The two newspapers Albany County actually requires
You do not get to choose where your LLC notice runs. The county clerk decides — and in Albany County the answer is two specific papers, one daily and one weekly. Publish anywhere else and the six weeks do not count.
The daily: Times Union
The Times Union is Albany County's designated daily newspaper — the region's main paper, published in Albany. Your notice of formation must run in it once per week for six successive weeks.
The weekly: The Altamont Enterprise
The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post is the designated weekly. It is a much smaller community paper out of Altamont, and it is the reason Albany County publication is cheap: weekly community papers charge a fraction of what a metropolitan daily does for the same legal notice.
Both papers are required. One is not a substitute for the other, and the runs must overlap the same six-week period.
Why you cannot pick your own paper
§206 does not say "publish in a newspaper." It says publish in two newspapers designated by the clerk of the county where the LLC's office is located. That designation is the whole point: the statute is a revenue mechanism for specific local papers, and the Department of State checks that the affidavits come from the right ones.
This is the single most expensive mistake in LLC publication. Six weeks in the wrong paper is not a partial credit — it is a total loss. The clock keeps running against your 120-day deadline while you start over.
Designations can change
County clerks can and occasionally do revise their designated-newspaper lists. A list you found in a three-year-old forum post is not authority. We confirm the current Albany County designations before every order we place, and we pin the two papers to your order at checkout so the notice cannot drift to the wrong publication.
Why so many LLCs publish in Albany
The legal requirement is identical statewide — only the newspapers' rates differ. A Manhattan office means publishing in Manhattan-designated papers, where the same six weeks can run $1,000–$1,700+. Albany County is the least expensive in New York. See the county-by-county comparison.
Both papers. Six weeks. One flat price.
We place your notice in the Times Union and The Altamont Enterprise, track the full run, collect both notarized affidavits, and hand you a ready-to-file packet. $300 flat, 100% money-back guarantee.
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General information, not legal advice. Newspaper designations are set by the Albany County Clerk and can change.