2016 New York Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions & Proceedings
Article 10 - (Real Property Actions & Proceedings) ACTION FOR DOWER
1077 - Payment of taxes, assessments and water rates out of proceeds.

 1077. Payment of taxes, assessments and water rates out of proceeds.
  Where  a judgment, rendered in an action for dower directs a sale of the
  real property, the officer making the sale must, out  of  the  proceeds,
  unless  the  judgment otherwise directs, pay all taxes, assessments, and
  water rates which are liens  upon  the  property  sold  and  redeem  the
  property  sold  from  any  sales for unpaid taxes, assessments, or water
  rates which have not apparently become absolute. The sums  necessary  to
  make those payments and redemptions are deemed expenses of the sale.