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A02963 Summary:

A02963 Actions:

A02963 Committee Votes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS   Chair:Weinstein      
DATE:06/18/2018AYE/NAY:33/0  Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules        
Weinstein
Aye
Oaks
Aye
Lentol
Aye
Crouch
Aye
Schimminger
Aye
Barclay
Aye
Gantt
Excused
Fitzpatrick
Aye
Glick
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Nolan
Aye
Malliotakis
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Walter
Aye
Perry
Aye
Montesano
Aye
Colton
Aye
Curran
Aye
Cook
Aye
Ra
Aye
Cahill
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Hooper
Excused
Thiele
Aye
Cusick
Aye
Ortiz
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Weprin
Aye
Rodriguez
Aye
Ramos
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
McDonald
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Simotas
Aye

Committee:RULES   Chair:Heastie      
DATE:06/18/2018AYE/NAY:30/0  Action: Favorable         
Heastie
Aye
Kolb
Aye
Gottfried
Aye
Oaks
Aye
Lentol
Aye
Butler
Aye
Gantt
Excused
Crouch
Aye
Nolan
Aye
Finch
Aye
Weinstein
Aye
Barclay
Aye
Hooper
Aye
Raia
Aye
Ortiz
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Cook
Aye
Glick
Aye
Morelle
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Englebright
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Colton
Aye
Magnarelli
Aye
Perry
Aye
Galef
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Titus
Aye
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Benedetto
Aye

A02963 Floor Votes:

A02963 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2963--B
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 23, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions  in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          reference  changed  to  the  Committee  on Ways and Means -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend chapter 182 of the laws of 1960 amending the highway law
          relating to providing that the Narrows Bridge shall be designated  and
          known as "the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge", in relation to making a tech-
          nical correction thereto; and to amend the state law, the highway law,
          the  navigation  law,  the  environmental conservation law, the public
          authorities law, and the administrative code of the city of New  York,
          in relation to the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 182 of the laws of 1960  amending  the
     2  highway  law  relating  to  providing  that  the Narrows Bridge shall be
     3  designated and known as "the Verrazano-Narrows bridge",  is  amended  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    Section  1.  In  recognition  of  the bold explorations of Giovanni da
     6  [Verrazano] Verrazzano and his discovery of New York harbor  in  fifteen
     7  hundred  twenty-four, the bridge to be constructed between Staten Island
     8  and Long Island, sometimes referred to as  the  Narrows  bridge  or  the
     9  Brooklyn  Richmond  project,  shall  upon construction be designated and
    10  known as "The [Verrazano-Narrows] Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge"
    11    § 2. Subdivision 46 of section 121 of the state law, as added by chap-
    12  ter 16 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    13    46. Forty-sixth district. In the county of  Kings,  the  part  of  the
    14  borough of Brooklyn bounded by a line described as follows: Beginning at
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  a  point  where  Shore  Road and 83rd Street meet, thence easterly along
     2  said street to Narrows Avenue, thence northerly  along  said  avenue  to
     3  81st  Street, thence easterly along said street to Colonial Road, thence
     4  northerly  along  said  road  to 80th Street, thence easterly along said
     5  street to Ridge Boulevard, thence northerly along said boulevard to 78th
     6  Street, thence easterly along said street to 3rd Avenue, thence souther-
     7  ly along said avenue to 79th Street,  thence  southeasterly  along  said
