Assembly Bill A1897

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Dedicates and designates Jerome Park as parklands of the city of New York and establishes a working group for such park to enhance the use thereof

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A1897 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S811
Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Parks
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9681, S7467
2015-2016: A301, S1339
2017-2018: A254, S3993
2019-2020: A2300, S3110
2023-2024: A682

2021-A1897 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Dedicates and designates Jerome Park as parkland of the city of New York and establishes a working group for such park to enhance the use thereof.

2021-A1897 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1897
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT to dedicate and designate Jerome Park as parkland of the city of
   New York, and to establish a working group for such  park  to  enhance
   use thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  that
 Jerome  Park,  located around the Jerome Park reservoir, that is located
 in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York, has been  used  for
 numerous  outdoor recreational and open space purposes for over a centu-
 ry. Furthermore, such park has the potential to  incorporate  additional
 urban  wildlife  sanctuary, outdoor recreational and open space uses for
 the betterment of the local community. Through the  auspices  of  master
 plans  authorized and approved by the parks and recreation department of
 the city of New York and work by community groups  such  as  the  Jerome
 Park  Conservancy  and  the Friends of Jerome Park, it is a sound public
 policy and community benefit to advance the increased use of Jerome Park
 for additional outdoor recreational and open space uses and to integrate
 such park functions with the adjacently located Fort Independence  Park.
 Going forward, key elements of the future design of the park should help
 to  preserve its historic essence, reveal its potential as public space,
 and link places and events with the park to the  surrounding  community.
 Finally,  such future development of Jerome Park should frame the beauty
 of the reservoir with a new layer of landscape and purpose.
   § 2. To achieve the legislative intent articulated in section  one  of
 this act, all lands that are contained in Jerome Park, which are located
 in  or adjacent to block 3246, section 12 of the land map of the borough
 of the Bronx, city of New York,  excluding  those  lands  that  are  the
 reservoir  itself and lands bordering such reservoir shore line that are
 a distance of ten feet from the outside border of such  reservoir  shore
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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