Lasher, Seawright, Epstein, Fall, Gibbs, Glick, Bores, Simone, Jackson, Taylor, De Los Santos, Lee,
Rosenthal
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Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 110th Street - Central Park North subway station to the 110th Street - Malcolm X Plaza station.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5339
SPONSOR: Wright TITLE OF BILL:
An act directing the metropolitan transportation authority and the New
York city transit authority to rename the 110th Street - Central Park
North subway station to the 110th Street - Malcolm X Plaza station; and
providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
PURPOSE:
This legislation will name the MTA Station that sits below Malcolm
Shabazz Plaza after Malcolm X.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
This bill provides for the remaining of the MTA Station that sits below
Malcolm Shabazz Plaza after Malcolm X.
JUSTIFICATION:
The current 110th Street-Central Park North subway station is located at
the origin of Malcolm X Boulevard and sits squarely underneath Malcolm
Shabazz Plaza. The tiling of the Subway Station already pays tribute to
Malcolm X, as does a number of pieces of artwork, installed during a
1998 renovation, called Message from Malcolm by Maren Hassinger. It
consists of mosaic panels on the platform and main fare control area's
street stairs that depict quotes and writings by Malcolm X written in
script and surrounded by mosaic borders. Given this confluence of
factors, the MTA should rename the Station to bear the name of the
preeminent Civil Rights Crusader, Malcolm X.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill In 2024.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Nominal.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5339
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority and the New
York city transit authority to rename the 110th Street - Central Park
North subway station to the 110th Street - Malcolm X Plaza station;
and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
of
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Upon a determination by the metropolitan transportation
2 authority or the New York city transit authority that sufficient funds
3 have been committed to it specifically for such purpose, the metropol-
4 itan transportation authority, the public benefit corporation created by
5 section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New York city trans-
6 it authority, the public benefit corporation created by section 1201 of
7 the public authorities law, shall use such specifically committed funds
8 to rename the 110th Street - Central Park North subway station on the
9 IRT Lexington Avenue line of the New York city subway to the 110th
10 Street - Malcolm X Plaza station. The metropolitan transportation
11 authority shall ensure that all signs and any other items issued by the
12 metropolitan transportation authority are updated to accurately reflect
13 the new name of the station.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
15 deemed repealed after the signs and any other items are accurately
16 updated. The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation
17 authority or president of the New York city transit authority shall
18 notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of
19 such updates in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and
20 timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state
21 of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44
22 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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