STATE OF NEW YORK
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674
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY,
BRENNAN, CLARK, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, V. LOPEZ, ORTIZ, PAULIN, RIVERA,
WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks,
Arts and Sports Development
AN ACT to dedicate the Jerome Park Reservoir tract in the Bronx as park-
land
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Legislative intent. Jerome Park has been used for numerous
2 park purposes over the years and is intended to have additional uses in
3 the future. Jerome Park was formerly used as a wildlife sanctuary in
4 the Harris Park Annex bordering on Goulden Avenue north of Gatehouse
5 Five at the Reservoir and directly across the street from the Bronx High
6 School of Science. This area is the future site of an outdoor urban
7 ecological study area, an area dedicated to community and school gardens
8 and ecology experiments such as composting, wind and rain precipitation
9 measurement, and seed and cutting propagation. It will be accompanied
10 by tables and benches for outdoor eating and classroom and lab instruc-
11 tion sessions. The Fort Independence Park, part of Jerome Park in the
12 northwest side, is presently used, and will continue to be used, as a
13 playground, basketball and handball courts, running track, and an
14 archeological-geological mound. The perimeter of the Jerome Park Reser-
15 voir will be the future site of a path for the purposes of walking and
16 jogging.
17 § 2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, that tract of
18 land known as Jerome Park Reservoir, more particularly described in
19 section three of this act, shall be dedicated as parkland of the city of
20 New York.
21 § 3. The land dedicated as parkland by section two of this act is more
22 particularly described as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01184-01-3
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1 All that tract or parcel of land situate in the borough of the Bronx
2 and the city of New York, bounded and described as follows:
3 Beginning at a point in the westerly line of Goulden Avenue at its
4 intersection with the northerly line of Reservoir Avenue, as said
5 streets are shown on Alteration Map No. 56-7 dated February 10, 1919,
6 and signed by the Bronx Borough President.
7 From the above said point of beginning the following 45 courses:
8 1. Running thence along the westerly line of Goulden Avenue, a
9 distance of 2,067.35 feet to a point;
10 2. Thence westerly, along a line forming an interior angle of 90
11 degrees with the preceding course, a distance of 180.85 feet, to a
12 point;
13 3. Thence northerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left,
14 having a radius of 536.548 feet, a distance of 305.72 feet to a point;
15 4. Thence northerly tangent to the curve in the last course, 319.84
16 feet to a point;
17 5. Thence easterly along a line forming an interior angle of 90
18 degrees with the preceding course, 42.50 feet to a point;
19 6. Thence northerly along a line forming an interior angle of 90
20 degrees with the preceding course, 206.0 feet to a point;
21 7. Thence westerly along a line forming an interior angle of 90
22 degrees with the preceding course, 40.50 feet to a point;
23 8. Thence northerly along a line forming an interior angle of 90
24 degrees with the preceding course, 197.18 feet to a point;
25 9. Thence northerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right,
26 having a radius of 987.362 feet, a distance of 427.22 feet to a point;
27 10. Thence northerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left,
28 having a radius of 1017.362 feet, a distance of 440.2 feet to a point;
29 11. Thence northerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
30 600.0 feet to a point;
31 12. Thence easterly along a line forming an interior angle of 90
32 degrees with the preceding course, 48.0 feet to a point;
33 13. Thence northwesterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left,
34 having a radius of 80.0 feet, a distance of 182.236 feet to a point;
35 14. Thence southwesterly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
36 756.504 feet to a point;
37 15. Thence along the arc of a curve bearing to the right, having a
38 radius of 222.186 feet, a distance of 159.074 feet to a point;
39 16. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
40 72.486 feet to a point;
41 17. Thence southerly along a line forming an interior angle of 64
42 degrees 16 minutes and 9 seconds to the preceding course for a distance
43 of 65.93 feet to a point;
44 18. Thence westerly along a line forming an interior angle of 90
45 degrees to the preceding course for a distance of 39.16 feet to a point;
46 19. Thence along the arc of a curve bearing to the left, having a
47 radius of 306.0 feet, a distance of 81.69 feet to a point;
48 20. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
49 240.51 feet to a point;
50 21. Thence southwesterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left,
51 having a radius of 152.4 feet, a distance of 99.94 feet to a point;
52 22. Thence southwesterly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
53 6.73 feet to a point;
54 23. Thence deflecting to the left about an angle of 151 degrees 55
55 minutes and 31 seconds and continuing along the arc of a curve bearing
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1 to the left, having a radius of 151.05 feet a distance of 99.93 feet to
2 a point;
3 24. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course, 25.0
4 feet to a point;
5 25. Thence southwesterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left
6 having a radius of 630.0 feet, a distance of 215.74 feet to a point;
7 26. Thence along the arc of a curve bearing to the right having a
8 radius of 300.0 feet, a distance of 119.29 feet to a point;
9 27. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
10 160.41 feet to a point;
11 28. Thence along the arc of a curve having a radius of 176.41 feet, a
12 distance of 64.67 feet to a point;
13 29. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course, 30.0
14 feet to a point;
15 30. Thence deflecting to the right from above said point forming an
16 interior angle of 90 degrees to the preceding course, southerly along
17 the easterly line of Sedgwick Avenue, 385.193 feet to a point;
18 31. Thence southerly continuing along the easterly line of Sedgwick
19 Avenue, along the arc of a curve bearing to the right having a radius of
20 620.0 feet, a distance of 262.125 feet to a point;
21 32. Thence southerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
22 continuing along the easterly line of Sedgwick Avenue, 245.296 feet to a
23 point;
24 33. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right
25 having a radius of 430.0 feet, a distance of 186.240 feet to a point;
26 34. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right
27 having a radius of 261.515 feet to a point;
28 35. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left
29 having a radius of 1,087.608 feet, a distance of 348.091 feet to a
30 point;
31 36. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right
32 having a radius of 1,280.0 feet, a distance of 454.347 feet to a point;
33 37. Thence southerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
34 86.390 feet to a point;
35 38. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left
36 having a radius of 320.0 feet, a distance of 235.522 feet to a point;
37 39. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right
38 having a radius of 148.305 feet, a distance of 75.778 feet to a point;
39 40. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left
40 having a radius 666.61 feet, a distance of 296.526 feet to a point;
41 41. Thence southeasterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left
42 having a radius of 200.0 feet, a distance of 345.575 feet to a point;
43 42. Thence easterly along the arc of curve bearing to the right having
44 a radius of 330.0 feet, a distance of 380.133 feet to a point;
45 43. Thence southeasterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right
46 having a radius of 1,000.0 feet, a distance of 377.185 feet to a point;
47 44. Thence southeasterly, tangent to the curve in the preceding
48 course, 427.280 feet to a point;
49 45. Thence easterly along a line forming an interior angle of 128
50 degrees 37 minutes and 42.9 seconds with the preceding course 83.376
51 feet to the intersection of Reservoir Avenue and Goulden Avenue or point
52 of beginning.
53 The above described land adjoins and/or lies within Block 3246,
54 Section 12 of the Land Map of the Borough of The Bronx, City and State
55 of New York.
56 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
