N.Y. RPA Law § 1712

§ 1712. By whom maintainable. The special proceeding may be maintained\nby the general or testamentary guardian of the property of the infant,\nby the committee of the property of the incompetent person or the\nconservator of the property of the conservatee, or by any relative or\nother person in behalf of the infant, incompetent person, or conservatee\nor by an infant of the age of fourteen years or over in his own behalf.\n The special proceeding may be maintained, in a case specified in\nsubdivisions 3 and 4 of section 1711, by a person entitled to the\nconveyance; and, also, in a case specified in subdivision 4 of that\nsection, by the executor or administrator of the person who made the\ncontract, or of a person who died seized or possessed of the real\nproperty or interest in real property, or by an heir or devisee of\neither of those persons, to whom the real property or interest in real\nproperty has descended or was devised. Where the proceeding is in behalf\nof an infant of the age of fourteen years or over the infant shall join\ntherein.\n