New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary

New York is one of the states that has two large central state-wide online repositories for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main central online site for searching old newspapers. New York does have some online newspapers available on that site. The bulk of the state’s online availability is from several different websites and they house hundreds of newspapers. Many are free and some require a subscription. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. 

[Note to Readers: This is a very long article – there are over 3,000 free links to online newspapers for the State of New York – so please bear with the length]

There are over 12.000 newspapers that have been published in the Empire State – certainly not all of them are searchable online. But there are quite a few that are indeed available. So go for it – find your New York ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives. 

Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also, I suspect that some of these links may change over time – so if there is a dead link – please use your favorite search engine to find their new location.

(Updated January 2023; recently added links are in BOLD)

New York Historical Newspapers

Free Sites:

Statewide Collections:

Chronicling America – New York Newspapers

Google News Archive

Old Fulton New York Postcards

NYS Historic Newspapers (sorted by city)

County and Library Collections:

Albany County
Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany

  • Evangelist Tg 
  • Evening Journal 
  • The Evangelis

Broome County
George F. Johnson Memorial Library 

  • Endicott Daily Bulletin
  • Daily Bulletin
  • Endicott Bul
  • Record
  • News Dispatch
  • Endicott Times
  • Johnson City Endicott Record
  • Union-Endicott News
  • The Union Weekly News
  • The Union News
  • E.J. Workers Review
  • letin
  • E.J. Workers Magazine
  • Union Endicott News
  • Lestershire-Endicott Record
  • E J Workers Magazine
  • Union News
  • U E Tiger
  • Lestershire Endicott Recor
  • U-E Tiger Football Issue
  • The Union Argus

Lisle Free Library

  • Lisle Gleaner
  • Lisle Gleaner and New Era
  • Eagle
  • Maroon and Gold
  • The Lisle Gleaner
  • Golden Eagle
  • New York Weekly Tribune
  • New Era
  • Albany Weekly Journal
  • New Albany Gazett
  • New Yorker

Mary L. Wilcox Memorial Library 

  • Binghamton Daily Democrat 
  • Broome County Census 
  • Broome County Herald 
  • Broome Gazette
  • Broome Republican 
  • Chenango American And Whitney Point Reporter 
  • Nioga Reporter 
  • Reporter Fair Daily
  • Whitney Point Reporter
  • Whitney Point Reporter And The Oxford Review Times
  • The Whitney Point Reporter The Chenango American And The Oxford Review-Times
  • The Chenango American And Whitney Point Reporter And The Oxford Review-Times
  • The Chenango American And Whitney Point Reporter
  • The Whitney Point Reporter And The Chenango American And The Oxford Review-Times

Cattaraugus County
Allegany Public Library

  • Allegany Citizen 
  • Times Herald 
  • National Tribune 
  • Portville Star

Saint Bonaventure University – Friedsam Memorial Library 

  • Bona Venture 
  • St. Bona Venture 
  • Summer Bona Venture 
  • The Bona Summer Times 
  • The Bona Venture 
  • The O’Bona Venture 

Cayuga County
Lock 52 Historical Society

  • Cayuga Chief
  • Cayuga Republican
  • Moravia Citizen
  • Port Byron Gazette
  • Port Byron Herald
  • Port Byron Times
  • The Port Byron Chronicle
  • The Port Byron Chronicle And Cayuga County News

The Seymour Public Library 

  • Advertiser Journal
  • Auburn
  • Auburn Banner
  • Auburn Bulletin
  • Auburn Daily Advertiser
  • Auburn Daily Advertiser and Auburn Union
  • Auburn Daily Advertiser and Union
  • Auburn Daily Bulletin
  • Auburn Daily Union
  • Auburn Free Press
  • Auburn Gazette
  • Auburn Journal
  • Auburn Journal and Advertiser
  • Auburn Journal and Weekly Union
  • Auburn Morning Dispatch
  • Auburn Morning News
  • Auburn Sunday Dispatch
  • Auburn Weekly American
  • Auburn Weekly Dispatch
  • Auburn Weekly Union
  • Cayuga Chief
  • Cayuga County Independent
  • Cayuga County News
  • Cayuga Patriot
  • Cayuga Republican
  • Cayuga Tocsin
  • Citizen
  • Free Press
  • Gospel Advocate and Impartial Investigator
  • Moravia Citizen
  • Northern Christian Advocate
  • Port Byron Gazette
  • Port Byron Herald
  • Port Byron Times
  • Seneca Citizen
  • The Auburn Citizen
  • The Auburn City News
  • The Auburnian
  • The Cayuga Patriot
  • The Cayuga Spirit of the Times
  • The Citizen
  • The Gospel Messenger
  • The Northern Independent
  • The Port Byron Chronicle
  • The Port Byron Chronicle And Cayuga County News

