New York Laws
Article 2 - Escheat of Real Property
209 - Effect of Release on Rights of Others.

ยง 209. Effect of release on rights of others. No such release shall
impair or affect any right, title, interest or estate in or to the lands
thereby released, of any heir-at-law, devisee, grantee, mortgagee or
creditor of any person having an interest in the real property released
immediately prior to the escheat thereof, or of any person having a lien
or incumbrance thereon, through, under or by any person having an
interest therein immediately prior to the escheat.