     8  street  to  7th Avenue southbound, thence northerly along said avenue to
     9  Ovington Avenue, thence southeasterly along said avenue to  8th  Avenue,
    10  thence southwesterly along said avenue to 71st Street, thence southeast-
    11  erly  along  said  street to Fort Hamilton Parkway, thence northeasterly
    12  along said parkway to Bay Ridge Avenue, thence southeasterly along  said
    13  avenue  to  10th  Avenue, thence southwesterly along said avenue to 74th
    14  Street, thence southeasterly along said street to  12th  Avenue,  thence
    15  southwesterly  along  said  avenue  to 78th Street, thence southeasterly
    16  along said street to 13th Avenue, thence southwesterly along said avenue
    17  to 79th Street, thence northwesterly along said street to  12th  Avenue,
    18  thence southwesterly along said avenue to 81st Street, thence southeast-
    19  erly  along  said street to 13th Avenue, thence southwesterly along said
    20  avenue to 82nd Street, thence southeasterly along said  street  to  14th
    21  Avenue,  thence southwesterly along said avenue to Benson Avenue, thence
    22  southeasterly along said avenue to  16th  Avenue,  thence  southwesterly
    23  along  said  avenue  to  Cropsey Avenue, thence southeasterly along said
    24  avenue to Bay 13th Street, thence southwesterly  along  said  street  to
    25  Shore  Parkway North, thence southeasterly along said parkway to a point
    26  on a line extended easterly from the Belt Parkway  to  the  point  where
    27  Shore  Parkway meets 21st Avenue, thence westerly along said line to the
    28  Belt Parkway, thence southeasterly along said parkway to a point where a
    29  line extended south from Bayview Place meets the  Belt  Parkway,  thence
    30  northerly  along  said  line  extended  to  a  point  on a line extended
    31  northwesterly from the end of Shore  Road,  thence  southeasterly  along
    32  said  line  extended  to Shore Road, thence southerly along said road to
    33  Bay 50th Street, thence  northeasterly  along  said  street  to  Cropsey
    34  Avenue,  thence  southerly  along said avenue to Bay 50th Street, thence
    35  northeasterly along said street to West 16th  Street,  thence  southerly
    36  along said street to Avenue Z, thence easterly along said avenue to West
    37  15th  Street, thence southerly along said street to Shore Parkway North,
    38  thence southeasterly along said  parkway  to  Stillwell  Avenue,  thence
    39  southerly  along said avenue to Belt Parkway, thence easterly along said
    40  parkway to New York City Transit tracks (N Line), thence northerly along
    41  said tracks to a point on a line extended northwesterly from the end  of
    42  Shore  Parkway,  thence  southeasterly  along said line to Shore Parkway
    43  North, thence easterly along said parkway to Shell Road, thence norther-
    44  ly along said road to Avenue Z, thence easterly  along  said  avenue  to
    45  West  Street,  thence  northerly  along  said street to Avenue Y, thence
    46  easterly along said avenue to Ocean Parkway, thence southerly along said
    47  parkway to Shore Parkway South, thence easterly along  said  parkway  to
    48  Brighton  3rd  Street,  thence  southerly  along  said street to Neptune
    49  Avenue, thence easterly along said avenue to Brighton 4th Street, thence
    50  southerly along said street to Ocean View Avenue, thence easterly  along
    51  said  avenue  to Brighton 5th Street, thence southerly along said street
    52  to Brightwater Court, thence easterly along said court to  Brighton  6th
    53  Street,  thence  southerly  along  said street to Boardwalk East, thence
    54  easterly along said boardwalk to a point on a  line  extended  northerly
    55  from  the  border  of Kings/Queens County to Coney Island Avenue, thence
    56  southerly along said line extended to the border of Kings/Queens  county
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     1  line,  thence  westerly  along  said line to Kings/Richmond county line,
