STATE OF NEW YORK
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581
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to authorize the city of New York to discontinue use of and
convey certain park land
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the city of New York
2 is authorized to discontinue use as park land and to convey, in fee
3 simple, the land described in section three of this act. Such land is
4 authorized to be conveyed to the Saint Michael's Cemetery upon such
5 terms and conditions as the city council of the city of New York shall
6 determine to be fair and reasonable.
7 § 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
8 subject to the requirement that the city of New York shall use any
9 proceeds and/or land received in exchange for the conveyance authorized
10 by this act to acquire land, to be dedicated for park purposes, in an
11 amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the land being
12 conveyed pursuant to this act and/or used for capital improvements to
13 existing park and recreational facilities.
14 § 3. The land authorized to be discontinued as park land and conveyed
15 is as follows:
16 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the
17 Borough and County of Queens, City and State of New York, bounded and
18 described as follows:
19 BEGINNING at the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly
20 side of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway East (Service Road), also known as
21 Boody Street, with the northerly side of 30th Avenue, formerly known as
22 Grand Avenue (80 feet wide);
23 RUNNING THENCE along the northerly side of 30th Avenue, South 53
24 degrees 05 minutes 15 seconds West, 57.40 feet;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 THENCE North 1 degree 15 minutes 59.9 seconds West, 1635.52 feet;
2 THENCE South 88 degrees 20 minutes 01.5 second East, 142.31 feet;
3 THENCE North 19 degrees 17 minutes 37 seconds East, 31.30 feet;
4 THENCE North 4 degrees 20 minutes 15 seconds West, 206.73 feet;
5 THENCE North 8 degrees 45 minutes 15 seconds West, 25.00 feet;
6 THENCE North 11 degrees 45 minutes 55 seconds West, 363.31 feet;
7 THENCE North 11 degrees 05 minutes 28.4 seconds West, 301.87 feet to
8 the southerly side of Grand Central Parkway (Service Road), also known
9 as Astoria Boulevard;
10 THENCE along the southerly side of Grand Central Parkway (Service
11 Road), also known as Astoria Boulevard, North 73 degrees 53 minutes 24.9
12 seconds East, 15.99 feet to the extreme northwesterly end of the arc of
13 a curve which connects the southerly side of Grand Central Parkway
14 (Service Road), also known as Astoria Boulevard with the westerly side
15 of Brooklyn-Queens Expressway East (Service Road), also known as Boody
16 Street;
17 THENCE southeasterly along the westerly side of Brooklyn-Queens
18 Expressway East (Service Road), also known as Boody Street and along the
19 last mentioned arc of a curve, bearing to the right having a radius of
20 30.00 feet, a distance of 22.63 feet;
21 THENCE continuing along the westerly side of Brooklyn-Queens Express-
22 way East (Service Road), also known as Boody Street, the following eight
23 (8) courses and distances:
24 1) South 14 degrees 41 minutes 57.9 seconds East, 556.50 feet;
25 2) southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right having a
26 radius of 569.64 feet, a distance of 337.96 feet;
27 3) South 19 degrees 17 minutes 37 seconds West, 93.40 feet;
28 4) southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left having a
29 radius of 816.10 feet, a distance of 275.78 feet;
30 5) South 0 degrees 04 minutes 05.3 seconds East, 335.50 feet;
31 6) southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right having a
32 radius of 630.99 feet, a distance of 105.76 feet;
33 7) southerly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left having a
34 radius of 500.00 feet, a distance of 94.51 feet;
35 8) South 1 degree 17 minutes 43.9 seconds East, 730.91 feet to the
36 northerly side of 30th Avenue, at the point or place of BEGINNING.
37 Consisting of 3.77 acres ±.
38 § 4. If the parkland that is the subject of this act has received
39 funding pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the
40 discontinuance of parkland authorized by the provisions of this act
41 shall not occur until the municipality has complied with the federal
42 requirements pertaining to the conversion of parklands, including satis-
43 fying the secretary of the interior that the discontinuance will include
44 all conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to
45 assure the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair
46 market value and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontin-
47 ued.
48 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
