sentences:  However, newspapers and prominent lobbyists, who supported such a park system, were able to petition the bill into the New York State Senate, and later, the New York State Assembly (the legislature's lower house).In June 1884, Governor Grover Cleveland signed the New Parks Act into law, authorizing the creation of the park system.Acquired in 1888 as a result of the New Parks Act, Crotona Park is located on part of the former estate of the Bathgate family, which owned large plots of land in the South Bronx.