Section 1174. Title of the state not affected

Notwithstanding any other
  provision of this article or of section thirteen hundred thirteen of the
  real property actions and proceedings law, real property  of  the  state
  shall  not  be  sold in any proceeding for the foreclosure of a tax lien
  pursuant to this article, nor shall any judgment in any such  proceeding
  or  any  conveyance  made  pursuant  to  any  such  judgment be valid or
  effectual to bar or foreclose the state with respect to,  or  to  divest
  the  state  of,  any estate held by the state in or to any real property
  involved in any such proceeding.