
    In the Matter of the City of New York, Respondent, v Vernor Christiansen et al., as Assessors of the Town of Wappinger, Appellants, and Beacon City School District, Intervenor-Appellant.
    Argued January 4, 1983;
    decided February 15, 1983
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      William G. Crane for appellants.
    
      Thomas P. Halley for intervenor-appellant.
    
      Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Gary Schuller, Edith I. Spivack and Antonin Tutter of counsel), for respondent.
    
      Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Peter H. Schiff, Jeremiah Jochnowitz and Wayne L. Benjamin of counsel), in his statutory capacity pursuant to section 71 of the Executive Law.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for reasons stated in the memorandum at the Appellate Division (85 AD2d 663). Question certified answered in the affirmative.

Concur: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg, Meyer and Simons concur.  