STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6867
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation  to  establishing  the  Heights  Heritage Area; and to repeal
          certain provisions of such law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (r)  of  subdivision 1 of section 35.03 of the
     2  parks, recreation and historic preservation law is REPEALED  and  a  new
     3  paragraph (r) is added to read as follows:
     4    (r)  The  Heights  heritage  area encompassing the cohesive geographic
     5  area of West Harlem within the city of New York, including  a  southerly
     6  boundary  of  one  hundred twenty-second street, a northerly boundary of
     7  two hundred eighteenth street, an easterly boundary of  Highbridge  Park
     8  and  tenth  avenue, and a westerly boundary of the appropriate riverside
     9  portions along the Hudson River, associated and revealing  the  historic
    10  development  of  maritime history, military war history and the northern
    11  Manhattan migration.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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