Section 21.09. Special provisions relating to the acquisition of real property  


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  • 1. Subject to subdivision two of this section, the trust  may  acquire  real property by condemnation pursuant to the provisions of the
      eminent domain procedure law where not inconsistent with  this  article.
      Prior  to  the  commencement of any condemnation proceedings pursuant to
      this section, the trust shall cause a survey and map of the property  to
      be  condemned  to  be  made  and  filed  in its office and to be annexed
      thereto a certificate, executed by such officer or employee as the trust
      may designate, stating that the acquisition of the property described in
      such survey and map has been determined by the  unanimous  vote  of  its
      board  of  trustees to be necessary for the fulfillment of its corporate
      purposes. All condemnation proceedings brought by the trust pursuant  to
      this section shall be brought in supreme court, New York county, and the
      compensation  to be paid shall be determined by the court without a jury
      and without the appointment of commissioners.  The  court  shall  decree
      that  title  to  any  real  property subject to condemnation proceedings
      brought pursuant to this section shall vest in the trust upon the  entry
      and  filing of an order of immediate possession, granted pursuant to the
      provisions of the eminent domain procedure law  and  providing  for  the
      deposit  required  by  such  section; provided that the trust shall have
      first complied with chapter one thousand one hundred  sixty-one  of  the
      laws  of  nineteen  hundred  seventy-one and the deposit or payment made
      thereunder shall be credited against the deposit required under  eminent
      domain  procedure  law.  No  award of compensation shall be increased by
      reason of any increase in the value  of  real  property  caused  by  the
      actual  or  proposed acquisition, use, development or disposition by the
      trust of any other real property.
        2. The trust shall have the power to acquire by condemnation only  the
      real property described as follows:
        Any  real  property  situate,  lying  and  being  in  the  Borough  of
      Manhattan, City, County and State of New York, bounded and described  as
      follows:
        BEGINNING  at a point on the northerly side of 53rd Street distant 306
      feet 9 inches easterly from the corner formed by the intersection of the
      northerly side of 53rd Street and the easterly side  of  Avenue  of  the
      Americas  (formerly  Sixth  Avenue);  running thence northerly, parallel
      with Avenue of the Americas, 100 feet 5 inches to the center line of the
      block between 53rd and 54th Streets;
      thence easterly, along said center line of the block, 78 feet 3 inches;
      thence southerly, again parallel with Avenue of the Americas, 100 feet 5
      inches to the northerly side of 53rd Street; and
      thence westerly along the northerly side  of  53rd  Street,  78  feet  3
      inches to the point or place of Beginning.
        3.  All  real  property,  other  than  the  real property described in
      subdivision two of this section, in or on which all or  any  part  of  a
      combined-use  facility  is or is designed to be developed (i) shall have
      been owned in fee by a participating cultural institution for  a  period
      of at least five years prior to the date on which the trust first enters
      into  an  agreement  for the development of such facility; or (ii) shall
      have been owned by the city prior to the date on which the  trust  or  a
      participating  cultural  institution  first enters into an agreement for
      the development of such facility; or (iii) the proposed use of such real
      property for all or any part of the combined use facility  developed  or
      designed  to be developed on such real property shall have been approved
      by the mayor by written  instrument  delivered  to  the  trust  and  the
      participating  cultural  institution;  or  (iv) with respect to a public
      television station with respect to which a trust  entered  an  agreement
      prior to January first, nineteen hundred ninety such real property shall
    
      exceed  one  hundred  thousand  square feet in area, and shall have been
      owned or leased by such public television station for  a  period  of  at
      least  five years prior to the date on which the trust first enters into
      an  agreement  for  the  development  of a combined-use facility or such
      public television facility or makes a loan to such station.