New York A 11125: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street Luther Vandross station

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Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th street - Luther Vandross station.

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04/24/2026referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11125

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 24, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

 AN ACT in relation to directing the metropolitan transportation authori-
 ty and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street
 - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street - Luther
 Vandross station; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
 expiration thereof

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Upon a determination by the metropolitan transportation
 2 authority or the New York city transit authority that sufficient funds
 3 have been committed to it specifically for such purpose, the metropol-
 4 itan transportation authority, the public benefit corporation created by
 5 section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New York city trans-
 6 it authority, the public benefit corporation created by section 1201 of
 7 the public authorities law, shall use such specifically committed funds
 8 to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station on the IRT
 9 Lexington Avenue line of the New York city subway to the 125th Street -
 10 Luther Vandross station. The metropolitan transportation authority shall
 11 ensure that all signs and any other items issued by the metropolitan
 12 transportation authority are updated to accurately reflect the new name
 13 of the station.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 15 deemed repealed after the signs and any other items are accurately
 16 updated. The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation
 17 authority or president of the New York city transit authority shall
 18 notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of
 19 such updates in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and
 20 timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state
 21 of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44
 22 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15639-01-6

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