Senate Bill S2276

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2276

SPONSOR: STAVISKY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to dividing the one hundred ninth precinct of the New York city
police department into subdivisions

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The legislation will amend the applicable Administrative Code sections
concerning the 'fixing of boundaries of precincts' as set forth in
914.129, -as this section relates to the 109th NYPD Precinct in the
borough of Queens,

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill amends 14-129 of the administrative code of the
City of New York by adding a new Section C that will divide the 109th
precinct into two separate subdivisions, one representing the northern
portion of the precinct including the "North Shore = College Point,
              

Whitestone, Clearview and Bay .Terrace" and one representing the south-
ern portion or the precinct including "Flushing South".

Section 2 provides for this act to take effect on the 120th day after it
becomes law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The current configuration of the 109th Precinct of the New York Police
Department ("NYPD") is too large geographically with too large a popu-
lation density to adequately provide sufficient services to the neigh-
borhoods included within the current precinct boundaries.  In response
to these challenges, the Mayor recently announced the creation of a new
satellite office aimed at addressing the resource gaps within the
precinct. While this intiative is a step in the right direction, it is
not enough to resolve the long-term issues faced by the 109th Precinct,

The geographic nature and population statistics in the areas covered by
the 109th Precinct support the assertion that it ought to be formally
subdivided to more effectively serve each of the neighborhoods under its
protection. The New York City Department of City Planning Community Data
Portal reports the population in Community Board District 7/109th
Precinct is approximately 242,952 based on 2000 Census figures). In
comparing the population across different community districts, it can be
seen that community board district with like or lesser populations are
serviced by multiple precincts. For example, Community Board District 12
has a population of 223,602 and is covered by two precincts, the 103rd
and the 113th.  The population in those precincts respectively is
approximately 101,527 and 122,103, Community Board District 14 has an
even smaller population, 100,686, and is also covered by two precincts,
the 100th and the 101st, respective populations, of approximately
43,584, and 63,154.  In addition, the Community Data Portal reveals a
marked increase in population in Community Board District 7 between the
1990 and 2000 census.  Yet these figures do not reflect any of the addi-
tional fore-casted increases in the population in the more than 10 years
since the last census figures were reflected in the Community Data
Portal.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2011-2012: A.3142/S.6106 - Referred to Cities.

2013-2014: A.277/S.335Referred to Cities.

2015,-2016:- A.1069/S.947Referred to Cities.

2017-2018: A.;!758/S.2197Referred to Cities.

2019-2020: A.508/No Same As - Referred to Cities.

2021-2022: No Same As/S.3051Referred to Cities.

2022-2023: N.4882/S.3051 - Referred to Cities.

2022-2023: A.4882/S.3051 - Stricken

2021: A.8218/S.3051Referred to Cities

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred and twentieth day after it
shall have become a law.