxury oasis in the heart of Harlem, has been infiltrated by drug dealers and has fallen prey to crime.

Reports that three people were killed and three others wounded early yesterday morning when gunmen fired automatic weapons in a bar in Harlem. Unexpected clues; No motive found.

Refers to an article on page B1 stating that actress Paulette Goddard, who died last month, left more than $20 million to New York University for scholarships and endowed professorships.

Describes the burning and shooting which occurred between feuding Mohawk factions in St. Regis, N.Y. Clash over gambling, smuggling, drugs, and the vast number of automatic weapons on the reservation. Families divided; Tensions and tempers running high.

Refers to a page B1 story telling of the killing of Rafael Montes De Oca, 38, a livery cab driver, on Saturday night on a deserted street in the Fordham section of the Bronx. It was the fifth such killing in five weeks, but investigators said it was not connected to the previous ones.

Discusses the shooting of 39-year-old Ronald Ford in East Harlem by Kenneth Mendoza, 19. Police said Ford had threatened a neighbor with a knife. Mendoza's fear and confusion.

Discusses the stabbing death of James Zappalorti, a 44-year-old emotionally disturbed man, in Charleston, S.I., by Michael Taylor and Phillip Sarlo, who believed he was gay and had made a hobby of harassing the gentle, disabled man.

Tells of the beating death of a homeless man who was standing on a subway platform. He spat at a 39-year-old unemployed plumber, Rodney Sumter, who beat the vagrant so badly that he died a few hours later. Sumter was charged with first-degree manslaughter.

Reports on the Transit Authority in New York City's decision to impose a two-token limit to curtail hoarding by riders. Publics' negative response; Authority's view that riders were buying extra tokens in anticipation of a fare increase.

Discusses the Alternative to Detention program for juveniles, run by New York City's Probation Department. Effort to redirect young people away from crime; Stress on counseling, group activities, and getting them to attend school regularly.

Relates that a federal judge has ruled in favor of Maurice J. Mathie, an inmate in New York state prison who claims he was raped by a chief of security while in the Suffolk County jail. The accusations against retired Sergeant Roy Fries; The judge's award of $750,000 in the case; Mathie's term in a state prison in Sullivan County; Analysis of the phenomenon of prisoner rape.

Reports that prison marriages in New York State are on the increase, despite high rates of failure. Nelson and Marie Castellanos, who got married at Eastern Correctional Facility in Ulster County where Nelson is serving 15 years to life; View of New York prison authorities that marriage can create stability in an inmate's life; California's tougher stance on its family reunification program.

Presents a look at the races for New York's new City Council. Neighborhood politics; Choosing the Council; Contribution of Chinese and Korean immigrants; Immigrants' lack of impact in the voting arena.

Describes the island of Broad Channel in New York City's Jamaica Bay. Its redistricting tug-of-war, which it won. Details of the trouble.

Tells how numerous banks have sprung up in Flushing since thousands of immigrants, particularly Chinese and Koreans, settled there in the last decade. The banks--American, Chinese, Korean, British, Indian, Pakistani and Colombian--tailor their strategies to serve the savings-minded workers and flourishing small businesses.

Describes the illegal call scheme that is flourishing in Queens. Cars with doctored cellular phones act as high-tech mobile phone booths--the computer chip of the phones altered so that calls are billed to a legal, and unsuspecting, customer. The swindle has become an electronic nightmare.

States that hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants pay tens of thousands of dollars to become modern-day indentured servants in the New York City area in return for counterfeit identification papers and passage to the US. Smuggling network connected with Chinese organized crime.

Reports that, in the five hours after the end of a year that set a record for homicides, seven people were killed in New York City. Six were shot in separate incidents and one was stabbed to death in an elevator during an argument. Details.

Reports that seven people were killed in New York City in just over seven hours on Saturday night and yesterday morning, bringing to a bloody close a week in which the unofficial homicide tally for the year rose above 2,000 for the first time. Details.

