N.Y. Highway Law § 207: Discontinuance of highway

§ 207. Discontinuance of highway. Whenever the town superintendent of

any town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street, not

within the limits of an incorporated village, which is the terminus of

such street or highway, is unnecessary for highway purposes, and said

town superintendent may, by an order to be duly entered in the town

clerk's office, direct such highway to be discontinued and abandoned for

public purposes. Provided, however, that no portion of such highway to

be discontinued shall be greater than one thousand feet of the terminus

thereof and that the owners of the land on both sides of such highway or

street, for the distance it is proposed to discontinue the same, shall,

by written petition to such town superintendent have requested the

discontinuance thereof.