N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 555: Selection of site

§ 555. Selection of site. Notwithstanding any provisions of any other

statute, the authority in conjunction with the commissioner of parks of

the city or his successor, the commissioner of parks and recreation, and

with the approval of the board of estimate of such city and with the

separate approval of the mayor thereof, is hereby authorized to select

sites in the boroughs of the Bronx and Queens of the city for the

Whitestone bridge project and parkways connecting therewith, which sites

may be in or through existing public parks, and to select sites for new

public parks contiguous to such project or contiguous to the roads,

streets, parkways or avenues connecting with such project. A site or

sites may be selected for any or all of the aforementioned purposes and

thereafter the use thereof shall be allocated by the commissioner of

parks and recreation as herein provided. The property so selected solely

for such project, not already owned by the city, shall be acquired at

the sole expense of the authority in the manner provided for under this

title. The property so selected solely for new public parks shall be

acquired by the city at its sole expense. The cost of the property so

selected for such project, combined with any other aforementioned

purposes the use of which is to be thereafter determined, shall be

divided between the city and the authority as may be determined by a

contract or contracts hereby authorized to be entered into between the

city and the authority, subject to the approval of the board of estimate

of the city. So much of the sites so selected and acquired or such

easements or rights of way therein as may be necessary or convenient for

the corporate purposes of the authority may be assigned by the

commissioner of parks and recreation of the city to the authority for

its use so long as its corporate existence shall continue.