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                                   2318
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, ABBATE, KIM -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
   A. ABINANTI, BARRON, BENEDETTO, BRAUNSTEIN, BRINDISI, CAHILL, CARROLL,
   COLTON,  CUSICK,  CYMBROWITZ, DenDEKKER, DILAN, GJONAJ, GLICK, HARRIS,
   HEVESI, JAFFEE, LENTOL, M. G. MILLER, MOSLEY, NIOU, NOLAN,  O'DONNELL,
   ORTIZ,  PHEFFER AMATO,  PRETLOW,  QUART,  RODRIGUEZ, ROSENTHAL, ROZIC,
   SIMANOWITZ, SIMOTAS, TITONE, WEINSTEIN,  WILLIAMS  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  authorities law and the highway law, in
   relation to renaming the Queens Midtown tunnel the Jane Matilda  Bolin
   tunnel
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (f), (i) and (j) of subdivision 9 of section 553
 of the public authorities law, paragraphs (f)  and  (i)  as  amended  by
 chapter  954 of the laws of 1946 and paragraph (j) as amended by chapter
 558 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as follows:
   (f) a vehicular tunnel or tunnels  heretofore  constructed,  known  as
 [Queens  Midtown]  JANE  MATILDA BOLIN tunnel, under the East river from
 the borough of Manhattan to the borough of Queens,  together  with  such
 incidental  bridges  and tunnels, including but not limited to, a tunnel
 or tunnels or bridge across Newtown creek from the borough of Queens  to
 the borough of Brooklyn and such other structures, appurtenances, facil-
 ities and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and
   (i)  a  vehicular  tunnel  or  tunnels  or arterial highway across the
 borough of Manhattan connecting the [Queens Midtown] JANE MATILDA  BOLIN
 tunnel  with  the  Lincoln  (Midtown  Hudson) tunnel, together with such
 incidental tunnels and such other structures, appurtenances,  facilities
 and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and
   (j)  Bus  stations or terminals or automobile parking garages at or in
 the vicinity of the Columbus circle in the borough of Manhattan  and  of
 the Manhattan plazas of the [Queens Midtown] JANE MATILDA BOLIN and Hugh
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 L.  Carey tunnels. Any such project may, subject to zoning restrictions,
 include space and facilities for any or all  of  the  following:  public
 recreation, business, trade and other exhibitions, sporting and athletic
 events,  public  meetings, conventions and all kinds of assemblages, and
 in order to obtain additional revenues, space and facilities  for  busi-
 ness  and  commercial purposes. Whenever the authority deems it to be in
 the public interest, the authority may lease any  such  project  or  any
 part or parts thereof or contract for the management and operation ther-
 eof  or  of any part or parts thereof. Any such lease or contract may be
 for a period of not exceeding ten years, or,  if  any  of  the  revenues
 therefrom  are  or  are to be pledged to secure bonds then such lease or
 contract may be for a period extending not later by more than  one  year
 than the last maturity of such bonds.
   §  2.  Subdivision  3 of section 563 of the public authorities law, as
 amended by chapter 558 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  The state of New York does pledge to and agree with the holders of
 any bonds that no tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway, street, road, high-
 way or other connection for vehicular traffic, which will be competitive
 with the [Queens Midtown] JANE MATILDA BOLIN tunnel or the Hugh L. Carey
 tunnel or the Brooklyn Richmond tunnel or the  Narrows  bridge  will  be
 constructed;  provided that a tunnel, bridge, parkway, causeway, street,
 road, highway or other connection for vehicular traffic shall be consid-
 ered as competitive if it shall form a connection for vehicular  traffic
 over,  under or across the East river south of Queensboro bridge, or, if
 it shall form a connection for vehicular traffic between the boroughs of
 Manhattan, Brooklyn or Richmond over, under or across New York bay.  The
 covenant  herein  contained  restricting competitive traffic connections
 with any project or projects shall be only for the benefit of the  hold-
 ers  of  bonds secured in whole or in part by the pledge of the revenues
 of such project or projects and subject to and in  accordance  with  all
 contract  provisions  with  respect  to any bonds outstanding on January
 first, nineteen hundred fifty-five and the rights of the holders of such
 bonds, the covenant herein contained shall not be deemed to prevent  the
 construction of any bridge or tunnel exclusively for railway rapid tran-
 sit purposes.
   §  3.  Section  349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 558 of
 the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
 routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
   New England thruway from  the  Westchester  county  line  to  Bruckner
 expressway;  Bruckner  expressway  from New England thruway to Robert F.
