2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 3 - Bridge and Tunnel Authorities › Title 3 - Triborough Bridge Authority › 553 - Powers of the Authority.

§ 553. Powers of the authority. The authority shall have power
1. to sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
* 3.  To  acquire,  hold  and  dispose  of  personal  property for its
corporate purposes, including, the power to dispose of personal property
with a value of five hundred thousand dollars or less by public  auction
in accordance with guidelines adopted by the authority pursuant to title
five-A of article nine of this chapter. The board shall adopt guidelines
that  shall  provide  for  advertising  and such other safeguards as the
authority may deem appropriate in the public interest.
* NB Effective until June 30, 2028
* 3. To acquire,  hold  and  dispose  of  personal  property  for  its
corporate purposes;
* NB Effective June 30, 2028
4.  To  acquire,  in the name of the city, by purchase or condemnation
real property or rights or easements therein necessary or convenient for
its corporate purposes, and, except as may otherwise be provided herein,
to use the same so long as its corporate existence shall continue;
4-a. Whenever any real property is determined by the authority  to  be
unnecessary for its corporate purpose.
(a)  to  surrender  such real property to the board of estimate of the
city for other public use or purpose of such city, or
(b) to sell and convey or lease  in  behalf  of  such  city  any  real
property  acquired  by  the  city  at  the expense of the authority. The
proceeds of any such sale or lease shall be paid to  the  authority  and
applied  to  its  corporate purpose. Any such lease shall run for a term
not to exceed ten years, and a renewal thereof for a term not to  exceed
ten years.
4-b. To apply for and receive and accept grants of property, money and
services  and  other  assistance  offered or made available to it by any
person, government or agency whatever, which it may use to meet  capital
or  operating  expenses  and  for  any other use within the scope of its
powers, and to negotiate for the same upon such terms and conditions  as
the  authority  may  determine to be necessary, convenient or desirable.
Subject to the rights of the holders of any outstanding bonds, notes  or
other   obligations   of   the  authority,  metropolitan  transportation
authority, and New York city transit authority, and  to  facilitate  the
efficient   financial   management   of   the   authority,  metropolitan
transportation authority, its subsidiary corporations, and New York city
transit authority  and  its  subsidiary  corporations  (the  "affiliated
entities"),  the authority may, and may permit and direct any affiliated
entity to, transfer revenues, subsidies and other monies  or  securities
to one or more funds or accounts of another affiliated entity for use by
such  other  affiliated entity, provided at the time of such transfer it
is reasonably anticipated that the monies and securities so  transferred
will  be  reimbursed, repaid or otherwise provided for by the end of the
next succeeding calendar year if reimbursement or repayment is  required
by  law  or  by  any  agreement  to which any of the affected affiliated
entities is subject. Any revenues  of  an  affiliated  entity  that  are
transferred  to  another  affiliated  entity,  which  transfer  was  not
authorized by a provision of law other than this subdivision,  shall  be
considered  to  be  required to be repaid to the affiliated entity which
was the source of such revenues  by  the  end  of  the  next  succeeding
calendar year following such transfer.
