Bronx History Online
Digital repository for The Bronx County Archives and special collections of The Bronx County Historical Society Research Library
NYC
Mapping Historical New York
A Digital Atlas visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city.
Riverside Church Archive
The Riverside Church is an interdenominational, interracial, international, open, welcoming, and affirming church and congregation. Users can explore the collections through interactive finding aids and descriptive catalog records, access and download digitized and born-digital objects, and view curated digital galleries and timelines. Over 4,000 digitized audio files from WRVR-FM (Riverside Radio) are also available for streaming on the site.
NYC Municipal Archives Digital Collections
More than 2,300,000 items from the Municipal Archives’ vast holdings of historical records, including photographs, maps, blueprints, motion-pictures and audio recordings.
Preservation Long Island
DCMNY Digital Collections
Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) provides online access to digital collections that document the history of the Metropolitan New York region. The collections include photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, catalogues, memorabilia and ephemera, and more. New collections are being added on an ongoing basis, and contributors are also adding new material to existing collections.
Columbia University Library Digital Collections
Tons of digitized collections from their archives.
Digital Long Island | NY
Small collection
Woodside in Photos
Bayside Historical Society
Primary source material, artifacts, real and personal property of historical interest, records, material and ephemera which document the continuing growth, development and activities of the communities in Northeast Queens.
Hofstra University Library Digital Collections | Long Island, NY
Digital Archives (Queens Public Library) | NYC
online repository for selected maps, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers and books documenting Queens, Brooklyn and greater Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties).
Brooklyn City Directories, 1822-1967 | New York City, NY
Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Digital Archive
contains digitized NYC directories
Queens Newspapers | New York City, NY
Queens newspapers and magazines including historical archives going back to 1913. Images are not OCR'd unfortunately.
Staten Island Museum Digital Collections | New York City, NY
Staten Island Historical Society Digital Collections | New York City, NY
Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Newspaper Archive | Long Island, New York City, NY
Digital Vital Records | New York City, NY
full-text search of this collection is available on MyHeritage ($).