# New York City directories

The New-York Directory, published in 1786, was the first extant directory for New York City and the third published in the United States. It listed 846 names. A year earlier, the first two in the country were published in Philadelphia – the first, compiled by Francis White, was initially printed October 27, 1785, and the second, compiled by John Macpherson (1726–1792), was initially printed November 22, 1785.

## Timeline and highlights

| 1624: | New Amsterdam, a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan, in 1624, became a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic and was designated as the capital of the province in 1625. |
| 1655: | Arguably, the first New York City directory was A Directory for the City of New York in 1665, a list of mostly Dutch householders, men and women, in New Amsterdam, arranged according to the streets they lived on. |
| 1725: | As a milestone in publishing, the first newspaper in the State of New York, the New-York Gazette, was published on November 8, 1725, in Manhattan. |
| 1752: | January 1, 1752 – calendar reform – the Gregorian calendar, intended to more accurately reflect a solar year, replaced the Julian calendar throughout Britain. The first day of a new year changed from March 25 to January 1. In doing so, the calendar dropped 11 days, beginning September 14, 1752, the date that immediately followed September 2. For dates prior to 1752, historians henceforth added 11 days. For example, George Washington's birthday – February 11 on a Julian calendar – became February 22. |
| 1776: | July 4, 1776 – U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| 1783: | September 3, 1783 – End of the American Revolutionary War |
| 1786–1787: | The New York Directory (republished 1851 copy) was compiled and published by David Franks (né David Carroll Franks) and printed by Shepard Kollock (1750–1839). The listings are categorized by profession and appear in alphabetical order by first name. By coincidence, on page 63, the listing of Alexander Hamilton immediately follows that of Aaron Burr, who, on July 11, 1804, mortally wounded Hamilton in a duel – famously reenacted in the Broadway musical Hamilton. Franks was an accountant and conveyancer. In 1788, he petitioned for relief from creditors due to insolvency. |
| 1783: | Book of Negroes (§ Other directories and city references) Sir Guy Carleton, who from 1782 to 1783 was Commander-in-Chief of all British forces in North America, kept careful records – names and descriptions of 3,000 Black Loyalists, most of whom had been freed in accordance with British proclamations. As Commander, in fulfilling the Crown's promise of freedom to slaves who joined the British during the Revolution, Carleton provided Washington with the list, which became known as the Book of Negroes. Of those listed, 2,800 were from New York City – 1,136 men, 914 women, and 750 children – most of whom were evacuated to points in Nova Scotia as free people of color. (related article: Black Nova Scotians) |
| 1788: | No directory published. |
| 1789–1790: | The New York Directory, and Register was published by Hodge, Allen & Campbell Robert Hodge (1746–1813) (editor) immigrated to America from Edinburgh in 1770 and opened a printing office in New York in 1773. Thomas Allen (1754–1826) (editor) was a bookseller in New York from 1786 to 1799. In 1789, he offered for sale the first Encyclopædia Britannica in America. Samuel Campbell (1765–1836) (editor) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He had been, from about 1785 to 1822, a bookseller in New York, his final location being at 124 Pearl Street. His father, Samuel Campbell (1735–1813) acquired around 120 acres in Springfield, New Jersey (an area that has since become part of Millburn, New Jersey), about 16 miles from New York City, where he built a home and, in 1795, built The Thistle Paper Mill, the site on which, today, sits the Paper Mill Playhouse. Samuel Campbell, the son, married twice, to sisters – first, on December 14, 1886, to Eliza Duyckinck (1765–1798) – second, on July 24, 1799, to Euphame Duyckinck (1771–1847). Both were aunts of writers Evert Augustus Duyckinck (1816–1878) and George Long Duyckinck (1823–1863), who were brothers. Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, together, owned a bookstore, but Allen sold his interest to Hodge and Campbell in 1790. In 1792, Hodge and Campbell went their separate ways in bookselling – Hodge at 11 Water Street and Campbell at 37 Hanover Square. Campbell's brother, Robert (1767–1800) was a notable bookseller in Philadelphia. Robert is cited for having published texts that contributed to the American Enlightenment. |
| 1790: | The first sidewalks were laid on Broadway, between Vesey and Murray Streets. |
| 1791–1795: | The New-York Directory and Register published – William Duncan (–1795) (compiler); John McComb (1763–1853) (cartographer); Cornelius Tiebout (1777–1832) (engraver); T. & J. Swords (printer) (§ New York City (Manhattan) directories) Thomas Swords (1763–1843) and James Swords (1765–1846), Albany-born brothers, founded and ran the firm in New York City from 1788 to 1832, when Thomas retired. A daughter of Thomas Swords, Elizabeth Davidson Swords (1804–1833), on June 8, 1824, in Manhattan, married John Evers (1797–1884), an artist and one of the founders of the National Academy of Design. |
| 1796: | John Low (1763–1809) John Buel (1768–1800) (printer), corner of Water Street and Fly Market (in the 17th century, located at the bottom of Maiden Lane) John Bull (printer), 115 Cherry Street (1795–1797); 407 Pearl Street (1797) In 1796, John Low published his directory and in 1797, he established his bookstore in New York, called "Shakespeare's Head" at 332 Water Street, later, at 33 (1804–1808) and at 17 (1813–1819) Chatham Street (now known as Park Row), and after that, at 48 Vesey Street (around 1825). When John Low Sr. died, his wife, Esther Prentiss (maiden; 1762–1816), and sons, John Low Jr. (1790–1829), and Thomas P. Low (1795–1818), continued operating the bookstore. Other imprints from his firm were used, including "E. Low," which reflects the name of his wife, Esther. One of John Low's granddaughters, Elizabeth Hannah Remington (maiden, never married; 1826–1917), was, until about 1897, one of the best known pastel artists in the country. |
| 1796–1817: | David Longworth (1765?–1821) In 1805, Longworth's directory listed 291 shoemakers in New York City, second only to carpentry in total practitioners. Longworth's 1805 directory also listed a variety of men from other trades, including four each identified as bakers, carpenters, hairdressers, and tailors, three each as blacksmiths, butchers, printers, and sailmakers, and seventeen other crafts such as a wire-maker, stone-ware potter, a tin and copper worker, a venetian blind manufacturer, and a cooper. Only three non-skilled subscribers appeared: a cartman named Josiah Corrington and two laborers, Abraham Day, and Peter Winthrop. In a study of readership of The New-York Magazine, David Paul Nord found in a random sample of the 1790 New York Directory that shoemakers comprised 14.7 percent of the artisan population in New York City. Directories compiled by David Longworth began referencing the United States calendar (aka National calendar), from July 4, 1776. For example, a book published today, 26 February 2025, would be expressed as "The two hundred and forty-eighth Year of American Independence." |
| 1804: | John Langdon and Son, 32 Vesey Street, grocers and directory makers (1804) 32 Vesey Street, office of Langdon's Early and Cheap Directory (1804) William W. Vermilye (1780–1849) (printer) |
| 1811: | New York street grid system established (Commissioners' Plan of 1811) |
| 1817–1842: | Thomas Longworth (1788–1855) New York City directories, commencing with Longworth's 1832 edition, provides lists of newspapers published in New York City. (Mercein's city directory of 1820 also provides a list of newspapers in New York City). |
| 1817–1842: | The last slaves in New York City were freed Main article: History of slavery in New York |
| 1835: | Great Fire of New York |
| 1837: | Panic of 1837 (financial crisis) |
| 1830–1840: | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) compiled two directories: (i) The New-York Annual Register (10 Volumes, from 1830 to 1845), and (ii) New-York As It Is (for about 3 years, beginning 1833). One of his printers, Benjamin S. Collins (né Benjamin Say Collins; 1784–1857) – of Collins & Hannay – was a son of Isaac Collins, pioneering printer from New York City. Benjamin S. Collins and Samuel Hannay were partners as booksellers from 1817 to 1831. Thereafter, the business continued by Hannay and George B. Collins (1807–1854), the only surviving son of Charles Collins (1774–1843), Benjamin's brother. Samuel Hannay had also been a corporate secretary for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, chartered on April 12, 1842, by Alfred Pell and Morris Robinson (1784–1849) (president). Hannay died in 1849. |
| 1833–18??: | New York As It Is, first published in 1833, was in 1848 the namesake of a New York musical (re: New York As It Is), written by Benjamin A. Baker (1818–1890) and produced by Frank S. Chanfrau (1824–1884) at the Chatham Theatre on Chatham Street (now Park Row), starring Frank Chanfrau and Mrs. Junius Brutus Booth. |
| 1850–1855: | In 1842, the Croton Aqueduct was completed, which supplied fresh water to New York City. |
| 1842–1849: | John Doggett Jr. (1807–1852) 1845: Doggett issued a supplement, needed because of the Great Fire of July 19, updating address changes. One of his printers, Seth Williston Benedict (1803–1869), was an influential member of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, for whom he published The Emancipator (1835: New York) and other publications. |
| 1850–1855: | In 1849, after years of haphazard planning and a series of deadly cholera outbreaks in other countries, New York City started systematically building sewers. Between 1850 and 1855, New York laid 70 miles of sewers. See: 1846–1860 cholera pandemic (global) 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (London) High Bridge (New York City) |
| 1850–1851: | Charles Rudolph Rode (1825–1865), of Doggett & Rode |
| 1852–1870: | John F. Trow (1810–1886) (§ New York City (Manhattan) directories) (§ Great Metropolis directories) (§ Copartnership directories) (§ Business directories) Henry Wilson, compiler of the earlier Trow directories, was a bookseller and publisher of The Book Trade. His business address in 1852 was at 49 Ann Street. The 1879 Trow directory stated that Henry Wilson had no connection to the directory. |
| 1859: | John Christopher Gobright (né Gobrecht) of Baltimore began publishing The New-York Sketch Book; and Merchants' Guide. He and John W. Torsch (1834–1898), also of Baltimore, earlier, in 1857, began publishing The Baltimore Illustrated Times and Local Gazette. (§ Business directories) |
| | White, Orr and Company, the principals being James H. White, John F. White, Michael White (brothers), and William B. Orr, allegedly purchased the Phillips directories business. But the three brothers and Orr were indicted by a New York County grand jury and arrested on December 30, 1921, on charges of grand larceny (or second degree larceny) for collecting advertising fees for directories never published, other than the two published. The alleged amount that they swindled reached four million dollars. (§ The Reference registers) Spurious names of business directories, nationally, under which defendants allegedly conducted fraudulent collections included: Randall's Commercial Register Lockwood's Reference Directory Cushing's Directory Livermore's Lexicon of Financial Firms Howard's Handy Guide Lloyd's Industrial Record Parker's Annual Business Manual McMillan's List of Manufacturers Norcross Reference Book Plymouth List of Jobbers (see jobber) Odell's Official Directory Similar attempts to fraudulently collect were common, even with Wilson's Directory. |
| 1861: | For east-west cross streets on the grid system, Manhattan adopted the decimal system. Each block between two major avenues were assigned address numbers in increments of 100. The addresses on blocks between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, for example, took numbers 1 through 99 – between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, 100 through 199; and so on. Note that this did not unify address numbers for the avenues. |
| 1865: | New York City draft riots |
| 1865: | End of the American Civil War |
| 1870: | Woolf Phillips (died 1916) began publishing the Phillips' Business Directory of New York City. In 1874, he began publishing Phillips' Élite Directory in the style of the Royal Court Guide of London. Woolf Phillips was a brother of Morris Phillips (1834–1904), who had been associated with the poet, Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), as associate editor of the New York Home Journal from September 1854, until Willis' death, then became chief editor and sole proprietor. Morris Phillips, in America, became known as "the father of society news." One of the printers for Phillips, Frank Denham Harmon (1850–1907), had been married to Mary Eloise Burr (1856–1899), whose great-grandmother, Hannah Burr (née Edwards; 1723–1803) was a sister of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), the third president (in 1758) of Princeton. Princeton's second president (from 1748 to 1757), Aaron Burr Sr. (1716–1757), was a son-in-law, by way of marriage to Esther Edwards (maiden; 1732–1758), of Jonathan Edwards. Aaron Burr Sr., was also the father of Aaron Burr Jr. (1756–1836). |
| 1871–1886: | The Trow City Directory Company, John F. Trow, Vice President In 1877, James Collis Jr. (1828–1898), vice president and shareholder of The Trow City Directory Company, filed a lawsuit against John F. Trow, shareholder and treasurer, and Edward P. Beach, shareholder and president. Beach was also a general railway agent for the Grand Trunk Railway, the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway, and the Great Western Railway. John Libby was, in 1890, one of the four buyers of the block between 28th and 29th Streets and 14th and 15th Avenues in the Beechhurst neighborhood of Queens. This block was originally settled by employees of the Trow City Directory Company and was called for many years the "Trow Settlement." The house which was originally the Libby home, on the corner of 14th Avenue and 28thy Street, was later owned by Mrs. Charlotte Phayre. |
| 1874: | The section of the Bronx west of the Bronx River was annexed to the City and the County of New York and was known as the Annexed District. |
| 1878: | The first New York City telephone directory was issued October 23, 1878, by Bell Telephone Company of New York. It was printed on cardboard and could fit in a vest pocket. It listed 252 names, of which, only 17 were residential – ten in Manhattan and five in Brooklyn. |
| 1883: | The Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, opened. |
| 1888: | During the Gilded Age, the Social Register was copyrighted by the Social Register Association. The first volume appeared for New York City in 1888. There were less than two thousand families listed. |
| 1889: | The Tower Building, arguably New York City's first skyscraper, was completed. |
| 1898: | On January 1, 1898, New York City absorbed East Bronx, Brooklyn, western Queens County, and Staten Island. |
| 1904: | The first underground line of the subway opened on October 27, 1904, almost 36 years after the opening of the first elevated line in New York City, which became the IRT Ninth Avenue Line. Main article: History of the New York City Subway |
| 1905: | Winthrop Press re-printed the 1786 directory. John Henry Eggers (1861–1944) founder and president of Winthrop. Eggers was the father of World War I hero Alan Louis Eggers. |
| 1905: | Samuel DeWitt Styles (1841–1910) and Alexander Cash (1839–1910), printers of the Union League Club publications, were brothers-in-law. Cash, in 1866, married Sam Styles's sister, Sarah Catharine Styles (1843–1906). Cash also was a maternal uncle of architect George Oakley Totten Jr., who, in 1921, married Swedish-born sculptor Vicken von Post. (§ Society directories, including social registers) |
| 1911: | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (March 25, 1911) |
| 1911: | The 1911–1912 edition of the Directory of Directors in the City of New York (§ Directories of directors) shows railway executive William C. Brown (né William Carlos Brown; 1853–1924) in 95 companies (railway subsidiaries) and J.P. Morgan in 65. |
| 1928: | Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered |

## Selected New York City (Manhattan) directories (online)
### New York City (Manhattan) directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1786 | New-York Directory (The) | David C. Franks | Shepard Kollock | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1786 | New-York Directory (The) (1874 reprint) | David C. Franks (original printer) Franklin Bayard Patterson (1848–1916) (re-printer) | Shepard Kollock | Cornell | Chicago | Cornell | |
| 1786 | New-York Directory (The) (1905 reprint) | David C. Franks (original printer) H. J. Sachs & Company (re-publisher) (Harry J. Sachs) Winthrop Press (re-printer) (John H. Eggers; died 1844; President) | Shepard Kollock | Google Books | | | |
| 1786 | New-York Directory (The) (reprint by Trow) | David C. Franks (original printer) The Trow City Directory Company (re-printer) | Shepard Kollock | | HathiTrust HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive | |
| 1786 | New-York Directory (The) (1851 reprint by Doggett) | David C. Franks (original printer) John Doggett Jr. (re-printer) | Shepard Kollock | Harvard Michigan | | | |
| 1787 | New-York Directory (The) | David C. Franks | Shepard Kollock | | | | |
| 1788 | (no directory published) | | | | | | |
| 1794 | New-York Directory and Register (The) | T. & J. Swords | William Duncan | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | |
| 1796 | New-York Directory and Register (The) | John Buel (1768–1800) John Bull | John Low | | | New York Brooklyn | NYPL |
| 1797 | Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory (Twenty-second Year of American Independence) | T. & J. Swords | David Longworth | | | | NYPL |
| 1798 | Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory (Twenty-third Year of American Independence) | T. & J. Swords | David Longworth | | | ACPL (this copy many have belonged to John Langdon) | |
| 1799 | Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory (Twenty-fourth Year of American Independence) | John C. Totton and Co. | David Longworth | | | | NYPL |
| 1801 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Twenty-sixth Year of American Independence) | David Longworth (printer & publisher) Shakespeare Gallery | David Longworth | | | Internet Archive | NYPL |
| 1808 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Thirty-third Year of American Independence) | Shakespeare Gallery | David Longworth | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1811 | Elliot & Crissy's New-York Directory, For the Year 1811, and 36th of the Independence of the U. States of America | Elliot & Crissy (printer & publisher) | William Elliot (1773–1837) James Crissy (1782–1867) | | HathiTrust | | NYPL |
| 1812 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Thirty-seventh Year of American Independence) | Shakespeare Gallery | David Longworth | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1814 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Thirty-ninth Year of American Independence) | David Longworth | David Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1815 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fortieth Year of American Independence) | Shakespeare Gallery | David Longworth | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1817 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fortieth-second Year of American Independence) | Shakespeare Gallery | David Longworth | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1820 | Mercein's City Directory, New-York Register, and Almanac | William A. Mercein (publisher & printer) | William A. Mercein (1789–1847) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1822 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Forty-seventh Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth (publisher) William Grattan (printer) | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1823 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Forty-eighth Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth (publisher) William Grattan (printer) | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1826 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fifty-first Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1827 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fifty-second Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive (t.p. missing) | |
| 1829 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fifty-fourth Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1832 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fifty-seventh Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books Google Books | | | |
| 1834 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Fifty-ninth Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1835 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Sixtieth Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books Google Books | | | |
| 1836 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Sixty-first Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | Internet Archive | |
| 1837 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Sixty-second Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1838 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Sixty-third Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1839 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Sixty-fourth Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | Internet Archive Internet Archive | |
| 1841 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory (Sixty-sixth Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | | | |
| 1842 | Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory Sixty-seventh Year of American Independence) | Thomas Longworth | Thomas Longworth | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1842–1843 | New York City Directory, The | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) George W. Wood & Co. (printer) | John Doggett Jr. | Google Books | | | |
| 1843–1844 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 2) | | John Doggett | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1844–1845 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 3) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) H. Ludwig (printer) | John Doggett Jr. | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1845–1846 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 4) | John Doggett Jr. | John Doggett Jr. | Google Books | | Internet Archive | |
| 1845–1846 | New York City Directory, The (supplement to the 1845–1846 directory) | John Doggett Jr. | John Doggett Jr. | Google Books | | | |
| 1846–1847 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 5) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) H. Ludwig (printer) | John Doggett Jr. | Google Books | | Internet Archive | |
| 1847–1848 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 6) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) H. Ludwig (printer) | John Doggett Jr. | Google Books | | Internet Archive | |
| 1848–1849 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 7) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) H. Ludwig (printer) | John Doggett Jr. | Princeton Chicago | | Internet Archive | |
| 1849–1850 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 8) | | John Doggett | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1850–1851 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 9) | | John Doggett | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1851–1852 | New-York City Directory, The (Vol. 10) | Alfred Cobb (printer) Erza M. Grossman & Son Adams Power Presses | John Doggett Jr. (1807–1852) Charles Rudolph Rode (1825–1865) | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1852–1853 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 11) | | John Doggett Jr. (1807–1852) Charles Rudolph Rode (1825–1865) | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1852–1853 | [Trow's] Directory of the City of New-York (Vol. 11) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Chicago | Chicago | | |
| 1853–1854 | Trow's Directory of the City of New-York (Vol. 12) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | | Harvard | | |
| 1854–1855 | New York City Directory, The (Vol. 13) | James Moulton (printer) | Late John Doggett, Jr. (1807–1852) Charles Rudolph Rode (1825–1865) | | | Columbia | NYPL |
| 1855–1856 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 69) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | | Harvard | | |
| 1856–1857 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 70) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | Columbia | |
| 1857–1858 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 71) | | | | | | NYPL |
| 1858–1859 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 72) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | | |
| 1859 | Carroll's New York City Directory | Carroll & Company, Publisher | G. Danielson Carroll (George Danielson Carroll) | NYPL | Columbia NYPL | Columbia | |
| 1859–1860 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 73) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | Columbia (no title page) | |
| 1860–1861 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 74) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | | |
| 1861–1862 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 75) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | | |
| 1862–1863 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 76) (no title page) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | | | Columbia (no title page) | |
| 1863–1864 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 77) | | | | | | NYPL |
| 1864–1865 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 78) | John F. Trow (printer & publisher) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | Harvard | |
| 1865–1866 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 79) | | | | | | NYPL |
| 1866–1867 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 80) | | | | | | NYPL |
| 1867–1868 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 81) | | | | | | |
| 1868–1869 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 82) | | | | | | NYPL |
| 1869–1870 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 83) | | | | | | NYPL |
| 1870–1871 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 84) | John F. Trow (Publisher) | Henry Wilson | | | | NYPL |
| 1871–1872 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 85) | John F. Trow (publisher) Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) New York Printing Company, The (printer) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | | |
| 1872–1873 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 86) | John F. Trow (publisher) Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) New York Printing Company, The (printer) | Compiler: Henry Wilson Associate compilers: James Collis Jr. (1828–1898) Robert Benjamin Hallock (1837–1880) | | Harvard (t.p. missing) | | |
| 1873–1874 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 87) | John F. Trow (publisher) Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) New York Printing Company, The (printer) | Compiler: Henry Wilson Associate compilers: James Collis Jr. (1828–1898) Robert Benjamin Hallock (1837–1880) | | HathiTrust (t.p. missing) | | |
| 1875 | Goulding's New York City Directory (Vol. 1) | J.J. Little & Company (printer) | Lawrence G. Goulding (1854–1910) | | | | |
| 1876–1877 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 90) | John F. Trow (publisher) Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) John F. Trow & Son (printer) | Compiler: Henry Wilson Associate compilers: James Collis Jr. (1828–1898) Robert Benjamin Hallock (1837–1880) | Michigan | HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive | NYPL |
| 1877–1878 | Goulding's New York City Directory (Vol. 3) | Lawrence G. Goulding & Co. (publisher) | Lawrence G. Goulding (1854–1910) | Harvard Harvard | | | |
| 1878–1879 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 92) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co. (printer) | | Harvard | | | |
| 1879–1880 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 93) | Trow City Directory Company, The Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co. | | | | | NYPL |
| 1880–1881 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 94) | Trow City Directory Company, The Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co. | | Michigan | | | NYPL |
| 1886–1887 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 100) | Trow City Directory Company, The Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co. | | Michigan | | | |
| 1893–1894 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 107) | Trow City Directory Company, The Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co. | | Michigan | | | |
| 1896–1897 | Trow's New York City Directory (Vol. 110) | Trow City Directory Company, The Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co. | | U. Michigan | | | |
| 1899–1900 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 113) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | | NYPL |
| 1900–1901 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 114) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | Google Books | | | |
| 1903–1904 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 117) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1904–1905 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 118) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1905–1906 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 119) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1906–1907 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 120) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1907–1908 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 122) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1908–1909 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 122) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1909–1910 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 123) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | Google Books | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1910–1911 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 124) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1911–1912 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 125) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1912–1913 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 126) | Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1913–1914 | Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx (Vol. 127) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (publisher) | | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 | |
| 1914–1915 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1915 Trow General Directory of New York City Embracing the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 128) | R.L. Polk & Co. (publisher) Trow Press (printer) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) | | Illinois | Illinois | NYPL |
| 1915–1916 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1916 Trow General Directory of New York City Embracing the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 129) | R.L. Polk & Co. (publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) Trow Press (printer) | Illinois | HathiTrust | | NYPL |
| 1916–1917 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1917 Trow General Directory of New York City Embracing the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 130) | R.L. Polk & Co. (publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) Trow Press (printer) | | | | NYPL |
| 1917–1918 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1918 Trow General Directory of New York City Embracing the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 131) | R.L. Polk & Co. (publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) | | | | NYPL |
| 1918–1919 | (no directory published) | | | | | | |
| 1919–1920 | (no directory published) | | | | | | |
| 1920–1921 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1921 Trow General Directory of New York City Embracing the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 132) | R.L. Polk & Co. (publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) | | | | NYPL |
| 1922–1923 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s Trow General Directory of New York City Embracing the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 133) | R.L. Polk & Co. (publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) | | | ACPL Part 1 Part 2 | |
| 1931 | New York City (Manhattan and Bronx) Residential Directory and Advertisers' Classified Section, 1931 | Manhattan and Bronx Directory Publishing Co. (publisher) | | | | | NYPL |

