
    Knickerbocker Village, Inc., Respondent, against William Reid, as City Collector of the City of New York, et al., Appellants.
    Argued November 15, 1939;
    decided November 30, 1939.
    
      
      William C. Chanter, Corporation Counsel (Hyman W. Kehl and Arthur A. Segall of counsel), for appellants.
    
      H. H. Nordlinger, Harold Biegelman and Jacob M. Dinnes for respondent.
    
      Ira S, Bobbins for New York State Superintendent of Housing, amicus curios.
    
   Order affirmed, with costs, on the ground that the assessment is a tax and not one for a local improvement. No opinion.

Concur: Crane, Ch. J., Lehman, Hubbs, Loughran, Finch and Rippey, JJ. Taking no part: O’Brien, J.  