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                                  1133

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY,
  BRENNAN, CLARK, DIAZ, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, JOHN, V. LOPEZ, ORTIZ, PAULIN,
  J. RIVERA,  WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tour-
  ism, Arts and Sports Development

AN ACT to dedicate the Jerome Park Reservoir tract in the Bronx as park-
  land

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Legislative intent.  Jerome Park has been used for numerous
park  purposes over the years and is intended to have additional uses in
the future.  Jerome Park was formerly used as a  wildlife  sanctuary  in
the  Harris  Park  Annex  bordering on Goulden Avenue north of Gatehouse
Five at the Reservoir and directly across the street from the Bronx High
School of Science.  This area is the future site  of  an  outdoor  urban
ecological study area, an area dedicated to community and school gardens
and  ecology experiments such as composting, wind and rain precipitation
measurement, and seed and cutting propagation.  It will  be  accompanied
by  tables and benches for outdoor eating and classroom and lab instruc-
tion sessions.  The Fort Independence Park, part of Jerome Park  in  the
northwest  side,  is  presently used, and will continue to be used, as a
playground, basketball  and  handball  courts,  running  track,  and  an
archeological-geological mound.  The perimeter of the Jerome Park Reser-
voir  will  be the future site of a path for the purposes of walking and
jogging.
  S 2. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, that tract  of
land  known  as  Jerome  Park  Reservoir, more particularly described in
section three of this act, shall be dedicated as parkland of the city of
New York.
  S 3. The land dedicated as parkland by section two of this act is more
particularly described as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                           LBD02745-01-9

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  All that tract or parcel of land situate in the borough of  the  Bronx
and the city of New York, bounded and described as follows:
  Beginning  at  a  point  in the westerly line of Goulden Avenue at its
intersection with the  northerly  line  of  Reservoir  Avenue,  as  said
streets  are  shown  on Alteration Map No. 56-7 dated February 10, 1919,
and signed by the Bronx Borough President.
  From the above said point of beginning the following 45 courses:
  1. Running thence  along  the  westerly  line  of  Goulden  Avenue,  a
distance of 2,067.35 feet to a point;
  2.  Thence  westerly,  along  a  line  forming an interior angle of 90
degrees with the preceding course, a  distance  of  180.85  feet,  to  a
point;
  3.  Thence  northerly  along  the  arc of a curve bearing to the left,
having a radius of 536.548 feet, a distance of 305.72 feet to a point;
  4. Thence northerly tangent to the curve in the  last  course,  319.84
feet to a point;
  5.  Thence  easterly  along  a  line  forming  an interior angle of 90
degrees with the preceding course, 42.50 feet to a point;
  6. Thence northerly along a line  forming  an  interior  angle  of  90
degrees with the preceding course, 206.0 feet to a point;
  7.  Thence  westerly  along  a  line  forming  an interior angle of 90
degrees with the preceding course, 40.50 feet to a point;
  8. Thence northerly along a line  forming  an  interior  angle  of  90
degrees with the preceding course, 197.18 feet to a point;
  9.  Thence  northerly  along  the arc of a curve bearing to the right,
having a radius of 987.362 feet, a distance of 427.22 feet to a point;
  10. Thence northerly along the arc of a curve  bearing  to  the  left,
having a radius of 1017.362 feet, a distance of 440.2 feet to a point;
  11.  Thence  northerly  tangent  to the curve in the preceding course,
600.0 feet to a point;
  12. Thence easterly along a line  forming  an  interior  angle  of  90
degrees with the preceding course, 48.0 feet to a point;
  13. Thence northwesterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left,
having a radius of 80.0 feet, a distance of 182.236 feet to a point;
  14. Thence southwesterly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
756.504 feet to a point;
  15.  Thence  along  the  arc of a curve bearing to the right, having a
radius of 222.186 feet, a distance of 159.074 feet to a point;
  16. Thence westerly tangent to the  curve  in  the  preceding  course,
72.486 feet to a point;
  17.  Thence  southerly  along  a  line forming an interior angle of 64
degrees 16 minutes and 9 seconds to the preceding course for a  distance
of 65.93 feet to a point;
  18.  Thence  westerly  along  a  line  forming an interior angle of 90
degrees to the preceding course for a distance of 39.16 feet to a point;
  19. Thence along the arc of a curve bearing  to  the  left,  having  a
radius of 306.0 feet, a distance of 81.69 feet to a point;
  20.  Thence  westerly  tangent  to  the curve in the preceding course,
240.51 feet to a point;
  21. Thence southwesterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left,
having a radius of 152.4 feet, a distance of 99.94 feet to a point;
  22. Thence southwesterly tangent to the curve in the preceding course,
6.73 feet to a point;
  23. Thence deflecting to the left about an angle  of  151  degrees  55
minutes  and  31 seconds and continuing along the arc of a curve bearing

