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MAJOR REPOSITORIES IN NEW YORK CITY
FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
We hope that you will have time to do research in New York City's many major repositories. Below is a list of them, including their addresses, phone numbers, open hours, and if available, an Internet address, so you can learn more about their holdings.
| BRONX |
Board of Elections, Bronx Borough Office
1780 Grand Concourse, 5th Floor
Bronx, NY 10457
(718) 299-9017, ext 228
Fax: (718) 299-2140
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Voter registrations, 1897 to the present.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required. Archival records may require prior notice to be retrieved from storage.
Bronx County Historical Society, Research Library and Archives
3309 Bainbridge Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467
(between East 208th and 210th streets)
(718) 881-8900
Fax: (718) 881-4827
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Call to make an appointment.
Fire Department journals; Police Department blotters; 1915 and 1925 New York state census for Bronx County; newspapers and newspaper clipping files; naturalization certificate receipt books; name changes; business incorporations; Morris High School Collection; Bronx Old Timers Association.
City Clerk's Office - Bronx, Marriage License Bureau
(See Manhattan - City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau)
City Register's Office, Bronx
Bronx Business Center
1932 Arthur Avenue
Bronx, NY 10457
(near East Tremont Avenue)
(718) 579-6821 (City Register's Office, Room 301)
(718) 579-6830 (Microfilm Unit, Room 201)
Property Assessment, 7th floor
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Real property records (deeds, mortgages, maps), 1674 to the present.
Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County
851 Grand Concourse, Ground/Basement Level
Bronx, NY 10451
(between E. 161st Street and Walton Avenue)
(718) 590-3601
Fax: (718) 590-7294
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Name changes, 1927 to the present.
ID Requirements:Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Bronx Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building.
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Bronx County
851 Grand Concourse, Room 118
Bronx, NY 10451
(between E. 161st Street and Walton Avenue)
(718) 590-3629 (Miscellaneous Records)
(718) 590-3633 (Records and Filing)
(718) 590-3636 (Naturalization Records)
Fax: (718) 590-8122 (Clerk's Office)
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
1915 and 1925 New York state census for Bronx County; naturalizations; court cases; business records; military discharge records; matrimonial records (divorces, separations, annulments); name changes; incompetency records; conservatorships; guardianships; surrenders of children. For pre-1914 records, see County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, New York County, Civil Branch, Record Room (New York County).
ID Requirements: Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Bronx Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building.
Surrogate's Court, Bronx County, Record Room
851 Grand Concourse, Room 317
Bronx, NY 10451
(between E. 161st Street and Walton Avenue)
(718) 590-3618
Fax: (718) 590-2681
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Probate, administration, adoption, and guardianship records, 1914 to the present.
ID Requirements: Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Bronx Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building.
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| BROOKLYN |
Board of Elections, Brooklyn Borough Office
210 Joralemon Street, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 797-8800
Fax: (718) 246-5992
Will move to 345 Adams Street, 4th Floor (between Willoughby and Pearl streets) in March or April 2006.
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Voter registrations, 1890 to the present.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required. Archival records may require prior notice to be retrieved from storage.
Brooklyn Historical Society
The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Library
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(corner of Clinton Street)
(718) 222-4111, ext. 296
Fax: (718) 222-3794
Call to make an appointment until full hours are resumed.
Published and unpublished genealogies and ancestor charts; typescripts of births, marriages, and deaths; abstracts of births, marriages, and deaths from Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk County newspapers; neighborhood histories; local and regional newspapers; maps and atlases; photographs, drawings, and portraits; genealogical reference collection.
Brooklyn Public Library, Business Library
280 Cadman Plaza West
Brooklyn, NY 11201-2701
(between Tillary and Clinton streets)
(718) 623-7000, Ext 3 (Reference Desk)
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.; Tuesday, 1:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.; Thursday, 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Newspapers and periodicals; city directories; biographical directories; telephone directories; Sanborn fire insurance maps; name changes.
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(cross streets: Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway)
(718) 230-2100, Ext. 5 ("Ask a Librarian")
Brooklyn Collection (718) 230-2483; fax: (718) 857-2245
History/Biography/Religion Division (718) 230-2194
Periodicals and Micromaterials Room (718) 230-2129
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eresources.jsp (Electronic Resources; requires a valid BPL library card)
Library: Sunday, 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.; Monday, Friday, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-9:00
p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Closed on Sundays during the summer.
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Brooklyn Collection: Tuesday, Thursday, 2:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.; Friday, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.; Saturday, 1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Collection: historic maps; town records; Brooklyn Daily Eagle index, clipping files, and photograph collection. History/Biography/Religion Division: yizkor books; biographies; maps and atlases; Civil War Collection; histories of Brooklyn. Periodicals and Micromaterials Room: Brooklyn newspapers; Brooklyn city directories.
Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research
(See Manhattan - Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust)
City Clerk's Office - Brooklyn, Marriage License Bureau
(See Manhattan - City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau)
City Register's Office, Brooklyn
Municipal Building, Room 2
210 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(between Court and Adams streets)
(718) 802-3590 (City Register, 1st floor)
(718) 802-3560 (Property Assessment, 2nd floor)
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Deeds, mortgages, maps, 1679 to the present.
Civil Court of the City of New York, Brooklyn (Kings County)
141 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(between Smith Street and Boerum Place)
(718) 643-8631 (Room 304, Record Room)
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Name changes, 1927 to the present.
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Kings County (Brooklyn)
360 Adams Street, Room 189
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(at Adams and Joralemon streets, off Fulton Street)
(718) 643-5790 (Census and Incompetency records, Room 122A)
(718) 643-4149 (Naturalization and all other records, Room 079)
Room 122A: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (closed 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. for lunch)
Room 079: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Naturalizations; New York state census for Kings County, 1855-1925; divorces, separations, annulments, 1848 to the present.
Sephardic Community Center, Sephardic Archives
1901 Ocean Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11223
(corner of Avenue S)
(718) 627-4300
Fax: (718) 627-4993
Records of the first Syrian synagogue in Brooklyn; photographs and slides; oral histories.
Surrogate's Court, Kings County (Brooklyn), Record Room
Supreme Court Building
2 Johnson Street, Room 109
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(Cross Streets: Adams Street and Cadman Plaza)
(718) 643-8016
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Pre-1975 files must be requested from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Will libers from 1787; probate proceedings from 1866; administration proceedings from 1817; guardianships from 1802.
U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York, Naturalization Division
(Naturalization records transferred. See Manhattan - National Archives, Northeast Region.)
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| MANHATTAN |
Agudath Israel of America Orthodox Jewish Archives
42 Broadway, 14th Floor
New York 10004-1617
(between Exchange Place and Morris Street)
(212) 797-8179
Fax: (212) 269-2843
Appointment suggested.
Jewish immigration from the turn of the century to the present. Work of the Vaad Hatzala (Orthodox Jewish Rescue Committee) in providing relief and rescue to Jews trapped in Nazi Europe; Jewish educational activities; children's camps; employment; social welfare programs.
ID Requirements: A letter of recommendation is normally required, but conference attendees will be permitted
to visit the archives upon presentation of their conference badges.
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
122 West 30th Street, Suite 205
New York, NY 10001
(212) 239-4230; (212) 564-1065
Fax: (212) 279-2926
Mail requests only.
Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors worldwide and their children.
American Jewish Historical Society
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(212) 294-6160
Fax: (212) 294-6161
Archives: http://www.ajhs.org/reference/archives.cfm
Library: http://www.ajhs.org/reference/library.cfm
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Jewish contributions to religious, economic, cultural, and political life in the Americas, 1590 to the present. Personal and family papers; immigration organizations; Jewish organizations; orphanage, military, court, and community records.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the
Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to
be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the
Center.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
711 Third Avenue, 10th Floor
(between East 44th and East 45th streets)
New York, NY 10017-3898
(212) 687-6200
Fax: (212) 370-5467
By appointment only after a Research Application and Statement of Compliance has been approved. Specific limited queries made by phone, mail, or e-mail will be responded to, but in-depth research assistance cannot be provided.
Operations and activities, 1914-1964, including distribution of food, clothing, and medical supplies, reconstruction of decimated areas, rescue of Jews from Nazi-occupied lands, administration of displaced persons camps, relocation of refugees, migration to Israel.
ID Requirements: Photo ID and pre-notification of arrival required to enter building and archives in Manhattan and warehouse in Queens.
American Sephardi Federation Library and Archives
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(212) 294-8350
Fax: (212) 294-8348
Online catalog: http://asf.cjh.org/asfquery.htm
Appointment recommended.
History and culture of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Orient. Vital records; local histories; newspapers; family histories.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
Board of Elections, Manhattan Borough Office
200 Varick Street, 10th Floor (between West Houston and King streets)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 886-2100
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Arrive by 4:00 p.m.
Manhattan voter registrations, 1916-1920 (with gaps) and 1923 to the present.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required. Archival records may require prior notice to be retrieved from storage.
Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement
(Now a division of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives. See YIVO below.)
Center for Jewish History, Lillian Goldman Main Reading Room
15 West 16th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(917) 606-8217
Fax: (917) 606-8222
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Friday research hours are available by prior appointment only, at the discretion of the appropriate CJH partner organization.
Collections of the constituent partners: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
Center for Jewish History, Genealogy Institute
15 West 16th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(212) 294-8318
Fax: (917) 606-8222
Includes an LDS Family History Center.
