N.Y. STL Law § 52

§ 52. Governor may execute deed or release. Whenever the United\nStates, by any agent authorized under the hand and seal of any head of\nan executive department of the government of the United States, or the\nadministrator of veterans' affairs of the government of the United\nStates, shall cause to be filed in the office of the secretary of state\nof the state of New York, maps or plats and descriptions by metes and\nbounds of any tracts or parcels of land within this state, except within\nthe Adirondack park as defined by section 9-0101 of the environmental\nconservation law, where a special act of the legislature shall be\nrequired, which have been acquired by the United States for any of the\npurposes aforesaid, and a certificate of the attorney-general of the\nUnited States that the United States is in possession of said lands and\npremises for either of the works or purposes aforesaid, under a clear\nand complete title, the governor of this state is authorized, if he\ndeems it proper, to execute in duplicate, in the name of the state and\nunder its great seal, a deed or release of the state ceding to the\nUnited States the jurisdiction of said tracts or parcels of land as\nhereinafter provided. Such maps shall be drawn with pen and India ink\nupon tracing cloth and shall be otherwise in form and manner suitable to\nthe files, records and purposes of the office of the secretary of state,\nand show such data thereon, or in relation thereto, as may be required\nby the secretary of state.\n