N.Y. Real Prop. Tax Law § 1174

§ 1174. Title of the state not affected. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of this article or of section thirteen hundred thirteen of the\nreal property actions and proceedings law, real property of the state\nshall not be sold in any proceeding for the foreclosure of a tax lien\npursuant to this article, nor shall any judgment in any such proceeding\nor any conveyance made pursuant to any such judgment be valid or\neffectual to bar or foreclose the state with respect to, or to divest\nthe state of, any estate held by the state in or to any real property\ninvolved in any such proceeding.\n