Bill Text: NY A05984 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Transfers certain lands to the city of New York to be used as parklands.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-06 - reported referred to ways and means [A05984 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05984-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5984
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 9, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, TITONE, MALLIOTAKIS, BORELLI -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Transportation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the highway law, in relation to transferring certain
         land to the city of New York department of parks  and  recreation  and
         the  department  of  environmental  conservation  and designating such
         lands as parklands
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 558
    2  of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
    4  routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
    5    New  England  thruway  from  the  Westchester  county line to Bruckner
    6  expressway; Bruckner expressway from New England thruway  to  Robert  F.
    7  Kennedy  bridge  approach; Hutchinson river parkway from the Westchester
    8  county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
    9  from the Westchester county line to Bruckner  expressway;  Henry  Hudson
   10  parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
   11  Henry  Hudson  bridge,  provided that no portion of this route from West
   12  Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
   13  or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
   14  or used for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment  of  no
   15  more  than  ten feet in width from seventy-third street to seventy-sixth
   16  street as may be essential during and for the purpose of  reconstruction
   17  or  repair  of  the existing roadway following which there shall be full
   18  restoration of park land; Major Deegan expressway  from  the  Robert  F.
   19  Kennedy  bridge  to  Central  Park avenue at the Westchester county line
   20  together with a connection to Broadway and along Broadway  to  Manhattan
   21  college  parkway;  Cross  Bronx expressway from George Washington bridge
   22  approach to Throgs Neck bridge; Throgs  Neck  expressway  from  Bruckner
   23  expressway  to  Throgs  Neck  bridge; Arthur V. Sheridan expressway from
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  Cross-Bronx expressway to  Bruckner  expressway;  Mosholu  parkway  from
    2  Henry  Hudson  parkway  to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway
    3  from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from  Bronx
    4  and  Pelham  parkway  to  New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry
    5  Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey  tunnel;  and  from  Hugh  L.  Carey
    6  tunnel  to  Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from
    7  the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy  bridge  approach;  Harlem
    8  river  drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington
    9  bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third  avenue
   10  and  Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway,
   11  Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island  parkway  from  Hugh  L.
   12  Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
   13  Southern  parkway  to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
   14  from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central  parkway;  Prospect  expressway
   15  from  Gowanus  expressway  to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
   16  expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough  parkway  from  Grand  Central
   17  Parkway  to  Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazano-Narrows
   18  bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway;  Third  Avenue  from  Gowanus
   19  expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue to Hugh
   20  L.  Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge approach to
   21  Van Wyck expressway; Van Wyck  expressway  from  Whitestone  expressway,
   22  including  a  connection  to  Grand  Central parkway, to John F. Kennedy
   23  international airport; Woodhaven  boulevard  from  Queens  boulevard  to
   24  Cross  Bay  parkway  bridge  northerly  approach; Cross Bay parkway from
   25  Cross Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore  Front
   26  parkway  from  Cross  Bay  parkway generally along the shore line of the
   27  Atlantic ocean to the Nassau  expressway  at  the  Nassau  county  line;
   28  Queens-Midtown  expressway from Queens-Midtown tunnel approach to Queens
   29  Boulevard; Horace Harding expressway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau
   30  county line; a connection between Brooklyn-Queens expressway and  North-
   31  ern  boulevard  in  the vicinity of Grand Central parkway; Grand Central
   32  parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to  Nassau  county  line;
   33  Whitestone  expressway from Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach to Van Wyck
   34  expressway and continuing to Grand Central parkway; Clearview expressway
   35  from Throgs Neck bridge to  Nassau  expressway;  Richmond  parkway  from
   36  [Staten  Island  expressway  to] THE Outerbridge crossing approach TO LA
   37  TOURRETTE  PARK  AT  RICHMOND  AVENUE;  Staten  Island  expressway  from
   38  Goethals  bridge  to  the  Verrazano-Narrows bridge with a connection to
   39  Bayonne bridge; [Willowbrook parkway from Staten  Island  expressway  to
   40  Great  Kills  park;] West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway
   41  to Outerbridge crossing; Shore Front drive northerly from  the  terminus
   42  of  West  Shore expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally
   43  along the shore lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York  bay
   44  and Raritan bay to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
   45    S 2. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high-
   46  way law as the Willowbrook Parkway from Victory Boulevard to Great Kills
   47  Park  at Hylan Boulevard, shall be vested in the department of parks and
   48  recreation of the city of New York.
   49    S 3. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high-
   50  way law as the Richmond Parkway from a point 60 feet south of the Staten
   51  Island expressway to Manor Road, shall be vested in  the  department  of
   52  parks and recreation of the city of New York.
   53    S 4. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high-
   54  way  law  as  the  Richmond  Parkway from Manor Road to Richmond Avenue,
   55  shall be vested in the department of parks and recreation of the city of
   56  New York.
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    1    S 5. The parcels defined in sections two, three and four of  this  act
    2  shall  be  used  for park purposes, shall not be used for transportation
    3  purposes and shall not be sold, leased, exchanged, donated, or otherwise
    4  disposed of or used for other than  public  park  purposes  without  the
    5  express  authority of an act of the legislature, which shall provide for
    6  the substitution of other lands of equal environmental  value  and  fair
    7  market  value and reasonably equivalent usefulness and location to those
    8  to be discontinued, sold or disposed of, and such other requirements  as
    9  shall  be  approved  by  the commissioner of parks and recreation of the
   10  city of New York and the commissioner of environmental conservation.
   11    S 6. There shall be set aside a sum of money  equal  to  the  cost  of
   12  constructing the parkways that are de-mapped pursuant to this act, to be
   13  used for highway and road improvement or transit purposes in the borough
   14  of Staten Island, on application of the city of New York, the department
   15  of transportation, the metropolitan transportation authority or the Port
   16  Authority  of  New York and New Jersey, as the case may be. The projects
   17  may include, but shall not be limited to: the  construction  of  turning
   18  lanes and intersection improvements at the intersection of Ocean Terrace
   19  and  Todt  Hill Road; the extension of the eastbound service road of the
   20  Staten Island Expressway from Manor  Road  to  Renwick  Avenue;  or  the
   21  construction  of  a  connector  from  the Korean War Veterans Parkway to
   22  Richmond Avenue.
   23    S 7. Nothing in this act shall prevent  the  city  of  New  York  from
   24  making  application  to  the  legislature for approval of an exchange of
   25  adjacent property owned by the city of New York of equivalent  size  and
   26  value  on  Rockland Avenue between Brielle Avenue and Richmond Road, for
   27  such improvement of Rockland Avenue as the city of New York may  author-
   28  ize  consistent  with  any  and all land use review and applicable state
   29  law.
   30    S 8. This act shall take effect immediately.
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