Opinion
Argued November 15, 1977
Decided December 15, 1977
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, HOWARD T. HOGAN, J.
William Gitelman, County Attorney (Leon Friedman of counsel), and Francis Bergan, Special Counsel, for appellant.
Adolph Koeppel, Irving I. Lesnick, William D. Siegel, Bernard Sommer, Saul R. Fenchel and Michael R. Martone for petitioner-respondent.
George B. Costigan, Jr., and Abraham Brinn for Cerro Corporation, respondent.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Joseph P. McCale and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), pro se, and amicus curiae.
Order affirmed, with costs, on the opinion by Mr. Justice JAMES D. HOPKINS at the Appellate Division (reported at 53 A.D.2d 463, sub nom. 860 Executive Towers v Board of Assessors of County of Nassau). Question certified answered in the affirmative.
Concur: Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, FUCHSBERG and COOKE. Taking no part: Judge WACHTLER.