N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 5237: Failure of title to property sold

§ 5237. Failure of title to property sold. The purchaser of property

sold by a sheriff pursuant to execution or order may recover the

purchase money from the judgment creditors who received the proceeds if

the property is recovered from such purchaser in consequence of an

irregularity in the sale or a vacatur, reversal or setting aside of the

judgment upon which the execution or order was based. If a judgment for

the purchase money is so recovered against a judgment creditor in

consequence of an irregularity in the sale, such judgment creditor may

enforce his judgment as if no levy or sale had been made, and, for that

purpose, he may move without notice for an order restoring any lien or

priority or amending any docket entry affected by the sale.