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Genealogy reference works; electronic resources.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau (All Boroughs)
Municipal Building
1 Centre Street, Room 252 South
New York, NY 10007
(Cross streets: Chambers Street and Brooklyn Bridge)
Write "Attention: Marriage Record Unit" in lower left corner of the envelope.
(212) 669-8898
(212) 669-2400 (recorded information)
(212) 669-8090 (to request form for ordering marriage license by mail)
Fax: (212) 669-3300
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
New York City (five boroughs) marriage license indexes, 1908 to the present; marriage applications and licenses, 1930 to the present. City Clerk records more recent than 1929 and indexes more recent than 1951 are located only at the City Clerk's office. The City Clerk no longer accepts letters from genealogical societies authorizing researchers to look at the indexes. Researchers are not permitted to look at records they order prior to paying for them. A complete City Clerk record has three parts. (1) Affidavit for License to Marry, filed prior to the wedding; the information was provided to the City Clerk by the prospective bride and groom and signed by them. (2) Marriage License, filled out by the City Clerk, permitting the marriage to take place. (3) Certificate and Record of Marriage (also called Marriage Certificate; different from the Department of Health certificate), submitted after the wedding by the clergyman or magistrate who officiated. Records more than fifty years old can be ordered from the City Clerk in person or by mail. Request all three parts of the record. A copy of the application/affidavit will be made only if you specifically request it. It is possible
that the City Clerk will request an additional fee for copying the affidavit. For restrictions, see
http://nycmarriagebureau.com/about/requestinperson.html. Also see New York City Department of Records and
Information Services, Municipal Archives.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
City Register's Office, Manhattan
Manhattan Business Center
66 John Street, 13th Floor
New York NY 10038
(near William Street)
(212) 361-7550 (City Register's Office)
(212) 361-7660 (Real Property Assessment Bureau)
Fax: (212) 361-7699
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Deeds, mortgages, maps, 1654 to the present.
Civil Court of the City of New York, Manhattan (New York County)
111 Centre Street (also known as 75 Lafayette Street), Room 118
New York, NY 10013
(between Franklin, White and Lafayette streets)
(212) 374-7915 (General Clerk's Office)
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
Name changes, May 1887 to the present.
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, New York County, Civil Branch, Record Room (New York County)
60 Centre Street, Room 103B
New York, NY 10007
(cross streets: Worth Street and Foley Square)
(646) 386-5942
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Filed records and court cases up to 1989. Name changes; business names; divorce, annulment, military discharge, and incompetency records; conservatorships; surrenders of children.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to request records.
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, New York County, Division of Old Records
31 Chambers Street, Room 703
New York, NY 10007
(Between Centre and Elk streets)
Mail address: New York County Clerk's Office, 60 Centre Street, Room 161, New York, NY 10007
(212) 374-4376
Fax: 212-608-7543
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by appointment only. Hours will change by August to Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Filed records and court cases, 1990-1997. Name changes; business names; maps; city directories; naturalization, divorce, separation, annulment, military, and incompetency records; conservatorships; adoptions.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
Department of Education
Office of Community Relations
52 Chambers Street, Room 320
New York, NY 10007
(212) 374-5159
Fax: (718) 935-5796
Mail requests only. School records of former students of the New York City public schools are available by contacting the school last attended. If that school no longer exists, contact the region that covers the district in which the school was located. Information about regions and corresponding districts can be found at http://www.nycenet.edu/OurSchools/default.htm. The student cumulative education record file ("Permanent Record Card") is retained permanently. (Although the regulations state permanent retention, the records are often not kept or not available).
Ellis Island Immigration Museum, American Family Immigration History Center
Ellis Island
Mail address: The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box ELLISbr
New York, NY 10163
(212) 561-4588; Battery Park Ferry Ticket Office: (212) 269-5755
Fax: (212) 779-1990
See also http://www.ellisisland.org/Eiinfo/Press_FACT.asp?
Interactive database of twenty-two million passenger records, 1892-1924.
Ellis Island Immigration Museum, National Park Service Archives and Library
Ellis Island
Mail address: Statue of Liberty National Monument
Liberty Island
New York, NY 10004
Attention: Library
(212) 363-3206, Ext. 158 (Library)
Fax: (212) 363-6304
Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Appointment recommended.
Books; unpublished manuscripts; photographs; archival materials; oral histories; collection relates to both Ellis and Liberty islands.
Hadassah Archives at the American Jewish Historical Society
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011-6301
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(917) 606-8259
Fax: (212) 294-6161
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Closed 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Researchers must be approved based on research topic.
History of Hadassah, its projects in Israel, its programs in Jewish Education, Zionist Education, and Health Education developed for Hadassah members in the United States; papers of Youth Aliyah and Young Judea.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Klau Library
Brookdale Center
One West Fourth Street
New York, NY 10012-1186
(corner Mercer Street)
(212) 674-5300
Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Individuals who wish to use the library must write in advance stating their research needs. An appointment
will then be made.
