A 9080: Renames the Winthrop street subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the NYC subway, located in the borough of Brooklyn, to the SUNY Downstate at Winthrop Avenue station.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9080 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY September 12, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority to rename the Winthrop street subway station in the borough of Brooklyn to the SUNY Downstate at Winthrop Avenue station; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Upon a determination by the metropolitan transportation 2 authority or the New York city transit authority that sufficient funds 3 have been committed to it specifically for such purpose, the metropol- 4 itan transportation authority, the public benefit corporation created by 5 section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New York city trans- 6 it authority, the public benefit corporation created by section 1201 of 7 the public authorities law, shall use such specifically committed funds 8 to rename the Winthrop street subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue 9 Line of the New York city subway, located at Winthrop street and Nost- 10 rand Avenue in the borough of Brooklyn, to the SUNY Downstate at 11 Winthrop Avenue station. The metropolitan transportation authority shall 12 ensure that all signs and any other items issued by the metropolitan 13 transportation authority are updated to accurately reflect the new name 14 of the station. Such renaming shall not affect the rights or obligations 15 of any party with respect to existing contracts, permits, or other 16 agreements referencing the prior station name. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 18 deemed repealed after the signs and any other items are accurately 19 updated. The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation 20 authority or president of the New York city transit authority shall 21 notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of 22 such updates in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and 23 timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state 24 of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 25 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13710-01-5