N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 22-127: § 22-127 Application of private wharf property to a particular use.

The commissioner may designate any wharf property which the owners thereof may apply to have set apart for the sole use of special kinds of commerce, or of steamboats, or of any other class or description of ships, or vessels, and may prohibit any ship, steamboat, or any other vessel or water craft whatever from entering or lying, mooring or anchoring at or within any such wharf property, except such as may be designated for their use.