Communal histories and yizkor books, pre- and post-World War II; portions of the holdings of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati.
ID Requirements: Photo ID (driver's license, passport, or ID from an academic institution) required to enter building.
HIAS (The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), Location Department
333 Seventh Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10001-5004
(212) 613-1409
Fax: (212) 967-4356
Mail, e-mail, fax, or telephone inquiries only.
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Case files, 1960 to the present; arrival index cards, 1909-1985; master card index to central files cases, c. 1938-1979; photo archives.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America Library
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027-4649
(corner 122nd Street)
(212) 678-8081 (Reference Desk, 2nd floor)
(212) 678-8077 (Special Collections, 5th floor)
Archives: http://www.jtsa.edu/library/archives
Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Friday, 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. or Seminary closing time (Library); Monday-Thursday, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., Friday, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. (Special Collections)
Yizkor (memorial) books; rabbinic biographies; histories of Jewish communities throughout the world; 19th and 20th century local Jewish newspapers from communities in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, and the Near East; genealogical charts of European and American families; ketubot; 16th-20th century pinkasim (communal record books); 17th-19th century mohel books (records of circumcisions) of mainly European communities.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to use library. Special collections (Manuscripts, Rare Printed Books, Archives, Broadsides, and Jewish Art Collection) available by appointment only.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Lloyd Sealy Library
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
(Between West 58th and West 59th Streets)
(212) 237-8256 (Public Services)
(212) 237-8238 (Appointments for Special Collections)
Fax: (212) 237-8221
Hours vary throughout the school year. Consult the calendar at http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/info/calendar.
Researchers not associated with the City University of New York may make arrangements for on-site use of the
collection by contacting the Reference Desk at (212) 237-8247 or libref@jjay.cuny.edu.
Manhattan Police Department blotters, 1916-1935; transcripts of the Court of General Sessions, 1883-1927.
Leo Baeck Institute
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(212) 744-6400
Fax: (212) 988-1305
Library: http://www.lbi.org/library.html
Archives: http://www.lbi.org/archives.html
Online catalog: http://www.cjh.org/MclbiInternetSQS.htm
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Appointment recommended.
History and culture of German-speaking Jewry. Communal histories; newspapers; circumcision, birth, marriage, and death registers; deportation and concentration camp lists; photographs; collections of records of regions in Alsace, Lorraine, Bavaria, Germany.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Library & Archive
36 Battery Place
Battery Park City
New York, NY 10280
(212) 437-4200 (General Information)
Monday-Friday. By appointment only.
Materials from the former Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research in Brooklyn; yizkor books; correspondence concerning assistance of refugees; audio tapes and written histories of Holocaust survivors, American soldiers, and liberators, including letters, diaries, memoirs.
National Archives and Records Administration,
National Archives, Northeast Region
201 Varick Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10014-4811
(entrance on West Houston Street between Varick and Hudson streets; entrance is marked "West Houston Street Entrance to 201 Varick Street")
(212) 401-1620; (866) 840-1752 (toll-free)
Fax: (212) 401-1638
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Tuesday, 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. (only microfilm research after 4:30 p.m.); first Saturday of each month, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (only microfilm research).
U.S. censuses, all states, all years; immigrant and passenger arrivals; Hamburg passenger lists direct index; Russian Consular records for the New York Consulate; naturalizations; city directories; indexes to New York State vital records; records of concentration camps, the Public Health Service, military service, the Veterans Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building. A non-photo researcher identification card will be
issued in NARA upon showing a photo ID from an official source, such as a driver's license, passport or school
or employment ID. If the address on the photo ID is no longer correct, proof of address from another official
source must be provided, such as a voter registration card or motor vehicle registration.
New York Academy of Medicine Library
1216 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10029
(corner 5th Avenue)
(212) 822-7200 (Reference); (212)822-7310/7313 (Rare Book Room & Historical Collections)
Fax: (212) 423-0266 (Reference); (212) 423-0273 (Rare Book Room & Historical Collections)
Online catalog: www.nyam.org/library/catalog.shtml
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Wednesday, 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. (Main Reading Room)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. (Reference)
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. By appointment only. (Rare Book Room & Historical Collections)
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30p.m., Wednesday, 9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. (Stack Retrieval)
National medical directories; international biographical directories; biography and obituary file; portraits catalog.
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Office of Vital Records
125 Worth Street, CN-4, Room 133
New York, NY 10013-4090
(between Centre and Lafayette streets)
(212) 788-4500
(212) 788-4520 (recorded message)
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Lines are shortest from 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
New York City (five boroughs) birth certificates and indexes, 1910 to the present; death certificates and indexes, 1949 to the present.
ID Requirements: A photo ID with the bearer's signature is required. The ID must be issued by an officially recognized organization or agency and includes a driver's license, an employment ID, a government ID, a Social Services ID, and a passport. The ID must show an expiration date that has not passed; an ID without an expiration date must have been issued within the past twelve months.
