N.Y. Real Property Law § 409-a: Entries in other indexes

§ 409-a. Entries in other indexes. Upon the filing of a notice of

petition and pendency of proceeding in the office of the registrar, the

recording officer of the county or counties in which the land title to

which is sought to be registered is located shall make an entry of the

petition to register such title in the alphabetical index of

conveyances, and in counties having a block index system, in the block

index of conveyances, showing the date of such filing and in the grantor

column the name of the petitioner, and the name of the owner where the

petitioner is the holder of a contract to purchase the premises,

together with a reference to the serial or document number given to such

notice by the registrar and the number of the proceeding to which it

relates.

Recording officers are authorized and directed to index in like manner

in the alphabetical index of conveyances, and in counties having a block

index system, in the block index of conveyances, all applications or

petitions to register titles to land heretofore filed in the office of

the registrar of the county.