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                                   6818
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 288
 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
 routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
   New  England  thruway  from  the  Westchester  county line to Bruckner
 expressway; Bruckner expressway from New England thruway  to  Robert  F.
 Kennedy  bridge  approach; Hutchinson river parkway from the Westchester
 county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
 from the Westchester county line to Bruckner  expressway;  Henry  Hudson
 parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
 Henry  Hudson  bridge,  provided that no portion of this route from West
 Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
 or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
 or used for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment  of  no
 more  than  ten feet in width from seventy-third street to seventy-sixth
 street as may be essential during and for the purpose of  reconstruction
 or  repair  of  the existing roadway following which there shall be full
 restoration of park land; Major Deegan expressway  from  the  Robert  F.
 Kennedy  bridge  to  Central  Park avenue at the Westchester county line
 together with a connection to Broadway and along Broadway  to  Manhattan
 college  parkway;  Cross  Bronx expressway from George Washington bridge
 approach to Throgs Neck bridge; Throgs  Neck  expressway  from  Bruckner
 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.
              

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 Cross-Bronx expressway to  Bruckner  expressway;  Mosholu  parkway  from
 Henry  Hudson  parkway  to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway
 from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from  Bronx
 and  Pelham  parkway  to  New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry
 Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey  tunnel;  and  from  Hugh  L.  Carey
 tunnel  to  Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from
 the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy  bridge  approach;  Harlem
 river  drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington
 bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third  avenue
 and  Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway,
 Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island  parkway  from  Hugh  L.
 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
 Southern  parkway  to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
 from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central  parkway;  Prospect  expressway
 from  Gowanus  expressway  to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
 expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough  parkway  from  Grand  Central
 Parkway  to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazzano-Narrows
 bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway;  Third  Avenue  from  Gowanus
 expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue to Hugh
 L.  Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge approach to
 Van Wyck expressway; Van Wyck  expressway  from  Whitestone  expressway,
 including  a  connection  to  Grand  Central parkway, to John F. Kennedy
 international airport; Woodhaven  boulevard  from  Queens  boulevard  to
 Cross  Bay  parkway  bridge  northerly  approach; Cross Bay parkway from
 Cross Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore  Front
 parkway  from  Cross  Bay  parkway generally along the shore line of the
 Atlantic ocean to the Nassau  expressway  at  the  Nassau  county  line;
 Queens-Midtown  expressway from Queens-Midtown tunnel approach to Queens
 Boulevard; Horace Harding expressway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau
 county line; a connection between Brooklyn-Queens expressway and  North-
 ern  boulevard  in  the vicinity of Grand Central parkway; Grand Central
 parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to  Nassau  county  line;
 Whitestone  expressway from Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach to Van Wyck
 expressway and continuing to Grand Central parkway; Clearview expressway
 from Throgs Neck bridge to  Nassau  expressway;  Richmond  parkway  from
 [Staten  Island  expressway  to] THE Outerbridge crossing approach TO LA
 TOURETTE PARK AT RICHMOND AVENUE; Staten Island expressway from Goethals
 bridge to the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge with  a  connection  to  Bayonne
 bridge; Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway to Great Kills
 park; West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway to Outerbridge
 crossing;  Shore  Front  drive northerly from the terminus of West Shore
 expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally along the shore
 lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay and Raritan  bay
 to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
   § 2. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high-
 way law as the Willowbrook Parkway from Victory Boulevard to Great Kills
 Park  at Hylan Boulevard, shall be vested in the department of parks and
 recreation of the city of New York.
   § 3. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high-
 way law as the Richmond Parkway from a point 60 feet south of the Staten
 Island expressway to Manor Road, shall be vested in  the  department  of
 parks and recreation of the city of New York.
   § 4. All right, title and interest in property as defined in the high-
 way  law  as  the  Richmond  Parkway from Manor Road to Richmond Avenue,
 shall be vested in the department of parks and recreation of the city of
 New York.

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   § 5. The parcels defined in sections two, three and four of  this  act
 shall  be  used  for park purposes, shall not be used for transportation
 purposes and shall not be sold, leased, exchanged, donated, or otherwise
 disposed of or used for other than  public  park  purposes  without  the
 express  authority of an act of the legislature, which shall provide for
 the substitution of other lands of equal environmental  value  and  fair
 market  value and reasonably equivalent usefulness and location to those
 to be discontinued, sold or disposed of, and such other requirements  as
 shall  be  approved  by  the commissioner of parks and recreation of the
 city of New York and the commissioner of environmental conservation.
   § 6. There shall be set aside a sum of money  equal  to  the  cost  of
 constructing the parkways that are de-mapped pursuant to this act, to be
 used for highway and road improvement or transit purposes in the borough
 of Staten Island, on application of the city of New York, the department
 of transportation, the metropolitan transportation authority or the Port
 Authority  of  New York and New Jersey, as the case may be. The projects
 may include, but shall not be limited to: the  construction  of  turning
 lanes and intersection improvements at the intersection of Ocean Terrace
 and  Todt  Hill Road; the extension of the eastbound service road of the
 Staten Island Expressway from Manor  Road  to  Renwick  Avenue;  or  the
 construction  of  a  connector  from  the Korean War Veterans Parkway to
 Richmond Avenue.
   § 7. Nothing in this act shall prevent  the  city  of  New  York  from
 making  application  to  the  legislature for approval of an exchange of
 adjacent property owned by the city of New York of equivalent  size  and
 value  on  Rockland Avenue between Brielle Avenue and Richmond Road, for
 such improvement of Rockland Avenue as the city of New York may  author-
 ize  consistent  with  any  and all land use review and applicable state
 law.
   § 8. This act shall take effect immediately.