N.Y. Real Property Law § 190: Dower

§ 190. Dower. When the parties intermarried prior to the first day of

September, nineteen hundred and thirty, a widow shall be endowed of the

third part of all the lands whereof her husband was prior to the first

day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, seized of an estate of

inheritance, at any time during the marriage. Except as hereinbefore

provided, after the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred and

thirty, no inchoate right of dower shall be possessed by a wife during

coverture, and no widow shall be endowed, in any lands whereof her

husband became seized of an estate of inheritance.