New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Municipal Archives
31 Chambers Street, Room 103
New York, NY 10007
(between Centre and Elk streets)
(212) 788-8577
Fax: (212) 788-8583
Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
State censuses for New York City; town records; assessed valuations of real estate; Potter's Field burials; voter registrations; records of criminal court, district attorney's office, coroner's office, municipal almshouse, workhouse, city home, city hospitals. Certificates for marriages reported to the Department of Health from the nineteenth century through 1937, the last year marriages were reported to it and indexes of brides and grooms. The form submitted to DOH was filled out after the wedding by the person who had performed it. It also has the City Clerk's ledger indexes of brides and grooms, 1908-1951, and records of marriages, 1908-1929. Documentation of marriages that took place during 1908-1937 can be found in either the DOH records, the City Clerk's records, or both. A couple can potentially have two DOH certificates (one for a civil ceremony and another for a religious ceremony) as well as a City Clerk record. The City Clerk's forms requested more information than those of DOH, and they are often more accurate. Also see City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau (All Boroughs).
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
New York City Department of Records and Information Services, City Hall Library
31 Chambers Street, Room 112
New York, NY 10007
(between Centre and Elk streets)
(212) 788-8590
Fax (212) 788-8589
Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
New York City (five boroughs) neighborhood files; street name historical file; Assembly and Election District maps; civil service lists; list of enrolled voters; registry of voters.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Library
122 East 58th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022-1939
(between Lexington and Park avenues)
(212) 755-8532
Fax: (212) 754-4218
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Thursday, 12:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Published books on New York families, especially colonial; genealogy magazines.
New York Historical Society Library
2 West 77th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10024
(corner Central Park West)
(212) 873-3400, ext. 225, 226 (General Collections); ext. 265 (Manuscripts Department); ext. 227 (Department of Prints, Photographs and Architecture)
Fax: (212) 875-1591 (General Collections; Manuscripts); (212) 787-9474 (Prints, Photographs and Architecture)
Online catalog: www.bobcat.nyu.edu/
Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; not open Saturday from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend (General Collections; Manuscripts)
Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; by appointment only (Prints, Photographs and Architecture)
New York City (five boroughs) birth, marriage, and death indexes; city directories; New York City newspapers; maps; insurance atlases; genealogies; military records; photographs of New York City streets, buildings, and houses of worship.
ID Requirements: You will be asked to provide a current photo ID when using manuscripts and other
rare materials in the reading room.
New York Public Library, Research Libraries
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
476 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10018-2788
(between 40th and 42nd streets)
Formerly known as the Central Research Library.
Online catalog: http://catnyp.nypl.org
Hours: http://www.nypl.org/research/hours/hsslhours.htm.
ID Requirements: The Rare Books Division, Manuscripts and Archives Division; Arents Collection, Berg Collection, Pforzheimer Collection, Print Collection, Photography Collection, and Spencer Collection require, in addition to an ACCESS card, a Card of Admission to use items.The Card of Admission can be obtained in the Office of Special Collections, Room 316.
Dorot Jewish Division
Room 84
(212) 930-0601
Fax: (212) 642-0141
European and American newspapers, 19th and 20th century; yizkor books; published gravestone inscriptions; individual and collective biographies; genealogies; name indexes; American Jewish Committee Oral History Library; guides to archives and libraries.
General Research Division
Room 315
(212) 930-0830
Fax: (212) 930-0572
Individual and collective biographies; biographical dictionaries; U.S. and non-U.S. telephone directories; city directories for other countries; occupational directories.
Irma & Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy
Rooms 119 and 121
(212) 930-0828
U.S. census; New York state census; New York City 1890 police census; New York City birth, marriage, and death indexes; city directories; published books of marriage announcements, obituaries, and cemeteries; abstracts and indexes of wills and administrations; naturalization indexes; passport application indexes; passenger records and indexes; genealogical publications and indexes.
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Room 328*
(212) 930-0801
Fax: (212) 302-4815
American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel (applications of refugee law personnel seeking retraining assistance); Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars; Jewish Foundation for Education of Women; Sol Bloom papers (include case files of Jewish refugees and displaced persons in Europe seeking permission to emigrate to the U.S.); personal and family papers.
Note: A card of admission for this division is available at the Office of Special Collections, Room 316.
Map Division
Room 117
(212) 930-0587
Fax: 930-0027
Gazetteers, U.S. and non-U.S. maps; computer-mapping workstations.
Microforms Room
Room 100
(212) 642-0139
Fax: (212) 930-0838
U.S. city directories, including New York City, New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut; U.S. and New York City and suburban area telephone directories; U.S. and some international occupational directories; U.S., New York City, and non-U.S. newspapers; catalog of copyright entries; periodicals.
