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10139--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 9, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blumencranz)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT in relation to authorizing the town of Oyster Bay to discontinue
as parklands and convey such parkland to the department of environ-
mental conservation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of this act, the town of Oyster
Bay acting through its governing body and upon such terms and conditions
agreed upon by the town of Oyster Bay and the department of environ-
mental conservation is hereby authorized to discontinue and convey town
parkland more particularly described in section three of this act to the
department of environmental conservation for the purposes of providing
public access to parkland.
§ 2. The authorization provided in section one of this act shall be
effective only upon the condition that the department of environmental
conservation convey to the town of Oyster Bay, and the town of Oyster
Bay acquire and dedicate the lands described in section four of this act
as parklands, provided that the town of Oyster Bay has never used such
lands for public open space or park purposes.
§ 3. The parkland authorized to be conveyed by the town of Oyster Bay
pursuant to section one of this act is more particularly described as
follows:
PARCEL 1
All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York,
being all of Lot 55 in Block 11 of Section 17 of the Nassau County
Department of Assessment Land and Tax Map and being more particularly
described as follows:
COMMENCING at the intersection of the northerly side of Jericho Turn-
pike (NYS Route 25) with the southeasterly corner of the Map of Hamlet
East, filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on the
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15344-04-4
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25th day of August 1987 as Map No. CAS-138, as amended by Map No.
CA-138A, filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Nassau on the
21st day of April, 1988 and running thence the following three (3)
courses:
North 25 degrees 26 minutes 00 seconds West, a distance of 852.68 feet
to a point, thence
North 18 degrees 05 minutes 55 seconds West, a distance of 1,328.83 feet
to a point; thence
North 64 degrees 18 minutes 05 seconds East, a distance of 1045.00 feet
to the True Point or Place of Beginning and running thence the following
four (4) courses:
North 11 degrees 55 minutes 25 seconds East, a distance of 884.84 feet
to a point on the southerly side of Cedar Swamp Road (variable width),
thence
Continuing along said southerly side of Cedar Swamp Road, South 67
degrees 27 minutes 51 seconds East, a distance of 98.82 feet to a point,
thence
Continuing along the same, along the arc of a curve bearing to the
right, having a radius of 1,100.92 feet, an arc length of 738.84 feet,
an internal angle of 38 degrees 27 minutes 08 seconds, and having a
chord that bears South 48 degrees 14 minutes 18 seconds East, a distance
of 725.06 feet to a point, thence
Leaving said southerly side of Cedar Swamp Road, South 67 degrees 03
minutes 24 seconds West, a distance of 884.94 feet to the True Point or
Place of Beginning, containing 362,874 feet square feet (8.330 acres)
more or less.
PARCEL 2
All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York,
being part of Lot 4 in Block A of Section 27 of the Nassau County
Department of Assessment Land and Tax Map and being more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of West End Avenue (Shore
Avenue), said point being the southerly end of the division line between
lands now or formerly of The People of the State of New York, Department
of Environmental Conservation known as Section 27 Block A Lot 222 as
shown on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map on the west, and lands Now
or Formerly of the Town of Oyster Bay known as Section 27 Block A Lot 4
as shown on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, formerly lands of Rial
Realty Corporation on the east and running thence:
North 4 degrees 41 minutes 40 seconds East, 301.67 feet to a point;
thence
North 61 degrees 53 minutes 40 seconds East, 17.85 feet to a point;
thence
South 4 degrees 41 minutes 40 seconds West, 311.12 feet to a point in
the northerly line of West End Avenue (Shore Avenue); thence
North 86 degrees 13 minutes 52 seconds West, 15.00 feet to the point or
place of Beginning.
Said above described parcel of land containing within said bounds 0.10
Acre, more or less.
