New York Consolidated Laws, Debtor and Creditor Law - DCD § 131. Assignment;  effect thereof

The assignment must be acknowledged or proved, and certified, in like manner as a deed to be recorded in the county, and must be recorded in the clerk's office of the county where the petitioner is imprisoned.  Where it appears, from the schedule or otherwise, that real property will pass thereby, the assignment must also be recorded as a deed, in the proper office for recording deeds, of each county where the real property is situated.  The assignment vests in the trustee or trustees, for the benefit of the judgment creditors in the executions, by virtue of which the petitioner is imprisoned, all the estate, right, title, and interest of the petitioner in and to the property, so directed to be assigned.