Renames the Winthrop street subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the NYC subway, located in the borough of Brooklyn, to the SUNY Downstate at Winthrop Avenue station.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9080
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority to rename the
Winthrop street subway station in the borough of Brooklyn to the SUNY
Downstate at Winthrop Avenue station; and providing for the repeal of
such provisions upon expiration thereof
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 Winthrop street subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue
9 Line of the New York city subway, located at Winthrop street and Nost-
10 rand Avenue in the borough of Brooklyn, to the SUNY Downstate at
11 Winthrop Avenue station. The metropolitan transportation authority shall
12 ensure that all signs and any other items issued by the metropolitan
13 transportation authority are updated to accurately reflect the new name
14 of the station. Such renaming shall not affect the rights or obligations
15 of any party with respect to existing contracts, permits, or other
16 agreements referencing the prior station name.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
18 deemed repealed after the signs and any other items are accurately
19 updated. The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation
20 authority or president of the New York city transit authority shall
21 notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of
22 such updates in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and
23 timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state
24 of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44
25 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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