N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 5-434: § 5-434 Acquisition of street being closed or discontinued.

Whenever the closing or discontinuance of a street requires the acquisition of the fee title to the whole or any portion of the land within the street to be closed, the order of the mayor directing such acquisition shall:

1. Approve three maps, prepared by the agency requesting the street closing and acquisition, showing the land in such closed street the fee title to which is to be acquired.

2. Authorize and direct the corporation counsel to make application to the supreme court to have such court without a jury ascertain and determine the compensation which ought justly be made to the respective owners of the fee title to the land within such closed street.

3. Specify the date upon which the city shall acquire fee title which date shall be the same as that specified in the resolution of the board of estimate as the date upon which the street proposed to be discontinued or closed, shall become and be closed.