New York Civil Practice Law & Rules Section 6203 - Attaching creditor's rights in personal property.

  6203.  Attaching  creditor's  rights  in personal property. Where a
  plaintiff has delivered  an  order  of  attachment  to  a  sheriff,  the
  plaintiff's  rights in a debt owed to the defendant or in an interest of
  the defendant in personal property against  which  debt  or  property  a
  judgment  may  be  enforced, are superior to the extent of the amount of
  the attachment to the rights of any transferee of the debt or  property,
  except:
1. a transferee who acquired the debt or property before it was levied
  upon  for  fair  consideration  or  without  knowledge  of  the order of
  attachment; or
2.  a  transferee  who  acquired  the  debt  or  property   for   fair
  consideration  after  it  was  levied upon without knowledge of the levy
  while it was not in the possession of the sheriff.

Last modified: February 3, 2019