N.Y. Jud. Law § 153

§ 153. Records kept by special deputy clerks shall be part of records\nof supreme court. The minutes of the part or term of the supreme court\nto which any of the special deputy clerks appointed as provided in\nsection one hundred and two of this chapter, is assigned by the justices\nof the appellate division of the supreme court in the first department,\nor by the presiding justice thereof, kept by him and the records kept by\nthe supreme court jury clerk in the first judicial district, shall be a\npart of the records of the supreme court.\n The minutes and records kept by the special deputy clerks to the clerk\nof the county containing a city having a population of not less than\nthree hundred thousand and not more than one million wholly within the\ncounty shall be part of the records of the supreme court.\n