N.Y. Debtor & Creditor Law § 131: Assignment; effect thereof

§ 131. Assignment; effect thereof. The assignment must be acknowledged

or proved, and certified, in like manner as a deed to be recorded in the

county, and must be recorded in the clerk's office of the county where

the petitioner is imprisoned. Where it appears, from the schedule or

otherwise, that real property will pass thereby, the assignment must

also be recorded as a deed, in the proper office for recording deeds, of

each county where the real property is situated. The assignment vests in

the trustee or trustees, for the benefit of the judgment creditors in

the executions, by virtue of which the petitioner is imprisoned, all the

estate, right, title, and interest of the petitioner in and to the

property, so directed to be assigned.