Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5477
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT authorizing the town of Brookhaven to alienate certain parklands
for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement
parklands
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 town of Brookha-
2 ven, located in the county of Suffolk, acting by and through its govern-
3 ing body and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such body,
4 is hereby authorized to discontinue as parklands the lands more partic-
5 ularly described in section three of this act, for the purposes of
6 constructing a stormwater runoff and recharge basin.
7 § 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
8 effective only upon the condition that the town of Brookhaven dedicate
9 an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the park-
10 lands being discontinued towards the acquisition of new parklands and/or
11 capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
12 § 3. The parklands authorized by section one of this act to be discon-
13 tinued as parklands are described as follows:
14 Parcel I
15 ALL that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being near
16 Bellport, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York,
17 known and designated as Lots 55 through 64, inclusive, in Block 508, as
18 shown on a certain map entitled "Map number 3, 6 and 9 of New York and
19 Brooklyn Suburban Investment Company" and filed in the office of the
20 Clerk of Suffolk County on June 9, 1890 as number 444; also filed April
21 9, 1890 as number 83 and April 15, 1892 as number 26 and being more
22 particularly bounded and described as follows:
23 Beginning at the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly side
24 of Hoffman Avenue and the southerly side of Patchogue Avenue;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Running thence South 4°-17'-00" West along the westerly side of Hoffman
2 Avenue 250.00 feet to a point;
3 Thence North 85°-43'-00" West a distance of 100.00 feet to a point;
4 Thence North 4°-17'-00" East a distance of 250.00 feet to the southerly
5 side of Patchogue Avenue;
6 Thence South 85°-43'-00" East along the southerly side of Patchogue
7 Avenue 100.00 feet to the westerly side of Hoffman Avenue and the point
8 or place of beginning.
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10 ALL that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being near
11 Bellport, Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, State of New York,
12 known and designated as Lots 25 through 32, inclusive, in Block 508, as
13 shown on a certain map entitled "Map number 3, 6 and 9 of New York and
14 Brooklyn Suburban Investment Company" and filed in the office of the
15 Clerk of Suffolk County on June 9, 1890 as number 444; also filed April
16 9, 1890 as number 83 and April 15, 1892 as number 26 and being more
17 particularly bounded and described as follows:
18 Beginning at the corner formed by the intersection of the easterly side
19 of Ecke Avenue and the southerly side of Patchogue Avenue;
20 Running thence South 85°-43'-00" East along the southerly side of Patc-
21 hogue Avenue 100.00 feet to a point;
22 Thence South 4°-17'-00" West a distance of 200.00 feet to a point;
23 Thence North 85°-43'-00" West a distance of 100.00 feet to the easterly
24 side of Ecke Avenue;
25 Thence North 4°-17'-00" East along the easterly side of Ecke Avenue
26 200.00 feet to the southerly side of Patchogue Avenue and the point or
27 place of beginning.
28 § 4. In the event that the town of Brookhaven received any funding
29 support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
30 maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
31 of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
32 ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of
33 Brookhaven has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
34 alienation or conversion of such parklands, including satisfying the
35 secretary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies
36 with all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary
37 to assure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
38 market value and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
39 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