### Great Metropolis directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1845 | The Great Metropolis: Or New York in 1845 (Vol. 1) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) | | Columbia | Columbia |
| 1845 | The Great Metropolis: Or New York in 1845 (2nd ed.) (Vol. 1) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) S.W. Benedict & Co. (Seth Williston Benedict; 1803–1869) (printer & stereotyper) | Harvard | Harvard | |
| 1846 | The Great Metropolis; Or Guide to New-York for 1846 (Vol. 2) | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) H. Ludwig (printer) | Princeton Harvard | Minnesota Princeton | |
| 1848 | The Great Metropolis; Or Guide to New-York for 1848 (Vol. 4) | H. Wilson (agent) H. Ludwig (printer) | Bavaria | | |
| 1849 | The Great Metropolis; Or New-York Almanac for 1849 (Vol. 5) | Leavitt, Trow & Co. (printers) Henry Wilson (publisher) | NYPL | NYPL | |
| 1850 | The Great Metropolis; Or New-York Almanac for 1850 (Vol. 6) | John F. Trow (printer & stereotyper) Henry Wilson (publisher) | | NYPL | |
| 1851 | The Great Metropolis; Or New-York Almanac for 1851 (Vol. 7) | John F. Trow (printer & stereotyper) Henry Wilson (publisher) | | | Columbia |
| 1854 | The Great Metropolis; Or New-York Almanac for 1854 (Vol. 10) | John F. Trow (printer & stereotyper) Henry Wilson (publisher) | | NYPL | |

### Business directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1805 | Jone's New-York Mercantile and General Directory (30th Year of American Independence) | Southwick & Hardcastle (printer) (Henry C. Southwick) (John Hardcastle) | John F. Jones | | | Internet Archive (this copy once belonged to John Ahern) | |
| 1840 | A.E. Wright's Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore Commercial Directory, and General Advertising Medium | A.E. Wright (publisher) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1841 | A.E. Wright's Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore Commercial Directory, and General Advertising Medium | A.E. Wright (publisher) | | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1845 | Sheldon's & Co.'s Business or Advertising DirectoryContaining the Cards, Circulars, and Advertisements of the Principal Firms of the Cities of New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, &c., &c. | John F. Trow & Company (printer) | M.L. Sheldon | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1847 | United States Statistical Directory, or Merchant's and Traveller's Guide; With a Wholesale Business Directory of New York | G.F. Nesbitt, Stationer and Printer (printer & publisher) (George F. Nesbitt; 1809–1869) | J.V. Loomis & Co. (Josiah Vail Loomis; born 1811) | Harvard | HathiTrust | | |
| 1852 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1853 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | U. Chicago | | | |
| 1856 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1858 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | U. Wisconsin, Madison | | | |
| 1859 | The New-York Sketch Book, and Merchants' Guide (general edition) | J.C. Gobright & Co. (publisher) | John Christopher Gobright (compilers) | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1860 | Union Sketch-Book (The): A reliable guide, exhibiting the history and business resources of the leading mercantile and manufacturing firms of New York To which is added, A Hand Book, for the use of visiting merchants | Pudney & Russell (publisher) (Andrew L. Pudney; 1808–1884) (Joseph Russell) | Gobright & Pratt (compilers) (John Christopher Gobright) | Google Books | | | |
| 1861 | Union Sketch-Book (The): A reliable guide, exhibiting the history and business resources of the leading mercantile and manufacturing firms of New York To which is added, A Directory | Rudd & Carleton (Edward Payson Rudd; 1833–1861) (George W. Carleton; 1832–1901) | Gobright and Dawes (compilers) (John Christopher Gobright) | | HathiTrust | | Don's List |
| 1865 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | U. Chicago | | | |
| 1866–1967 | Merchant's Directory, The | J. Hartford & Co. (publisher and printer) | | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1874 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City New York City Commercial Register (Vol. 27) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) John F. Trow & Son (printer) | Henry Wilson | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1874 | New York Business Directory | Smythe & Wilcox (proprietors) | | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1875 | Goulding's Business Directory of New York, Newark, Patterson, Jersey City and Hoboken (Vol. 7) | Lawrence G. Goulding (publisher) | Lawrence G. Goulding (1854–1910) | | | Part 1 Part 2 | |
| 1877 | Rand's New York City Business Directory for 1877 | Walter Heugh & Co. (publisher and printer) | | Harvard | HathiTrust | | |
| 1878 | Wilson's Business Directory of New York City – New York City Commercial Register (Vol. 31) | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | Harvard | | | |
| 1881 | Phillips' Business Directory of New York City (Vol. 11) | W. Phillips & Co. (publisher) (Wolfe "Woolf" Phillips) | Julius William Hartz (1847–1907) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1882 | Phillips' Business Directory of New York City (Vol. 12) | W. Phillips & Co. (publisher) (Wolfe "Woolf" Phillips) | Julius William Hartz (1847–1907) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1883 | Phillips' Business Directory of New York City (Vol. 13) | W. Phillips & Co. (publisher) (Wolfe "Woolf" Phillips) | Julius William Hartz (1847–1907) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1885 | The Trow City Directory Co's., Formerly Wilson's, Business Directory of New York City (Vol. 38) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1886 | Business Directory of New York City and Newark City, N.J. | American Reporter Co., The (Limited) (publisher) | Hugh A. Curtin (1843–1911) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1888 | Business Directory of New York City, Brooklyn, and Newark | Hugh A. Curtin (1843–1911) | Hugh A. Curtin (1843–1911) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1890 | The Trow City Directory Co.'s Business Directory of New York City (Vol. 43) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | U. Wisconsin, Madison | | | |
| 1898 | Trow's Business Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 51) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (publisher) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1913 | Trow Business Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx (Vol. 66) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (publisher) | | | | ACPL Part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3 | |

