§ 343-i. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the "Joe DiMaggio Highway". Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all that portion of the state highway system in the county of New York which is identified and known as the West Side Highway, the Miller Highway or state route 9-A, running from Battery Place to West Seventy-second Street, shall be designated and known as the "Joe DiMaggio Highway."