2006 New York Code - Acquisition of property for purposes of article.

 
    §  9. Subject to any limitation imposed by the legislature, the state,
  or any city,  town,  village  or  public  corporation,  may  acquire  by
  purchase,  gift,  eminent  domain  or otherwise, such property as it may
  deem ultimately necessary or proper to effectuate the purposes  of  this
  article,  or  any  of  them,  although temporarily not required for such
  purposes.