USCOA,2 No. 167
   Friends of Van Cortlandt Park, Parks Council, Inc., Norwood Community
   Action, Linda Burger, and Fay Muir,
   Appellants, State of New York, Intervenor-Appellant, United States of
   America, Plaintiff, Barbara DeBuono, M.D., as Commissioner of the New
   York State Department of Health, Intervenor,
   v.
   City of New York, New York City Department of Environmental
   Protection, New York City Planning Commission, New York City Council,
   New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Rudolph W. Giuliani,
   Joel A. Miele, Sr. and Henry J. Stern, Department of Citywide
   Administrative Services,
   Respondents.
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   2000 NY Int. 129

   November 21, 2000

   This memorandum is uncorrected and subject to revision before
   publication in the New York Reports.
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   Certification of question by the United States Court of Appeals for
   the Second Circuit, pursuant to section 500.17 of this Court's Rules
   of Practice, accepted and the issues presented are to be considered
   after briefing and argument. Chief Judge Kaye and Judges Smith,
   Levine, Ciparick, Wesley and Rosenblatt concur.

   Decided November 21, 2000