N.Y. Const. art. VIII, § 9: When debt-incurring power of certain counties shall cease

§ 9. Whenever the boundaries of any city are the same as those of a

county, or when any city includes within its boundaries more than one

county, the power of any county wholly included within such city to

contract indebtedness shall cease, but the indebtedness of such county

shall not, for the purposes of this article, be included as a part of

the city indebtedness.