Bill Text: NY S03439 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to rename President Street subway station the President Street - Medgar Evers College station and rename the Franklin Avenue subway station the Franklin Avenue - Medgar Evers College station.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - APPROVAL MEMO.55 [S03439 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03439-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         3439--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT directing the metropolitan  transportation  authority  to  rename
          certain subway stations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The President Street subway station  on  the  IRT  Nostrand
     2  Avenue  line  of  the New York city subway is hereby named the President
     3  Street - Medgar Evers College station and  the  Franklin  Avenue  subway
     4  station  on  the  IRT  Eastern Parkway line is hereby named the Franklin
     5  Avenue - Medgar Evers College station. The MTA  shall  ensure  that  all
     6  signs,  maps, and any other items issued by the MTA are updated to accu-
     7  rately reflect the new name of the stations within such time and in such
     8  manner as the MTA shall deem appropriate.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04512-03-9
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