New York S 5898: Transfers certain lands to city of New York to be used as parklands

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S05898 Summary:

BILL NOS05898 

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SPONSORLANZA

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Amd §349-f, Hway L

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Transfers certain lands to the city of New York to be used as parklands.

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BILL NOS05898 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5898

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed 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:

 1 Section 1. Section 349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 288
 2 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
 4 routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
 5 New England thruway from the Westchester county line to Bruckner
 6 expressway; Bruckner expressway from New England thruway to Robert F.
 7 Kennedy bridge approach; Hutchinson river parkway from the Westchester
 8 county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
 9 from the Westchester county line to Bruckner expressway; Henry Hudson
 10 parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
 11 Henry Hudson bridge, provided that no portion of this route from West
 12 Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
 13 or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
 14 or used for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment of no
 15 more than ten feet in width from seventy-third street to seventy-sixth
 16 street as may be essential during and for the purpose of reconstruction
 17 or repair of the existing roadway following which there shall be full
 18 restoration of park land; Major Deegan expressway from the Robert F.
 19 Kennedy bridge to Central Park avenue at the Westchester county line
 20 together with a connection to Broadway and along Broadway to Manhattan
 21 college parkway; Cross Bronx expressway from George Washington bridge
 22 approach to Throgs Neck bridge; Throgs Neck expressway from Bruckner
 23 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.
 LBD09865-01-5

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 1 Cross-Bronx expressway to Bruckner expressway; Mosholu parkway from
 2 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx and Pelham parkway
 3 from Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx
 4 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway; Miller highway from Henry
 5 Hudson parkway to the Hugh L. Carey tunnel; and from Hugh L. Carey
 6 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt drive from
 7 the Hugh L. Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem
 8 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George Washington
 9 bridge approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue
 10 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore parkway,
 11 Belt parkway, Southern parkway and Cross Island parkway from Hugh L.
 12 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
 13 Southern parkway to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
 14 from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central parkway; Prospect expressway
 15 from Gowanus expressway to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
 16 expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough parkway from Grand Central
 17 Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the Verrazzano-Narrows
 18 bridge to Third avenue at Gowanus parkway; Third Avenue from Gowanus
 19 expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from T