Senate Bill S5851

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5851

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 8, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT relating to the alienation of certain parklands in  the  city  of
  Yonkers, county of Westchester

  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 city of Yonkers,
acting by and through its city council, is authorized to discontinue use
as park land and sell at fair market value the park  land  described  in
section  three  of this act which is no longer needed for park purposes.
Such land is authorized to be sold and conveyed to  the  Carriage  House
Co-op for the purpose of providing a parking facility for such co-op and
upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  shall be agreed upon between the
parties.
  S 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
be effective on the condition that  the  city  of  Yonkers  dedicate  an
amount  equal  to or greater than the fair market value of the parklands
being alienated pursuant to section one of this act to  the  acquisition
of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recre-
ational facilities.
  S  3.  The  land  to  be  discontinued  as  parkland and alienated and
conveyed is described as follows: All that certain plot, piece or parcel
of land, situate, lying and being in the  City  of  Yonkers,  County  of
Westchester  and  State of New York, being Tax Lot No.  60 in Block 4450
being more particularly bounded and described as follows;  Beginning  on
the northerly side of Sadore Lane as intersected by the westerly side of
Central  Park  Avenue as widened, and running along the westerly side of
Central Park Avenue as widened  the  following  courses  and  distances:
North  52 degrees 04 minutes 18 seconds East 16.82 ft.; North 41 degrees
13 minutes 48 seconds East 25.21 ft.; North 09  degrees  04  minutes  42
seconds East 184.89 ft.; Thence leaving Central Park Avenue on a bearing

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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North  77  degrees 20 minutes 45 seconds West 938.89 ft. to the easterly
side of the Catskill Aqueduct, the true point  or  place  of  Beginning;
Thence  heading  Northeast along the easterly side of the Catskill Aque-
duct  North  33  degrees  54  minutes  40 seconds East 213.81 ft. to the
Southwest corner of lands now  or  formerly  of  Carriage  House  Owners
Corp.;  Thence  running  Southeast  and Southwest along the lands now or
formerly of Carriage  House  Owners  Corp.  the  following  courses  and
distances:  South 64 degrees 43 minutes 00 seconds East 95.77 ft.; South
16 degrees 06 minutes 00 seconds West 178.40 ft. to  the  dividing  line
between  said  lands  and  lands now or formerly of Sadore Lane Gardens,
Inc.; Thence running along said line North  77  degrees  20  minutes  45
seconds West 160.23 ft. to the true point or place of Beginning consist-
ing of .5464 acres, more or less.
  S  4. If the land that is the subject of this act has received funding
pursuant to the federal land and water conservation fund, the discontin-
uance of parklands authorized by the provisions of this  act  shall  not
occur  until the municipality has complied with the federal requirements
pertaining to the conversion  of  parklands,  including  satisfying  the
secretary  of  the  interior  that  the  discontinuance will include all
conditions which the secretary of the interior deems necessary to assure
the substitution of other lands shall be equivalent in fair market value
and recreational usefulness to the lands being discontinued.
  S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.