2023 New York Laws › STL - State › Article 3 - Cessions to the United States › 27 - Authorization of Acquisition by the United States, and Cession of Jurisdiction Thereupon During Ownership by the United States and Use for Public Purp

§ 27. Authorization  of  acquisition by the United States, and cession
  of jurisdiction thereupon during ownership by the United States and  use
  for  public  purposes,  with  reservation of right to serve process. The
  United States has been authorized to acquire  the  following  tracts  or
  parcels  of  land, and jurisdiction thereof has been ceded to the United
  States upon such acquisition, on condition that such jurisdiction should
  not prevent the execution thereon of any  process,  civil  or  criminal,
  issued  under  the  authority  of  the state of New York, except as such
  process might affect the property of the United States therein, and that
  such jurisdiction shall continue in the United States, so long  only  as
  the  land shall remain the property of the United States and be used for
  public purposes.
1. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of  New  York,
  fronting on Wall street, and occupied on February 7, 1857, by the United
  States  as  an  assay  office;  and also the property north of the same,
  fronting on Pine street, and  also  the  property  adjoining  said  Pine
  street  property  on  the  east,  and occupied by the United States, for
  revenue purposes, on February 7, 1857, as offices for the  surveyor  for
  the  port  of New York, and also that piece or parcel of land bounded by
  Park row, Beekman and Nassau streets, for the purpose of a post-office.
2. In the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land in the  city  of
  New  York,  and  not exceeding in area fifty thousand square feet, for a
  site for a post-office.
3. In the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of  New  York,
  situated in the first ward of the city of New York, and constituting the
  entire  square formed by Wall, William and Hanover streets, and Exchange
  place, and the  Exchange  building  and  improvements  erected  thereon,
  covering the whole of said square, for the purpose of a custom-house.
4.  In  the city of New York. A tract of land in the city of New York,
  being so much of land belonging to the corporation  of  such  city,  and
  immediately  adjoining  the  northerly  side  or  boundary  of  the land
  conveyed to the United States prior to January 1, 1879,  by  the  mayor,
  aldermen  and  commonalty  of  the  city  of  New York, for a site for a
  post-office, as is now covered by two sidewalks, each 103 feet  and  six
  inches  in  length,  by  nineteen feet two inches in width, with a paved
  passage-way between eleven feet and eleven inches  in  width,  making  a
  total area of 218 feet and eleven inches in length, by nineteen feet and
  two inches in width.
5.  In  the city of New York. A tract or tracts of land in the city of
  New York, not exceeding in area two hundred thousand  square  feet,  for
  the purpose of an appraiser's warehouse and other purposes.
6.  In  the  city  of Brooklyn. Certain tracts of lands in the city of
  Brooklyn described as follows: Six lots  of  land  with  the  warehouses
  thereon erected, in the sixth ward of the city of Brooklyn, on the south
  pier  of  the  property of the Atlantic Dock Company, known as lots Nos.
  53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58, on the said south pier of the  Atlantic  Dock
  Company,  on  a certain map inscribed "map of property in the sixth ward
  of the city of Brooklyn, port of New York,  belonging  to  the  Atlantic
  Dock  Company,  surveyed  September,  eighteen hundred and forty-one, by
  Willard Day city surveyor," said lots each being twenty-five feet  front
  and rear, and one hundred feet deep on each side, for revenue purposes.
7.  In  the city of Brooklyn. A tract or tracts of land in the city of
  Brooklyn, for a site for a post-office.
