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
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