NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 26, 2012--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services has assigned its 'AA-' rating to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's (PANYNJ) $2 billion consolidated bonds, 174th series. At the same time, Standard&Poor's affirmed its 'AA-' ratings on PANYNJ's existing consolidated bonds and its 'A-1+' short-term rating on the authority's approximately $384.3 million in commercial paper (CP) notes. Standard&Poor's also affirmed its 'AA-' rating on the series 1WTC-2011 New York Liberty Development Corp.'s liberty revenue bonds, which are on par with all of PANYNJ's consolidated bonds. In addition, Standard&Poor's affirmed its 'A+' rating on the series 2011 liberty revenue bonds (issued for the 4 World Trade Center project)