2012 New York Consolidated Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions & Proceedings
Article 13 - (1301 - 1391) ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE
1313 - Permissible defendants.

 
    §  1313.  Permissible  defendants.    Any  person who is liable to the
  plaintiff for payment of the debt secured by the mortgage may be made  a
  defendant  in  the action. The state may be made a party defendant to an
  action for the foreclosure of a mortgage on real property, where it  has
  an  interest  in or a lien on the property subsequent to the lien of the
  mortgage sought to be foreclosed in said action, in the same manner as a
  private person.