5.  To  make by-laws for the management and regulation of its affairs,
and subject to agreements with bondholders, rules  and  regulations  for
the  regulation  of  the  use  of  the project and the establishment and
collection of tolls thereon. Violations of such  rules  and  regulations

shall  be  a  misdemeanor  punishable  by  a fine of not exceeding fifty
dollars or by imprisonment for not longer than  thirty  days,  or  both,
except  that violation of any rule or regulation governing or regulating
traffic  on  the projects of the authority shall be a traffic infraction
as the same is defined in the vehicle  and  traffic  law  and  shall  be
punishable as such;
6.  With  the  consent  of  the  city  to  use  agents,  employees and
facilities of the city, paying its proper proportion of the compensation
or cost, and to use the corporation counsel as legal adviser;
7.  To  appoint  officers,  agents  and  employees   and   fix   their
compensation;  subject,  however, to the provisions of the civil service
law, as hereinafter provided;
7-a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the bridge and
tunnel officers employed by the authority shall have the power to  issue
simplified  traffic  informations  for traffic infractions as defined in
section one hundred fifty-five of the vehicle and traffic law, committed
on the sites owned, operated and maintained by the triborough bridge and
tunnel authority, such informations to be administered pursuant  to  the
provisions of title A of chapter forty of the administrative code of the
city  of  New  York  or article two-A of the vehicle and traffic law, as
applicable and also shall have the power to issue notices  of  violation
for  transit  infractions  committed  in  and  about  any  or all of the
facilities, equipment or real property owned, occupied  or  operated  by
the  metropolitan  transportation  authority or its subsidiaries and the
New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries, as provided and in
accordance with section twelve hundred nine-a of this  chapter.  Nothing
set  forth in this subdivision shall be construed to impede, infringe or
diminish the rights and benefits that accrue to employees and  employers
through  collective  bargaining  agreements,  or  impact  or  change  an
employee's membership in a bargaining unit.
8. To make contracts, and to  execute  all  instruments  necessary  or
convenient;
9.  To  acquire,  design,  construct,  maintain,  operate, improve and
reconstruct, so long as its  corporate  existence  shall  continue,  the
following projects,
(a)  a  bridge  heretofore  constructed,  known  as  Robert F. Kennedy
bridge, over the East river from the borough of Queens to  the  boroughs
of  Manhattan and the Bronx, over and across Ward's island and Randall's
island  in  said  river,  together  with  such  incidental  bridges  and
structures  as  shall be necessary or convenient in order to give access
from the bridge to both of said islands,  together  with  approaches  to
said  bridges (herein collectively referred to as the "Robert F. Kennedy
bridge project"); and
(b) a bridge heretofore constructed, known as Bronx-Whitestone bridge,
over the East river from a point at or near Whitestone in the borough of
Queens to the borough of the Bronx, together  with  approaches  to  such
bridge  (herein  collectively  referred  to  as  the  "Whitestone bridge
project"); and
(c) a bridge heretofore constructed, known  as  Henry  Hudson  bridge,
across  the  Harlem  river  ship  canal together with approaches to such
bridge and together with so much of the parkway known  as  Henry  Hudson
parkway  as  extends southerly from said bridge through Inwood Hill park
to the  northerly  end  of  Riverside  drive,  (as  it  was  before  the
construction  of  said  parkway) (herein collectively referred to as the
"Henry Hudson bridge project"); and
(d) a bridge heretofore constructed, known as Marine  parkway  bridge,
to  be known hereafter as the Marine parkway-Gil Hodges memorial bridge,
from the borough of Brooklyn across the  waters  of  Rockaway  inlet  to

Jacob  Riis  park in the borough of Queens, together with the approaches
to such bridge and together with the parkway of which said bridge  is  a
part,  (and  the  parking field connected therewith), from and including
the  toll  plaza  north  of  said  bridge extending eastwardly from said
bridge to the easterly boundary of Jacob Riis park (herein  collectively
referred to as the "Marine parkway bridge project"); and
(e) a bridge heretofore constructed known as Cross Bay parkway bridge,
to  be  known  hereafter as the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial bridge, from
Big Egg marsh in Jamaica bay in the borough of Queens across the  waters
of  Beach  channel  to Rockaway peninsula in said borough, together with
the parkway known as Cross Bay parkway, of which said bridge is a  part,
from  and including the toll plaza north of said bridge southerly to the
right of way of the Long Island railroad on Rockaway  peninsula  (herein
collectively referred to as the "Cross Bay parkway bridge project"); and
(f)  a  vehicular  tunnel  or tunnels heretofore constructed, known as
Queens Midtown  tunnel,  under  the  East  river  from  the  borough  of
Manhattan  to  the  borough  of  Queens,  together  with such incidental
bridges and tunnels, including but not limited to, a tunnel  or  tunnels
or bridge across Newtown creek from the borough of Queens to the borough
of  Brooklyn  and  such  other structures, appurtenances, facilities and
approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and
(g) a vehicular tunnel or tunnels under construction, known as Hugh L.