Chenango County
Afton Free Library

  • Afton Enterprise 
  • Afton Enterprise And Harpursville Budget 
  • Afton Weekly Enterprise
  • Courier
  • Home Sentinel 
  • The Afton Daily Enterprise 
  • Weekly Press 

Bainbridge (NY) Historical Society

  • American Freeman
  • Bainbridge Eagle
  • Bainbridge Express
  • Bainbridge Freeman
  • Bainbridge Ledger
  • Bainbridge News
  • Bainbridge News and Bainbridge Republican
  • Bainbridge News and The Bainbridge Republican
  • Bainbridge Press
  • Bainbridge Republican
  • Bainbridge Republican and Express
  • Bainbridge Republican and Saturday Review
  • Bainbridge Times
  • Chenango Free Democrat
  • Home and Abroad
  • Monday Review
  • Saturday Review

Guernsey Memorial Library 

  • Anti Masonic Telegraph
  • Chenango Community
  • Chenango Semi Weekly Telegraph
  • Chenango Telegraph
  • Chenango Telegraph And Chronicle
  • Chenango Telegraph and Semi Weekly Sun
  • Chenango Union
  • Chenango Union Extra
  • Evening Sun
  • Morning Sun
  • Norwich Journal
  • Norwich Sun
  • Quill and Press
  • Telegraph And Chronicle
  • The Chenango Telegraph
  • The Chenango Union
  • The Evening Sun
  • The Norwich Sun

Moore Memorial Library

  • Chenango American
  • The Chenango American
  • The Chenango American And Whitney Point Reporter
  • The Chenango American And Whitney Point Reporter And The Oxford Review Times
  • The Review Times

Oxford Memorial Library

  • Chenango Republican
  • Chenango Whig
  • Oxford Gazette
  • Oxford Press
  • Oxford Republican
  • Oxford Times
  • The Norwich Journal
  • The Oxford Review
  • The Oxford Review-Times
  • The Oxford Times
  • The Review-Times

Sherburne Public Library

  • Sherburne news
  • Sherburne Home News
  • Home News

Columbia County
Roeliff Jansen Community Library

  • Columbia County Independent 
  • Hillsdale Harbinger 
  • Hillsdale Herald 
  • Independent 
  • Roe Jan Independent 

Cortland County

Cortland Free Library

  • Cortland Advocate
  • Cortland County Republican
  • Cortland County Whig
  • Cortland Message
  • Cortland Observer
  • Cortland Repository
  • Cortland Republican
  • Cortland Standard
  • Cortland Standard And Cortland Daily Journal
  • Cortland Standard And Journal
  • Republican and Eagle
  • The Cortland County Standard
  • The Cortland Democrat
  • The Cortland Standard
  • The Gazette and Banner
  • The Ithaca Journal
  • The Republican Banner

Delaware County

Harpersfield Historical Society

  • Stamford Mirror
  • Stamford Mirror And Recorder
  • Stamford Recorder

Sidney Memorial Library 

  • Tri Town News 
  • Sidney Record 
  • Sidney Enterprise 
  • The Sidney Record And Bainbridge News
  • Sidney Record-Enterprise 
  • The Tri-Town News 
  • Press And Sun-Bulletin
  • The Sidney Record
  • The Daily Star 
  • Walton Reporter 

William B. Ogden Free Library

Greene County
Catskill Public Library

  • Cairo Herald
  • Catskill Daily Mail
  • Daily Mail
  • Daily Mail And Greene County News
  • Greene County News
  • Record
  • Register Star
  • The Daily Mail

Jefferson County

Carthage Free Library

  • Carthage Republican
  • Carthage Republican And The Northern New Yorker
  • The Carthage Republican
  • The Carthage Republican And The Northern New Yorker

Madison County
Canastota Public Library

  • Canastota Bee-Journal
  • The Canastota Bee

Cazenovia Public Library 

  • American Legion Scrapbook 
  • Cazenovia Democrat
  • Cazenovia Gazette 
  • Cazenovia Republican 
  • Cazenovia Standard 
  • Chittenango Phenix 
  • Civilian 
  • Democratic Reflector 
  • Equalizer
  • Free School Clarion 
  • Free Trader 
  • Madison County Eagle
  • Madison County Journal 
  • Madison County Whig 
  • Madison Observer
  • Madison Republic 
  • Observer And Recorder
  • Patriot 
  • Pilot 
  • Progressive Christian 
  • Republican Monitor 
  • Saratoga Register
  • The Cazenovia Republican 
  • The Ovid Bee 
  • Utica Patriot
  • Western Federalist 
  • Whitestown Gazette And Catos Patrol 
  • Whitestown Gazette Extra 

