From New York Statues on Name Change: “The order shall be directed to be entered and the papers on which it was granted to be filed prior to the publication hereinafter directed in the clerk’s office of the county in which the petitioner resides if he be an individual, or in the office of the clerk of the civil court of the city of New York if the order be made by that court. Such order shall also direct the publication, at least once, within twenty days after the making of the order, in a designated newspaper in the county in which the order is directed to be entered, of a notice in substantially the following form: Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the…......... court,............ county, on the…... day of…...., bearing Index Number…........, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at…........, in room number…...., grants me the right to assume the name of…........... My present address is…..................; the date of my birth is…...................; the place of my birth is…....................; my present name is….......................... ”