 Kennedy bridge approach; Hutchinson river parkway from  the  Westchester
 county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
 from  the  Westchester  county line to Bruckner expressway; Henry Hudson
 parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
 Henry Hudson bridge, provided that no portion of this  route  from  West
 Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
 or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
 or  used  for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment of no
 more than ten feet in width from seventy-third street  to  seventy-sixth
 street  as may be essential during and for the purpose of reconstruction
 or repair of the existing roadway following which there  shall  be  full
 restoration  of  park  land;  Major Deegan expressway from the Robert F.
 Kennedy bridge to Central Park avenue at  the  Westchester  county  line
 together  with  a connection to Broadway and along Broadway to Manhattan

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 college parkway; Cross Bronx expressway from  George  Washington  bridge
 approach  to  Throgs  Neck  bridge; Throgs Neck expressway from Bruckner
 expressway to Throgs Neck bridge; Arthur  V.  Sheridan  expressway  from
 Cross-Bronx  expressway  to  Bruckner  expressway;  Mosholu parkway from
 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx  and  Pelham  parkway
 from  Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx
 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway;  Miller  highway  from  Henry
 Hudson  parkway  to  the  Hugh  L.  Carey tunnel; and from Hugh L. Carey
 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt  drive  from
 the  Hugh  L.  Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem
 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George  Washington
 bridge  approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue
 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore  parkway,
 Belt  parkway,  Southern  parkway  and Cross Island parkway from Hugh L.
 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
 Southern parkway to the Nassau county line;  Brooklyn-Queens  expressway
 from  Gowanus  expressway  to Grand Central parkway; Prospect expressway
 from Gowanus expressway to Ocean parkway; Ocean  parkway  from  Prospect
 expressway  to  Shore  parkway;  Interborough parkway from Grand Central
 Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from  the  Verrazano-Narrows
 bridge  to  Third  avenue  at Gowanus parkway; Third Avenue from Gowanus
 expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue from Third Avenue to Hugh
 L. Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensborough bridge approach  to
 Van  Wyck  expressway;  Van  Wyck expressway from Whitestone expressway,
 including a connection to Grand Central  parkway,  to  John  F.  Kennedy
 international  airport;  Woodhaven  boulevard  from  Queens boulevard to
 Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly  approach;  Cross  Bay  parkway  from
 Cross  Bay bridge southerly approach to Short Front parkway; Shore Front
 parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the  shore  line  of  the
 Atlantic  ocean  to  the  Nassau  expressway  at the Nassau county line;
 Queens-Midtown  expressway  from  [Queens-Midtown]  JANE  MATILDA  BOLIN
 tunnel  approach  to  Queens  Boulevard;  Horace Harding expressway from
 Queens Boulevard to the Nassau county line; a connection between  Brook-
 lyn-Queens  expressway  and  Northern boulevard in the vicinity of Grand
 Central parkway; Grand Central parkway from  Robert  F.  Kennedy  bridge
 approach  to Nassau county line; Whitestone expressway from Bronx-White-
 stone bridge approach to Van Wyck expressway  and  continuing  to  Grand
 Central  parkway; Clearview expressway from Throgs Neck bridge to Nassau
 expressway; Richmond parkway from Staten  Island  expressway  to  Outer-
 bridge  crossing approach; Staten Island expressway from Goethals bridge
 to the Verrazano-Narrows bridge with a  connection  to  Bayonne  bridge;
 Willowbrook  parkway  from Staten Island expressway to Great Kills park;
 West Shore expressway  from  Staten  Island  expressway  to  Outerbridge
 crossing;  Shore  Front  drive northerly from the terminus of West Shore
 expressway at Staten Island expressway, thence generally along the shore
 lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay and Raritan  bay
 to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
   §  4.  Terms occurring in laws, regulations, contracts and other docu-
 ments. Whenever  Queens  Midtown  tunnel  or  Queens-Midtown  tunnel  is
 referred  to or designated in any law, regulation, contract or document,
 such reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to  Jane  Matilda
 Bolin  tunnel,  and  no such laws, regulations, contracts or other docu-
 ments shall be thereby impaired in any way.
   § 5. The New York state department of  transportation,  the  New  York
 city  department  of transportation and the Triborough bridge and tunnel
 authority shall provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate

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 signage in conformance with section one of this act within such time and
 in such manner as they shall deem appropriate.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.