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
Art & Architecture Collection, Room 300, (212) 930-0835; artref@nypl.org
Photography Collection* Room 308, (212) 930-0837; phgref@nypl.org
Print Collection,* Room 308, (212) 930-0817; prnref@nypl.org
Artist files; scrapbooks on artists and architects; pictures of European and American buildings; portraits file; I.N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints (historical events, cities, maps); Eno Collection of New York City Views.
*Note: A card of admission for these collections is available at the Office of Special Collections, Room 316.
Slavic and Baltic Division
Rooms 216 and 217
(212) 930-0714 (recording)
(212) 642-0136 (Reference Room)
Fax: (212) 930-0693
Guides to non-U.S. archives and libraries; gazetteers; biographical dictionaries; newspapers and periodicals; encyclopedias; non-U.S. city and telephone directories.
ID Requirements: Researchers must get an ACCESS card (with their photo on it) to
request materials from the stacks. An application form for the ACCESS card can be completed online and brought
to one of the libraries or completed in person at one of the libraries. Instructions for obtaining an ACCESS
card are given at http://www.nypl.org/research/general/apply.html.)
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10023-7498
(corner 65th Street; enter at 111 Amsterdam Avenue)
(212) 870-1630 (General Information)
(212) 870-1663 (Recorded Sound); Fax: (212) 870-1720
(212) 870-1657 (Dance Division); Fax: (212) 870-1869
(212) 870-1639 (Theatre Collection): Fax: (212) 870-1868
(212) 870-1650 (Music Division); Fax: (212) 870-1794
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.; Thursday, 12:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Recorded Jewish music; collected papers of Fred Berk (Bibliography of Jewish Dance); records of the Yiddish theater.
Dance Collection online catalog: http://catnyp.nypl.org/search~b1o1c1i1p1r1a1
http://www.nypl.org/databases/lpadb.cfm (list of electronic resources available on-site)
ID Requirements: Researchers must get an ACCESS card (with their photo on it) to request materials from the Recorded Sound, Dance, Theatre, and Music divisions. An application form for the ACCESS card can be completed online and brought to one of the libraries or completed in person at one of the libraries. Instructions for obtaining an ACCESS card are given at http://www.nypl.org/research/general/apply.html.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard (corner 135th Street)
New York, NY 10037-1801
Online catalog: http://catnyp.nypl.org/search~S2
Hours: http://www.nypl.org/research/hours/schours.htm.
http://www.nypl.org/databases/schdb.cfm (list of electronic resources available on-site)
ID Requirements: Researchers must get an ACCESS card (with their photo on it) to request materials from the stacks An
application form for the ACCESS card can be completed online and brought to one of the libraries or completed in person at one of the libraries. Instructions for obtaining an ACCESS card are given at http://www.nypl.org/research/general/apply.html.
General Research and Reference Division
(212) 491-2200
Tuesday, Wednesday, 12:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.; Thursday-Saturday, 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
U.S. census, 1790-1900, all states; 1910 and 1920, Soundexed states; American Negro Historical Society Collection of vital records; genealogy guides; military records; cemetery records; biographies; Freedman's Savings and Trust Company records.
Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books Division
(212) 491-2224
Wednesday, Thursday, 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.; Friday, Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Ethiopian Hebrew congregations; oral histories; records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
ID Requirements: The Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division requires registration to use the materials. Researchers must fill out a registration form and show traceable identification. An admission card will be issued for long-term research use.
Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL)
188 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4314
(corner 34th Street)
(212) 592-7000 (reference)
http://www.nypl.org/databases/sibldb.cfm (list of electronic resources available on-site)
Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.; Friday, Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Reverse directories arranged by address and phone number, 1971 to the present; voter registration lists; U.S. patents file; real estate directories; name changes, 1812-1901.
ID Requirements: Researchers must get an ACCESS card (with their photo on it) to request materials from the stacks An
application form for the ACCESS card can be completed online and brought to one of the libraries or completed in person at one of the libraries. Instructions for obtaining an ACCESS card are given at http://www.nypl.org/research/general/apply.html.
New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
(corner LaGuardia Place)
(212) 998-2630
Fax: (212) 995-4070
Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; most Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. during the spring and fall semesters;
Summer hours: Monday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Friday by appointment only.
Monday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Friday by appointment only.
Organizational and personal papers, 1865 to the present, covering labor history, socialism, communism, anarchism, utopian experiments, women's movement.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
Old York Library
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
(between 34th and 35th streets)
(212) 817-7241
Fax: (212) 817-1614
Online catalog: http://www.oldyorklibrary.org/index_search_bib.htm
Monday and Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. -5:30 p.m.; Thursday, 9:30 a.m -2:00 p.m. By appointment only.
