Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 79th Street subway station to the 79th Street - Saul Zabar station; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9236
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 7, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority and the New
York city transit authority to rename the 79th Street subway station
to the 79th Street - Saul Zabar 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 79th Street subway station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh
9 Avenue line of the New York city subway to the 79th Street - Saul Zabar
10 station. The metropolitan transportation authority shall ensure that
11 all signs and any other items issued by the metropolitan transportation
12 authority are updated to accurately reflect the new name of the station.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
14 deemed repealed after the signs and any other items are accurately
15 updated. The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation
16 authority or president of the New York city transit authority shall
17 notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of
18 such updates in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and
19 timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state
20 of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44
21 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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