     2  thence northerly along said line to the [Verrazano-Narrows]  Verrazzano-
     3  Narrows  Bridge,  thence easterly along said bridge to a point on a line
     4  extended  southwesterly  to  the  [Verrazano-Narrows] Verrazzano-Narrows
     5  Bridge, thence northeasterly along said line extended to 4th Avenue  and
     6  Shore  Road to its intersection with 83rd Street, thence northerly along
     7  Shore Road to the point and place of beginning.
     8    § 3. The paragraph relating to  interstate  route  connection  512  of
     9  section  340-a of the highway law, as amended by chapter 453 of the laws
    10  of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
    11    Interstate  Route  Connection  512.  Staten  Island  expressway   from
    12  Goethals   bridge  approach  to  [Verrazano-Narrows]  Verrazzano-Narrows
    13  bridge approach,  Brooklyn-Queens  expressway  from  [Verrazano-Narrows]
    14  Verrazzano-Narrows  bridge  approach  to  Grand  Central  parkway, Grand
    15  Central parkway from Brooklyn-Queens expressway  to  Robert  F.  Kennedy
    16  bridge  approach, Major Deegan expressway from Robert F.  Kennedy bridge
    17  approach to the Westchester county line connecting with interstate route
    18  502.
    19    § 4. Section 343-h of the highway law, as amended by chapter 97 of the
    20  laws of 1998 and as renumbered by chapter 14 of the  laws  of  1999,  is
    21  amended to read as follows:
    22    §  343-h.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
    23  "POW-MIA Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state highway system
    24  located in Richmond county constituting  route  278  from  the  Goethals
    25  bridge  to  the  [Verrazano-Narrows]  Verrazzano-Narrows  bridge (Staten
    26  Island Expressway) shall be designated and known as the "POW-MIA Memori-
    27  al Highway".
    28    § 5. Section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by  chapter  558  of
    29  the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    30    § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
    31  routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
    32    New  England  thruway  from  the  Westchester  county line to Bruckner
    33  expressway; Bruckner expressway from New England thruway  to  Robert  F.
    34  Kennedy  bridge  approach; Hutchinson river parkway from the Westchester
    35  county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
    36  from the Westchester county line to Bruckner  expressway;  Henry  Hudson
    37  parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
    38  Henry  Hudson  bridge,  provided that no portion of this route from West
    39  Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
    40  or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
    41  or used for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment  of  no
    42  more  than  ten feet in width from seventy-third street to seventy-sixth
    43  street as may be essential during and for the purpose of  reconstruction
    44  or  repair  of  the existing roadway following which there shall be full
    45  restoration of park land; Major Deegan expressway  from  the  Robert  F.
    46  Kennedy  bridge  to  Central  Park avenue at the Westchester county line
    47  together with a connection to Broadway and along Broadway  to  Manhattan
    48  college  parkway;  Cross  Bronx expressway from George Washington bridge
    49  approach to Throgs Neck bridge; Throgs  Neck  expressway  from  Bruckner
    50  expressway  to  Throgs  Neck  bridge; Arthur V. Sheridan expressway from
    51  Cross-Bronx expressway to  Bruckner  expressway;  Mosholu  parkway  from
    52  Henry  Hudson  parkway  to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway
    53  from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from  Bronx
    54  and  Pelham  parkway  to  New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry
    55  Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey  tunnel;  and  from  Hugh  L.  Carey
    56  tunnel  to  Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from
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     1  the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy  bridge  approach;  Harlem
     2  river  drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington
     3  bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third  avenue
     4  and  Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway,
     5  Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island  parkway  from  Hugh  L.