### Copartnership directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1843–1844 | New-York City and Co-partnership Directory, The | John Doggett Jr. (publisher) H. Ludwig (printer) | John Doggett Jr. | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1864–1865 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1866–1867 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1868–1869 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | Henry Wilson | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1874 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (Vol. 22) | John F. Trow (publisher) Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) John F. Trow & Son (printer) | Compiler: Henry Wilson; Associate compilers: James Collis Jr. (1828–1898) Robert Benjamin Hallock (1837–1880) | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1876 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (Vol. 24) | John F. Trow (publisher) Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) John F. Trow & Son (printer) | Compiler: Henry Wilson; Associate compilers: James Collis Jr. (1828–1898) Robert Benjamin Hallock (1837–1880) | Google Books | | | |
| 1878 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (Vol. 26) | John F. Trow (publisher and printer) | | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1879 | Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (Vol. 27) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher & printer) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1888 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 36) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1889 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 37) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1890 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 37) | Trow City Directory Company, The (publisher) Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | |
| 1895 | Trow Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 43) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Company (printer & publisher) | | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1900 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 48) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | | | Internet Archive | Columbia University |
| 1901 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 49) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1902 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 50) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1904 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 52) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1906 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 54) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | | | Other |
| 1908 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 56) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1909 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 57) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1910 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 58) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1912 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 60) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1914 | Trow City Directory Co.'s Copartnership and Corporation Directory, The (Vol. 62) | Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. (printer & publisher) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1915 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1915 Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory (Vol. 63) Manhattan and Bronx | R.L. Polk & Co. (printer & publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1918 | R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1918–19 Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory (Vol. 66) Manhattan and Bronx | R.L. Polk & Co. (printer & publisher) | R.L. Polk & Co. (compiler) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | | |

### Tax records

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1850 | New York Tax Book:List of Per­sons, Co­partner­ships, and Cor­po­ra­tions, Who Were Taxed on Seven­teen Thou­sand Five Hund­red Dol­lars, and Up­wards, in the City of New York, in the Year 1850 (1851) | New York: John F. Whitney (publisher) | William A. Darling (compiler) | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | |

### Citizens and strangers' guides

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1833 | New-York As It Is, in 1833;and Citizens Advertising Directory (Vol. 1) | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) Clayton & Van Norden (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | |
| 1834 | New-York As It Is, in 1834;and Citizens Advertising Directory (Vol. 2) | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) E.B. Clayton (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books | | Internet Archive Internet Archive | |
| 1835 | New-York As It Is, in 1835;and Citizens Advertising Directory (Vol. 3) | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) E.B. Clayton (printer) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1837 | New-York As It Is, in 1837 (Vol. 4) | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) J.W. Bell (printer) | | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive Internet Archive | |
| 1847 | A Description of the City of New York:With a brief account of the cities, towns, villages and places of resort within thirty miles; designed as a Guide for Citizens and Strangers, to all places to all places of attraction in the city and its vicinity; with maps and illustrations | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) | Orville L. Holley (ed.) | | | Internet Archive Internet Archive | |
| 1853 | Citizen and Strangers' Pictorial and Business Directory, The,for the City of New-York, and its Vicinity | Charles Spalding & Co. (publisher) | Solyman Brown (1790–1876) (editor) | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | |
| 1857 | Phelps' Strangers and Citizens' Guide to New York City | Gaylord Watson (successor to Phelps & Watson) (publisher) | © Humphrey Phelps | Google Books Google Books | | | |
| 1859 | Phelps' Strangers and Citizens' Guide to New York City | Phelps & Watson (publisher) | © Humphrey Phelps | Google Books | | | |
| 1859 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) (died 1883) | | Google Books | | | NYPL |
| 1863 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) (died 1883) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1865 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) (died 1883) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1866 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) (died 1883) | | Google Books Google Books Google Books | | | |
| 1867 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) | | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1870 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1871 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1872 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | |
| 1876 | New York as It Was and as It Is: Giving an Account of the City From Its Settlement to the Present Time; Forming a Complete Guide to the Great Metropolis of the Nation, Including the City of Brooklyn and the Surrounding Cities and Villages; Together With a Classified Business Directory; With Map and Illustrations | David Van Nostrand (publisher) John Polhemus (1826–1894) (printer) | John Disturnell (1801–1877) | Google Books | | Internet Archive Internet Archive Internet Archive Internet Archive | |
| 1880 | Miller's New York as It Is; Or, Stranger's Guide-Book to the Cities of New York, Brooklyn, and Adjacent Places | James Miller (publisher) | | Google Books | | | |
| 1917 | Book of New York, The | The Penn Publishing Company | Robert Shackleton | Google Books | | Internet Archive | |

### Route and city guides

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1857 | Dinsmore's Thirty Miles Around New York,By Railroad, Stage, Steamboat, Express and Telegraph; How To Get in and out of the Metropolis | Dinsmore & Co. (publisher) (Lemuel Fletcher Dinsmore; 1819–1885) | Thomas Towndrow (1810–1898) (compiler & ed.) | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1862 | Clark & Stephenson's New York City Guide for August 1862 (5th ed.) | French & Wheat (printer) | | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1867 | City of New York, TheA complete guide, with descriptive sketches of objects and places of interest; with map | Taintor Brothers & Co. (Taintor's Route and City Guides) Charles Newhall Taintor (1840–1920) Joseph Lord Taintor (1835–1881) | | | HathiTrust | |
| 1872 | Guía de la Ciudad de Nueva YorkPor Antonio Bachiller y Morales (1812–1889) | Néstor Ponce de Leon (José Néstor Ponce de León y de la Guardia; 1937–1899) (publisher) Manuel María Zarzamendi (1830–1891) (printer) | Néstor Ponce de Leon (compiler) | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1876 | City of New York, TheA complete guide, descriptive sketches of objects and places of interest and condensed tables of churches, institutions, banks, hotels, city railroads, ferries, stage lines, amusements, etc. also travelers' directory for railroads, steamboats, ocean steamers; and a complete new street directory | Taintor Brothers & Co. (Taintor's Route and City Guides) | | Google Books | | Internet Archive |
| 1877 | Wilson's Street and Avenue Directoryof the City of New York Corrected May 1, 1876 (this is usually included as an appendix to Trow's New York City Directory) | Trow City Directory Co., The (publisher) | | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1884 | City of New York, TheA complete guide, descriptive sketches of objects and places of interest and condensed tables of churches, institutions, banks, hotels, city railroads, ferries, stage lines, amusements, etc. also travelers' directory for railroads, steamboats, ocean steamers; and a complete new street directory | Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co. (Taintor's Route and City Guides) | | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1885 | City of New York, TheA complete guide, descriptive sketches of objects and places of interest and condensed tables of churches, institutions, banks, hotels, city railroads, ferries, stage lines, amusements, etc. also travelers' directory for railroads, steamboats, ocean steamers; and a complete new street directory | Taintor Brothers, Merrill & Co. (Taintor's Route and City Guides) | | | | Internet Archive |
| 1908 | Handy Guide to New York City | Rand, McNally & Co. (publisher) | Ernest Ingersoll | | | Internet Archive |
| 1923 | The New "Red Book" – Information Street and Subway Guide to New York City, Manhattan and Bronx Boroughs – With Indexed Map – Also Sectional Maps | Interstate Map Company | | | | Internet Archive |
| 1924 | The New "Red Book" – Information Street and Subway Guide to New York City, Manhattan and Bronx Boroughs – With New Indexed Map | Interstate Map Company | | | | Internet Archive |
| 1935 | The "Red Book" – Street Guide and General Information to New York City, Manhattan and Bronx Boroughs – Latest Indexed Map | Interstate Map Company | | | | Internet Archive |
| 1939 | New York City Guide (American Guide Series) | Random House (publisher) | Lou Gody (editor-in-chief) Chester D. Harvey (editor) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |

### Charities, social services, and church directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1867 | A Church Directory for New York City (City Mission Document, No. 9) | New York City Mission (publisher) | Lewis E. Jackson (1822–1888) (editor) | | Columbia | Columbia University |
| 1874 | Directory to the Charities of New York | John F. Trow & Son (printer) | Bureau of Charities | Stanford | Stanford | |
| 1883 | Classified and Descriptive Directory to the Charitable and Beneficent Societies and Institutions of the City of New York | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York G. P. Putnam's Sons (publisher) | Charles D. Kellogg (Organizing Secretary) | Michigan | | |
| 1885–1886 | Guide to the Charities of New York and Brooklyn, The | P.F. McBreen (Patrick Francis McBreen; 1843–1925) (printer & publisher) | | NYPL | Illinois | |
| 1887 | Classified and Descriptive Directory to the Charitable and Beneficent Societies and Institutions of the City of New York (2nd ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) David Hamilton Gildersleeve (1867–1909) (printer) | Charles D. Kellogg (Organizing Secretary) | Princeton Stanford | | |
| 1888 | New York Charities Directory (3rd ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) Louis Stettiner (1859–1932) Simon Lambert (1844–1898) Isidor Fürst (1848–1915) | George P. Rowell (compiler) | Princeton | | |
| 1890 | New York Charities Directory (4th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York | Columbia | Stanford | |
| 1892 | New York Charities Directory (5th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York | Stanford | Illinois | |
| 1895 | New York Charities Directory (6th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) The Knickerbocker Press (printer) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York | Princeton Columbia | | |
| 1896 | New York Charities Directory (7th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) The Knickerbocker Press (printer) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York | Princeton | | |
| 1898 | New York Charities Directory (8th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) The Knickerbocker Press (printer) | Samuel Macauley Jackson, Chairman of the Committee on Publication Charity Organization Society of the City of New York | Stanford | | |
| 1900 | New York Charities Directory (10th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) The Knickerbocker Press (printer) | Samuel Macauley Jackson, Chairman of the Committee on Publication Charity Organization Society of the City of New York | Princeton | | |
| 1905 | Better New York, The | The Baker and Taylor Co. (printer) The American Institute of Social Service (publisher) | William Howe Tolman (1861–1958) | NYPL | Columbia | |
| 1905 | New York Charities Directory (15th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) The Knickerbocker Press (printer) | Mary E. David (compiler) | Princeton | | |
| 1906 | New York Charities Directory (16th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) The Knickerbocker Press (printer) | Mary E. David (compiler) | Chicago | | |
| 1907 | New York Charities Directory (17th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) B.H. Tyrrel (Benjamin Harvey Tyrrel; 1839–1908) (printer) | Mary E. David (compiler) | Columbia | | |
| 1909 | New York Charities Directory (18th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Press of B.H. Tyrrell (printer) | H.R. Hurd (compiler) | Chicago Chicago Iowa | | |
| 1910 | New York Charities Directory (19th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Press of B.H. Tyrrell (printer) | H.R. Hurd (compiler) | Chicago | | |
| 1911 | New York Charities Directory (20th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Press of B.H. Tyrrell (printer) | Seba Eldridge (1885–1953) (ed.) | Michigan Chicago Illinois | | |
| 1916 | New York Charities Directory (25th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Douglas C. McMurtrie (printer) | Lina D. Miller (ed.) | Columbia | | |
| 1918 | New York Charities Directory (27th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Douglas C. McMurtrie (printer) | Lina D. Miller (ed.) | Princeton Columbia Illinois | | |
| 1919 | New York Charities Directory (28th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) Douglas C. McMurtrie (printer) | Lina D. Miller (ed.) | Chicago | | |
| 1921 | Directory of Social Agencies of New York (30th ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) | Lina D. Miller (ed.) | Princeton Columbia Ohio State | | |- |
| 1922 | Directory of Social Agencies of New York (31st ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) | Lina D. Miller (ed.) | Iowa | | |
| 1923 | Directory of Social Agencies of New York (32nd ed.) | Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (publisher) | Lina D. Miller (ed.) | Columbia | | |
| June 1923 | Hospital Social Service (rev. ed.) No. 59 | Bulletin of the Russell Sage Foundation Library | Frederick Warren Jenkins (ed.) | Northwestern | | |

### Public education directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Google Books | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1874 | Directory of the Board of Education for the City and County of New York | Evening Post Steam Presses (printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1876 | Directory of the Board of Education for the City and County of New York | Cushing & Bardua (printer) (William T. Cushing) (Frederick W. Bardua aka Friedrich Wilhelm Bardua) | Google Books | Internet Archive | |
| 1877 | Map of the County of New York: Showing the School Districts and the Locality of the Public Schools | Cushing & Bardua (printer) | | | NYPL |
| 1879 | Directory of the Board of Education for the City and County of New York | Wynkoop & Hallenbeck (printer) Matthew Bennett Wynkoop (1830–1895) John J. Hallenbeck (1817–1891) | Google Books | Internet Archive | |
| 1884 | Directory of the Board of Education for the City and County of New York | Wynkoop & Hallenbeck (printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1888 | Directory of the Board of Education of the City of New York | De Leeuw, Oppenheimer & Myers (printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1890 | Directory of the Board of Education of the City of New York | De Leeuw & Oppenheimer (printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1892 | Directory of the Board of Education of the City of New York | De Leeuw, Oppenheimer & Co. (printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1903 | Directory of Teachers in the Public Schools | Board of Education of the City of New York (publisher) | Google Books | | |

### Directories of directors

| Year | Title | Printer | Google Books | HathiTrust |
| 1899 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (2nd ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1901 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (3rd ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust |
| 1902 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (4th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust |
| 1903 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (5th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1904 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (6th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust |
| 1905 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (7th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1906 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (8th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The (publisher) The Winthrop Press (printer) | | HathiTrust |
| 1907 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (9th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The | | HathiTrust |
| 1909–1910 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (10th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The | | HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1911–1912 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (11th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The | Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1913–1914 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (12th ed.) | Audit Company of New York, The | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1915–1916 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (14th ed.) | Directory of Directories Company | Google Books Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust HathiTrust |
| 1917–1918 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (15th ed.) | Directory of Directories Company | Google Books | HathiTrust |
| 1919–1920 | Directory of Directors in the City of New York (16th ed.) | Directory of Directories Company | | HathiTrust |

### Directories related to investment securities and banking

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1842 | Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City (3rd ed.) | The Sun (publisher) | Moses Yale Beach | | HathiTrust | |
| 1845 | Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City (6th ed.) | The Sun (publisher) | Moses Yale Beach | Google Books | | |
| 1846 | Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City (7th ed.) | The Sun (publisher) | Moses Yale Beach | | HathiTrust | |
| 1887 | History of the New York Stock Exchange, The New York Stock Exchange Directory, The Produce, Consolidated Stock and Petroleum, and Cotton Exchanges of the New York and London Clearing House Systems | The Financier Company(publisher) | | Google Books Google Books | | Internet Archive |
| July 1892 | Poor's Hand Book of Investment Securities (Vol. 3) | H.V. & H.W. Poor (publisher) | | Google Books | | |
| 1894 | The New York Stock Exchange → Chapter 26: "Members" | Thomas G. Hall | Francis Luther Eames (1844–1912) | Google Books | | Internet Archive |
| 1919 | New York Stock Exchange Directory | Francis Emory Fitch, Inc. | | Google Books | | |
| May 1923 | New York Stock Exchange Directory | | | Google Books | | Internet Archive |
| 1929 | New York Stock Exchange Directory | | | | | Internet Archive |
| 1922 | A Century of Banking in New York, 1822–1922 | The Gilliss Press (Walter Gilliss; 1855–1925) (publisher) | Henry Wysham Lanier | Google Books "Who Was Who in Finance," p. 75 "Wealthy Citizens' Biography," p. 92 | | |

### Printing Trades Blue Book

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1917 | Printing Trades Blue Book – Greater New York and Surrounding Towns Edition (Vol. 2) | A.F. Lewis & Co. (publisher) Meyer Franklin Lewis (1887–1957) Abraham Franklin Lewis (1873–1943) R. Lewis | A.F. Lewis & Co. (editor) | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1918 | Printing Trades Blue Book – Greater New York and Surrounding Towns Edition (Vol. 3) | A.F. Lewis & Co. (publisher) | A.F. Lewis & Co. (editor) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive | |

### Elite directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1881–1882 | Phillips' Élite Directory of Private Families – And Ladies Visiting and Shopping Guide For New York City | W. Phillips & Co. (publisher) Burr Printing House (printer) 18 Jacob Street, New York Frank Denham Harmon (1850–1907) (proprietor) | Julius William Hartz (1847–1907) | | HathiTrust | | |
| 1900–1901 | Phillips' Élite Directory of Private Families – And Ladies Visiting and Shopping Guide For New York City (Vol. 27) | W. Phillips & Co. (publisher) J.J. Little & Co. (printer) | | | | Internet Archive | |

### Annual registers

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1830 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 1) | J. Leavitt (publisher) Jonathan Seymour (1778–1841) (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | |
| 1831 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 2) | Jonathan Leavitt and Collins & Hannay (publisher) (Benjamin Say Collins; 1784–1857) (Samuel Hannay) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1832 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 3) | Jonathan Seymour (1778–1841) (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1833 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 4) | Peter Hill (publisher) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust HathiTrust | |
| 1834 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 5) | Edwin Williams (publisher) James Van Norden (1796–1872) (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1835 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 6) | Edwin Williams (publisher) James Van Norden (1796–1872) (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1836 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 7) | Edwin Williams (publisher) James Van Norden (1796–1872) (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1837 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 8) | G. C. Carvill & Co. (publisher) William H. Colyer (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books | HathiTrust | |
| 1840 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 9) | Printed and Published at Stationer's Hall | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1845 | New-York Annual Register, The (Vol. 10) | Jansen & Bell (publisher) Jared W. Bell (printer) | Edwin Williams (1797–1854) | | HathiTrust | |

### The Reference registers

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1918–1919 | Reference Register, The | White, Orr & Company (publisher) "Successor to Phillips' Directories Company" (see paragraph on this) | | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |

