Manhattan (New York County) LLC Publication Costs (2026)

Manhattan — New York County for filing — is one of the four NYC boroughs where the County Clerk picks your newspapers, not you. That makes Manhattan the borough people get quoted badly on. Here is the honest picture: what it costs, what you pay today, and what the Clerk actually does.

What you pay, in plain numbers

Manhattan orders we price land between about $1,330 and $2,310 all in, and most of them toward the lower end — both newspapers at their listed rates, the $50 State fee and our flat $99. The daily costs the same on every order, so the whole difference is the weekly the Clerk assigns.

Until the Clerk names yours, nobody knows your exact figure, and anyone quoting you one before that does not know it either.

What you get for the $99: we request the designation from the Clerk, chase it, price whichever papers it names, and show you the bill line by line — this paper $X, that paper $Y, the State $50, us $99 — before a cent more is charged. You approve it, or you walk away having spent $99.

Be careful with anyone quoting a flat Manhattan price up front. Several sellers advertise $375–$399 for "New York LLC publication". Read what they do: that price is for moving your LLC's county of record to Albany or Rockland and publishing there instead. It is a different product. If your Articles say New York County and you want to stay there, you cannot buy a $399 Manhattan publication from anyone.

Your designated newspapers

The Clerk designates both papers. Since October 2026 the daily is always the New York Law Journal: the Clerk's own publication-information page, sent back with every designation, calls it "a MANDATORY publication" that anyone filing in New York County must publish in. The weekly is rotated by the Clerk's office and is the half nobody can predict.

The designation does not arrive as a separate letter in Manhattan. The Clerk stamps your filing receipt with the two newspaper names and sends it back.

One document is enough. The Clerk's 2026-09-28 letter asked for both the filing receipt and the Articles of Organization, but in practice the office designates on either one: on 2026-10-26 it designated five LLCs the morning after we sent the filing receipt alone, and it has designated on the filed Articles alone too. So send either your Department of State filing receipt or your filed Articles of Organization, the same as in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

The flow, in order:

1. You pay our $99 and upload your Department of State filing receipt or your filed Articles of Organization (a phone photo is fine).
2. We send it to the New York County Clerk the same day.
3. The Clerk returns your receipt stamped with your daily and your weekly.
4. We price both papers and send you the whole bill, itemized, with the $50 State fee.
5. You approve and pay that balance — nothing more is charged before this.
6. We place the notice with both papers and the six-week runs begin.

Five minutes of your time, not five hours

Type your LLC name and the form fills itself from the State's own record — your DOS ID, your county, your formation date, your 120-day deadline. Most people are done in about two minutes. After that you watch it happen: every insertion, both affidavits and the State filing show up on your order page as they land, and you get an email at each step.

Which county you publish in

Publish in the county your Articles of Organization name — not where you operate. If that county looks wrong, confirm it with your attorney before placing anything: a notice published in the wrong county's papers does not satisfy the statute, and the six weeks would have to be bought and run again.

The process (same statewide)

NY LLC Law §206: the notice runs once a week for six weeks in both papers (12 insertions), within 120 days of formation. Both papers issue notarized affidavits; we file the Certificate of Publication with the $50 State fee and deliver your stamped Certificate.

See your deadline and start your Manhattan publication — look up your LLC.