     6  Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
     7  Southern  parkway  to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
     8  from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central  parkway;  Prospect  expressway
     9  from  Gowanus  expressway  to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
    10  expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough  parkway  from  Grand  Central
    11  Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the [Verrazano-Narrows]
    12  Verrazzano-Narrows  bridge  to  Third  avenue  at Gowanus parkway; Third
    13  Avenue from Gowanus expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue  from
    14  Third  Avenue  to Hugh L. Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensbor-
    15  ough bridge approach to Van Wyck expressway; Van  Wyck  expressway  from
    16  Whitestone  expressway, including a connection to Grand Central parkway,
    17  to John F.  Kennedy  international  airport;  Woodhaven  boulevard  from
    18  Queens  boulevard  to Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly approach; Cross
    19  Bay parkway from Cross Bay bridge  southerly  approach  to  Short  Front
    20  parkway;  Shore Front parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the
    21  shore line of the Atlantic ocean to the Nassau expressway at the  Nassau
    22  county   line;  Queens-Midtown  expressway  from  Queens-Midtown  tunnel
    23  approach to Queens Boulevard;  Horace  Harding  expressway  from  Queens
    24  Boulevard  to  the  Nassau  county  line; a connection between Brooklyn-
    25  Queens expressway and  Northern  boulevard  in  the  vicinity  of  Grand
    26  Central  parkway;  Grand  Central  parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge
    27  approach to Nassau county line; Whitestone expressway from  Bronx-White-
    28  stone  bridge  approach  to  Van Wyck expressway and continuing to Grand
    29  Central parkway; Clearview expressway from Throgs Neck bridge to  Nassau
    30  expressway;  Richmond  parkway  from  Staten Island expressway to Outer-
    31  bridge crossing approach; Staten Island expressway from Goethals  bridge
    32  to  the  [Verrazano-Narrows] Verrazzano-Narrows bridge with a connection
    33  to Bayonne bridge; Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway  to
    34  Great Kills park; West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway to
    35  Outerbridge  crossing;  Shore Front drive northerly from the terminus of
    36  West Shore expressway at  Staten  Island  expressway,  thence  generally
    37  along  the shore lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay
    38  and Raritan bay to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
    39    § 6. Section 91-a of the navigation law, as amended by chapter 197  of
    40  the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    41    § 91-a. Licensing  of  Hudson  river  pilots.  The commissioners, or a
    42  majority of them, shall license, for such terms as they may think  prop-
    43  er,  as  many  pilots  as they may deem necessary to pilot ships through
    44  that portion of the Hudson river specified in this act, the continuation
    45  of the Hudson river, and the main ship channel of  the  Upper  bay,  New
    46  York  harbor,  east  of  a  line from Robbins reef light to the tower at
    47  Staten Island borough hall and down to the [Verrazano-Narrows] Verrazza-
    48  no-Narrows Bridge, and such commissioners may specify in  such  licenses
    49  different  degrees  of  qualifications appropriate to different parts or
    50  branches of pilot duty, according to the competency of the applicant.
    51    § 7. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0306 of the  environmental  conserva-
    52  tion  law,  as  added  by chapter 612 of the laws of 1987, is amended to
    53  read as follows:
    54    1. There is established a Hudson River estuarine district which  shall
    55  include the tidal waters of the Hudson River, including the tidal waters
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     1  of its tributaries and wetlands from the federal lock and dam at Troy to
     2  the [Verrazano-Narrows] Verrazzano-Narrows.
     3    § 8.  Section 553-f of the public authorities law, as amended by chap-
     4  ter 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
     5    §  553-f.  Tokens.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
     6  but subject to agreements with noteholders and bondholders, the authori-
     7  ty shall offer for sale tokens with respect to residents of  the  county
     8  of  Richmond  and may, except as otherwise provided herein, regulate the
     9  use thereof. Tokens for residents of the county of Richmond shall  enti-
    10  tle  the purchaser to crossings over the [Verrazano-Narrows] Verrazzano-
    11  Narrows bridge at a reduced cost of eighty per  centum  of  the  regular
    12  crossing  fare imposed on nonresidents of the county of Richmond. In the
    13  event the authority shall impose a surcharge in addition to the  regular
    14  toll  for  crossings  over  the  [Verrazano-Narrows]  Verrazzano-Narrows
    15  bridge, such surcharge shall not be deemed a part of the regular  cross-
    16  ing  fare  for purposes of this section, and the tokens offered for sale
    17  to the residents of the county of Richmond as herein provided shall also
    18  entitle the purchaser to a permanent exemption from the payment  of  any
    19  such  surcharge  in  an amount equal to the amount of any such surcharge
    20  imposed during calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-three.  Application
    21  for such tokens or other payment devices shall be made in such manner as
    22  prescribed  by  the  authority and shall contain such information as the
    23  authority may reasonably require.
