Bill Text: NY S03691 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue use of certain park land and convey it to St. Michael's Prostestant Episcopal Church.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-10-26 - SIGNED CHAP.399 [S03691 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03691-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue use of certain park land and convey it to St. Michael's Prostestant Episcopal Church.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-10-26 - SIGNED CHAP.399 [S03691 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03691-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3691
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to authorize the city of New York to discontinue use of and
convey certain park land
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the city of New York
2 is authorized to discontinue use as park land and to convey, in fee
3 simple, the land described in section three of this act. Such land is
4 authorized to be conveyed to the Saint Michael's Cemetery upon such
5 terms and conditions as the city council of the city of New York shall
6 determine to be fair and reasonable.
7 S 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
8 subject to the requirement that the city of New York shall use any
9 proceeds and/or land received in exchange for the conveyance authorized
10 by this act to acquire land, to be dedicated for park purposes, in an
11 amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the land being
12 conveyed pursuant to this act and/or used for capital improvements to
13 existing park and recreational facilities.
14 S 3. The land authorized to be discontinued as park land and conveyed
15 is as follows:
16 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
17 being in the Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York,
18 bounded and described as follows:
19 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the northwester-
20 ly side of 30th Avenue (80 feet wide) with the westerly side of Brook-
21 lyn-Queens Expressway East (also known as Boody Street) (134 feet wide)
22 RUNNING THENCE northerly, the following nine courses and distance
23 along the westerly side of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway East;
24 1. THENCE North 01 degrees 17 minutes 43.9 seconds West, 730.91 feet
25 to a point of curvature;
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. THENCE northeasterly, along a curve bearing to the right having a
2 radius of 500 feet, an arc length of 94.51 feet to a point of reverse
3 curvature;
4 3. THENCE northeasterly and northerly, along a curve bearing to the
5 left having a radius of 630.991 feet, an arc length of 105.76 feet to a
6 point of tangency;
7 4. THENCE North 00 degrees 04 minutes 05.3 seconds West, 335.51 feet
8 to a point of curvature;
9 5. THENCE northeasterly, along a curve bearing to the right having a
10 radius of 816.101 feet, an arc length of 275.78 feet to a point of
11 tangency;
12 6. THENCE North 19 degrees 17 minutes 37.0 seconds East, 93.40 feet to
13 a point of curvature;
14 7. THENCE northerly and northwesterly, along a curve bearing to the
15 left having a radius of 569.635 feet, an arc length of 337.96 feet to a
16 point of tangency;
17 8. THENCE North 14 degrees 41 minutes 57.9 seconds West, 556.50 feet
18 to a point of curvature;
19 9. THENCE northwesterly, along a curve bearing to the left having a
20 radius of 30.00 feet, an arc length of 22.63 feet to the southerly side
21 of Grand Central Parkway Extension (also known as Astoria Boulevard
22 South);
23 RUNNING THENCE South 73 degrees 53 minutes 24.9 seconds West, along
24 the southerly side of Grand Central Parkway Extension, 15.99 feet to a
25 point;
26 RUNNING THENCE South 11 degrees 05 minutes 28.4 seconds East, 301.87
27 feet to a point;
28 RUNNING THENCE South 11 degrees 45 minutes 55.0 seconds East, 363.31
29 feet to a point;
30 RUNNING THENCE South 08 degrees 45 minutes 15.0 seconds East, 25.00
31 feet to a point;
32 RUNNING THENCE South 04 degrees 20 minutes East, 206.73 feet to a
33 point;
34 RUNNING THENCE South 19 degrees 17 minutes 37.0 seconds West, 31.31
35 feet to a point;
36 RUNNING THENCE North 88 degrees 20 minutes 01.5 seconds West, 142.31
37 feet to a point;
38 RUNNING THENCE South 01 degrees 15 minutes 59.9 seconds East, 1635.52
39 feet to the northwesterly side of 30th Avenue;
40 RUNNING THENCE North 53 degrees 05 minutes 15.0 seconds East, 57.40
41 feet to the corner formed by the intersection of the northwesterly side
42 of 30th Avenue with the westerly side of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
43 East, the point or place of BEGINNING.
44 Consisting of 3.77 acres .
45 S 4. If the parkland that is the subject of this act has received
46 funding pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the
47 discontinuance of parkland authorized by the provisions of this act
48 shall not occur until the municipality has complied with the federal
49 requirements pertaining to the conversion of parklands, including satis-
50 fying the secretary of the interior that the discontinuance will include
51 all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to
52 assure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
53 market value and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontin-
54 ued.
55 S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