Carey tunnel, under the East river from the southerly end of the borough
of Manhattan to the general vicinity of Hamilton avenue in  the  borough
of  Brooklyn,  together  with  such  incidental  tunnels  and such other
structures,  appurtenances,  facilities  and  approaches  as  shall   be
necessary or convenient; and
(h)  a  vehicular  tunnel  or  tunnels  or  bridge,  herein called the
Brooklyn Richmond project, under or across New York bay from the borough
of Richmond to the borough of Brooklyn, together  with  such  incidental
tunnels,  bridges  and  such other structures, appurtenances, facilities
and approaches as shall be necessary or convenient; and
(i) a vehicular tunnel or  tunnels  or  arterial  highway  across  the
borough  of  Manhattan  connecting  the  Queens  Midtown tunnel with the
Lincoln (Midtown Hudson) tunnel, together with such  incidental  tunnels
and  such  other structures, appurtenances, facilities and approaches as
shall be necessary or convenient; and
(j) Bus stations or terminals or automobile parking garages at  or  in
the  vicinity  of the Columbus circle in the borough of Manhattan and of
the Manhattan plazas of the Queens Midtown and Hugh  L.  Carey  tunnels.
Any  such project may, subject to zoning restrictions, include space and
facilities for any or all of the following: public recreation, business,
trade and  other  exhibitions,  sporting  and  athletic  events,  public
meetings,  conventions  and  all  kinds  of assemblages, and in order to
obtain additional  revenues,  space  and  facilities  for  business  and
commercial purposes. Whenever the authority deems it to be in the public
interest,  the authority may lease any such project or any part or parts
thereof or contract for the management and operation thereof or  of  any
part or parts thereof. Any such lease or contract may be for a period of
not exceeding ten years, or, if any of the revenues therefrom are or are
to  be  pledged to secure bonds then such lease or contract may be for a
period extending not later by more than one year than the last  maturity
of such bonds.
(k)  Subject  to  and  in accordance with all contract provisions with
respect to any bonds and the rights of the holders of bonds, a vehicular
bridge across the East river between  the  boroughs  of  the  Bronx  and
Queens,   east  of  the  Bronx-Whitestone  bridge,  together  with  such
incidental bridges and other structures, appurtenances,  facilities  and

approaches  as  shall  be  necessary  or convenient (herein collectively
referred to as the "Throgs Neck bridge project"). With  the  consent  of
the  United  States  of  America,  the  Throgs  Neck bridge project or a
portion thereof, if deemed necessary or convenient by the authority, may
be  constructed  upon  or pass over any part of the military reservation
known as Fort Schuyler and owned by the United  States  of  America.  No
lands,  easements  or  rights in land shall be acquired by the authority
for the purposes of this paragraph without  the  prior  consent  of  the
board of estimate of the city.
(l)  Subject  to  section  five hundred fifty-three-b of this title, a
convention and exhibition  center,  including  facilities  ancillary  or
functionally  related  thereto,  to  be  built  in  New York county at a
location  generally  bounded  by  thirty-ninth  street  on  the   north,
thirtieth  street  on the south, eleventh avenue on the east and twelfth
avenue on the west (herein referred to as the convention center).
(m) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the
acquisition  of  new  rapid transit cars and the transfer of the same to
the New York city transit authority for  a  nominal  consideration.  The
authority  shall  have  no  obligation  to  operate, repair, maintain or
reconstruct such cars subsequent to their acquisition and  transfer  nor
shall  it  be liable to the New York city transit authority by reason of
any warranty, express or implied, in respect to such cars. Manufacturers
or other warranties furnished to the authority in  connection  with  the
purchase  of  such  cars  shall be assigned to the New York city transit
authority for enforcement.
