A11125 • 2025

Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street Luther Vandross station

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Sponsor: Eddie Gibbs
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street Luther Vandross station

Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street Luther Vandross station Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th street - Luther Vandross station.

What This Bill Does

Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street Luther Vandross station Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th street - Luther Vandross station.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Official Summary Text

Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th Street Luther Vandross station
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station to the 125th street - Luther Vandross station.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11125

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT in relation to directing the metropolitan transportation authori-
          ty and the New York city transit authority to rename the 125th  Street
          -  Lexington  Avenue  subway  station  to  the  125th  Street - Luther
          Vandross 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 125th Street - Lexington Avenue subway station on the  IRT
     9  Lexington  Avenue line of the New York city subway to the 125th Street -
    10  Luther Vandross station. The metropolitan transportation authority shall
    11  ensure that all signs and any other items  issued  by  the  metropolitan
    12  transportation  authority are updated to accurately reflect the new name
    13  of the station.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    15  deemed  repealed  after  the  signs  and  any other items are accurately
    16  updated. The chief executive officer of the metropolitan  transportation
    17  authority  or  president  of  the  New York city transit authority shall
    18  notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the  completion  of
    19  such  updates  in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and
    20  timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state
    21  of New York in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section  44
    22  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.
                                                                   LBD15639-01-6