Bill Text: NY A09454 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as city parkland of Christopher Park in the borough of Manhattan and to convey such interest to the United States for park, monument, historic, or recreational purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-04-22 - signed chap.33 [A09454 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09454-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9454
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 4, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities
        AN ACT to authorize the city of New York to discontinue the use as  city
          parkland of Christopher Park in the borough of Manhattan and to convey
          the  city's  interest  in  the  real property to the United States for
          park, monument, historic, or recreational purposes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  city of New York, acting through the commissioner of
     2  parks and recreation of such city, is hereby authorized  to  discontinue
     3  the  use  as city parkland of Christopher Park in the borough of Manhat-
     4  tan, described in section two of this act, and to convey its interest in
     5  the real property to the United States, upon terms and conditions agreed
     6  upon by the National Park Service and the city of New York provided that
     7  the United States uses such  land,  for  park,  monument,  historic,  or
     8  recreational  purposes.  Any  revenues  received by the city of New York
     9  from the conveyance of parkland authorized by this act shall be used for
    10  capital improvements to existing city  park  and  recreational  purposes
    11  and/or  for  the  acquisition  of  additional city park and recreational
    12  facilities.
    13    § 2. The parkland authorized to be conveyed by the city of New York to
    14  the United States pursuant to section one of this act is the following:
    15    ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with all the buildings
    16  and improvements thereon  erected,  situate,  lying  and  being  in  the
    17  Borough  of Manhattan, City and State of New York, bounded and described
    18  as follows:
    19    BEGINNING at the intersection  of  the  northwesterly  side  of  Grove
    20  Street and southeasterly side of Christopher Street;
    21    RUNNING  THENCE southwesterly along the southeasterly side of Christo-
    22  pher Street a distance of 200.93 feet to a  point  on  the  intersection
    23  with the easterly side of Seventh Avenue;
    24    THENCE  southerly along the easterly side of Seventh Avenue a distance
    25  of 11.00 feet to the intersection with the northeasterly  side  of  West
    26  Fourth Street;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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