Main subject areas: Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual & Transgendered individuals and organizations.

Holdings: Papers, records, photographs, audio/video tapes; periodicals of various organizations and individual community members

Publications: Summary Guide to Current Holdings.

Restrictions: A few restrictions on some parts of the collection

Hours: Mon - Thurs, 6pm - 9pm

Web address: http://www.archives.gov/northeast/nyc/new_york.html

Main subject areas: Government records; local history; federal government; immigration; geneaology; military history

Holdings: Permanently valuable records generated by Federal government agencies in New Jersey, New York and Puerto Rico. Holdings include U.S. District Courts; Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit; Immigration & Naturalization Service; Customs Service; Coast Guard; naval districts & shore establishments. NARA microfilm publications (Revolutionary War; Bureau of Refugees; Freedmen & Abandoned Lands; Dept. State).

Restrictions: Some records security classified, most not restricted

Hours: Mon/Wed/Friday 8-4:30; Tu & Thurs 8-8:00 and 1st Sat 8:30 to 4:00 microfilm only.

Web address: www.thejewishmuseum.org

Main subject areas: American-Jewish studies, media studies, cultural studies Jewish history including the Holocaust

Holdings: Over 4,000 television and radio programs pertaining to the Jewish experience

Restrictions: Open to researchers by appointment

Hours: Selections available to the general public Sun-Thur, 12:00-5:30 in The Jewish Museum's Resource Center

Web address: www.jerseyhistory.org

Main subject areas: Local history; New Jersey history from the colonial era through the 21st century; education; genealogy; medicine; military; religion; women's history.

Holdings: 2,600 linear feet of manuscript collections, 1,000 volumes of rare books, 2,000 maps, 100,000 photographs, ephemera, broadsides, pamphlets, and New Jersey newspapers.

Hours: Tues - Sat, 12-5

Main subject areas: Water supply of the City of New York; environment; engineering

Holdings: Photographs, drawings, maps, contracts, correspondence, reports, models and books relating to the construction and maintenance of NY's water supply system, 1850s-present. Collection is partially catalogued.

Restrictions: All access subject to security review

Hours: By appointment only

Main subject areas: NYC History; local history; vital records

Holdings: NYC government records including Common Council (1670+); Mayors (1849+); Almshouse and other hospitals and social welfare agencies; Buildings; Parks; Criminal Court and District Attorney, (1684+); Vital Records (births, deaths, marriages). Records including tax assessment, court docket books, resolutions, minutes, accounts, petitions, correspondence, inquests, records of death, indictments, case files, genealogical records, architectural plans, photographs, sound recordings, moving images.

Publications: Guides to the collection

Restrictions: Some restrictions apply

Hours: Mon -Thurs, 9:30-4:30; Fri, 9 -1

Web Address: www.nyc.gov/records

Main subject areas: New York City Government; New York City Politics; New York City History; New York City Geography.

Holdings: Formerly known as the Municipal Reference and Research Center, the City Hall Library is the depository for all official reports and studies published by New York City government and its agencies. Includes annual and special reports of City agencies; budgets and other financial materials; minutes and proceedings of City boards and legislative bodies. The library also has an extensive collection of clippings and pamphlets on New York City matters. Reports on comparative operations and finances of federal, state, and local government are also on file. Other collections available are biographies of city and state officials, Mayoral committees and commissions, New York City neighborhood files, New York City history, annotated New York City street name index, rules and regulations of New York City agencies, Civil Service collection, and the annual Civil List of current New York City employees.

Publications: Acquisitions List, monthly

Restrictions: Picture I.D. required to consult some materials. Wheel chair accessibility via Reade Street; best to telephone first.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. Closed on holidays.

Main subject areas: education; student activities

Holdings: NYC Technical College and its predecessor institutions (including NY Trade School), its administration, faculty, staff, committees, students, student organizations and curricula. Holdings include non-current records of academic and administrative units on campus (catalogs, yearbooks, publications, correspondence, documents, minutes of meetings, memos, microfilm, photographs, posters, videotapes, audio tapes, also artifacts and regalia).

Restrictions: To be used on premises only

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9-5, by appointment only

Main subject areas: Vital records; local history; legal history; genealogy; NYC history

Holdings: NY State court records, mainly civil litigation, for Manhattan (1674-1910); state court naturalization records for Manhattan (1792-1924); Manhattan census records (1855, 1870, 1905, 1915, 1925); business records (1815-1920; divorce records (1784-1910).