Profiles artist Anthony Papa, who is serving a 15-years-to-life sentence at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York. His sentence for drug possession; Production of hundreds of watercolor and acrylic paintings, despite difficulties in getting materials; Psychological release from his work; Types of materials which are banned by prison security rules; His art following including the prison superintendent, John Keane; Exhibition at New York Theological Seminary.

Profiles the pattern followed by prisoners who are released from New York City's Rikers Island. The number of inmates released each week; Theoretical maximum sentence of one year, for garden-variety crimes; Being released by the City Department of Correction at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Queens Plaza South; Some freed prisoners going to line up for coffee and cigarettes, or to call home.

Informs that the New York City Corrections Department plans to impose an absolute ban on smoking in the city's 16 jails, which will apply to inmates and corrections officers alike. Officials' lack of illusions about the trouble that will come from this; Opposition from inmates and corrections officers; The move as part of a nationwide trend; The importance of tobacco to inmates as a tension-reliever and a medium of trade.

Profiles eight women in New York City who are taking part in a program to help them overcome abusive relationships. Project Trail Blazer, run by the nonprofit Victim Services Organization in New York City; Features of the program including a field trip to Harriman State Park in Rockland County, New York, for a day of voluntary stillness and introspection.

Considers the relationship between homeowners and the workers they bring in to renovate their home. Families in the New York City area and their relationships with remodelers; Possibility of `Stockholm syndrome'; Tales of love and hate; Sexual advances from workers and owners; Other aspects of the relationship.

Reports that a growing number of groups demanding jobs for black and Hispanic workers have been disrupting construction sites in New York City, beating workers and extorting money for labor peace, the police, prosecutors and industry officials say. Proliferation of these groups, called minority coalitions; Such confrontations are far from new at construction sites in the city; More.

Tells of the violence in East New York, where there are daily wars of drug dealers fighting for turf, and where three people were wounded this week--one, a 3-year-old girl. As one 14-year-old said, `You always got to be bad here, or you just don't make it.'

Tells about the Kennedy Inn near Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Sometime in the coming weeks, with the arrival of 150 homeless families, the inn will become the largest for-profit welfare hotel in a city that not long ago had pledged it would stop using welfare hotels. Uproar among advocates for the homeless, officials, and residents of neighborhoods near the airport.

Tells of the brothels in Queens, the largest center of prostitution in New York City outside Manhattan. As they have flourished, so have street drug sales, traffic congestion, robberies and shootings. Crackdown against the houses.

Discusses how the immigrant population from various Third World countries that settled in New York City last year have developed niches which enable them to monopolize certain businesses and change the cultural, political and commercial profile of the city. Indian ownership of area gas stations in the city reflects enormous ethnic transformation the last decade; Immigrants' occupational choices are based on skills, background and family values; More.

Explains how the July 1990 stabbing death of Julio Rivera, a Hispanic drug user from Queens who lived on the far fringes of gay society, has galvanized the gay community. There have been rallies, candlelight vigils, and a gay rights march, among other things, focusing public attention on the escalating violence against gays in New York City.

Tells how the Irish Voice and other organizations are trucking hundreds of thousands of letters to Virginia from immigrants entering the resident visa lottery. The lottery is an opportunity for the more than 30,000 Irish living illegally in New York City to be lifted out of a world ruled by fear of deportation, paranoia and insecurity.

Deals with the apparent suicide of first-degree murder suspect Angel Diaz inside his cell in Rikers Island, New York. Rikers' use of his belt to hang himself; Reason for allowing Rikers to wear a belt; Plan to conduct another investigation on the death; Description of Rikers' cell.

Reports on the outbreak of violence at Rikers Island Prison in New York City. Inmates' opposition to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's policy of arresting people for minor offenses; Weapons used by inmates.

Reports on the efforts of the New York City government to strike down a 1978 agreement that forced the city to improve living conditions for prisoners. Background on the 1978 decree; City's efforts to gain back autonomy over the city jails; Prisoners' rights advocates' expectations for a long court battle over the issue; Savings expected by the city from the changes.