(n) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the
rehabilitation  of  existing  rapid  transit  cars  of the New York city
transit authority upon such terms and conditions as shall be  agreed  to
by  the  parties.  The  authority  shall  have no obligation to operate,
repair,  maintain  or  reconstruct   such   cars   subsequent   to   the
rehabilitation  and transfer back to the New York city transit authority
nor shall it be liable to the New York city transit authority by  reason
of   any  warranty,  express  or  implied,  in  respect  to  such  cars.
Manufacturers  or  other  warranties  furnished  to  the  authority   in
connection  with  the purchase of parts or materials for such cars shall
be assigned to the New York city transit authority for enforcement.
(o) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the
acquisition of new diesel self-propelled railroad passenger cars and the
transfer of the same to the metropolitan transportation authority, for a
nominal consideration, for use on commuter railroads owned or controlled
by  the  metropolitan transportation authority. The authority shall have
no obligation to operate, repair,  maintain  or  reconstruct  such  cars
subsequent  to their acquisition and transfer, nor shall it be liable to
the metropolitan transportation authority by  reason  of  any  warranty,
express  or  implied,  in  respect  of such cars. Manufacturers or other
warranties furnished to the authority in connection with the purchase of
such cars shall be assigned to the metropolitan transportation authority
for enforcement.
(p) Subject to section five hundred fifty-three-c of this  title,  the
acquisition of land in the name of the authority in the vicinity of Penn
Station  in the city of New York and/or the improvement of such land for
the benefit of the Long Island Rail Road for a  lay-up  yard  and  other
railroad purposes and the transfer of the said land and any improvements
thereon to the metropolitan transportation authority, parent corporation
of  the  said railroad, for a nominal consideration. The authority shall
have no obligation to operate, repair, maintain or reconstruct such land
or its improvements subsequent to such transfer.
(r) In its discretion and  subject  to  and  in  accordance  with  all
contract  provisions  with  respect  to  any bonds and the rights of the
holders of bonds, at the request of the New York city transit  authority
or  the  metropolitan transportation authority, (i) the planning for and
the  design,  acquisition,  construction, improvement, reconstruction or
rehabilitation, in the name of the  authority,  of  any  capital  asset,
whether  in  the  nature  of  personal or real property (or any interest
therein) which is used or useful for a transit or transportation purpose
other than a marine or aviation purpose of the requesting  authority  or
its  designated  subsidiary  (and in the case of such assets then owned,
operated by or under lease to the requesting authority or its designated
subsidiary, the receipt by the authority of the use, occupancy,  control
or  possession  of  such  assets for the purpose of planning, designing,
constructing, improving, reconstructing or rehabilitating the same)  and
the transfer or transfer back of such asset to the requesting authority,
its  designated subsidiary or other designee for a nominal consideration
upon its  acquisition  or  upon  the  completion  of  such  improvement,
construction,  reconstruction or rehabilitation; or, alternatively or in
combination with the foregoing, (ii) the making of capital grants to the
requesting authority or  its  designated  subsidiary  to  permit  it  to
undertake   and   to   finance   such   planning,  design,  acquisition,
improvement,  construction,  reconstruction   or   rehabilitation,   or,
alternatively  or in combination with the foregoing, (iii) the financing
of all or any part of the costs to the authority or to any other  person
or  entity,  public  or  private, of such planning, design, acquisition,
construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of any  such
capital  asset  through or accompanied by a leasing of the asset by such
person or entity to the authority or through or accompanied by a sale by
the authority to  any  such  person  or  entity  and  leaseback  to  the
authority,  in each case for subleasing to the requesting authority, its
designated subsidiary or other designee for  a  nominal  rental,  except
that  such  leasing  or  leaseback  from  such  person  or entity may be
directly to the requesting authority or  its  designated  subsidiary  or
other  designee,  for consideration, with the consent and at the expense
of the authority.  The  foregoing  authorization  shall  extend  to  and
include  the continuation of projects enumerated in paragraphs (m), (n),
(o) and (p) of this subdivision without regard to  any  limitations  set
forth in section five hundred fifty-three-c of this title. The authority
shall  have  no  obligation  to  operate  or, except as may otherwise be
provided in any lease to which it may be a party as aforesaid, repair or
maintain  any  capital  asset  after  its   acquisition,   construction,
improvement,  reconstruction  or rehabilitation and subsequent transfer,
lease or sublease, nor shall it be liable to the transferee,  lessee  or
sublessee  by  reason  of  any  warranty, express or implied, in respect
thereof. Warranties  furnished  in  connection  with  such  acquisition,
improvement,  construction,  reconstruction  or  rehabilitation shall be
assignable and assigned as directed  by  the  requesting  authority  and
approved by the authority.
