Bill Text: NY A09395 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as city parkland of Christopher Park in the borough of Manhattan and to convey such interest to the United States for park, monument, historic, or recreational purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - enacting clause stricken [A09395 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09395-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9395
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 29, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GLICK, O'DONNELL, BRONSON, TITONE, GOTTFRIED,
          ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Cities
        AN  ACT to authorize the city of New York to discontinue the use as city
          parkland of Christopher Park in the borough of Manhattan and to convey
          the city's interest in the real property  to  the  United  States  for
          park, monument, historic, or recreational purposes
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The city of New York, acting through  the  commissioner  of
     2  parks  and  recreation of such city, is hereby authorized to discontinue
     3  the use as city parkland of Christopher Park in the borough  of  Manhat-
     4  tan, described in section two of this act, and to convey its interest in
     5  the real property to the United States, upon terms and conditions agreed
     6  upon by the National Park Service and the city of New York provided that
     7  the  United  States  uses  such  land,  for park, monument, historic, or
     8  recreational purposes. Any revenues received by the  city  of  New  York
     9  from the conveyance of parkland authorized by this act shall be used for
    10  capital  improvements  to  existing  city park and recreational purposes
    11  and/or for the acquisition of  additional  city  part  and  recreational
    12  facilities.
    13    § 2. The parkland authorized to be conveyed by the city of New York to
    14  the United States pursuant to section one of this act is the following:
    15    ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with all the buildings
    16  and  improvements  thereon  erected,  situate,  lying  and  being in the
    17  Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, bounded and  described
    18  as follows:
    19    BEGINNING  at  the  intersection  of  the  northwesterly side of Grove
    20  Street and southeasterly side of Christopher Street;
    21    RUNNING THENCE southwesterly along the southeasterly side of  Christo-
    22  pher  Street  a  distance  of 200.93 feet to a point on the intersection
    23  with the easterly side of Seventh Avenue;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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