Digitized Brooklyn City Directories

Brooklyn Public Library has digitized Brooklyn city and business directories, and telephone books for the period 1856-1967. This collection is accessible via Internet Archive and allows for full-text searching within each volume.

Access Locations:

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center;

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;

Thomas Yoseloff Business Center at SNFL;

All Branch Libraries;

Outside the Library

Subjects:

Genealogy;

New York City History

Print Equivalent:

Microfilm copies of Brooklyn City Directories spanning 1796-1933/34 are available in the Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Room 119.

Language:

English