2006 New York Code - Notice Of Sale; How Served.

 
    * § 1406. Notice of sale; how served. Service of notice of the sale as
  prescribed  in  subdivision one of section fourteen hundred five of this
  article shall be made upon a person or entity described  in  subdivision
  one  of section fourteen hundred five of this article that the mortgagee
  seeks to foreclose as follows:
    1. At least thirty days before the date of sale, by delivering a  copy
  of  the  notice,  in the manner prescribed by article three of the civil
  practice law and rules for personal service of a copy of a summons in  a
  civil action in a court of record, to the person or entity to be served,
  and  by  mailing  an additional copy thereof to such person or entity by
  first class mail  in  an  envelope  bearing  the  legend  "personal  and
  confidential"  and  not  indicating  on  the  outside thereof, by return
  address or otherwise, that the communication  is  from  an  attorney  or
  concerns  an  action  or  proceeding  against the person or entity to be
  served. If such person or entity is a foreign corporation, or is  not  a
  resident  of  or within the state, then service thereof may be made upon
  it in like manner without the state, at least forty days before the date
  of sale.
    2. Service of a copy of the notice of sale  upon  the  mortgagor,  the
  mortgagor's  successors  or  assigns,  or  a  subsequent  grantee of the
  property from the mortgagor, in the manner prescribed  in  the  mortgage
  shall be good, valid and effective service hereunder.
    3.  Service  of a copy of the notice of sale upon the United States of
  America, its agencies or instrumentalities, shall be in accordance  with
  applicable federal statute.
    * NB Repealed July 1, 2009