### Maps and atlases

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Other |
| 1865 | Sanitary and Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York –Showing original water courses and made land – the Viélé map is a revision of a 1609 map of Manhattan's topography when it was relatively unaltered by man | Prepared for the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens' Association under the direction of Egbert L. Viele, Topographical Engineer Ferdinand Mayer & Co. (lithographer) | Egbert Ludovicus Viélé | Stanford (David Rumsey Map Collection) |
| 1872 | V.K. Stevenson & Son's New Map of New York City | Gaylord Watson (1833–1896) (publisher) Prepared expressly for V.K. Stevenson & Son's Register | | NYPL |
| 1884 | Map of New-York City | Matthews, Northrup & Co. Prepared expressly for The Trow City Directory Co. (James Newson Matthews; 1828–1888) (William Phelps Northrup; 1850–1929) | | Library of Congress |
| 1889 | Map of New-York City | The Trow City Directory Co. | | Library of Congress |
| 1901 | Albemarle Hotel Map of Manhattan, City of New York, The With index of streets and strangers' directory to business houses, public buildings, principal churches, places of amusement, etc. etc. Main article: Albemarle Hotel | Colton, Ohman & Co. (engraver & printer) Octavus Bailey Libbey (1850–1907) (proprietor) | | NYPL |
| 1909 | Island of Manhattan at the Time of its Discovery, The (The MacCoun map, among other things, supereimposes streets over the Viélé map) | L.L. Poates Engraving Company, Half moon edition | | |
| 1733–1922 | Various maps | | | NYPL |

### New York City medical directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1886 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) | Stanford | |
| 1887 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) De Leeuw, Oppenheimer & Myers (printer) | NYPL | Columbia |
| 1888 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1889 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | Bern | Columbia |
| 1890 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1891 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Dornan (printer) | Stanford | Columbia |
| 1892 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Dornan (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1893 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) M.J. Rooney (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1894 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1895 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Stettiner, Lambert & Co. (printer) | Stanford | Columbia |
| 1896 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Richard Herrmann (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1897 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Le Huray (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1898 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. (printer) | | Columbia |
| 1900 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. (printer) | Stanford | Columbia |
| 1901 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. (printer) | Stanford | Columbia |
| 1903 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. (printer) | NYPL | |
| 1905 | The Medical Directory of the City of New York | Medical Society of the County of New York (publisher) Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. (printer) | | Columbia |

### Railway and other public transit references

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1873 | Beach Pneumatic Transit Company's Broadway Underground Railway, New York City, The –with complete maps of the City of New York and adjacent territory, showing the main lines and connections of the Broadway underground railway, profiles of the routes, etc.Main article: Beach Pneumatic Transit | Croker & Telfer, Printers | | Google Books | | | |
| 1899 | Map showing the Metropolitan Street Railway system and lines operated in connection therewith: 232.07 miles (for Manhattan) | Colton, Ohman & Co. (engraver & printer) Metropolitan Street Railway Company (publisher) | | | | | Library of Congress |

### Society directories, including social registers

| Year | Title | Printer | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1887 | Union League Club of New York, The | G.P. Putnam's Sons (publisher) | Google Books | | |
| 1891 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press (printer) (G.P. Putnam's Sons) (publisher) | Google Books | | |
| 1894 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press (printer) (G.P. Putnam's Sons) (publisher) | Google Books | | |
| 1896 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press (printer) (publisher) | Google Books | | |
| 1896 | Social Register, New York, 1896 Vol. 10, No. 1, November 1895 (quarterly: November, February, May, August) | Social Register Association | | | Internet Archive |
| 1897 | Social Register, New York, 1897 Vol. 11, No. 1, November 1896 (quarterly: November, February, May, August) | Social Register Association | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1900 | Social Register, New York, 1900 Vol. 14, No. 1, November 1899 (quarterly: November, February, May, August) | Social Register Association | | | Internet Archive |
| 1904 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press (printer) (G.P. Putnam's Sons ) (publisher & printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1905 | Union League Club of New York, The | Styles & Cash (printer) (Samuel DeWitt Styles; 1841–1910) (Alexander Cash; 1839–1910) | Google Books | | Internet Archive |
| 1906 | Union League Club of New York, The | Styles & Cash (printer) (Samuel DeWitt Styles; 1841–1910) (Alexander Cash; 1839–1910) | Google Books | | |
| 1907 | Union League Club of New York, The | Styles & Cash (printer) (Samuel DeWitt Styles; 1841–1910) (Alexander Cash; 1839–1910) | Google Books | | |
| 1913 | Social Register, Summer, 1913 Vol. 27, No. 63, June 1913 (quarterly: November, February, May, August) | Social Register Association | Google Books | | |
| 1914 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press G.P. Putnam's Sons (publisher & printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1915 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press G.P. Putnam's Sons (publisher & printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1917 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press G.P. Putnam's Sons (publisher & printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1919 | Union League Club of New York, The | The Knickerbocker Press G.P. Putnam's Sons (publisher & printer) | Google Books | | |
| 1920 | Social Register, Summer, 1920 Vol. 34, No. 1, November 1919 (quarterly: November, February, May, August) | Social Register Association | Google Books | | |
| 1920 | Union League Club of New York, The | Jaques & Co. (printer) | Google Books | | |

### Early Harlem history (16th and 17th centuries)

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1881 | Harlem (City of New York) – Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; Or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families and the Recovered History of the Land-Titles | Riker, James Jr. (1822–1889) (printer) | Riker, James Jr. (1822–1889) | NYPL NYPL | NYPL NYPL | NYPL NYPL |
| 1903 | New Harlem Past and Present – The Story of an Amazing Civic Wrong, Now at Last to Be Righted – With a Review of Principles of Law Involved in the Recovery of the Harlem Lands | New Harlem Publishing Company (Henry Pennington Toler; 1864–1910) (William Pennington Toler; 1860–1905) (publisher) | Carl Horton Pierce (1870–1947) Legal review by William Pennington Toler (1860–1905) and Harmon De Pau Nutting (1846–1907) | NYPL | Library of Congress | NYPL |
| 1904 | Harlem (City of New York) – Its Origin and Early Annals, Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; Or, Notices of Its Founders Before Emigration. Also, Sketches of Numerous Families and the Recovered History of the Land-Titles | New Harlem Publishing Company (publisher) Journal Press (printer) | Riker, James Jr. (1822–1889) Revised by Henry Pennington Toler Edited by Sterling Potter | NYPL | UC Berkeley | Library of Congress |

### Unions

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1904 | Directory of Unions Affililated With the Central Federated Union of New York, N.Y. | Central Federated Union (publisher) | | | University of Illinois | | |

### Greater New York dictionaries

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1879 | Appletons' Dictionary of New York and Vicinity | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | Townsend Percy | Google Books | |
| 1880 | Appletons' Dictionary of New York and Vicinity (6th ed.) | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | Townsend Percy | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1883 | Appletons' Dictionary of New York and Vicinity (5th year) | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | | Google Books | |
| 1887 | Appletons' Dictionary of New York and Its Vicinity (9th year) | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | | Google Books | |
| 1892 | Appletons' Dictionary of New York and Its Vicinity (14th year) | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | | Google Books | |
| 1898 | Appletons' Dictionary of New York and Its Vicinity (20th year)First "Greater New York" Edition | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | | Google Books | |
| 1904 | Appletons' Dictionary of Greater New York and Its Neighborhood (26th ed.) | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | | Google Books | |
| 1905 | Appletons' Dictionary of Greater New York and Its Neighborhood (27th ed.) | D. Appleton & Company (publisher) | | | Internet Archive |

### New York City Corporation documents

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1843–1844 | Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (aka Valentine's Manual) | William C. Bryant (printer) | David Thomas Valentine (1801–1869) | Google Books | | |
| 1862 | Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (aka Valentine's Manual) | Edmund Jones & Co. (printer) | David Thomas Valentine (1801–1869) | | HathiTrust | |
| 1866 | A Compilation of the Existing Ferry Leases and Railroad Grants Made by the Corporation of the City of New York – Together With the Grants From the Legislature From the State to Use the Streets of the City for Railroad Purposes – Also the Various Ordinances, Resolutions, &c., Passed by the Common Council, Relating to or Affecting the Same | Edmund Jones & Co. (printer) | | | HathiTrust | |
| 1868 | Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York | Edmund Jones & Co. (printer) | Joseph Shannon | Google Books | | |
| 1872 | Documents of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York for the Year 1872 | M.B. Brown & Co. (Martin Bartholomew Brown; 1838–1893) (printer) | | | | Internet Archive |

### Military directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1890 | History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806–1889 (Vol. 1) | The Seventh Regiment (publisher) | Emmons Clark (1827–1905) | Google Books Google Books | | | |
| 1890 | History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806–1889 (Vol. 2) | The Seventh Regiment (publisher) | Emmons Clark (1827–1905) | Google Books Google Books | | | |

### Genealogical societies

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1886 | Collections of the Huguenot Society of America (Vol. 1)Registers of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths of the "Eglise Françoise à la Nouvelle York," from 1688 to 1804 | Douglas Taylor (printer) | Alfred Victor Wittmeyer Sr. (1847–1926) (ed.) (Rector of the French Church du Saint-Esprit (fr)) | Google Books Google Books (2003 re-print) (preview only) | | Internet Archive Internet Archive | |

