
    In the Matter of the City of New York, Respondent, and Robert M. Morgenthau, as District Attorney of New York County, et al., Intervenors-Respondents, v Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Appellant, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant.
    Argued May 31, 1977;
    decided June 30, 1977
    
      Peter H. Schiff and Howard J. Read for appelllant.
    
      W. Bernard Richland, Corporation Counsel (John C. Brennan, L. Kevin Sheridan and Alexander Gigante, Jr., of counsel), for respondent.
    
      Robert M. Morgenthau, New York County District Attorney (Ann Elizabeth Lewis, Peter L. Zimroth and Robert M. Pitler of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.
    
      Sol Greenberg, Albany County District Attorney (George H. Barber of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.
    
      
      Michael R. Wolford for Rochester Telephone Corporation and another, amici curiae.
    
    
      George A. Ashley, Raymond F. Burke and Robert E. Scannell for New York Telephone Company, amicus curiae.
    
    
      Edward F. Skoda for General Telephone Company of Upstate New York, Inc., amicus curiae.
    
   Concur: Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Cooke.  