(s)  The  central  business  district  tolling  program  to the extent
specified in article forty-four-C of the vehicle and traffic law and  in
this title.
The  word  "approaches"  shall  include  all  structures  necessary or
convenient to give access to the project  from  connecting  streets  and
roads;
10. In its discretion
(a)  in  the  case  of  the  Robert  F. Kennedy bridge project and the
Whitestone bridge project to pay to the city not  exceeding  thirty-five
per  centum  of  the cost (including awards for damages and expenses) of

the acquisition of land for the widening  of  existing  roads,  streets,
parkways  or  avenues  and  for new roads, streets, parkways or avenues,
connecting with the approaches.
(b)  to  purchase  from  the  persons,  partnerships,  associations or
corporations who were the owners of any land acquired for  the  widening
of  existing  roads,  streets,  parkways  or  avenues  or for new roads,
streets, parkways or avenues connecting with the approaches  or  of  any
interest  in  such land at the date title to such land was vested in the
city in any  proceeding  heretofore  or  hereafter  instituted  for  the
acquisition  thereof  by  condemnation,  or  from  their  successors  in
interest or legal representatives, their right, title,  interest  and/or
claim  in  and  to the award or awards or any part thereof to be made in
such proceeding after  the  date  of  such  purchase,  and  to  take  an
assignment thereof to the authority, provided, however, that in the case
of  the  Robert  F.  Kennedy  bridge  project  and the Whitestone bridge
project the aggregate amount expended by the authority on account of all
such purchases together with the aggregate amount paid to  the  city  in
accordance  with  paragraph  (a)  of  this subdivision, shall not exceed
thirty-five per centum of the cost (including  awards  for  damages  and
expenses) of the acquisition of land for the widening of existing roads,
streets,  parkways  or  avenues, and for new roads, streets, parkways or
avenues, connecting with the approaches,
(c) to construct, in whole or in part,  an  elevated  parkway  in  the
borough  of  Brooklyn  from  the southerly terminus of the Gowanus creek
bridge project to a point at or near Owls Head park connecting with  the
Gowanus creek bridge project, and
(d)  with  the  consent  of  the city to construct and develop for the
purpose of public parks so much of the area of  lands,  selected  as  in
this title provided, or otherwise acquired or to be acquired and used in
connection  with  the  project  and with new or existing roads, streets,
parkways or avenues connecting with such projects, and so  much  of  the
area  of  lands now owned by the city to be used in connection with such
projects or with new or existing roads,  streets,  parkways  or  avenues
connecting  with such projects, as shall be agreed upon under a contract
or contracts hereby authorized to be entered into between the  authority
and  the  city,  at  the  sole  expense  of the authority and done under
construction contracts let and supervised by the authority, pursuant  to
plans  and specifications prepared by the authority, the commissioner of
parks and recreation of the city or other agency.
