---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as parkland of a portion of Corporal Fischer park and to facilitate the construction of affordable housing"
description: "Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as parkland of a portion of Corporal Fischer park in the borough of the Bronx and to sell and convey such land upon terms and conditions to facilitate the construction of affordable housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 6724"
citation: "New York S 6724 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["SERRANO"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-06-14"
last_action: "2017-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d43439d-ee4a-4da6-adb3-bdc3b63dea31"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S6724"
source_hash: "52b375b6d4b5b081e7baf0e4b36b71efc575a502eb9228cf1931a2ebc17b5fcb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 6724 (2017-2018) — Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as parkland of a portion of Corporal Fischer park and to facilitate the construction of affordable housing

Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as parkland of a portion of Corporal Fischer park in the borough of the Bronx and to sell and convey such land upon terms and conditions to facilitate the construction of affordable housing.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S6724 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6724&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S6724 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S6724)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **128–14** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- SERRANO — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-14** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2094
- **2017-06-20** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2017-06-20** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-20** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-20** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8422
- **2017-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.577
- **2017-06-20** HOME RULE REQUEST
- **2017-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-09-01** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-09-13** SIGNED CHAP.331 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8d43439d-ee4a-4da6-adb3-bdc3b63dea31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).