N.Y. General Municipal Law § 141: Trustees a corporation

§ 141. Trustees a corporation. Whenever any grant, gift, devise or

bequest shall have been made, under the provisions of this article, such

trustees shall thereupon become and be a body politic and corporate with

the name which shall have been specified by the donor in making the

donation, and with the number of trustees, within the foregoing limits,

named by the donor; and such corporation shall have full power to take

and hold all property which shall have been and also which shall

thereafter be granted, given, devised or bequeathed to it as aforesaid

for said uses and purposes, and shall possess the powers and be subject

to the provisions and restrictions contained in general corporation law.

If no name shall have been specified by the donor as aforesaid, the name

of the corporation shall be such as the said trustees shall adopt,

certify and file in the county clerk's office of the county in which the

interested city, village or town is located.