Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237
For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession not founded upon a written instrument or a judgment or decree, land is deemed to have been possessed and occupied in either of the following cases, and no others:
1. Where there have been acts sufficiently open to put a reasonably diligent owner on notice.
2. Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure, except as provided in subdivision one of section
five hundred forty-three of this article.
N.Y. Real Prop. Acts. Law § 522