Restrictions: Access to divorce records limited to those over 100 years old. Duplicating records from microfilm when available.

Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 9AM-1:30 PM and 2:30-5 PM. Other days by appointment.

Web Address: http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org

Main subject areas: Genealogy, local history, U.S. history, biography. Major focus is New York City and State, also New Jersey and New England.

Holdings: Books, periodicals, unpublished items (transcriptions of church/cemetery records, family Bible records, collections from professional genealogists) CD-ROMS, microfilm (federal & state census for NY, city directories, land records & probate records), Online access to ProQuest New York Times and Heritage Quest Online for members.

Publications: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (quarterly journal) & The NYG & B Newsletter (quarterly), some reprints & abstracts, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Restrictions: Unrestricted access for members; non-members have partial access and are asked for a donation for daily use.

Hours: Tues-Sat 9:30-5

Web Address: www.nyhistory.org

Main subject areas: NYC History; art, architecture, religion and church history, law, urban and rural life, domestic and international trade, slavery, Native Americans, entertainment, shipping, education, banking and finance, poetry and literature, trades and crafts, Americans abroad, politics, foreign affairs, medicine, manufacturing, military and naval history.

Holdings: The New-York Historical Society Library collections contain approximately 2 million manuscripts (approximately 7,000 linear feet) relating to the political, military, legal, cultural, mercantile, infrastructural, domestic, and social history of the United States in general, and New York City and New York State in particular. The bulk of the manuscript collections is from the 18th and 19th centuries, but includes important materials from the 17th century and a number of 20th and 21st century collections.

Publications: Arthur J. Breton. A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the New-York Historical Society. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1972.

Restrictions: Researchers must register to use manuscript collections and provide a valid, traceable photo ID.

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (subject to change). There are no Saturday hours from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. No appointment necessary.

Web address: www.nyphilharmonic.org

Main subject areas: Music; entertainment; arts

Holdings: Records, tapes, photos of the New York Philharmonic, 1842 to present. Business records, audio tapes, photographs, scores (Mahler, Bernstein, Leinsdorf, Kostalanetz, et. al.).

Hours: Mon - Fri, 10-5

Web address: http://www.psychoanalysis.org/arc.htm

Main subject areas: History of psychoanalysis; healthcare

Holdings: Paper of: The Society (1911-) and Institute (1931-); Joint activities of the society & Institute, A.A. Brill Library, the Treatment Center and the Kris Study Group. Special collections include 2,000 rare books, papers of prominent analysts (including Berta Bornstein, Mary O'Neil Hawkins, Fritz Wittels and Max Stern), oral history interviews, photographs, and memorabilia.

Restrictions: Researchers complete an application form

Hours: Mon - Thurs, 1-8:30, Fri, 1-4:30

Main subject areas: Libraries; History of the New York Public Library and its predecessor libraries.

Holdings: Administrative records of NYPL, Astor Library, Lenox Library, Tilden Trust and the free circulating libraries in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. Visual materials of library staff, activities and buildings .

Restrictions: Undergraduates must obtain letter from sponsoring professor

Hours: Tues-Weds, 11-5:45, Thurs-Sat, 10-5:45

Web address: www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/mss.html

Main subject areas: New York City, literature, early Americana, social history, politics.

Holdings: Approximately 30,000 linear feet of archival material in over 3,000 collections, dating from cuneiform tablets to records of the current decade. Greatest strengths are papers of individuals, families and organizations, primarily from the NY region, documenting political economic and social history; literature and publishing; the American Civil War; gay and lesbian history and culture; and the history of the AIDS pandemic.

Restrictions: Undergraduates must obtain letter from sponsoring professor

Hours: Tues-Weds, 11-5:45, Thurs-Sat, 10-5:45

Main subject areas: Theater, motion pictures, radio, television, circus, magic (conjuring).

Holdings: Comprehensive collection devoted to the theatrical arts. Holdings document every type of performance including drama and musical theater, film, television, radio and popular entertainment (circus, magic vaudeville and puppetry). Materials include archival collections, photographs, clippings, scripts, books and periodicals.

Publications: Brochure

Restrictions: No photocopying of Cornell Room materials

Hours: Call

Web address: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/pforz.html

Main subject areas: Literature; poetry; The English Romantic poets, and the political, social, and cultural contexts in which they lived and wrote

Holdings: Letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, and other items documenting the lives and times of the English Romantics, in particular Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley, and her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as other writers of that era (ca. 1780-1840).

