N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 1142: Vehicle entering stop or yield intersection

§ 1142. Vehicle entering stop or yield intersection. (a) Except when

directed to proceed by a police officer, every driver of a vehicle

approaching a stop sign shall stop as required by section eleven hundred

seventy-two and after having stopped shall yield the right of way to any

vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which

is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate

hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the

intersection.

(b) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in

obedience to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for existing

conditions, or shall stop if necessary as provided in section eleven

hundred seventy-two, and shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian

legally crossing the roadway on which he is driving, and to any vehicle

in the intersection or approaching on another highway so closely as to

constitute an immediate hazard during the time such driver is moving

across or within the intersection. Provided, however, that if such

driver is involved in a collision with a pedestrian in a crosswalk or a

vehicle in the intersection after driving past a yield sign without

stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of his

failure to yield the right of way.