N.Y. JUD Law § 190

§ 190. Jurisdiction of county court. The jurisdiction of each county\ncourt, except the county courts of counties within the city of New York,\nextends to the following actions and special proceedings, in addition to\nthe jurisdiction, power and authority conferred upon a county court in a\nparticular case by special statutory provision:\n 1. An action for the partition of real property, for dower, for the\nforeclosure, redemption or satisfaction of a mortgage upon real\nproperty, for the foreclosure of a lien arising out of a contract for\nthe sale of real property, for specific performance of a contract\nrelating to real property, for the enforcement or foreclosure of a\nmechanic's lien on real property, for reformation or rescission of a\ndeed, contract or mortgage affecting real property, or to compel the\ndetermination of a claim to real property under article fifteen of the\nreal property actions and proceedings law, where the real property to\nwhich the action relates is situated within the county; or to foreclose\na lien upon a chattel in a case specified in section two hundred six of\nthe lien law where the lien does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars\nin amount and the chattel is found within the county.\n 2. An action in favor of the executor, administrator or assignee of a\njudgment creditor, or in a proper case in favor of the judgment\ncreditor, to recover a judgment for money remaining due upon a judgment\nrendered in the same court.\n 3. An action for any other cause, where the defendant, or if there are\ntwo or more defendants, where all of them, at the time of the\ncommencement of the action, reside in the county, or where a defendant\nhas an office for the transaction of business within the county and the\ncause of action arose therein, or where the defendant is a foreign\ncorporation that is doing business within the county and the cause of\naction arose therein and where the complaint in such action demands\njudgment for a sum of money only not exceeding twenty-five thousand\ndollars; or to recover one or more chattels the aggregate value of which\ndoes not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars with or without damages for\nthe taking or detention thereof.\n 4. The custody of the person and the care of the property,\nconcurrently with the supreme court, of a resident of the county who is\nadjudicated incompetent to manage his affairs by reason of age,\ndrunkenness, mental illness or other cause or for whom a conservator has\nbeen appointed; and any special proceeding which the supreme court has\njurisdiction to entertain for the appointment of a committee of the\nperson or of the property of such an incompetent person or conservatee\nor for the sale or other disposition of the real property situated\nwithin the county of a person wherever resident who is incompetent, who\nis a conservatee or who is an infant, or for the sale or other\ndisposition of the real property, situated within the county, of a\ndomestic religious corporation.\n 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any\nproceeding which the supreme court has jurisdiction to entertain to\nreview the actions or determinations of the state board of parole.\n 6. An action for any claim against a restitution fund established by\nsuch court resulting from its criminal jurisdiction.\n