The city shall maintain such connecting roads, streets,  parkways  and
avenues  as  provided  by  law. The public parks and the parkways herein
referred to as connecting with the approaches, any part of the  cost  of
which  is  paid by the authority, shall be under the jurisdiction of the
department of parks and recreation of the city and shall  be  maintained
by  that department. Service roads appurtenant to said parkways shall be
under the jurisdiction of the city commissioner  of  transportation  and
shall be maintained by him;
11.  To  design  and  with  the  consent of the city, to construct new
parks, parkways or highways or improvements to existing parks,  parkways
or highways either connecting directly or indirectly with the project or
for  the  purpose  of  attracting  or  facilitating traffic or improving
approaches to and connections with the project. The authority shall have
no jurisdiction or control over any  new  parks,  parkways  or  highways
constructed  by  it  pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph eleven
after the completion of the construction  thereof.  The  general  powers
conferred  in this subdivision eleven shall include the power heretofore
conferred on the parkway authority to construct a northerly extension of
Cross Bay parkway in the borough of Queens, as  authorized  in  sections

two  hundred  seventy-eight,  two  hundred  eighty-two-a and two hundred
eighty-two-b of this chapter, and  such  general  powers  shall  not  be
construed to be limited by the provisions of this act granting the power
to  construct  any  particular improvement, but shall be construed as an
extension of the powers of the authority.
12. To charge tolls, fees or rentals  for  the  use  of  the  project,
subject to and in accordance with such agreement with bondholders as may
be  made  as hereinafter provided. The toll rates charged for the use of
either the Triborough or Whitestone bridge project shall, however, never
be less than the toll rates charged for the use of the other,  and  this
clause shall be deemed an obligation to the holders of any and all bonds
at  any time issued secured by the revenues of said projects. Subject to
contracts with bondholders, all tolls and other  revenues  derived  from
any project shall be applied to the payment of operating, administration
and  other  necessary  expenses  of the authority properly chargeable to
such project and thereafter to the payment of interest or  principal  of
bonds  or  for  making  sinking  fund  payments for bonds, not otherwise
adequately provided for, whether issued in connection with such  project
or any other project. It is the intention hereof that surplus funds from
any  project remaining after providing for the payment of all operating,
administration and other necessary expenses of  the  authority  and  all
contract  provisions  with  respect  to  any  bonds, may be used to meet
obligations incurred for other projects and if not so used  or  reserved
for  such  use  shall,  at the discretion of metropolitan transportation
authority, be transferred to metropolitan  transportation  authority  or
New  York  city  transit  authority  pursuant  to  section  five hundred
sixty-nine-c of this title. Subject to contracts with  bondholders,  the
authority  may  treat  one  or  more  projects as a single enterprise in
respect of revenues,  expenses,  the  issuance  of  bonds,  maintenance,
operation or other purposes;
12-a.  To  establish and charge variable tolls, fees and other charges
for vehicles entering or remaining within the central business  district
and to make rules and regulations for the collection of such tolls, fees
and other charges, subject to and in accordance with such agreement with
bondholders  and  applicable  federal  law as may be made as hereinafter
provided. Subject to agreements with bondholders and applicable  federal
law,  all  tolls,  fees  and  other  revenues  derived  from the central
business district tolling program shall be applied  to  the  payment  of
operating, administration, and other necessary expenses of the authority
properly  allocable to such program, including the capital costs of such
program, and to the payment of interest or principal of bonds, notes  or
other  obligations  of  the authority or the metropolitan transportation
authority issued for  transit  and  commuter  projects  as  provided  in
section  five  hundred  fifty-three-j  of  this  title, and shall not be
subject to distribution under section five hundred sixty-nine-c of  this
title  or  section  twelve  hundred  nineteen-a  of  this  chapter.  The
provisions of section twenty-eight hundred four of  this  chapter  shall
not  be  applicable  to  the tolls and fees established by the authority
pursuant to this subdivision. Any such fares, tolls, and  other  charges
shall  be  established and changed only if approved by resolution of the
authority adopted by not less than a majority vote of the  whole  number
of members of the authority then in office, with the chairman having one
additional  vote  in  the  event  of a tie vote, and only after a public
hearing.
