If I file suit against someone who I lived with, with whom I have an order of protection, how does one serve the complaint

If I have an order of protection against someone with whom I lived with at my current address and I file suit against that person's whereabouts, how can I serve a complaint upon that person? Ordinarily, a complaint can be served at the defendant's last known address, I think, but since that is my own current address, it seems a bit self-serving (in the ordinary sense of the word) to send it to my own address and claim proper service of complaint, although it would seem to satisfy New York State code. Would it though? Or would I have to go the publish the complaint in a newspaper method, or some other method?