STATE OF NEW YORK
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7887
IN SENATE
June 16, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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 to
the state department of environmental conservation and designating
such lands as parklands and open space
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 558
2 of the laws of 2010, 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
23 expressway to Throgs Neck bridge; Arthur V. Sheridan expressway from
24 Cross-Bronx expressway to Bruckner expressway; Mosholu parkway from
25 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway
26 from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry
2 Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey tunnel; and from Hugh L. Carey
3 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from
4 the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem
5 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington
6 bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue
7 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway,
8 Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island parkway from Hugh L.
9 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
10 Southern parkway to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
11 from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central parkway; Prospect expressway
12 from Gowanus expressway to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
13 expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough parkway from Grand Central
14 Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazano-Narrows
15 bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway; Third Avenue from Gowanus
16 expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue to Hugh
17 L. Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge approach to
18 Van Wyck expressway; Van Wyck expressway from Whitestone expressway,
19 including a connection to Grand Central parkway, to John F. Kennedy
20 international airport; Woodhaven boulevard from Queens boulevard to
21 Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly approach; Cross Bay parkway from
22 Cross Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore Front
23 parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the shore line of the
24 Atlantic ocean to the Nassau expressway at the Nassau county line;
25 Queens-Midtown expressway from Queens-Midtown tunnel approach to Queens
26 Boulevard; Horace Harding expressway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau
27 county line; a connection between Brooklyn-Queens expressway and North-
28 ern boulevard in the vicinity of Grand Central parkway; Grand Central
29 parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to Nassau county line;
30 Whitestone expressway from Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach to Van Wyck
31 expressway and continuing to Grand Central parkway; Clearview expressway
32 from Throgs Neck bridge to Nassau expressway; Richmond parkway from
33 [Staten Island expressway to] the Outerbridge crossing approach to La
34 Tourrette Park at Richmond Avenue; Staten Island expressway from
35 Goethals bridge to the Verrazano-Narrows bridge with a connection to
36 Bayonne bridge; [Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway to
37 Great Kills park;] West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway
38 to Outerbridge crossing; Shore Front drive northerly from the terminus
39 of West Shore expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally
40 along the shore lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay
41 and Raritan bay to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
42 § 2. Upon the completion by the city of New York of the following
43 traffic improvements:
44 (a) at the intersection of Rockland Avenue and Brielle Avenue, the
45 widening of Rockland Avenue sufficiently to improve safety sightlines
46 for motorists and pedestrians;
47 (b) the creation of a new road stent, along the boundaries on the New
48 York city map designated as Ashworth Street, sufficient in length to
49 allow motorists on Rockland Avenue traveling northbound toward the
50 Staten Island Expressway to safely exit Rockland Avenue and connect with
51 Forest Hill Road, thereby reducing congestion at the existing inter-
52 section of Rockland Avenue and Forest Hill Road;
53 (c) at Rockland Avenue and Forest Hill Road, a widening which allows
54 sufficient stacking capacity for a dedicated left-turn lane and a right-
55 turn lane heading south toward Richmond Avenue;
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1 (d) a Nadine Street by-pass road shall be constructed paralleling
2 Rockland Avenue from Nevada Avenue to the intersection of McCully Avenue
3 and Richmond Road; and
4 (e) a new access road connecting Forest Hill Road to the College of
5 Staten Island campus
6 all right, title and interest in property as defined in the highway
7 law as the Willowbrook Parkway from the Staten Island Expressway to
8 Richmond Road, shall be vested in the department of parks and recreation
9 of the city of New York.
10 § 3. Upon the completion by the city of New York of the following
11 traffic improvements:
12 (a) at the intersection of Ocean Terrace and Todt Hill Road, the
13 creation of dedicated right-turn and left-turn lanes in all four
14 directions;
15 (b) at the intersection of Manor Road and Rockland Avenue, the
16 creation of dedicated right-turn and left-turn lanes on Rockland Avenue
17 in the westbound direction, and on Manor Road in the southbound direc-
18 tion; and including, to improve safety, the realignment of Rockland
19 Avenue at the severe S-curve within the right-of-way cloverleaf; and
20 (c) at the intersection of Arthur Kill Road and Richmond Avenue, the
21 Korean War Veterans Parkway Terminus Project at Richmond Avenue
22 all right, title and interest in property as defined in the highway
23 law as the Richmond Parkway from a point 60 feet south of the Staten
24 Island expressway to Richmond Avenue, shall be vested in the state
25 department of environmental conservation.
26 § 4. Upon completion of the traffic improvements required by sections
27 two and three of this act, the parcels defined in such sections of this
28 act shall be used for parks/open space purposes, shall not be used for
29 transportation purposes and shall not be sold, leased, exchanged,
30 donated, or otherwise disposed of or used for other than public
31 park/open space purposes without the express authority of an act of the
32 legislature, which shall provide for the substitution of other lands of
33 equal environmental value and fair market value and reasonably equiv-
34 alent usefulness and location to those to be discontinued, sold or
35 disposed of, and such other requirements as shall be approved by the
36 commissioner of parks and recreation of the city of New York and the
37 state commissioner of environmental conservation.
38 § 5. All existing portions of open and traveled streets (for example
39 Rockland Avenue and the intersection of Ocean Terrace and Todt Hill
40 Road) as well as new portions specified in sections two and three of
41 this act shall be vested in the city of New York under the auspices of
42 the department of transportation of such city.
43 § 6. There shall be set aside by the state a sum of money equal to the
44 cost of the traffic improvements required by sections two and three of
45 this act upon the parcels that are de-mapped pursuant to this act, paya-
46 ble on the application of the city of New York.
47 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