13. To construct and maintain over, under, along or across the project
telephone, telegraph, or electric wires and  cables,  gas  mains,  water
mains   and   other  mechanical  equipment  not  inconsistent  with  the
appropriate use of the project, to contract for such construction and to

lease the right to construct and/or use the same on such terms  and  for
such  considerations  as  it shall determine, provided, however, that no
lease shall be made except with the approval of the board of estimate of
the  city,  or for a period of more than twenty years from the date when
it is made;
14.  To  construct  and  maintain  facilities  for  the  public,   not
inconsistent  with  the  use  of  the  project,  to  contract  for  such
construction, and to lease  the  right  to  construct  and/or  use  such
facilities  on  such  terms  and  for  such  considerations  as it shall
determine, provided, however, that no lease shall be made for  a  period
of  more  than  five years from the date when it is made except with the
approval of the board of estimate of the city;
15. To issue negotiable bonds and to provide for  the  rights  of  the
holders thereof;
16.  To  enter  on  any lands, waters, and premises for the purpose of
making surveys, soundings and examinations;
16-a. With the consent of  the  city  and  notwithstanding  any  other
provision  of  law,  whenever  real  property  having dwellings or other
structures thereon has been acquired by the authority or  the  city  for
the purpose of constructing any project authorized by this title, (a) to
acquire  real  property by purchase, gift, devise or condemnation in the
manner provided in this title, and as the agent of  the  city,  for  the
purpose  of  providing  new  sites  on  which  such  dwellings  or other
structures may be  relocated;  (b)  to  sell  such  dwellings  or  other
structures  or to provide for the removal, relocation and improvement of
such dwellings or other structures on new foundations at such new  sites
by  contract  or  by its own labor force or by a combination of methods;
(c) to contract for the installation of water, sewer, gas and electrical
facilities and other necessary appurtenances required for the completion
and restoration of such dwellings or other structures; (d) to  landscape
such  new sites; (e) to contract with any person, firm or corporation or
with the city for the improvement or installation  of  streets,  sewers,
water  lines  or  other  facilities in connection with the relocation of
such dwellings or other structures and to pay the cost thereof;  (f)  to
contract  with the several owners of such property for the conveyance of
the new sites with improvements thereon to such owner in  settlement  in
part  or  in  whole  of  the  compensation  and damage to which they are
entitled; and (g) to sell such sites with or without dwellings or  other
structures and improvements thereon.
The  authority  may  agree  with  the  owners of property acquired, in
settlement in part or  in  whole  of  the  damages  to  which  they  are
entitled, to compensate such owners for the cost of acquiring new sites,
removing  dwellings  thereto  on  new  foundations,  the installation of
water,  sewer,  gas  and  electrical  facilities  and  other   necessary
appurtenances required for the complete restoration of such dwellings or
other structures and landscaping of the new site.
For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "structures" shall mean
and  include buildings used as and for hospitals, schools, community and
religious institutions, cultural and recreational and other neighborhood
and community facilities, but shall exclude retail stores, factories and
commercial and industrial establishments of any kind.
17. To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out  the  powers
expressly  given  in  this  title  and  to assist and cooperate with the
metropolitan transportation authority to carry out  the  powers  of  the
metropolitan transportation authority in furtherance of the purposes and
powers  of the authority as provided in this article, including, without
limitation,  the  transactions  described  in  sections  twelve  hundred

sixty-six-c,  twelve hundred sixty-nine, and twelve hundred seventy-d of
this chapter.
18.  A  copy  of  any  report  submitted  by the authority pursuant to
sections twenty-eight hundred, twenty-eight hundred one and twenty-eight
hundred two of this chapter shall be submitted contemporaneously to  the
mayor of the city.
19.  To  acquire in its own name certain real or personal property, or
any interest therein, including leasehold interests, air and  subsurface
rights,  easements  and  lands under water at a site located in New York
county and generally  bounded  by  thirty-third  street  on  the  north,
thirtieth  street  on  the  south, tenth avenue on the east and eleventh
avenue on the west, such property or any interest therein to be acquired
for railroad or other corporate purposes, and in the event such real  or
personal property or any interest therein is determined by the authority
to  be  unnecessary  for  railroad or other corporate purposes, to sell,
convey or lease in its own name such real or personal  property  or  any
interest therein.
