N.Y. Civ. Rights Law § 63

§ 63. Order. If the court to which the petition is presented is\nsatisfied thereby, or by the affidavit and certificate presented\ntherewith, that the petition is true, and that there is no reasonable\nobjection to the change of name proposed, and if the petition be to\nchange the name of an infant, that the interests of the infant will be\nsubstantially promoted by the change, the court shall make an order\nauthorizing the petitioner to assume the name proposed. The order shall\nfurther recite the date and place of birth of the applicant and, if the\napplicant was born in the state of New York, such order shall set forth\nthe number of his birth certificate or that no birth certificate is\navailable. The order shall be directed to be entered and the papers on\nwhich it was granted to be filed prior to the publication hereinafter\ndirected in the clerk's office of the county in which the petitioner\nresides if he be an individual, or in the office of the clerk of the\ncivil court of the city of New York if the order be made by that court.\nSuch order shall also direct the publication, at least once, within\nsixty days after the making of the order, in a designated newspaper in\nthe county in which the order is directed to be entered and if the\npetition is made by a person subject to the provisions of subdivision\ntwo of section sixty-two of this article, in a designated newspaper in\nany county wherein such person was convicted if different from the\ncounty in which the order is otherwise directed to be entered, of a\nnotice in substantially the following form: Notice is hereby given that\nan order entered by the ............ court,............ county, on the\n....... day of......., bearing Index Number..........., a copy of which\nmay be examined at the office of the clerk, located at\n.................., in room number......., grants me the right to assume\nthe name of ................... The city and state of my present\naddress are .........................; the month and year of my birth\nare ................; the place of my birth is ....................; my\npresent name is .................................\n