Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to take a parcel of land by the eminent domain procedure for a state park and community garden.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
6073
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 23, 2015
___________
Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT requiring the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic
preservation to take a parcel of land through the eminent domain
procedure for a state park and community garden
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The legislature hereby finds that it is necessary for a
2 public purpose to procure certain property within the city of New York.
3 To that extent, the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic pres-
4 ervation is hereby directed to take, through the use of the eminent
5 domain procedure as established under the eminent domain procedure law,
6 the parcel in the borough of Brooklyn known as 237 Maple Street, Brook-
7 lyn, Block 5030 Lot 72, for a state park and community garden to be
8 managed by neighborhood volunteers through the New York City parks
9 department green thumb program.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11858-02-5
