S00497 Summary:
BILL NO | S00497 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A02653 |
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SPONSOR | LANZA |
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COSPNSR | |
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Amd S349-f, Hway L | |
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Transfers certain lands to the city of New York to be used as parklands. |
S00497 Actions:
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01/07/2009 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/19/2009 | REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/06/2010 | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION |
S00497 Floor Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
Go to topS00497 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 497 2009-2010 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to transferring certain land to the city of New York department of parks and recreation and the department of environmental conservation and designating such lands as parklands The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 453 2 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main 4 routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.: 5 New England thruway from the Westchester county line to Bruckner 6 expressway; Bruckner expressway from New England thruway to Robert F. 7 Kennedy bridge approach; Hutchinson river parkway from the Westchester 8 county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway 9 from the Westchester county line to Bruckner expressway; Henry Hudson 10 parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the 11 Henry Hudson bridge, provided that no portion of this route from West 12 Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed 13 or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped 14 or used for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment of no 15 more than ten feet in width from seventy-third street to seventy-sixth 16 street as may be essential during and for the purpose of reconstruction 17 or repair of the existing roadway following which there shall be full 18 restoration of park land; Major Deegan expressway from the Robert F. 19 Kennedy bridge to Central Park avenue at the Westchester county line 20 together with a connection to Broadway and along Broadway to Manhattan 21 college parkway; Cross Bronx expressway from George Washington bridge 22 approach to Throgs Neck bridge; Throgs Neck expressway from Bruckner EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01414-01-9S. 497 2 1 expressway to Throgs Neck bridge; Arthur V. Sheridan expressway from 2 Cross-Bronx expressway to Bruckner expressway; Mosholu parkway from 3 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway 4 from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx 5 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry 6 Hudson parkway to the Brooklyn Battery tunnel; and from Brooklyn Battery 7 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from 8 the Brooklyn Battery tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem 9 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington 10 bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue 11 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway, 12 Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island parkway from Brooklyn 13 Battery tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway 14 from Southern parkway to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens 15 expressway from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central parkway; Prospect 16 expressway from Gowanus expressway to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from 17 Prospect expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough parkway from Grand 18 Central Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazano- 19 Narrows bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway; Third Avenue from 20 Gowanus expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue 21 to Brooklyn Battery tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge 22 approach to Van Wyck expressway; Van Wyck expressway from Whitestone 23 expressway, including a connection to Grand Central parkway, to John F. 24 Kennedy international airport; Woodhaven boulevard from Queens boulevard 25 to Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly approach; Cross Bay parkway from 26 Cross Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore Front 27 parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the shore line of the 28 Atlantic ocean to the Nassau expressway at the Nassau county line; 29 Queens-Midtown expressway from Queens-Midtown tunnel approach to Queens 30 Boulevard; Horace Harding expressway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau 31 county line; a connection between Brooklyn-Queens expressway and North- 32 ern boulevard in the vicinity of Grand Central parkway; Grand Central 33 parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to Nassau county line; 34 Whitestone expressway from Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach to Van Wyck 35 expressway and continuing to Grand Central parkway; Clearview expressway 36 from Throgs Neck bridge to Nassau expressway; Richmond parkway from 37 [Staten Island expressway to] the Outerbridge crossing approach to La 38 Tourette Park at Richmond Avenue; Staten Island expressway from Goethals 39 bridge to the Verrazano-Narrows bridge with a connection to Bayonne 40 bridge; [Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway to Great41Kills park;] West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway to 42 Outerbridge crossing; Shore Front drive northerly from the terminus of 43 West Shore expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally 44 along the shore lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay 45 and Raritan bay to the approach to Outerbridge crossing. 46 § 2. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high- 47 way law as the Willowbrook Parkway from Victory Boulevard to Great Kills 48 Park at Hylan Boulevard, shall be vested in the City of New York, 49 Department of Parks and Recreation. 50 § 3. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high- 51 way law as the Richmond Parkway from a point 60 feet south of the Staten 52 Island expressway to Manor Road, shall be vested in the City of New 53 York, Department of Parks and Recreation. 54 § 4. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high- 55 way law as the Richmond Parkway from Manor Road to Richmond Avenue,S. 497 3 1 shall be vested in the City of New York, Department of Parks and Recre- 2 ation. 3 § 5. The parcels defined in sections two, three and four of this act 4 shall be used for park purposes, shall not be used for transportation 5 purposes and shall not be sold, leased, exchanged, donated or otherwise 6 disposed of or used for other than public park purposes without the 7 express authority of an act of the legislature, which shall provide for 8 the substitution of other lands of equal environmental value and fair 9 market value and reasonably equivalent usefulness and location to those 10 to be discontinued, sold or disposed of, and such other requirements as 11 shall be approved by the New York City commissioner of parks and recre- 12 ation, and the commissioner of the department of environmental conserva- 13 tion. 14 § 6. There shall be set aside a sum of money equal to the cost of 15 constructing the parkways that are herein de-mapped, to be used for 16 highway and road improvement or transit purposes in the borough of 17 Staten Island, on application of the city of New York, the state depart- 18 ment of transportation, the metropolitan transportation authority or the 19 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as the case may be. The 20 projects may include, but shall not be limited to: the construction of 21 turning lanes and intersection improvements at the intersection of Ocean 22 Terrace and Todt Hill Road; the extension of the eastbound service road 23 of the Staten Island Expressway from Manor Road to Renwick Avenue; or 24 the construction of a connector from the Korean War Veterans Parkway to 25 Richmond Avenue. 26 § 7. Nothing in this act shall prevent the city of New York from 27 making application to the legislature for approval of an exchange of 28 adjacent property owned by the city of New York of equivalent size and 29 value on Rockland Avenue between Brielle Avenue and Richmond Road, for 30 such improvement of Rockland Avenue as the city of New York may author- 31 ize consistent with any and all land use review and applicable state 32 law. 33 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately.