2012 New York Consolidated Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 12 - (370 - 436) REGISTERING TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY
409-A - Entries in other indexes.

 
    §  409-a.  Entries  in  other  indexes. Upon the filing of a notice of
  petition and pendency of proceeding in the office of the registrar,  the
  recording  officer  of the county or counties in which the land title to
  which is sought to be registered is located shall make an entry  of  the
  petition   to   register   such  title  in  the  alphabetical  index  of
  conveyances, and in counties having a block index system, in  the  block
  index of conveyances, showing the date of such filing and in the grantor
  column  the  name of the petitioner, and the name of the owner where the
  petitioner is the  holder  of  a  contract  to  purchase  the  premises,
  together with a reference to the serial or document number given to such
  notice  by  the  registrar  and the number of the proceeding to which it
  relates.
    Recording officers are authorized and directed to index in like manner
  in the alphabetical index of conveyances, and in counties having a block
  index system, in the block index of  conveyances,  all  applications  or
  petitions  to  register titles to land heretofore filed in the office of
  the registrar of the county.