8. At Hallett's point, Queens county. A tract or  tracts  of  land  at
  Hallett's  point,  Hell  Gate,  in  Queens county, described as follows:
  Beginning at a point in the westerly line of lot number eighty-nine, and
  situated one hundred feet from the westerly side of  Monson  street,  if
  the  same  were  extended,  which point is three feet six inches distant

  from the southwest corner of said lot number  eighty-nine,  and  running
  thence  northwesterly,  at right angles to said Monson street, 154 feet,
  to low water of the East river; thence  along  low  water  line  with  a
  course  about  north,  seventy-eight  degrees  east, about 210 feet to a
  point in the prolongation of the said westerly side of Monson street, if
  the same were extended; thence southwesterly parallel  to  the  westerly
  side  of Monson street and in a line one hundred feet distant therefrom,
  about one hundred and forty feet to the point or place of beginning. The
  said last mentioned line or boundary being coincident with the  easterly
  side  of  the  concrete  foundations  built  for  the  electric tower at
  Hallett's point, for the purpose of establishing thereon light-houses or
  other aids to navigation.
9. At Coney Island, Kings county. Two certain tracts of land at  Coney
  Island, Kings county, the first being described as follows: Beginning at
  a  point where the angle included between the ranges to Centennial Tower
  and Romer Shoal light-house shall be 87° 40'; the  angle  between  Romer
  Shoal  and Elm Tree light-house, 77° 34'; and the angle between Elm Tree
  and Fort Tompkins light-house shall be 49° 49', and  running  thence  N.
  60°  E.,  150 feet; thence N. 30° W., 100 feet, thence S. 60° W., to the
  Atlantic ocean;  thence  along  the  Atlantic  ocean  to  the  point  of
  intersection  of  the  same with the prolongation of the first mentioned
  course; thence N. 60° E., to the place of beginning.  The  second  being
  described  as  follows:  Beginning  at  the point of intersection of the
  range between A. and B. and the division line  of  lots  forty-four  and
  forty-five,  and running thence N. 12° E., 25 feet; thence S. 78° E., 25
  feet; thence S. 12° W., to the Atlantic ocean; thence along the Atlantic
  ocean to the point of intersection of the same  with  division  line  of
  lots  forty-four and forty-five; thence along division line north twelve
  degrees east, to the point of beginning; for  the  purpose  of  erecting
  thereon light-houses and fog signals.
10.  At  Staten  Island,  Richmond  county.  A tract of land at Staten
  Island, Richmond county, described as follows: Beginning at a  point  on
  the  farm  of George W. Vanderbilt, lying east of New Dorp lane, distant
  on a straight  line  drawn  from  the  north  corner  of  the  Elm  Tree
  light-house  reservation,  on  a  course N. 54° 30' E., 206 feet and six
  inches from said corner, which is formed  by  the  intersection  of  the
  southwesterly  line  of New Dorp lane with the northwesterly line of the
  Elm Tree light-house reservation; thence running from said point on  the
  farm aforesaid, N. 42° E., 50 feet; thence S. 48° E., 50 feet; thence S.
  42°  W.,  50  feet;  thence  N. 48° W., 50 feet to the point or place of
  beginning, being a plot fifty feet square; together with a right of  way
  from the plot so conveyed to the northeasterly line of the New Dorp lane
  over  a  strip  of  land  ten feet in width, and having as its northerly
  boundary the line or course of two hundred and six feet and  six  inches
  first  above set forth; the courses above given being in accordance with
  the magnetic meridian of June, eighteen  hundred  and  ninety,  for  the
  purpose of erecting a light-house thereon.
