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                                   4013
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- 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
 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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 288 of
 the laws of 2018, 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
 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

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 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 Verrazzano-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  Verrazzano-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
 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.