### New York State directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1830 | New-York State Register, The (54th Year of American Independence) | Clayton & Van Norden (printer) (E.B. Clayton) (James Van Norden; 1796–1872) | Roger Sherman Skinner (1795–1838) (ed.) | Google Books | | |
| 1843 | New-York State Register, for 1843, The –Containing an almanac, civil divisions, and census of the state; with political, statistical and other information, relating to the State of New-York and the United States; also, a full list of county officers, attorneys, &c. | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) | Orville L. Holley (ed.) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive |
| 1845 | New-York State Register, for 1845, The –Containing an almanac for 1845–6, with political, statistical and other information, relating to the State of New-York and the United States; also, a complete list of county officers, attorneys, &c. The National Register contains a full list of U. States government officers, &c. | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) C. Van Benthuysen and Co. (printer) (Charles Van Benthuysen; 1817–1881) | Orville L. Holley (ed.) | Google Books | | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1847 | New-York State Register, for 1847, The;Being a supplement to the register for 1845–46: containing a list of the officers of the State of New-York, alphabetical list of attorneys, constitution of the State, new judiciary, &c., &c. | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) C. Van Benthuysen (printer) (Charles Van Benthuysen; 1817–1881) | | Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust | |
| 1850 | The New York Mercantile Union Business Directory, Containing a New Map of New York City and State, and a Business Directory, Showing the Name, Location and Business of Mercantile Firms, Manufacturing Establishments, Professional Men, Artists, Corporations, Banking, Moneyed and Literary Institutions, Courts, Public Officers, and All the Various Miscellaneous Departments, Which Contribute to the Business, Wealth and Prosperity of the State to Which Is Appended, a Short Advertising Register Many of the Principal Mercantile Houses and Manufacturing Establishments of New York and Other Cities. Carefully Collected and Arranged for 1850–51. To Be Revised and Continued | S.W. Benedict (Seth Williston Benedict; 1803–1869) (stereotyper & printer) | Samuel French, L. C. & H. L. Pratt, 293 Broadway (New York) J. B. Henshaw, 161 William Street (New York) J. C. Jones (Albany) Geo. M. Howell (Binghamton) | Harvard Stanford | Columbia | Harvard Columbia |
| 1858 | Disturnell's New York State Register for 1858 | John Disturnell (1801–1877) (publisher) J.J. Reed, Printer & Stereotyper | | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1860 | Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784 | Gideon J. Tucker, Secretary of State Weed, Parsons and Company | | Google Books Google Books (reprint; preview) | | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1892 | Red Book, The – An Illustrated Legislative Manual of the State, Containing the Portraits and Biographies of Its Governors and Members of the Legislature | James B. Lyon (1858–1924) (publisher) | Will L. Lloyd | Google Books | | |
| 1895 | Red Book, The – An Illustrated Legislative Manual of the State, Containing the Portraits and Biographies of Its Governors, State Officers and Members of the Legislature, With Portraits of Congressmen, Judges and Mayors | James B. Lyon (1858–1924) (publisher) | Edgar L. Murlin (1849–1937) | Google Books Google Books Google Books | | |
| 1900 | Biographical Directory of the State of New York | A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. (printer) (Alpheus Theodore De La Mare; 1853–1950) Biographical Directory Company (incorporated) (publisher) (James De Lyon Howth, President) | | Google Books | | Internet Archive |
| 1902 | New York Red Book, The | J.B. Lyon Company (James B. Lyon; 1858–1924) (publisher) | Edgar L. Murlin (1849–1937) | Google Books | | |
| 1910 | New York Red Book, The | J.B. Lyon Company (James B. Lyon; 1858–1924) (publisher) | Edgar L. Murlin (1849–1937) | Google Books | | |
| 1912 | First Annual Industrial Directory of New York State, 1912 | John Williams (1865–1944) (Commissioner of Labor) New York State Department of Labor (publisher) | John Williams (compiler) | UC Berkeley Michigan Stanford | | |

### State lawyer directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1918 | Bender's Lawyers' Diary and Directory for the State of New York (Vol. 27) | Matthew Bender & Company (publisher) | | Harvard Law School | | | |

### State medical directories

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1899 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 1) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | E. Eliot Harris, MD (editor) | | Internet Archive |
| 1900 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 2) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1901 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 3) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1902 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 4) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1903 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 5) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1904 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 6) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1905 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 7) | The New York State Medical Association (publisher) Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1906 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 8) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1907 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 9) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1908 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 10) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1909 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 11) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1910 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 12) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | Google Books | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1912 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 14) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1913 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 15) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1914 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 16) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1916 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 18) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive Internet Archive |
| 1917 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 19) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1918 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 20) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1919 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 21) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1920 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 22) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1921 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 23) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | Google Books | Internet Archive |
| 1922 | The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 24) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) The Federal Printing Company (printer) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1937 | Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 38) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1938 | Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 39) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1940 | Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 40) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1947 | Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 42) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) | | | Internet Archive |
| 1949 | Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut (Vol. 43) | Medical Society of the State of York (publisher) | | | Internet Archive |

### Surrounding area travel guides

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1873 | Hudson River by Daylight (The)New York to Albany | John Featherson (publisher) Lovejoy, Son & Co. (electrotypers) (Henry Lovejoy Sr.) (Henry William Lovejoy; 1839–1907) | | Google Books | HathiTrust HathiTrust | | |
| 1874 | Hudson River by Daylight (The)New York to Albany | John Featherson (publisher) Lovejoy, Son & Co. (electrotypers) (Henry Lovejoy Sr.) (Henry William Lovejoy; 1839–1907) | | Google Books | | | |

### The Eno Collection of New York City Views

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1925 | Eno Collection of New York City Views, The | New York Public Library | Frank Weitenkampf, L.H.D. | | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | NYPL |

### Architects in Practice, New York City

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1840–1900 | Architects in Practice, New York City, 1840–1900 (1979) | The Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records | Dennis Steadman Francis (1942–1980) | | | Internet Archive. 1989. | |
| 1900–1940 | Architects in Practice, New York City, 1900–1940 (1989) | The Committee for the Preservation of Architectural Records –––––––––––––––––––– J&D Associates Union, New Jersey (publisher) | James Ward | | | Internet Archive. 1989. | |

### National directory of architects

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1904–1905 | Architects' Directory and Spectification Index for 1904–05 (6th ed.) | William T. Comstock (publisher) | | Google Books | | | |

### Other directories and city references

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Other |
| 1783 | Book of Negroes | Sir Guy Carleton | Sir Guy Carleton | | | | Nova Scotia Archives |
| 1871–1872 | Reference Book and Directory of the Book and Job Printers, Newspaper, Magazine and Book Publishers, Paper Manufacturers and Paper Warehouses ... | J. Arthur Murphy & Co., Publishers | | Google Books | | | |
| 1871 | New York and its Institutions, 1609–1871 – The Brights Side of New York – A Library of Information, Pertaining to the Great Metropolis, Past and Present, With Historic Sketches of Its Churches, Schools, Public Buildings, Parks and Cemeteries, of Its Police, Fire, Health and Quarantine Departments, of Its Prisons, Hospitals, Homes, Asylums, Dispensaries and Morgue and All Municipal and Private Charitable Institutions | E.B. Treat (publisher) (Erastus Buck Treat; 1838–1928) Press of Cushing, Bardua & Co. Stereotyped at the Women's Printing House | Rev. J. F. Richmond (John Francis Richmond) | Google Books | HathiTrust | | |
| 1872 | New York and its Institutions, 1609–1872 – The Brights Side of New York – A Library of Information, Pertaining to the Great Metropolis, Past and Present, With Historic Sketches of Its Churches, Schools, Public Buildings, Parks and Cemeteries, of Its Police, Fire, Health and Quarantine Departments, of Its Prisons, Hospitals, Homes, Asylums, Dispensaries and Morgue and All Municipal and Private Charitable Institutions | E.B. Treat (publisher) Press of Joseph J. Little Stereotyped at the Women's Printing House | Rev. J. F. Richmond | Google Books Google Books | | | |
| 1873 | New York and its Institutions, 1609–1873 – The Brights Side of New York – A Library of Information, Pertaining to the Great Metropolis, Past and Present, With Historic Sketches of Its Churches, Schools, Public Buildings, Parks and Cemeteries, of Its Police, Fire, Health and Quarantine Departments, of Its Prisons, Hospitals, Homes, Asylums, Dispensaries and Morgue and All Municipal and Private Charitable Institutions | E.B. Treat (publisher) Press of Carlton & Lanahan | Rev. J. F. Richmond | Google Books | | | |
| 1892 | King's Handbook of New York City | Moses King (1853–1909) | Moses King (1853–1909) | Google Books | | | |
| 1893 | King's Handbook of New York City (2nd ed.) | Moses King (1853–1909) | Moses King (1853–1909) | Google Books | | | |
| 1896 | Staten Island Names | Natural Science Association of Staten Island | William T. Davis | Google Books | | | |
| 1915 | Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent (Vol. 1) | Memento Edition: Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom in U.S | Frank Lincoln Mather (ed.) (1865–1939) | Google Books Google Books Google Books | HathiTrust | Mather, Frank Lincoln (1976). Internet Archive. Gale Research Company. ISBN 978-0-8103-4247-7. (1976 re-print) | |
| 1918 | Printing Trades Blue Book (Greater New York and Surrounding Towns Edition) | A.F. Lewis & Co. (publisher) | A.F. Lewis & Co. (editor) | Google Books | | | |
| 1936–1966 | The Negro Motorist Green BookMain article: The Negro Motorist Green Book (see NYC sections in publications) | Green & Smith Victor H. Green & Company (Victor Hugo Green) | Victor Hugo Green | | | | NYPL |
| 1941 | Music Directory of Early New York CityA File of Musicians, Music Publishers and Musical Instrument-Makers Listed in New York Directories from 1786 Through 1835, Together with the Most Important New York Music Publishers from 1836 Through 1875 | New York Public Library | Virginia Larkin Redway (née Virginia Ward Larkin; 1886–1975) | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1942 | A Register of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers in New York City, 1633–1820 | New York Public Library | George L. McKay | | | Internet Archive | |
| 1991 | Musical Instrument Makers of New York: A Directory of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Urban Craftsmen | Pendragon Press | Nancy Jane Groce (born 1952) | Google Books (preview) | | | OCLC 1069294403 ISBN 0-918728-97-5 |

