STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8146--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY July 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NIOU, FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the Battery Park city authority to offer certain amendments to the subleases of buildings with residential condominium units The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1974-b of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the authority 4 shall, within ninety days of the effective date of this subdivision, 5 offer to each building with residential condominium units in the Battery 6 Park project area an amendment to such building's residential sublease 7 to the lease between the city of New York and the authority, dated 8 November twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred sixty-nine and recorded Decem- 9 ber twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred sixty-nine on page one of reel one 10 hundred sixty-one, and any subsequent amendments, which (a) limits the 11 annual adjustment starting in January, two thousand twenty-three, and 12 for the duration of each ground lease to the lesser of: (i) the current- 13 ly scheduled rent increase; or (ii) to no more than the annual adjust- 14 ment of rent for apartments or lofts pursuant to an order of the New 15 York city rent guidelines board; (b) which extends the expiration date 16 of sublease to June seventeenth, twenty-one hundred sixty-eight; and (c) 17 which removes any language from such sublease that is inconsistent with 18 the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision. No other 19 changes to such subleases shall be included in such amendment. For 20 purposes of this subdivision, "building with residential condominium 21 units" shall mean a building that is subject to the provisions of arti- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11269-06-2A. 8146--A 2 1 cle nine-B of the real property law and that is used predominantly for 2 residential purposes. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 4 it shall have become a law and shall apply to any ground lease in effect 5 on or after such effective date.