Section 25-101
§ 25-101 City map to be conclusive. The city map is to be deemed final
and conclusive with respect to the location, width and grades of the
streets shown thereon, so far as such location, width and grades have
been duly adopted.
Section 25-102
§ 25-102 City map; what to include. There shall be located and laid
out on the city map all parks, playgrounds, streets, courtyards abutting
streets, bridges, tunnels and approaches to bridges and tunnels, and
improvements of navigation in accordance with bulkhead and pierhead
lines established pursuant to section seven hundred five of the charter.
The width and grades of all streets so located and laid out shall be
indicated thereon.
Section 25-102.1
§ 25-102.1 City map; street and park names. a. Unless the local law
specifically provides otherwise, any local law naming a street, park,
playground or portion thereof, or any facility or structure, located and
laid out on the city map, that does not bear a name indicated on the
city map shall not be construed to require the addition of such name on
the city map; provided, however, that the name given by such local law
shall be posted on a sign placed at the location of such street, park,
playground or portion thereof, or any facility or structure, located and
laid out on the city map.
b. Unless the local law specifically provides otherwise, any local law
changing the name of a street, park, playground or portion thereof, or
any facility or structure, located and laid out on the city map, that
bears a name indicated on the city map shall not be construed to require
a change in such name as it is indicated on the city map; provided,
however, that in the case of a local law changing the name of a street
or portion thereof, the name added by such local law shall be posted on
a sign placed adjacent to or near a sign bearing the name of such street
or portion thereof indicated on the city map.
c. The department of transportation may establish different colors for
signs bearing a street name not officially indicated on the city map and
signs bearing a street name officially indicated on the city map, and
may provide for the replacement of any sign bearing a dual name by two
separate signs of such color as the department shall determine.
Section 25-103
§ 25-103 Borough presidents' assistance in completing city map. The
city planning commission, with the approval of the mayor, may at any
time require the president of any borough to make recommendations for
the completion of the city map of the whole or of a part of the
territory for which the city map shall not at such time have been
finally established and adopted and to report the same to the commission
within a fixed and specified time.
Section 25-104
§ 25-104 Official surveying stations. The latitudes and longitudes
determined in conformity with the method used by the United States coast
and geodetic survey for primary stations; the rectangular spherical
co-ordinates for secondary stations; and the rectangular co-ordinates
referring to a given fixed central meridian, or assumed meridian, for
all stations, shall continue to be official and binding upon all
officers making any map or plan relating to any borough, or part
thereof.
Section 25-105
§ 25-105 Grades established by user. Whenever any street in the city
shall have been used as such for upward of twenty years without having
the grade thereof established by law, the level or surface of such
street as so used shall be deemed to be and to have been the grade
thereof.
Section 25-106
§ 25-106 Public utility corporations; filing of maps of real property.
Every public utility corporation, within ninety days after its
acquisition of any real property within the city, shall file in the
office of the president of the borough in which such property is
situated, a map or survey drawn to a scale and accurately indicating the
location and boundaries of such property with reference to the streets,
avenues, bridges, tunnels, bulkhead or pierhead lines, parks or other
public places shown on the city map. Every such corporation shall within
the same period of time file a copy of each such map or survey in the
office of the department of city planning and in the office of the
commissioner of transportation. For a failure to file any such map or
survey or copy thereof within the period required therefor such public
utility corporation shall be liable to the city in a penalty of ten
dollars for each and every day during which such map or survey or copy
thereof has not been filed, as hereinabove required, and an action may
be brought for the recovery thereof in the name of the city.
Section 25-107
§ 25-107 Failure to include street upon map; effect of. The failure to
include any street upon the city map shall not have the effect of
closing such street.
Section 25-108
§ 25-108 Map changes affecting certain cemetery lands. Notwithstanding
any provisions of the not-for-profit corporation law, or of any other
law, general or special, that portion of the city map relating to
Interborough Parkway shall not be altered or amended so as to affect the
lands of any cemetery association except by and with the consent of the
trustees of any such cemetery association the lands of which would be
affected, and of the board of estimate.
Section 25-109
§ 25-109 Streets not to be opened through grounds of certain
institutions. a. It shall be unlawful to open any streets through the
grounds belonging to the corporation of Fordham University in its actual
occupation of the area generally bounded by Bronx Park on the north and
east, Fordham Road on the south, and the tracks of the Harlem Division
of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company on the west.
b. It shall also be unlawful to open any streets through or upon any
part of the land and premises owned by New York University, extending
from Sedgwick avenue to Aqueduct avenue, and lying immediately south of
and adjacent to One hundred eighty-first street, sometimes called
University avenue, so long as the same shall be owned or occupied for
educational purposes by such university.
c. It shall be unlawful to open any streets through the grounds of
Columbia University, from One hundred sixteenth street to One hundred
twentieth street, between Amsterdam avenue and Broadway, so long as such
grounds are owned or occupied for educational purposes.
d. It shall be unlawful to open any streets through or upon any part
of the land and premises owned by Manhattan College, within the
territory bounded by West 244th street and its easterly prolongation,
Post road and Spuyten Duyvil parkway, so long as the same shall be owned
or occupied for educational purposes.
