N.Y. HAY Law § 212-A

§ 212-a. Abandoning of parts of town highways. Whenever, pursuant to\nthis chapter or under the provisions of any statute, any town road shall\nhave been widened, straightened, extended, drained, paved or otherwise\nimproved and in the process thereof a town shall have acquired from an\nadjacent owner certain lands necessary for said right-of-way by\npurchase, condemnation or as a gift and where under such circumstances\neither the grantor of said new right-of-way shall own the property on\nboth sides thereof for the full length of the new taking or the consent\nin writing of any and all other owners within such area be given, and\nthere shall be sections of the old road as it existed before said\nimprovement which are of no further use for highway purposes to said\ntown, the town board of said town in which said land is situated, upon\nthe recommendation of the town superintendent of highways, may adopt a\nresolution, with the consent of the county superintendent of highways,\nto abandon to the abutting owner or owners such sections or parts of the\nold road as it existed before said improvement which are of no further\nuse for highway purposes, providing the road after such abandonment\nshall be not less than three rods in width, and the supervisor of said\ntown is hereby authorized to execute and acknowledge in the name of the\ntown and affix the seal of the town to a quit-claim deed or deeds of the\nland so abandoned and to deliver the same to the abutting owner or\nowners for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the\ntown board of the said town shall deem proper.\n The adoption of the hereinbefore mentioned resolution by the town\nboard shall be an immediate abandonment and discontinuance of the use\nfor highway and street purposes of said sections or parts of the old\nroad described in said resolution without any further or other\nproceedings.\n