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to the left, having a radius of 151.05 feet a distance of 99.93 feet  to
a point;
  24. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course, 25.0
feet to a point;
  25.  Thence southwesterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the left
having a radius of 630.0 feet, a distance of 215.74 feet to a point;
  26. Thence along the arc of a curve bearing  to  the  right  having  a
radius of 300.0 feet, a distance of 119.29 feet to a point;
  27.  Thence  westerly  tangent  to  the curve in the preceding course,
160.41 feet to a point;
  28. Thence along the arc of a curve having a radius of 176.41 feet,  a
distance of 64.67 feet to a point;
  29. Thence westerly tangent to the curve in the preceding course, 30.0
feet to a point;
  30.  Thence  deflecting  to the right from above said point forming an
interior angle of 90 degrees to the preceding  course,  southerly  along
the easterly line of Sedgwick Avenue, 385.193 feet to a point;
  31.  Thence  southerly  continuing along the easterly line of Sedgwick
Avenue, along the arc of a curve bearing to the right having a radius of
620.0 feet, a distance of 262.125 feet to a point;
  32. Thence southerly tangent to the curve  in  the  preceding  course,
continuing along the easterly line of Sedgwick Avenue, 245.296 feet to a
point;
  33.  Thence  southerly  along  the arc of a curve bearing to the right
having a radius of 430.0 feet, a distance of 186.240 feet to a point;
  34. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve  bearing  to  the  right
having a radius of 261.515 feet to a point;
  35.  Thence  southerly  along  the  arc of a curve bearing to the left
having a radius of 1,087.608 feet, a  distance  of  348.091  feet  to  a
point;
  36.  Thence  southerly  along  the arc of a curve bearing to the right
having a radius of 1,280.0 feet, a distance of 454.347 feet to a point;
  37. Thence southerly tangent to the curve  in  the  preceding  course,
86.390 feet to a point;
  38.  Thence  southerly  along  the  arc of a curve bearing to the left
having a radius of 320.0 feet, a distance of 235.522 feet to a point;
  39. Thence southerly along the arc of a curve  bearing  to  the  right
having a radius of 148.305 feet, a distance of 75.778 feet to a point;
  40.  Thence  southerly  along  the  arc of a curve bearing to the left
having a radius 666.61 feet, a distance of 296.526 feet to a point;
  41. Thence southeasterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the  left
having a radius of 200.0 feet, a distance of 345.575 feet to a point;
  42. Thence easterly along the arc of curve bearing to the right having
a radius of 330.0 feet, a distance of 380.133 feet to a point;
  43. Thence southeasterly along the arc of a curve bearing to the right
having a radius of 1,000.0 feet, a distance of 377.185 feet to a point;
  44.  Thence  southeasterly,  tangent  to  the  curve  in the preceding
course, 427.280 feet to a point;
  45. Thence easterly along a line forming  an  interior  angle  of  128
degrees  37  minutes  and  42.9 seconds with the preceding course 83.376
feet to the intersection of Reservoir Avenue and Goulden Avenue or point
of beginning.
  The above described  land  adjoins  and/or  lies  within  Block  3246,
Section  12  of the Land Map of the Borough of The Bronx, City and State
of New York.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.