RPAPL § 701

Jurisdiction; courts; venue

§ 701. Jurisdiction; courts; venue. 1. A special proceeding to recover real property may be maintained in a county court, the court of a police justice of the village, a justice court, a court of civil jurisdiction in a city, or a district court.

2. The place of trial of the special proceeding shall be within the jurisdictional area of the court in which the real property or a portion thereof is situated; except that where the property is located in an incorporated village which includes parts of two or more towns the proceeding may be tried by a justice of the peace of any such town who keeps an office in the village.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/RPA/701

In plain English

A summary proceeding to recover real property can be brought in a county court, a village police-justice court, a justice court, a city civil court, or a district court. ★ (Not started in Supreme Court.)
Venue = you file where the property sits. The trial must be within the jurisdictional area of the court where the real property (or part of it) is located. ★ Special rule: if the property is in a village spanning two or more towns, a justice of the peace of any of those towns who keeps a village office can hear it.

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 6 — The JG-22 Uniform Rules and Everything Else and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.