e. It shall be unlawful to open any streets through or upon any part
of the land and premises owned by the college of Mount Saint Vincent,
without the territory bounded approximately by the northerly city line,
Riverdale avenue, West 261st street, Netherland avenue, a line about
thirteen hundred feet southerly of the city line and the tracks of the
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, so long as the same shall be
owned or occupied for educational purposes.
f. It shall be unlawful to open any streets through or upon any part
of the land or premises owned by the college of Mount Saint Vincent,
except West 261st street, between Riverdale avenue and the New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad right-of-way and Palisade avenue south
of West 261st street as they are now indicated upon the city map, or as
they may in the future be changed in width or alignment, within the
territory bounded approximately by the northerly city line, Riverdale
avenue, West 261st street, Palisade avenue, a line about 1,400 feet
southerly of the city line and the tracks of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, so long as they shall be owned or occupied for
educational purposes.
Section 25-110
§ 25-110 City planning commission to regulate the height and bulk of
buildings, areas of yards, courts and open spaces and density of
population. a. The city planning commission, subject to the provisions
of sections one hundred ninety-seven-c, two hundred and two hundred one
of the charter, where applicable, shall have power to regulate and limit
the height and bulk of buildings, to regulate and determine the area of
yards, courts and other open spaces and to regulate density of
population. The commission, subject to the same limitations, may divide
the city into districts of such number, shape and area as it may deem
best suited to carry out such purposes.
b. The regulations as to height and bulk of buildings, the area of
yards, courts and other open spaces and density of population shall be
uniform for each class of buildings throughout each district. The
regulation in one or more districts may differ from those in other
districts. Such regulations shall be designed to secure safety from fire
and other dangers and to promote the public health and welfare,
including, so far as conditions may permit, provisions for adequate
light, air and convenience of access.
c. The commission shall pay reasonable regard to the character of
buildings erected in each district, the value of the land and the use to
which it may be put, to the end that such regulations may promote public
health, safety and welfare and the most desirable use for which the land
of each district may be adapted and may tend to conserve the value of
the buildings and may enhance the value of land throughout the city.
Section 25-111
§ 25-111 City planning commission to regulate location of trades and
industries and of buildings designed for specific uses. a. The city
planning commission, subject to the provisions of sections one hundred
ninety-seven-c, two hundred and two hundred one of the charter, where
applicable, may regulate and restrict the location of trades and
industries and the location of buildings designed for specific uses, and
may divide the city into districts of such number, shape and area as it
may deem best suited to carry out such purposes.
b. For each such district, regulations may be imposed designating the
trades and industries that shall be excluded or subjected to special
regulations and designating the uses for which buildings may not be
erected or altered. Such regulations shall be designed to promote the
public health, safety and general welfare.
c. The commission shall give reasonable consideration, among other
things, to the character of the district, its peculiar suitability for
particular uses, the conservation of property values, and the direction
of building development in accord with a well-considered plan.
Section 25-112
§ 25-112 Prohibition of cemeteries in Queens. a. No person,
association or corporation shall take by deed, devise or otherwise any
land in the county of Queens for cemetery purposes, nor set apart or use
any ground for cemetery purposes in such county. Existing religious
corporations, cemetery associations and corporations, however, shall
have the right to use for cemetery purposes, land lawfully taken by
recorded deed, or devise and set apart or used for cemetery purposes or
for the purposes of the convenient transaction of their general
business, prior to July seventeenth, nineteen hundred forty-seven.
b. The provisions of subdivision a of this section shall not in any
manner prevent an incorporated religious society organized under the
laws of the state of New York prior to the year eighteen hundred
twenty-five now owning cemetery land in Queens county from acquiring and
using land of not more than ten acres contiguous to said cemetery land
as and when said additional land in its ownership and use for cemetery
purposes has been approved by the city council.
Section 25-113
§ 25-113 Filing of subdivision maps and recording of deeds of
subdivision property. a. Every map referred to in section two hundred
two of the charter shall be prepared, approved and certified and shall
be filed as follows: one copy thereof in the office in which conveyances
of real estate are required to be recorded in the county in which the
land shown thereon is situated; one copy thereof in the office of the
corporation counsel; one copy thereof in the office of the president of
the borough in which the land shown on the map is situated; one copy
thereof in the office of the secretary of the board of estimate; one
copy thereof in the office of the department of city planning; one copy
thereof in the office of the city clerk; and, one copy thereof in the
office of the department of buildings for the county in which the land
shown thereon is situated.
b. The register or county clerk, as the case may be, shall refuse:
1. To receive for filing any such subdivision map unless the
commission or the department of buildings has certified that the
subdivision does not result in the violation of any applicable zoning
laws.
2. To accept for recording any deed or other instrument affecting real
property which has a map attached thereto or made a part thereof, unless
it shall have endorsed thereon the certification of the secretary of the
board of estimate to the effect that the same has been approved pursuant
to section two hundred two of the charter and unless the commissioner of
the department of buildings has certified that such subdivision does not
result in the violation of any applicable zoning laws.
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