20.  Prior  to  the  adoption  after  January  first, nineteen hundred
eighty-seven by the authority of a general resolution pursuant to  which
it  is  authorized  to  issue any general or special obligation bonds or
notes to finance a project pursuant to the  authorization  contained  in
paragraph  (r)  of  subdivision  nine of this section, not including any
series resolution or resolutions, and  prior  to  the  adoption  of  any
amendment  to  a general resolution, whenever adopted, pursuant to which
it is authorized to issue any general or  special  obligation  bonds  or
notes   for   such   purpose,  not  including  a  series  resolution  or
resolutions,  the  authority  shall  submit  a  copy  of  such  proposed
resolution  to the metropolitan transportation authority capital program
review board (hereinafter referred to as the  "board").  Within  fifteen
days  of  such  submission,  the  board  may notify the authority of its
unanimous approval of the same by the members entitled to vote  thereon,
or  if  the  resolution  is not approved and no individual member of the
board who is entitled to  vote  on  such  resolution  has  notified  the
authority  in writing of his disapproval, the resolution shall be deemed
to have been approved. Neither the board nor any  member  thereof  shall
disapprove a proposed resolution by reason of any covenant requiring the
authority  to charge and fix tolls, rentals and other charges sufficient
to pay its operating  expenses  and  the  debt  service,  including  the
funding of requisite reserves, on the bonds and notes authorized by such
resolution.  If the board or any member thereof entitled to vote thereon
shall disapprove a proposed resolution, the authority may, at any  time,
resubmit a reformulated resolution. Within ten days of the submission of
such  reformulated  resolution the board may notify the authority of its
unanimous approval of the same by the members entitled to vote  thereon,
or,  if  the  reformulated  resolution is not approved and no individual
member of the board who is entitled to vote  thereon  has  notified  the
authority  in  writing  of  his  disapproval  within  such  period,  the
reformulated resolution shall have been deemed to  have  been  approved.
Any  individual  member of the board who votes against a resolution or a
reformulated resolution or who notifies the authority of his disapproval
shall  state  his  reasons  therefor.  The  member  appointed   on   the
recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York shall participate in
the  action of the board with respect to any resolution of the authority
submitted pursuant to this subdivision. The authority shall not adopt  a
resolution  or any amendment to a resolution disapproved by the board as
herein provided.
21. To invest any funds, accounts or other  monies  not  required  for
immediate  use  or  disbursement, at the discretion of the authority, in

any  of  the  investments  in  which  the  metropolitan   transportation
authority is permitted to invest its monies pursuant to subdivision four
of section twelve hundred sixty-five of this chapter.
* 22.  Section twenty-eight hundred seventy-nine of this chapter shall
apply to the authority's acquisition of goods or services of  any  kind,
in  the  actual or estimated amount of fifteen thousand dollars or more,
provided that (i) a contract for services in  the  actual  or  estimated
amount  of  less  than  one  hundred  thousand dollars shall not require
approval by the board of the authority regardless of the length  of  the
period over which the services are rendered, and provided further that a
contract  for  services in the actual or estimated amount of one hundred
thousand dollars or more shall require approval  by  the  board  of  the
authority regardless of the length of the period over which the services
are rendered unless such a contract is awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder  after  obtaining sealed bids and (ii) the board of the authority
may by resolution adopt guidelines that authorize the award of contracts
to small business concerns, to service disabled veteran owned businesses
certified pursuant to article  seventeen-b  of  the  executive  law,  or
minority  or  women-owned  business  enterprises  certified  pursuant to
article fifteen-a of  the  executive  law,  or  purchases  of  goods  or
technology  that  are  recycled  or  remanufactured, in an amount not to
exceed four  hundred  thousand  dollars  without  a  formal  competitive
process  and  without further board approval. The board of the authority
shall adopt guidelines which shall be made publicly  available  for  the
awarding of such contract without a formal competitive process.
* NB Repealed June 30, 2028