MATTER OF CITY OF NEW YORK

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel ( Morris Einhorn of counsel), for appellant-respondent. Bernard L. Bermant, Carl J. Moskowitz, Loretta A. Conway, Joseph Schreiber, Frederick L. Sohn, Isidore Sohn and Herbert Whyman for respondents-appellants. Sidney Z. Searles, Irving L. Weinberger, M. Robert Goldstein, Arthur D. Goldstein, Edward D. Burns and Alfred D. Jahr for respondents. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General ( Ruth Kessler Toch and Julius L. Sackman of counsel), in his statutory capacity under section 71 of the Executive Law.