    24    § 9. Paragraph 35 of subdivision a of section 3-202 of the administra-
    25  tive code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
    26    35. Thirty-fifth District
    27    That part of the Borough of Staten Island bounded by a line  described
    28  as follows:
    29    BEGINNING  at a point in waters of Arthur Kill between border lines of
    30  New Jersey, and Richmond County, at Goethals Bridge,  proceeding  south-
    31  east,  to  Railroad cut, then proceeding east, to Gulf Avenue, to Staten
    32  Island Expressway, to Bengal Avenue, to Fahy Avenue, to  Arlene  Street,
    33  to  Lander  Avenue, to Richmond Avenue, to Victory Boulevard, to Willow-
    34  brook Road, to Watchogue Road, to Victory Boulevard, to Manor  Road,  to
    35  Ocean  Terrace, to Todt Hill Road, to Richmond Road, proceeding norther-
    36  ly, to Cromwell Avenue, to Hylan Boulevard, to Old Town Road, to  Staten
    37  Island Rapid Transit Line, proceeding north on Staten Island Rapid Tran-
    38  sit  Line,  to West Fingerboard Road, to Steuben Street, to Hylan Boule-
    39  vard, to Hickory  Avenue,  to  McClean  Avenue,  to  Lily  Pond  Avenue,
    40  extended  to  waters  of  Atlantic  Ocean; thence northerly and westerly
    41  through the Narrows, through the Kill Van  Kull  Waters,  including  the
    42  entire  part  of  the City of New York known as Snooter's Island, to the
    43  waters of the Arthur Kill, to the point  or  place  of  beginning;  this
    44  district  is  further  intended  to  include that part of the Borough of
    45  Brooklyn bounded by a line described as follows:
    46    BEGINNING at a point at the Brooklyn borough line  in  the  waters  of
    47  Gravesend  Bay  at  Twenty-sixth  Avenue,  extended to Harway Avenue, to
    48  Stillwell Avenue, to Avenue U, to West Ninth Street,  to  Avenue  T,  to
    49  West  Twelfth  Street, to Kings Highway, to Bay Parkway, to Seventy-sev-
    50  enth Street, to  Twentieth  Avenue,  to  Benson  Avenue,  to  Eighteenth
    51  Avenue,  to  Cropsey Avenue, to Bay Nineteenth Street, to Shore Parkway,
    52  to Shore Road extension, to Bay Eighth Street,  to  Cropsey  Avenue,  to
    53  Fourteenth  Avenue,  to  Poly Place, to Battery Avenue, thence northerly
    54  and westerly along the border of the United States  Government  reserva-
    55  tion  known  as  Fort  Hamilton, to Gowanus Expressway, to Fort Hamilton
    56  Parkway, to One Hundred First Street, to Fourth Avenue, extended in  the
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     1  waters  of  The  Narrows, at the Brooklyn borough line, thence projected
     2  into the waters of the Lower Bay, on the north side of and  parallel  to
     3  the  [Verrazano  Narrows] Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge thence southerly and
     4  easterly to the point or place of beginning.
     5    §  10.  The  New York state department of transportation, the New York
     6  city department of transportation and  the  metropolitan  transportation
     7  authority shall provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate
     8  signage in conformance with this act within such time and in such manner
     9  as  they  shall  deem  appropriate.   However, to avoid confusion and to
    10  limit any possible disruption of commerce, the designations  called  for
    11  pursuant  to this act shall be one of ceremonial nature and the official
    12  name of such bridge shall not be changed as a result of this act.
    13    § 11. Terms occurring in laws, regulations, contracts and other  docu-
    14  ments.  Whenever Verrazano-Narrows Bridge or Verrazano Narrows Bridge is
    15  referred  to or designated in any law, regulation, contract or document,
    16  such reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the  Verrazza-
    17  no-Narrows  Bridge,  and  no  such laws, regulations, contracts or other
    18  documents shall be thereby impaired in any way.
    19    § 12. This act shall take effect immediately.