2006 New York Code - Acquisition Of Real Property.

 
    § 404. Acquisition of real property.  Real property may be acquired in
  any  school  district  and in any city having less than seventy thousand
  inhabitants, for school purposes and for any  other  purpose  for  which
  such property may be acquired as provided in this chapter, as follows:
    1. By gift, grant, devise or purchase.
    2. By involuntary acquisition, if an agreement cannot be made with the
  owner  for  the purchase thereof.   Such proceedings shall be instituted
  and conducted by the trustee or board of education, in the name  of  the
  district under the provisions of the eminent domain procedure law.
    3.  This  section  does  not permit the acquisition by condemnation of
  less than the whole of a city or village  lot  with  the  erections  and
  improvements thereon.