Threatened with fines and other sanctions, including a ban on all construction, the City Council reluctantly acceded to the court-ordered housing plan.

Early today, after a four-hour public hearing, the City Council rejected for the second time a court-ordered housing desegregation plan, thus remaining in contempt of court.

After a day of meetings, they gave no indication that a breakthough had been made to carry out the court-ordered housing desegregation plan.

"I haven't talked to the other councilmen" on their views of the court-ordered housing plan.

Most vented anger over a court-ordered housing desegregation plan, but some said it was time to obey the law and build the subsidized housing.

Mr. Wasicsko has argued that the city should end what he called a costly and futile resistance to a court-ordered housing desegregation plan.

Governor Cuomo yesterday named a special eight-member state panel to help put a court-ordered housing desegregation plan into effect in Yonkers.

His three colleagues say the court-ordered housing plan must be changed to reduce its impact on the city's neighborhoods.

Yonkers, preoccupied with budget problems and a longstanding dispute over a court-ordered housing desegregation plan, took the 200-bed conversion in stride.

He was one of three councilmen who were outvoted last August when the four other council members voted to oppose a court-ordered housing desegregation plan.