A fund-raising dinner with jazz and gondola rides on the lake is scheduled today at 5:30 P.M. at the park's Boathouse restaurant; the cost is $65; reservations: 315-0385.

MARK GREEN, who lost the mayoral race to Michael R. Bloomberg last month, was smiling as he arrived at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park.

But on that Saturday of Labor Day weekend in 1994, it was just Fredda Rosen and two friends getting together at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park to compare lives and bat around issues in the social-services field.

John Villa, the chef of the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park, which will soon reopen as Park View at the Boathouse, plans to serve them.

His adrenaline is pumping full throttle as he fidgets in a chair in the deserted banquet room of the Boathouse restaurant.

The Boathouse restaurant usually shuts its doors for dinner in the winter, but the general manager, Fonda Tsironis, said it would stay open every night during the exhibit.

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Jones, a Baptist minister, officiated at the Park View at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park.

Rarely visited by tourists, Ginny and Kelly's favourite beach, Heavenly Bay, turned out to be just that and we enjoyed a delicious prawn curry at the Boathouse restaurant while watching pelicans dive for fish.

The Boathouse restaurant is the third variant of the UNF tradition.

Acting Justice Paula J. Omansky of State Supreme Court in Manhattan performed the ceremony at the Park View at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park.