N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 6203: Attaching creditor's rights in personal property

§ 6203. Attaching creditor's rights in personal property. Where a

plaintiff has delivered an order of attachment to a sheriff, the

plaintiff's rights in a debt owed to the defendant or in an interest of

the defendant in personal property against which debt or property a

judgment may be enforced, are superior to the extent of the amount of

the attachment to the rights of any transferee of the debt or property,

except:

1. a transferee who acquired the debt or property before it was levied

upon for fair consideration or without knowledge of the order of

attachment; or

2. a transferee who acquired the debt or property for fair

consideration after it was levied upon without knowledge of the levy

while it was not in the possession of the sheriff.