§ 4. Prior to the discontinuance and alienation of the parklands
described in section three of this act, the department of environmental
conservation shall convey to the town of Oyster Bay and the town of
Oyster Bay shall acquire and dedicate as parklands such land described
as follows:
PARCEL 1
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All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York,
being part of Lot 222 in Block A of Section 27 of the Nassau County
Department of Assessment Land and Tax Map and being more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the northerly side of West End Avenue (Shore
Avenue), said point being North 86 degrees 13 minutes 52 seconds West,
173.93 feet from the southerly end of the division line between lands
now or formerly of The People of the State of New York, Department of
Environmental Conservation known as Section 27 Block A Lot 222 as shown
on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map on the west, and lands Now or
Formerly of the Town of Oyster Bay known as Section 27 Block A Lot 4 as
shown on the Nassau County Land and Tax Map, formerly lands of Rial
Realty Corporation on the east and running thence:
Along the northerly side of West End Avenue (Shore Avenue) North 86
degrees 13 minutes 52 seconds West, 230.41 feet to a point; thence
North 4 degrees 41 minutes 40 seconds East, 165.64 feet to a 5/8" capped
rebar; thence
South 86 degrees 50 minutes 44 seconds East, 59.57 feet to a 5/8" capped
rebar: thence
North 4 degrees 41 minutes 40 seconds East, 116.43 feet to a capped
rebar; thence
South 89 degrees 57 minutes 20 seconds East, 45.00 feet to a capped
rebar; thence
South 66 degrees 46 minutes 21 seconds East, 105.45 feet to a 5/8"
capped rebar; thence
North 77 degrees 40 minutes 56 seconds East, 51.60 feet to a point;
thence
South 4 degrees 28 minutes 47 seconds West, 38.52 feet to a point;
thence
North 86 degrees 33 minutes 43 seconds West, 5.65 feet to a point;
thence
South 42 degrees 24 minutes 56 seconds West, 44.16 feet to a point;
thence
Southwardly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left having a radius
of 15.67 feet, and a chord bearing South 22 degrees 56 minutes 02
seconds West with a chord length of 10.04 feet, an arc distance of 10.22
feet to a point; thence
South 4 degrees 15 minutes 21 seconds West, 129.80 feet to a point;
thence
South 6 degrees 09 minutes 25 seconds East, 34.45 feet to a point;
thence
South 25 degrees 57 minutes 11 seconds East, 12.98 feet to the point or
place of Beginning.
Said above described parcel of land containing within said bounds 1.25
Acres, more or less.
PARCEL 2
All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being
in the Town of Oyster Bay, County of Nassau and State of New York, being
shown as Lots 5 and 33 in Block A of Section 27 of the Nassau County
Department of Assessment Land and Tax Map and being more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at a 5/8" capped rebar on the westerly side of Bayside Avenue
(not open or improved, a paper street) at the division line between the
herein described parcel on the north and lands of the Long Island Rail-
road on the south, said point also being the southeasterly corner of
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lands designated as Tax Map Section 27, Block A, Lot 33 and running
thence:
Along the northerly line of lands of the Long Island Railroad the
following three (3) courses:
1. North 88 degrees 35 minutes 24 seconds West, 99.09 feet to a 5/8"
capped rebar; thence
2. North 86 degrees 18 minutes 01 second West, 500.29 feet to a 5/8"
capped rebar; thence
3. North 88 degrees 35 minutes 26 seconds West, 126.82 feet to a point
in a stream; thence
North 1 degree 16 minutes 39 seconds East, 105.17 feet to a 5/8" capped
rebar in the southerly line of West End Avenue (Shore Avenue); thence
Along the southerly line of West End Avenue (Shore Avenue), South 86
degrees 07 minutes 31 seconds East, 596.39 feet to a point; thence
Still along the southerly line of West End Avenue (Shore Avenue), South
88 degrees 35 minutes 25 seconds East, 89.19 feet to a 5/8" capped
rebar, thence
South 59 degrees 33 minutes 25 seconds East, 86.39 feet to a 5/8" capped
rebar in the westerly line of Bayside Avenue (not open or improved, a
paper street); thence
South 32 degrees 16 minutes 34 seconds West, 67.09 feet to the point or
place of Beginning.
Said above described parcel of land containing within said bounds 1.68
Acres, more or less.
§ 5. In the event that the fair market value of the parklands
described in section four of this act to be dedicated by the town of
Oyster Bay pursuant to this act are not equal to or greater than the
fair market value of the parklands to be alienated as described in
section three of this act, the town of Oyster Bay shall dedicate the
difference of the fair market value of the lands to be alienated and the
lands to be dedicated for the acquisition of additional parklands and/or
capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
§ 6. In the event that the town of Oyster Bay received any funding
support or assistance from the federal government for the purchase,
maintenance or improvement of the parklands set forth in section three
of this act, the discontinuance and alienation of such parkland author-
ized by the provisions of this act shall not occur until the town of
Oyster Bay has complied with any federal requirements pertaining to the
alienation or conversion of parklands, including satisfying the secre-
tary of the interior that the alienation or conversion complies with all
conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to ensure
the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
and usefulness to the lands being alienated or converted.
§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately.