A second Democratic Councilman.

"It's silly and dangerous not to have house numbers," said Karakian Bedrosian, a Democratic councilman.

"There's a difference between accessing the numbers and mandating their use," said Paul Tomasko, a Democratic councilman.

"The broad concept is a good one," said Alan J. Gerson, a Democratic councilman .

The Pension Board this past week elected another Democratic councilman, Michael Singh, its new chairman.

He shocked everybody by winning, then won in November, too, by just 191 votes over a former Democratic councilman running as an independent.

Charles Anderson, a Democratic Common Councilman who introduced the bill, said in opening a recent public meeting to marshal community support.

Henry Spallone, a Democratic Councilman who won re-election, said he favored "appealing it all the way."

It's hard for J. Christian Bollwage, a Democratic councilman since 1983, to see how he could lose the campaign to be this city's next mayor.

Even Mr. Lesczynski described the Democratic councilman as intelligent, affable and well financed.