2006 New York Code - Right Of Entry.

 
    §  19-106  Right  of entry. The commissioner may enter in the day time
  upon any lands, tenements, hereditaments and  waters  which  he  or  she
  shall  deem necessary to be surveyed, used or converted, for the purpose
  of laying out and surveying streets, bridges, tunnels and approaches  to
  bridges and tunnels.