N.Y. Banking Law § 3002

§ 3002. Corporate name; exceptions. 1. Any reference to a corporation\nin this section shall include both corporations and foreign\ncorporations.\n 2. The provisions of section three thousand one:\n (a) Shall not require any corporation, existing or licensed under this\nchapter on the effective date of this article, to add to, modify or\notherwise change its corporate name.\n (b) Shall not prevent a corporation with which another corporation is\nmerged or which is formed by the reorganization or consolidation of one\nor more other corporations or upon a sale, lease, exchange or other\ndisposition of all or substantially all the assets of another\ncorporation, including its name, from having the same name as any of\nsuch corporations if at the time such other corporation was licensed or\nexisting under this chapter.\n