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Joe Korbl totes up the cost of driving in New York City. Gas for his plumbing van is $20 a day. Insurance is $5,000 a year. And parking tickets -- a routine expense for businesses like his -- tack on $250 a month. Add one more potential levy: $8 a day just for the right to drive into Manhattan. No one will ever mistake Fifth Avenue for the Santa Monica Freeway, but Gotham's midday gridlock is worsening. Mayor Michael R.

It was true love when Arlynne Miller moved to Stuyvesant Town 30 years ago to live with a boyfriend. The relationship failed, but Miller clung to something more valuable: a rent-stabilized apartment in the sprawling collection of World War II-era buildings peering over the East River. The 110 red-brick buildings, stretching along 1st Avenue from 14th to 23rd streets, were constructed with government assistance in 1947 to house returning veterans.