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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9454
SPONSOR: Glick TITLE OF BILL: An act to authorize the city of New York to discontin-
ue 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
PURPOSE:
This bill will allow New York City to convey its interest in the city
parkland of Christopher Park to the United States, so that the parkland
may be operated and maintained by the National Park Service.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Authorizes the city of New York to convey its interest in
parkland of Christopher Park to the United States to be used for park,
monument, historic, or recreational purposes, pursuant to terms and
conditions agreed upon by the National Park Service and the city of New
York.
Section 2: Defines the metes and bounds of the parkland authorized to be
conveyed by the city of New York to the United States pursuant to
section one of this act.
Section 3: Requires that the deed to parkland described in section one
revert back to the city of New York if the parkland ceases to be used
and maintained in accordance with the purposes, terms and conditions as
described in section one of this act.
Section 4: Establishes the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill will allow the city of New York to convey its interest in the
city parkland of Christopher Park to the United States. The United
States will be required to use the land for park, monument, historic or
recreational purposes. If the land is not used for these purposes, the
park will revert back to the city of New York.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9454
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- 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 park 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;
24 THENCE southerly along the easterly side of Seventh Avenue a distance
25 of 11.00 feet to the intersection with the northeasterly side of West
26 Fourth Street;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 THENCE southeasterly along the northeasterly side of West Fourth
2 Street a distance of 44.14 feet to the intersection with the northwes-
3 terly side of Grove Street;
4 THENCE northeasterly along the northwesterly side of Grove Street a
5 distance of 195.49 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING.
6 Containing 5,170.96 square feet or 0.1187 acre, more or less.
7 § 3. The deed to all such lands ceded, granted and conveyed to the
8 United States shall contain a provision that the estate, right, title
9 and interest to such lands, so ceded, granted and conveyed to the United
10 States, revert to the city of New York for park and recreational
11 purposes if such lands ceded, granted and conveyed cease to be used and
12 maintained in accordance with the purposes, terms and conditions as
13 described in section one of this act.
14 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
