Bill Text: NY A01512 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to rename President Street subway station the President Street - Medgar Evers College station and rename the Franklin Avenue subway station the Franklin Avenue - Medgar Evers College station.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - APPROVAL MEMO.55 [A01512 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01512-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1512--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON, ORTIZ, BARRON, JOYNER, CARROLL, LENTOL, WRIGHT, PERRY, DILAN, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority to rename certain subway stations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The President Street subway station on the IRT Nostrand 2 Avenue line of the New York city subway is hereby named the President 3 Street - Medgar Evers College station and the Franklin Avenue subway 4 station on the IRT Eastern Parkway line is hereby named the Franklin 5 Avenue - Medgar Evers College station. The MTA shall ensure that all 6 signs, maps, and any other items issued by the MTA are updated to accu- 7 rately reflect the new name of the stations within such time and in such 8 manner as the MTA shall deem appropriate. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04512-02-9