### Old Merchants of New York City

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Holding IDs |
| 1863 | Old Merchants of New York City | Carleton (George W. Carleton; 1832–1901) (formerly Rudd & Carleton) (George W. Carleton) (publisher) | Walter Barrett (pseudonymof Joseph Alfred Scoville; 1815–1864) | University of Wisconsin University of Michigan Penn State Harvard Harvard | Harvard Harvard University of Michigan Penn State | University of Michigan Indiana State Library Harvard Harvard University of Pittsburgh | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1864 | Old Merchants of New York City (First Series) | Carleton (publisher) | Walter Barrett | Koninklijke Bibliotheek Harvard Harvard | | Harvard Columbia | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1863 | Old Merchants of New York City (Second Series; 1863 ed.) | Carleton (publisher) | Walter Barrett | NYPL Harvard University of Wisconsin | NYPL NYPL Harvard | NYPL NYPL Harvard Allen County Public Library | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1864 | Old Merchants of New York City (Second Series; 1864 ed.) | Carleton (publisher) | Walter Barrett | Koninklijke Bibliotheek Stanford | | Allen County Public Library Stanford | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1865 | Old Merchants of New York City (Third Series) | Carleton (publisher) | Walter Barrett | Koninklijke Bibliotheek Harvard | University of Iowa Harvard | Brigham Young University Harvard Harvard | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1866 | Old Merchants of New York City (Fourth Series) | Carleton (publisher) | Walter Barrett | Harvard | Harvard | Harvard | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1870 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 1) | M. Doolady (Michael Doolady; c. 1810–1892) (publisher) | Walter Barrett | | University of Wisconsin | | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1870 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 2) | M. Doolady (publisher) | Walter Barrett | | University of Wisconsin | | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1870 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 3) | M. Doolady (publisher) | Walter Barrett | Wisconsin Historical Society | University of Wisconsin | | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1885 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 1) | Thomas R. Knox & Co. (Thomas W. Knox; 1835–1896) (successor to James Miller) (publisher) | Walter Barrett | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley Harvard | UC Berkeley | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1885 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 2) | Thomas R. Knox & Co. (publisher) | Walter Barrett | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley Harvard | UC Berkeley | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1885 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 3) | Thomas R. Knox & Co. (publisher) | Walter Barrett | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1885 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 4) | Thomas R. Knox & Co. (publisher) | Walter Barrett | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1885 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 5) | Thomas R. Knox & Co. (publisher) | Walter Barrett | UC Berkeley | UC Berkeley Harvard | UC Berkeley | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1889 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 2; re-print of the 1885 ed.) | Worthington Co. (publisher) | Walter Barrett | | | University of Toronto | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) https://archive.org/details/oldmerchantsofne02scovuoft/page/n5/mode/2up |
| 1889 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 3; re-print of the 1885 ed.) | John W. Lovell Company (John Wurtele Lovell; 1852–1932) (publisher) | Walter Barrett | | | University of Toronto | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) https://archive.org/details/oldmerchantsofne02scovuoft/page/n5/mode/2up |
| 1889 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 4; re-print of the 1885 ed.) | John W. Lovell Company (publisher) | Walter Barrett | | | University of Toronto | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |
| 1889 | Old Merchants of New York City (Vol. 5; re-print of the 1885 ed.) | John W. Lovell Company (publisher) | Walter Barrett | | | University of Toronto | LCCN 16-16772 OCLC 6007677 (all editions) |

### New York history bibliography and biographical references

| Year | Title | Printer | Compiler(s) | Google Books | HathiTrust | Internet Archive | Holding IDs |
| 1894 | New York, 1894 – Illustrated | A.F. Parsons Publishing Co. (publisher) | | Columbia University | | | |
| 1935 | Association Membership Lists | Special Libraries Association | Special Committee of the Special Libraries Association | | Ohio State University | | |
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## Selected New York City directories not found online

    Wilson's
* Wilson's Directory of New York City (1849–1850)
* Wilson's Directory of New York City (1850–1851)
* Wilson's Directory of New York City (1852–1853)
* Wilson's Illustrated Guide New York, NY (1849)
* Wilson's Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River (1849)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City 91848–1851)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1851)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1853–1854)
* Wilson's Business Directory (1855)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1856)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1857–1858)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1858)
* Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1859)
* Wilson's Business Directory for New York City (1860)
* Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1855–1856)
* Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1856–1857)
* Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1857–1858)
* Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1958–1859)
* Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1859–1860)
* Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1860–1861)
    Trow's
* Trow's New York City Directory (1853–1854)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1854–1855)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1855–1856)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1856–1857)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1857–1858)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1858–1859)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1859–1860)
* Trow's New York City Directory (1860–1861)
    Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory
* 20th Year of American Independence (1796)
* 21st " " (1797)
* 22nd " " (1798)
* 23rd " " (1799)
* 24th " " (1800)
    Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory
* 25th " " (1801)
* 26th " " (1802)
* 27th " " (1803)
* 28th " " (1804)
* 29th " " (1805)
* 31st " " (1806)
* 32nd " " (1807)
* 33rd " " (1808)
* 34th " " (1809)
* 35th " " (1810)
* 36th " " (1811)
* 37th " " (1812)
* 38th " " (1813)
* 39th " " (1814)
* 40th " " (1815)
* 41st " " (1816)
* 42nd " " (1817)
* 43rd " " (1818)
* 44th " " (1819)
* 45th " " (1820)
* 46th " " (1821)
* 47th " " (1822)
* 48th " " (1823)
* 49th " " (1824)
* 50th " " (1825)
* 51st " " (1826)
* Longworth's American Almanack, New York Register, and City Directory (1819–1842)
* Longworth's New York Register and City Directory 1818
    Doggett's New York City Directory
* Doggett's New York City Directory (1845–1846)
* Doggett's New York City Directory (1850–1851)
* Doggett's New York City Directory (1848–1849)
* Doggett's New York City Directory (1850–1851)
* New York City and Co-Partnership Directory (1843–1844)
* Doggett's New York City Co-partnership Directory (1846–1847)
* Doggett's New York City Partnership Directory (1849–1850)
* Doggett's New York City Street Directory 1851
* Doggett's New York Business Directory 1846–1847
    Rode's
* Rode's New York City Directory (1850–1851)
* Rode's New York Directory (1852–1853)
* New York City Directory, The (12th ed.), Charles R. Rode 1853–1854
* New York City Directory, The (13th ed.), Charles R. Rode 1854–1855
* Rode's New York City Partnership Directory (1852–1853)
* Rode's New York and Brooklyn Partnership Directory (1853–1854)
* Rode's New York City Business Directory (1854–1855)
    Citizen and Stranger's Guide
* Citizens Directory and Strangers Guide (1814)
* Citizen and Strangers' Pictorial and Business Directory (1853)
* Directory for Citizens and Strangers (1860)
    Guide books: Taintor's Route and City Guides
* City of New York, The (1867)
* City of New York, The (1876)
* City of New York, The (1884)
* City of New York, The (1885)
    Other
* 1665 (title page missing)
* 1666–1785 (none published)
* New York Directory 1786
* New York Directory 1787
* 1788 (none published)
* New York Directory and Register for the Year 1789–1796
* New Trade Directory for New York anno 1800
* John Langdon and Son's New York City Directory 1804–1805
* Jones's New York Mercantile and General Directory 1805
* Alphabetical Table of the Situation and Extent of the Different Streets ... 1807–1808
* Elliot & Crissy's New York Directory 1811
* Elliot's Improved New York Double Directory 1812
* New York As It Is 1833–1835, 1837, 1839–1849
* Classified Mercantile Directory 1837
* New York Business Directory 1840/41, 1841/42, 1844/45 (1842/43 t.p. missing)
* Street Directory of the City of New York 1843
* New York City Co-Partnership Directory 1844
* New York City Directory 1844–1845
* 1845 (t.p. missing)
* United States Statistical Directory or Merchants' and Travellers' Guide With a Wholesale Business Directory of New York 1847
* Merchant's Business director[y] and Stranger's Guide 1847–1848
* 1847/48 (t.p. missing)
* New York Mercantile Register 1848–1849
* Map of the City and County of New York 1849–1850
* New York, NY List of Persons 1850
* A Map of the City and County of New York 1850
* New York City Directory 1851–1852
* School Directory of the City of New York 1856
* New York City Mercantile and Manufacturers' Business Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1857. New York: West, Lee & Bartlett, 335 Broadway (publisher). Mason Brothers (printer). 1857. LCCN 24-16071; OCLC 7928448 (all editions).
* Boyd's Pictorial Directory of Broadway 1859
* Deutscher Wegweiser durch New York und Umgegend, Tamsen & Dethleffs (eds.), 1884
* Murphy's Business Directory for 1888
* Holt's New-York Register, for 1804 Charles Holt (1772–1852) (printer & publisher); OCLC 926764796
* Holt's New-York Register, for 1806
* New-York Commercial List Containing the Names and Occupations of Principal Merchants, T.P. Richards (compiler), William W. Rose (printer) (1853); OCLC 39693790
* Twitt's Directory of Prominent Business Men in New-York, Twitt & Co. (James Twitt) (publisher) (1858); OCLC 42139312
* Foster's Account of the Conflagration of the Principal Part of the First Ward of the City of New-York, Benjamin F. Foster, C. Foster (1835); OCLC 58760647, 878533663
* Gem, or Fashionable Business Directory, George Shidell (printer) (1844); OCLC 795892391, 6118657, 1066533846
* Who's Who in Harlem, Magazine & Periodical Printing & Pub. Co., Inc. (1950); OCLC 10143688
* Who's Who in Harlem: the 1949–1950 biographical register of a group of distinguished persons of New York's Harlem, Alexandria, Virginia: Chadwyck-Healey (1987); OCLC 23852901
* Stucker's Classified Business and Professional Directory, by Henri T. Stucker, New York: Henri T. Publishing Co., (1945– ); OCLC 907663199