STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the highway law, in
relation to renaming the Queens Midtown tunnel the Jane Matilda Bolin
tunnel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (f), (i) and (j) of subdivision 9 of section 553
2 of the public authorities law, paragraphs (f) and (i) as amended by
3 chapter 954 of the laws of 1946 and paragraph (j) as amended by chapter
4 558 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as follows:
5 (f) a vehicular tunnel or tunnels heretofore constructed, known as
6 [Queens Midtown] Jane Matilda Bolin tunnel, under the East river from
7 the borough of Manhattan to the borough of Queens, together with such
8 incidental bridges and tunnels, including but not limited to, a tunnel
9 or tunnels or bridge across Newtown creek from the borough of Queens to
10 the borough of Brooklyn and such other structures, appurtenances, facil-
11 ities and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and
12 (i) a vehicular tunnel or tunnels or arterial highway across the
13 borough of Manhattan connecting the [Queens Midtown] Jane Matilda Bolin
14 tunnel with the Lincoln (Midtown Hudson) tunnel, together with such
15 incidental tunnels and such other structures, appurtenances, facilities
16 and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and
17 (j) Bus stations or terminals or automobile parking garages at or in
18 the vicinity of the Columbus circle in the borough of Manhattan and of
19 the Manhattan plazas of the [Queens Midtown] Jane Matilda Bolin and Hugh
20 L. Carey tunnels. Any such project may, subject to zoning restrictions,
21 include space and facilities for any or all of the following: public
22 recreation, business, trade and other exhibitions, sporting and athletic
23 events, public meetings, conventions and all kinds of assemblages, and
24 in order to obtain additional revenues, space and facilities for busi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ness and commercial purposes. Whenever the authority deems it to be in
2 the public interest, the authority may lease any such project or any
3 part or parts thereof or contract for the management and operation ther-
4 eof or of any part or parts thereof. Any such lease or contract may be
5 for a period of not exceeding ten years, or, if any of the revenues
6 therefrom are or are to be pledged to secure bonds then such lease or
7 contract may be for a period extending not later by more than one year
8 than the last maturity of such bonds.
9 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 563 of the public authorities law, as
10 amended by chapter 558 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
11 follows:
12 3. The state of New York does pledge to and agree with the holders of
13 any bonds that no tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway, street, road, high-
14 way or other connection for vehicular traffic, which will be competitive
15 with the [Queens Midtown] Jane Matilda Bolin tunnel or the Hugh L. Carey
16 tunnel or the Brooklyn Richmond tunnel or the Narrows bridge will be
17 constructed; provided that a tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway, street,
18 road, highway or other connection for vehicular traffic shall be consid-
19 ered as competitive if it shall form a connection for vehicular traffic
20 over, under or across the East river south of Queensboro bridge, or, if
21 it shall form a connection for vehicular traffic between the boroughs of
22 Manhattan, Brooklyn or Richmond over, under or across New York bay. The
23 covenant herein contained restricting competitive traffic connections
24 with any project or projects shall be only for the benefit of the hold-
25 ers of bonds secured in whole or in part by the pledge of the revenues
26 of such project or projects and subject to and in accordance with all
27 contract provisions with respect to any bonds outstanding on January
28 first, nineteen hundred fifty-five and the rights of the holders of such
29 bonds, the covenant herein contained shall not be deemed to prevent the
30 construction of any bridge or tunnel exclusively for railway rapid tran-
31 sit purposes.
32 § 3. Section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 288 of
33 the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
34 § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
35 routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
36 New England thruway from the Westchester county line to Bruckner
37 expressway; Bruckner expressway from New England thruway to Robert F.
38 Kennedy bridge approach; Hutchinson river parkway from the Westchester
39 county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
40 from the Westchester county line to Bruckner expressway; Henry Hudson
41 parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
42 Henry Hudson bridge, provided that no portion of this route from West
43 Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
44 or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
45 or used for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment of no
46 more than ten feet in width from seventy-third street to seventy-sixth
47 street as may be essential during and for the purpose of reconstruction
48 or repair of the existing roadway following which there shall be full
49 restoration of park land; Major Deegan expressway from the Robert F.
50 Kennedy bridge to Central Park avenue at the Westchester county line
51 together with a connection to Broadway and along Broadway to Manhattan
52 college parkway; Cross Bronx expressway from George Washington bridge
53 approach to Throgs Neck bridge; Throgs Neck expressway from Bruckner
54 expressway to Throgs Neck bridge; Arthur V. Sheridan expressway from
55 Cross-Bronx expressway to Bruckner expressway; Mosholu parkway from
56 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway
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1 from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx
2 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry
3 Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey tunnel; and from Hugh L. Carey
4 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from
5 the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem
6 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington
7 bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue
8 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway,
9 Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island parkway from Hugh L.
10 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
11 Southern parkway to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
12 from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central parkway; Prospect expressway
13 from Gowanus expressway to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
14 expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough parkway from Grand Central
15 Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazzano-Narrows
16 bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway; Third Avenue from Gowanus
17 expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue to Hugh
18 L. Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge approach to
19 Van Wyck expressway; Van Wyck expressway from Whitestone expressway,
20 including a connection to Grand Central parkway, to John F. Kennedy
21 international airport; Woodhaven boulevard from Queens boulevard to
22 Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly approach; Cross Bay parkway from
23 Cross Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore Front
24 parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the shore line of the
25 Atlantic ocean to the Nassau expressway at the Nassau county line;
26 Queens-Midtown expressway from [Queens-Midtown] Jane Matilda Bolin
27 tunnel approach to Queens Boulevard; Horace Harding expressway from
28 Queens Boulevard to the Nassau county line; a connection between Brook-
29 lyn-Queens expressway and Northern boulevard in the vicinity of Grand
30 Central parkway; Grand Central parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge
31 approach to Nassau county line; Whitestone expressway from Bronx-White-
32 stone bridge approach to Van Wyck expressway and continuing to Grand
33 Central parkway; Clearview expressway from Throgs Neck bridge to Nassau
34 expressway; Richmond parkway from Staten Island expressway to Outer-
35 bridge crossing approach; Staten Island expressway from Goethals bridge
36 to the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge with a connection to Bayonne bridge;
37 Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway to Great Kills park;
38 West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway to Outerbridge
39 crossing; Shore Front drive northerly from the terminus of West Shore
40 expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally along the shore
41 lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay and Raritan bay
42 to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
43 § 4. Terms occurring in laws, regulations, contracts and other docu-
44 ments. Whenever Queens Midtown tunnel or Queens-Midtown tunnel is
45 referred to or designated in any law, regulation, contract or document,
46 such reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to Jane Matilda
47 Bolin tunnel, and no such laws, regulations, contracts or other docu-
48 ments shall be thereby impaired in any way.
49 § 5. The New York state department of transportation, the New York
50 city department of transportation and the Triborough bridge and tunnel
51 authority shall provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate
52 signage in conformance with section one of this act within such time and
53 in such manner as they shall deem appropriate.
54 § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.