Opinion
Decided May 1, 1975
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County, ALBERT S. McGROVER, J.
Henry C. Miner, III, Bernard M. Alter and June Zeitlin for Lillian Glass and another, appellants.
Richard Fischbein and Michael T. Heffernan for Barbara Carson and others, appellants.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Robert S. Hammer and Samuel A. Hirshowitz of counsel), for respondents.
On the court's own motion, appeal in Glass v Thompson transferred, without costs, to the Appellate Division, Second Department, and the appeal in Carson v Thompson transferred, without costs, to the Appellate Division, First Department. The direct appeals do not lie since questions other than the constitutional validity of a statutory provision are involved (CPLR 5601, subd [b], par 2; Matter of Bartsch v State of New York, 33 N.Y.2d 938).