2016 New York Laws
LIE - Lien
Article 3 - (Lien) ENFORCEMENT OF LIENS ON REAL PROPERTY
47 - How summons served, when personal service cannot be made.

  47.  How  summons  served, when personal service cannot be made. If
  personal service of the summons cannot be made upon a  defendant  in  an
  action  in  a  court  not  of  record, by reason of his absence from the
  state, or his concealment therein, such service may be made by leaving a
  copy thereof at his last place of residence and by publishing a copy  of
  the summons once in each of three successive weeks in a newspaper in the
  city or county where the property is situated.