Restrictions: Undergraduates must obtain letter from sponsoring professor.

Hours: Tues. -Wed., 11-5:45; Thurs.-Sat., 10-5:45. Closed Sun. and Mon.

Web address: www.schomburgcenter.org

Main subject areas: African American, African Diasporian, African History & Culture.

Holdings: 3.5 million manuscripts; over 135,000 bound volumes, 110,000 microforms, 8,900 serials; 750,000 photographic images; 400 documentary films, over 3,000 reels of new footage, 4,000 videotapes, 20,000 sound recordings, and 5,000 spoken arts recordings, such as oral histories and speeches; over 10,000 items of applied art including pictorial works, masks, statuary, portraits, prints, lithographs, illustrations, and posters.

Publications: Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History; The Kaiser index to Black Resources, 1948-1986; Calendar of the manuscripts in the Schomburg Collection of Negro literature.

Restrictions: over 18 years of age to use special collections

Hours: Varies by division. Closed on Mondays

Web address: www.archives.nysed.gov

Web address: http://www.courts.state.ny.us/

Main subject areas: New York State Court Records (1665 - present).

Holdings: Information source for access to the records of the NYS court system. Includes location of court records, how to research, access policies, history. Courts of Claims, Appeals, County, Supreme, District, Town, Village, Family and Surrogate's.

Restrictions: Restricted as per NY State Statutes, variable - check with locality

Web address: nyse.com

Main subject areas: New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street, stocks, bonds, securities trading.

Holdings: Records of the New York Stock Exchange, its affiliates and subsidiary companies.

Restrictions: Some records closed to external research

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9-5, by appointment only

Web address: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/

Main subject areas: Education; student activities; local history; History of New York University and Greenwich Village.

Holdings: 7,000 linear feet including: administrative records, manuscript collections, congressional papers, photos, audio and video tape, architectural drawings and ephemeraHoldings:

Publications: Online finding aids at: http://dlib.nyu.edu/divlib/bobst/archives/findingaids/archives.html

Restrictions: Administrative collections: 20 years from date of creation, minutes of Board of Trustees, 30 years.

Hours: Mon- Fri, 9:30-5:00

Web address: library.med.nyu.edu

Main subject areas: Medicine; healthcarel; History of NYU Medical Center, History of Bellevue Hospital , History of NYU School of Medicine.

Holdings: Records of Provost; medical center administration; director & administrators of the Hospital; deans & administrators of various schools, records from departments; and personal papers of NYU Physicians. Photographs of building, faculty, staff, operating theatres, patient wards.

Hours: 9-4, M-F

Web address:http://www.med.cornell.edu/archives/

Main subject areas: Healthcare; medicine; nursing; history of medicine (NYC); nursing and women's history; histories of hospital management and medical education

Holdings: Archives of current and preceding institutions of NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center (previously New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center): New York Hospital (1771-1997), NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (1997- ), Cornell University Medical College (1898-1998), Weill Medical College of Cornell University (1998- ); archives of certain NYC women's and children's hospitals; archives of Women's Medical Association of NYC (1902- )

Publications: An Introduction to the Medical Archives of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (1976).

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9-5, by appointment only

website: http://www.92y.org/archives

Main subject areas: Social welfare; Jewish communal service; performing arts; women's history; summer camping; sports and recreation; adult education; children & youth; arts education.

Holdings: Records of the Young Men's Hebrew Assn. (1874-1945); Young Women's Hebrew Association (1902-1945); Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (1945-); Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls (1897-1962); Surprise Lake Camp (1902-).

Restrictions: Research visits by appointment preferred

Hours: Sun to Fri, by appointment

Main subject areas: Healthcare; medicine; Long Island; nursing; NYC History;

Holdings: History of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System and its member hospitals. Holdings include records of North Shore University Hospital and its predecessors, Long Island Jewish Hospital, North Shore University Hospital at Glen Cove, Hillside Hospital, and other members of the NS-LIJ system. Materials on academic and medical departments including Medicine, Ob-Gyn, Nursing; records of the Auxiliary, Board of Trustees, and mergers within the System. Oral history collection, video collection.

Restrictions: Some materials restricted

Hours: Mon-Thurs, 9-4, by appointment only