2006 New York Code - Vesting Of Crown Lands In The People Of The State.

 
    § 4. Vesting  of crown lands in the people of the state.  The absolute
  property of all messuages, lands, tenements and  hereditaments,  and  of
  all  rents,  royalties,  franchises, prerogatives, privileges, escheats,
  forfeitures, debts,  dues,  duties  and  services  by  whatsoever  names
  respectively the same are called and known in the law, and all right and
  title  to  the  same, which next and immediately before the ninth day of
  July,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  seven  hundred   and
  seventy-six, did vest in, or belong, or was, or were due to the crown of
  Great  Britain  be,  and  the same and each and every of them hereby are
  declared to be, and ever since the said ninth day of July, in  the  year
  of  our  Lord  one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, to have been,
  and forever after shall be vested in the people of this state,  in  whom
  the  sovereignty  and seigniory thereof, are and were united and vested,
  on and from the said ninth day of July, in the  year  of  our  Lord  one
  thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.