N.Y. Eminent Domain Procedure Law § 403

§ 403. Names of reputed condemnees. The condemnor shall deliver to its\nappropriate legal officer or attorney, (who shall be in acquisitions\npursuant to subdivision (A) of section five hundred one, the state\nattorney general) a copy of such acquisition map, whereupon it shall be\nthe duty of such legal officer or attorney to advise and certify to the\ncondemnor the names of the reputed condemnees of parcels to be acquired.\n