N.Y. Real Property Law § 223: Rights where property or lease is transferred

§ 223. Rights where property or lease is transferred. The grantee of

leased real property, or of a reversion thereof, or of any rent, the

devisee or assignee of the lessor of such a lease, or the heir or

personal representative of either of them, has the same remedies, by

entry, action or otherwise, for the nonperformance of any agreement

contained in the assigned lease for the recovery of rent, for the doing

of any waste, or for other cause of forfeiture as his grantor or lessor

had, or would have had, if the reversion had remained in him. A lessee

of real property, his assignee or personal representative, has the same

remedy against the lessor, his grantee or assignee, or the

representative of either, for the breach of an agreement contained in

the lease, that the lessee might have had against his immediate lessor,

except a covenant against incumbrances or relating to the title or

possession of the premises leased. This section applies as well to a

grant or lease in fee, reserving rent, as to a lease for life or for

years; but not to a deed of conveyance in fee, made before the ninth day

of April, eighteen hundred and five, or after the fourteenth day of

April, eighteen hundred and sixty.