Bill Text: NY S04916 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Transfers certain lands to the city of New York to be used as parklands.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04916 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S04916-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4916 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 18, 2021 ___________ 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 288 2 of the laws of 2018, 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01413-01-1S. 4916 2 1 Cross-Bronx expressway to Bruckner expressway; Mosholu parkway from 2 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway 3 from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx 4 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry 5 Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey tunnel; and from Hugh L. Carey 6 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from 7 the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem 8 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington 9 bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue 10 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway, 11 Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island parkway from Hugh L. 12 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from 13 Southern parkway to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway 14 from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central parkway; Prospect expressway 15 from Gowanus expressway to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect 16 expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough parkway from Grand Central 17 Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazzano-Narrows 18 bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway; Third Avenue from Gowanus 19 expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue to Hugh 20 L. Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge approach to 21 Van Wyck expressway; Van Wyck expressway from Whitestone expressway, 22 including a connection to Grand Central parkway, to John F. Kennedy 23 international airport; Woodhaven boulevard from Queens boulevard to 24 Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly approach; Cross Bay parkway from 25 Cross Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore Front 26 parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the shore line of the 27 Atlantic ocean to the Nassau expressway at the Nassau county line; 28 Queens-Midtown expressway from Queens-Midtown tunnel approach to Queens 29 Boulevard; Horace Harding expressway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau 30 county line; a connection between Brooklyn-Queens expressway and North- 31 ern boulevard in the vicinity of Grand Central parkway; Grand Central 32 parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to Nassau county line; 33 Whitestone expressway from Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach to Van Wyck 34 expressway and continuing to Grand Central parkway; Clearview expressway 35 from Throgs Neck bridge to Nassau expressway; Richmond parkway from 36 [Staten Island expressway to] the Outerbridge crossing approach to La 37 Tourette Park at Richmond Avenue; Staten Island expressway from Goethals 38 bridge to the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge with a connection to Bayonne 39 bridge; Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway to Great Kills 40 park; West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway to Outerbridge 41 crossing; Shore Front drive northerly from the terminus of West Shore 42 expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally along the shore 43 lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay and Raritan bay 44 to the approach to Outerbridge crossing. 45 § 2. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high- 46 way law as the Willowbrook Parkway from Victory Boulevard to Great Kills 47 Park at Hylan Boulevard, shall be vested in the department of parks and 48 recreation of the city of New York. 49 § 3. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high- 50 way law as the Richmond Parkway from a point 60 feet south of the Staten 51 Island expressway to Manor Road, shall be vested in the department of 52 parks and recreation of the city of New York. 53 § 4. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high- 54 way law as the Richmond Parkway from Manor Road to Richmond Avenue, 55 shall be vested in the department of parks and recreation of the city of 56 New York.S. 4916 3 1 § 5. The parcels defined in sections two, three and four of this act 2 shall be used for park purposes, shall not be used for transportation 3 purposes and shall not be sold, leased, exchanged, donated, or otherwise 4 disposed of or used for other than public park purposes without the 5 express authority of an act of the legislature, which shall provide for 6 the substitution of other lands of equal environmental value and fair 7 market value and reasonably equivalent usefulness and location to those 8 to be discontinued, sold or disposed of, and such other requirements as 9 shall be approved by the commissioner of parks and recreation of the 10 city of New York and the commissioner of environmental conservation. 11 § 6. There shall be set aside a sum of money equal to the cost of 12 constructing the parkways that are de-mapped pursuant to this act, to be 13 used for highway and road improvement or transit purposes in the borough 14 of Staten Island, on application of the city of New York, the department 15 of transportation, the metropolitan transportation authority or the Port 16 Authority of New York and New Jersey, as the case may be. The projects 17 may include, but shall not be limited to: the construction of turning 18 lanes and intersection improvements at the intersection of Ocean Terrace 19 and Todt Hill Road; the extension of the eastbound service road of the 20 Staten Island Expressway from Manor Road to Renwick Avenue; or the 21 construction of a connector from the Korean War Veterans Parkway to 22 Richmond Avenue. 23 § 7. Nothing in this act shall prevent the city of New York from 24 making application to the legislature for approval of an exchange of 25 adjacent property owned by the city of New York of equivalent size and 26 value on Rockland Avenue between Brielle Avenue and Richmond Road, for 27 such improvement of Rockland Avenue as the city of New York may author- 28 ize consistent with any and all land use review and applicable state 29 law. 30 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately.