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Assembly Bill A11447

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the town of Huntington to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Huntington African American Museum

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2025-A11447 (ACTIVE) - Details

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S5932
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Suffolk County

2025-A11447 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the town of Huntington to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to the Huntington African American Museum.

2025-A11447 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11447
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 18, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Stern,
   Solages, Lavine, K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the  Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT in relation to authorizing the town of Huntington to alienate and
   discontinue  the  use  of  certain parklands to the Huntington African
   American Museum

   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 town of Hunting-
 ton,  county of Suffolk, is hereby authorized, acting by and through its
 governing body, and upon such terms and conditions as determined by such
 governing body, to discontinue the use  as  parkland  and  alienate  the
 lands  described in section three of this act, to the Huntington African
 American Museum for the  purpose  of  displaying  exhibits  and  holding
 events.
   § 2. The authorization contained in section one of this act shall only
 be  effective  on  the condition that the town of Huntington dedicate an
 amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of  the  parklands
 being alienated pursuant to section one of this act towards the acquisi-
 tion  of  new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and
 recreational facilities.
   § 3. The parkland authorized by section one of this act to be  discon-
 tinued as parkland is described as follows:
 ALL  that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being
 in the Town of Huntington, County of Suffolk  and  State  of  New  York,
 being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
 BEGINNING  at  a  point on the northerly side of Pulaski Road at or near
 its intersection with the westerly side of Park Avenue;
 RUNNING THENCE along the northerly side of Pulaski Road, N 60°01'00"  W,
 a distance of 525.72 feet to a point;
 THENCE  along  land  now or formerly of Huntington Country Life, Inc., N
 29°59'00" W, a distance of 778.87 feet to a point;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01372-04-6
 A. 11447                            2

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