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                                  9395

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 29, 2016
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GLICK, O'DONNELL, BRONSON, TITONE, GOTTFRIED,
  ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT -- 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:

  Section 1. The city of New York, acting through  the  commissioner  of
parks  and  recreation of such city, is hereby authorized to discontinue
the use as city parkland of Christopher Park in the borough  of  Manhat-
tan, described in section two of this act, and to convey its interest in
the real property to the United States, upon terms and conditions agreed
upon by the National Park Service and the city of New York provided that
the  United  States  uses  such  land,  for park, monument, historic, or
recreational purposes. Any revenues received by the  city  of  New  York
from the conveyance of parkland authorized by this act shall be used for
capital  improvements  to  existing  city park and recreational purposes
and/or for the acquisition of  additional  city  part  and  recreational
facilities.
  S 2. The parkland authorized to be conveyed by the city of New York to
the United States pursuant to section one of this act is the following:
  ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with all the buildings
and  improvements  thereon  erected,  situate,  lying  and  being in the
Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, bounded and  described
as follows:
  BEGINNING  at  the  intersection  of  the  northwesterly side of Grove
Street and southeasterly side of Christopher Street;
  RUNNING THENCE southwesterly along the southeasterly side of  Christo-
pher  Street  a  distance  of 200.93 feet to a point on the intersection
with the easterly side of Seventh Avenue;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  THENCE southerly along the easterly side of Seventh Avenue a  distance
of  11.00  feet  to the intersection with the northeasterly side of West
Fourth Street;
  THENCE  southeasterly  along  the  northeasterly  side  of West Fourth
Street a distance of 44.14 feet to the intersection with  the  northwes-
terly side of Grove Street;
  THENCE  northeasterly  along  the northwesterly side of Grove Street a
distance of 195.49 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING.
  Containing 5,170.96 square feet or 0.1187 acre, more or less.
  S 3. The deed to all such lands ceded, granted  and  conveyed  to  the
United  States  shall  contain a provision that the estate, right, title
and interest to such lands, so ceded, granted and conveyed to the United
States, revert to the  city  of  New  York  for  park  and  recreational
purposes  if such lands ceded, granted and conveyed cease to be used and
maintained in accordance with the  purposes,  terms  and  conditions  as
described in section one of this act.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.