
    [650 NE2d 1320, 627 NYS2d 319]
    Timothy L. Nickels, Individually and as President of the Police Benevolent Association, Inc., Housing Police Department, City of New York, Appellant, v New York City Housing Authority et al., Respondents.
    Argued March
    23, 1995;
    decided April 4, 1995
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Solomon Rickman Greenberg, P. C., Lake Success (Theodore C. Rickman, Harry Greenberg and Robert J. Burzichelli of counsel), and Heyward & Hilton, P. C. (Robert Heyward and Kenneth Hilton, of the New Jersey Bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel), for appellant.
    
      Jeffrey Schanback, New York City, for New York City Housing Authority and others, respondents.
    
      Paul A. Crotty, Corporation Counsel of New York City (Elizabeth Dvorkin and Leonard Koerner of counsel), for City of New York, respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Milton L. Williams at the Appellate Division (208 AD2d 203).

Concur: Chief Judge Kaye and Judges Simons, Titone, Bellacosa, Smith, Levine and Ciparick.  