Opponents said they were preparing a lawsuit to halt the plan.
An arbitrator halted the plan for those turnaround schools in a ruling that a state court judge backed up this week.
But before the police could turn away drivers, Frederick J. Theemling Jr., the Hudson County prosecutor, halted the plan, saying it was probably unconstitutional.
In October, the Associated Press reported the Bush campaign halted the plan over concerns around potentially crossing the line of coordination.
That suit prompted a judge to halt the plan, leaving it in limbo; the city, which is counting on $1 billion in revenue tied to the plan, has appealed.
The American Beverage Association, the industry group that led the successful lawsuit to halt the plan, said in a statement that it expected the earlier decision to stand.
But an environmental lawsuit protecting the striped bass in the river halted the plan, and the government was left holding the piers.
The EFSF had been planning to sell a three-year Aaa/AA+/AAA bond today, but has now halted the plan, Reuters has established.
Some time ago Mayor Michael Bloomberg halted the plan to move the Museum of the City of New York into the building, a magnificently refurbished structure that stands behind City Hall.
But for the past couple of weeks, the Bloomberg administration has been considering halting the plan to bring the museum downtown and turning the Tweed building into city office space instead.