History, geography, architecture, culture, and politics of New York City. Photographs from the New York Herald Tribune; postcards; maps; biographies; diaries; New York City histories.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration Archives
570 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10018
(corner 41st Street)
(212) 921-3871
Fax: (212) 575-1918
By appointment only
Biographical material on émigrés from Germany, Austria, and German-speaking Czechoslovakia, 1933-1945. Also available at Leo Baeck Institute Archives-Library.
Surrogate's Court, New York County, Record Room
31 Chambers Street, Room 402 (between Centre and Elk streets)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 374-8287
Record Room 402, open Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 pm.
Liber Room 405, open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am. to 3:30 .pm. (closed for lunch 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.)
Wills and indexes, 1662 to the present; probates, letters of administration, and estate taxes, 1830 to the present; guardianships, 1808 to the present; adoptions and commitments, 1924 to the present. Includes parts of the Bronx, 1874-1897, and all of the Bronx, 1898-1914.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required to enter building.
U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York, Naturalization Division
(Naturalization records transferred. See National Archives, Northeast Region)
Yeshiva University Library Archives
500 West 185th Street, Room 602
New York, NY 10033
(at Amsterdam Avenue)
(212) 960-5451
Online catalog: http://yulib001.mc.yu.edu:8000/cgi-bin/gw_42_5/chameleon
By appointment only.
Orthodox Jewish institutions and individuals, 1605 to the present. Central Relief Committee Collection, 1914-1959; National Council of Jewish Women, Service to the Foreign Born, (New York, 1939-1968; Brooklyn, 1942-1955); Rescue Children, Inc., 1946-1985; Vaad Hatzala, 1939-1963 (rescue efforts of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada); affidavits and visa applications of European Jews, 1938-1953.
Yeshiva University, Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica
2520 Amsterdam Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY
(corner W. 185th Street)
Mail Address: 500 West 185th Street, New York, NY 10033
(212) 960-5382
Fax: (212) 960-0066
Sunday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m.; Friday, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (during fall and spring academic semesters). Summer hours posted at http://www.yu.edu/libraries/hours.asp#summer.
Non-U.S. vital records; names and their origins; cemeteries; Holocaust victims and survivors; rabbis; synagogues; guides to archival collections; biographical dictionaries. Non-U.S. newspapers and periodicals; Hebrew manuscripts from the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem, the Vatican Library, and the Guenzberg collection in St. Petersburg.
ID Requirements: To gain one-time access to the library, present a photo ID to the University Office of Security and Safety, 110 Belfer Hall, and request a pass. Passes may be issued Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Friday, 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and Sunday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Access after 9:00 p.m., Sunday-Thursday, and Saturday nights is restricted to current YU ID cardholders and YU alumni.
Yeshiva University Museum
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(212) 294-8330
Fax: (212) 294-8335
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 11:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
Mail or e-mail requests only.
Artifacts of Jewish cultural, intellectual, and artistic achievements worldwide. Photographs; oral histories; ketubot; circumcision record books; diaries; artist files.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives and Library
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
(between 5th and 6th avenues)
(212) 246-6080
Fax (212) 292-1892
Online catalog: http://yivo.cjh.org/yivo_search1.htm
Monday-Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. No advance appointment is necessary, but it is advisable to call or e-mail prior to visiting to be certain the materials needed are on site.
Eastern European Jewry (most records are not in English). Landsmanshaftn (immigrant mutual aid societies); the Holocaust; immigration and refugees; biographies and autobiographies; communities; the labor movement; schools. Photographs; genealogies; yizkor books; maps and atlases; name indexes; newspapers and periodicals.
ID Requirements: A positive valid photo ID must be surrendered to Security personnel in the Center's 16th Street lobby when entering the building. Security will issue visitors an identifying badge, to be worn at all times. The photo ID will be returned upon turning the badge in to Security and leaving the Center.
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (92nd Street "Y") Archives
Buttenwieser Library
1395 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor (Library)
New York, NY 10128
(212) 415-5544
Fax: (212) 427-6119
By appointment only.
Employment Department; Medical Department; Membership Department; Residence Department; military and veterans activities; Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls; Holy Society of the City of New York.
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Board of Elections, Queens
126-06 Queens Boulevard
Kew Gardens, NY 11415 (at 89th Avenue)
(718) 730-6750
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Voter registrations, 1957 to the present.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required. Archival records may require prior notice to be retrieved from storage.
City Clerk's Office - Queens, Marriage License Bureau
(See Manhattan - City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau)
City Register's Office, Queens
Queens Business Center
144-06 94th Avenue
Jamaica, NY 11435
(between Sutphin Boulevard and Liverpool Street)
(718) 298-7200 (City Register, 1st floor)
(718) 298-7099 (Real Property Assessment Bureau, 2nd floor)
Fax: (718) 298-7153
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Deeds, mortgages, maps, 1683 to the present.
Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County
Civil Court Building, Room 147
89-17 Sutphin Boulevard
Jamaica, NY 11435
(between 88th and 89th avenues)
(718) 262-7142 (Civil Court Clerk)
Fax: 262-7107
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Name changes, 1927 to the present.
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Queens County, Civil Branch
88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Room 105
Jamaica, NY 11435
(between 88th and 89th avenues)
(718) 298-0615 (Record Room)
Fax: (718) 520-2204
Record Room (B-17) open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00
a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Naturalization; divorces, separations, annulments, and name changes, 1847 to the present; military discharges; court cases; business records.
ID Requirements: Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Queens County
Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell
phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building.
Family History Center (LDS)
40-24 62nd Street
Woodside, NY 11377
(718) 478-5337
Monday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Tuesday, 1:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.; Friday, 2:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.; Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
2,000 microfilms and microfiche, originally from the Manhattan FHC, many of Jewish interest, are on indefinite loan at this site.
JGS Indefinite loan microfilm will be at the Resource Room in the hotel.
Queens Library, Long Island Division
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 2nd Floor
Jamaica, NY 11432
(between 89th and 90th avenues)
(718) 990-0770
Fax: (718) 658-8342
Monday, 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.; Friday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.; Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sunday (mid-September to mid-May), 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Newspapers and indexes; telephone and city directories; town, property, probate, and coroner's records; published and unpublished genealogies; court cases.
Queens College, Historical Documents Collection
(See Manhattan - New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Municipal Archives; Queens - Queens Library, Long Island Division )
Surrogate's Court - Queens County, Record Room
Supreme Court Building, Room 700
88-11 Sutphin Boulevard
Jamaica, NY 11435
(between 88th and 89th avenues)
(718) 298-0440 (Records)
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Closed 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Request files before 4:30 p.m.
Probates, administrations, and guardianships, 1787 to the present.
ID Requirements:Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Queens County
Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell
phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building. A photo ID must be surrendered while using a court
file.
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Board of Elections, Staten Island Borough Office
1 Edgewater Plaza, 4th Floor
Staten Island, NY 10305-9945
(between Willow Avenue and Bay Street)
(718) 876-0079 Fax: (718) 876-0912
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m-5:00 p.m. Arrive by 4:00 p.m.
Voter registrations, 1957 to the present.
ID Requirements: Photo ID required. Archival records may require prior notice to be retrieved from storage.
City Clerk's Office - Staten Island (Richmond), Marriage License Bureau
(See Manhattan - City Clerk's Office, Marriage License Bureau)
Civil Court of the City of New York, Staten Island (Richmond County)
927 Castleton Avenue, Basement Level
Staten Island, NY 10310
(between Bement and Oakland avenues)
(718) 390-5417 (Civil Court Clerk's Office)
Fax: (718) 390-8108
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Name changes, 1927 to the present.
County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Richmond County (Staten Island)
County Court House
18 Richmond Terrace, Room 103
Staten Island, NY 10301
(near Hyatt Street)
(718) 390-5389 (Law and Equity)
(718) 390-5386 (Real Property records)
(718) 390-5393 (Administrator's Office)
(718) 876-5893 (Microfilm Unit - includes Naturalizations and Census)
Fax: (718) 390-8741
Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Naturalization, property, divorce, separation, annulment, military discharge, business, and name change records.
ID Requirements:Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Richmond County
Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell
phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building.
Staten Island Business Center
350 St. Mark's Place
Staten Island, NY 10301
(near Hyatt Street)
Property Assessment, 1st floor
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Note: City Register services are not available in Staten Island.
Staten Island Historical Society, Library
441 Clarke Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10306
(cross street: St. Patrick's Place)
(718) 351-1611
Fax: (718) 351-2352
Tuesday, by appointment only.
WPA card file of information from wills, administrations, deeds, newspapers, and death notices; nursery school, Fire Department, marriage, death, coroner's, and police records; register of men who served in World War I; maps; photographs.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, History Archives And Library
75 Stuyvesant Place
Staten Island, NY 10301-1998
(between Wall Street and Hamilton Avenue)
(718) 727- 1135, ext. 122
Fax: (718) 273-5683
Monday-Wednesday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. By appointment only.
Newspapers; photographs; maps; biographies; insurance atlases; city directories; oral histories.
Surrogate's Court, Richmond County (Staten Island), Record Room
County Court House
18 Richmond Terrace, Room 201
Staten Island, NY 10301
(opposite the Ferry Terminal)
(718) 390-5400
Fax: (718) 390-8741
Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Record Room B-3 closed 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
Probates and administrations, 1787 to the present; surrenders of children and adoptions, 1927 to the present; guardianships, 1928 to the present.
ID Requirements:Photo ID not required to enter building. Because this office is located in the Richmond County
Supreme Court building, court officers may ask to see photo ID. Voice recorders and cameras, including cell
phones with cameras, are not permitted in the building. A photo ID must be surrendered while using a court
file.
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