11. West Troy, Albany county. Two certain tracts of land at West Troy,
  town of Watervliet, Albany county, the first being described as follows:
  Commencing  at  a point on the east bank of the Erie canal, and which is
  the southwest corner of lands conveyed by Albert G. Sage to  the  United
  States,  by  deed  bearing  date  the seventeenth day of April, eighteen
  hundred and fifty-nine, and runs thence  easterly  along  the  southerly
  line  of  said  lands  so  conveyed by said Sage as aforesaid, about two
  hundred and fifty-eight feet to the west side of the alley next west  of
  River  street  or Broadway; thence southerly along the west line of said
  alley and said line extended, about 300  feet  and  six  inches;  thence
  westerly  along the south line of the Gibbons property, so called, about

  one hundred and ninety-three feet to the east bank of  the  Erie  canal,
  and  thence northerly along said east bank of said Erie canal, 346 feet,
  more or less, to the place of beginning. The second being  described  as
  follows:  Commencing  at  a point on River street or Broadway, and being
  the southeasterly corner  of  the  arsenal  grounds,  as  possessed  and
  occupied  by  the  United  States prior to the year eighteen hundred and
  fifty-nine, and runs thence southerly along the west line of said  River
  street or Broadway about three hundred and twenty feet to the north line
  of   lot  number  sixty-two,  as  laid  down  on  the  original  map  of
  Gibbonsville; and runs thence westerly along the north line of said  lot
  number  sixty-two  and  said line extended to the west line of the alley
  next west of said River street or Broadway; thence northerly  along  the
  west  line  of  said  alley  about  three hundred and twenty feet to the
  southerly line of the arsenal grounds, as possessed and occupied by  the
  United  States  prior  to  the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine; and
  thence easterly along the southerly line of the said arsenal grounds  to
  the place of beginning.
12. In the city of New York as a site for a marine hospital. "All that
  certain  piece  or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the second
  ward of the borough of Richmond, formerly town  of  Middletown,  in  the
  city of New York, in the county of Richmond, and state of New York, with
  the  buildings  and  improvements  thereon,  bounded  and  described  as
  follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the westerly side of Bay street
  where the same is intersected by the southerly boundary line of the land
  formerly belonging to John Gore, and running  thence  along  Bay  street
  south  twenty-nine  degrees  eleven  minutes and thirty seconds east two
  hundred and seventy-two  and  seventy-one  one-hundredths  feet;  thence
  still  along  Bay street south twenty-seven degrees twenty-three minutes
  and  ten  seconds  east  two  hundred   and   fifteen   and   fifty-nine
  one-hundredths  feet,  more or less, to a point distant thirty feet from
  the intersection of the said Bay street by  the  northerly  or  boundary
  line  of  land  of  George Vanderbilt; thence south seventy-nine degrees
  twelve minutes and twenty seconds west on  a  line  parallel  with  said
  northerly   boundary  of  Vanderbilt's  land  and  distant  thirty  feet
  therefrom one thousand and  two  and  eighty-five  one-hundredths  feet;
  thence north ten degrees forty-four minutes and twenty seconds west four
  hundred and forty-six and ten one-hundredths feet, more or less, to said
  southerly  boundary line of land formerly of John Gore; and thence north
  seventy-seven degrees fifty-four minutes and fifty  seconds  east  along
  said land formerly of John Gore eight hundred and fifty-five feet to the
  point  or  place  of  beginning.  Containing  nine and seven hundred and
  fifty-five thousandths acres more or less;"  and  also  all  the  right,
  title  and  interest  of the present owners in and to said Bay street in
  front of and adjoining said premises above described.
13. Hart's Island, Long Island sound. All that piece or parcel of land
  at Hart's Island,  in  Westchester  county,  bounded  and  described  as
  follows:  A tract of land at the southeast end of Hart's Island, situate
  in Long  Island  sound,  Westchester  county  and  state  of  New  York,
  containing about one-half acre, more or less, about twenty thousand four
  hundred  and  sixty  square  feet  and  comprising  all  the land to the
  eastward of the line A B, as shown on a map of said Hart's Island  which
  is  to  be  filed in the office of the secretary of state of this state,
  the said line making an angle  of  twenty-nine  degrees  and  forty-five
  minutes to the eastward of the true north meridian, and being located at
  one  hundred  and thirty-two feet from the low water mark at the extreme
  easterly end of Hart's Island as taken from the aforesaid map,  distance
  measured  at  right  angles  to the said line A B, and the said property
  being substantially one  hundred  and  thirty-two  feet  in  depth  from

  eastward  to  westward  and  two  hundred  and  fifty feet in width from
  northward to southward--distances being taken from the  low  water  line
  shown on said map.