Queens County LLC Publication: Cost & Newspapers

Queens is one of the four NYC boroughs where the County Clerk assigns your newspapers — you do not pick them, and neither do we. That is why nobody can quote you a firm Queens price before you file. What we can do is show you what our Queens orders have actually cost, and charge you nothing but the $99 until you have seen your own number.

What Queens has actually cost

Queens is the borough we have the most history in, so we can do better than a shrug. Depending on which pair the Clerk draws, a Queens publication can run anywhere from about $450 to $850 all in — both newspapers at their listed rates, the $50 State fee and our flat $99. In practice most land between $650 and $800, and the orders we have completed have come in between $599 and $844, with the middle of the pack around $700. The cheap end is real but uncommon: it needs the Clerk to draw one particular weekly, and the rest of the rotation sits higher.

What the $99 buys: we request the designation from the Queens County Clerk, chase it, price whichever papers it names, and send you the itemized bill — this paper $X, that paper $Y, the State $50, us $99. You approve it, or you stop there having spent $99. Nothing beyond the $99 is charged without your say-so.

Watch what a cheap flat quote is actually selling. Several sellers advertise a few hundred dollars for "New York LLC publication". Read the fine print: that price usually covers changing your LLC's county of record to Albany or Rockland and publishing there instead — a different transaction, with a State filing of its own. We publish in the county your Articles name. If you want to change your county, that is a decision to make deliberately, not one to discover in a checkout.

Your designated newspapers

In Queens the County Clerk designates one daily and one weekly for each LLC individually, from a rotating list, after receiving a copy of your Department of State filing receipt (it must show Queens as the county) or your filed Articles of Organization. The Clerk then issues a gold-seal Letter of Designation naming the two papers. There is no list to choose from, and anyone who quotes you a specific Queens paper up front is guessing.

The flow, in order:

You pay our $99 when you place your order, and upload your DOS filing receipt or your filed Articles — with the order, or on your order page right after paying.
The moment we have both, we send the receipt to the Queens County Clerk, who assigns designations in the order requests are received — every day the receipt sits uncollected is a worse place in the queue.
The Clerk's Letter of Designation names your daily and your weekly.
We quote you each paper's listed rate, itemized, with the $50 State fee.
You approve and pay that balance — nothing more is charged before this.
We place the notice with both papers and the six-week runs begin.

Obtaining the gold-seal letter is the designation step above, and it is part of your order — not something you need to chase.

Two minutes of your time, not two weeks of yours

Type your LLC name and the form fills itself from the State's own record — your DOS ID, your county, your formation date, your real 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 appear on your order page as they land, and you get an email at each step. No phone calls, no chasing a clerk, no wondering where it stands.

Confirm your borough = county

For publication, Queens the borough is Queens County. Your publication county is whatever your Articles of Organization say — publish there even if you operate in another borough. If the county on your Articles looks wrong, confirm it with your attorney before placing anything: a notice run 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 Queens publication — look up your LLC.