2010 New York Code
RPP - Real Property
Article 6 - (189 - 207) DOWER AND CURTESY
190 - Dower.

§  190. Dower. When the parties intermarried prior to the first day of
  September, nineteen hundred and thirty, a widow shall be endowed of  the
  third  part  of all the lands whereof her husband was prior to the first
  day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty, seized of  an  estate  of
  inheritance,  at  any  time  during the marriage. Except as hereinbefore
  provided, after the thirty-first day of  August,  nineteen  hundred  and
  thirty,  no  inchoate right of dower shall be possessed by a wife during
  coverture, and no widow shall be  endowed,  in  any  lands  whereof  her
  husband became seized of an estate of inheritance.