N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 5-370: § 5-370 Awards; payment of.

The comptroller, within four calendar months after the making and entry of the final decree, shall pay to the respective owners and bodies, politic or corporate, mentioned or referred to in such decree, in whose favor any sum or sums of money shall be determined, the respective sum or sums so determined in their favor respectively, with lawful interest thereon, from the date title to the real property vested. In case of neglect or default in the payment of the same within such time, the respective person or persons, or bodies, politic or corporate, in whose favor the same shall be so determined, his, her or their executors, administrators, legal representatives or successors, at any time or times, after application first made by him, her or them to the comptroller, for payment thereof, may sue for and recover the same, with such lawful interest and the costs of suit, in any proper form of action against the city in any court having cognizance thereof, and in which it shall be sufficient to declare generally for so much money due to the plaintiff or plaintiffs therein by virtue of this subchapter, for real estate taken or affected for the purposes herein mentioned. The final decree, with proof of the right and title of the plaintiff or plaintiffs to the sum or sums demanded shall be conclusive evidence in such suit or action, and entitle plaintiff to judgment therein.