Oneida Public Library 

  • Democratic Union
  • Oneida Dispatch
  • Oneida Free Press
  • Oneida Sachem
  • Oneida Semi Weekly Democratic Union
  • Oneida Telegraph
  • Oneida Weekly Dispatch

Monroe County
Rochester Public Library – Rochester Newspaper Index 1818-1897

  • Anti-Masonic Enquirer
  • Liberal Advocate
  • Monroe Republican
  • Rochester Daily Advertiser
  • Rochester Daily Advertiser & Telegraph
  • Rochester Daily Democrat
  • Rochester Daily Sun
  • Rochester Daily Telegraph
  • Rochester Gem and Ladies’ Amulet
  • Rochester Observer
  • Rochester Republican
  • Rochester Telegraph
  • Working Men’s Advocate
  • Rochester Daily Union
  • Union and Advertiser

Nassau County
Massapequa Public Library

  • Massapequa Post

Long Beach Public Library

  • Long Beach Herald

Glen Cove Public Library 

  • Spotlight 

Hewlett Woodmere Public Library 

  • Far Rockaway Journal
  • Frothinghams Long Island Herald
  • Nassau Herald
  • Rockaway Journal
  • South Shore Record
  • The Herald
  • The Long Islander
  • The Rockaway News

Locust Valley Library

  • The Locust Valley leader
  • The Leader
  • Leader

Sea Cliff Library

  • Sea Cliff News
  • Sea Cliff News And The Glen Cove News
  • The Sea Cliff News

Onondaga County
Fayetteville Free Library 

  • Eagle Bulletin 
  • Eagle Bulletin And Dewitt News Times 
  • Eagle Bulletin And Dewitt Times 
  • Eagle Bulletin DeWitt News Times 
  • Eagle-Bulletin
  • Fayetteville Bulletin 
  • Methodist Reformer 
  • National Citizen and Ballot Box
  • Onondaga Independent 
  • Recorder 
  • The Fayetteville Bulletin 
  • The Fayetteville Luminary
  • The Fayetteville Recorder 
  • The Manlius Eagle
  • Weekly Recorder 

Marcellus Free Library 

  • Marcellian
  • Your Marcellian 

Orange County
Albert Wisner Public Library 

  • Advertiser Photo News
  • Goshen Independent Republican
  • Independent Republican
  • The Goshen Democrat
  • The Warwick Advertiser
  • The Warwick Valley Dispatch
  • Warwick Advertiser
  • Warwick Advertiser Photo News
  • Warwick Dispatch
  • Warwick Valley Dispatch

Josephine – Louise Public Library

  • Citizen Herald

Otsego County

Huntington Memorial Library

  • Oneonta Daily Star

Unadilla Public Library

  • The Unadilla Times

Village Library of Morris

  • The Morris Chronicle 
  • The Otsego Chronicle

Rensselaer County
Troy Public Library 

  • American Spy
  • Northern Budget
  • Record
  • The Record

Rockland County
Nyack Library 

  • Nyack City and Country

Seneca County

Interlaken Public Library

  • Advance
  • Anti Masonic Sentinel
  • Echo
  • Eclectic Scalpel
  • Farmer Village Review
  • Free Press
  • Free Press and Sentinel
  • Herald
  • History of Trumansburg
  • Independent
  • Lake Light
  • Messenger
  • Reunion Souvenir
  • Saturday Morning Review
  • Saturday Review Independent
  • The Farmer Review
  • The Interlaken Review
  • The Newgate Script
  • Tompkins County Sentinel
  • Trumansburg Advertiser
  • Trumansburg Advertiser and Tompkins County Whig
  • Trumansburg Advertiser and Weekly Miscellany
  • Trumansburg Gazette
  • Trumansburg Herald
  • Trumansburg Leader
  • Trumansburg News
  • Trumansburg Sentinel
  • Trumansburg Sun
  • Trumballs Corner Courier
  • Wasp

Steuben County
Hornell Public Library

  • Hornellsville Tribune
  • Hornellsville Weekly Tribune
  • Evening Tribune
  • Evening Press
  • Hornell Daily Times
  • Steuben Signal
  • Morning Times

Addison Public Library 

  • Addison Advertiser 

Suffolk County
Lindenhurst Public Library

  • Lindenhurst Star
  • Babylon Leader

Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society

  • Fairchild Hiller News 
  • Republic Aviation News 
  • Thunderchief 

Sullivan County
Liberty Public Library 

  • The Liberty Register

Tompkins County
Southworth Library

  • Communicator 
  • Dryden Echo 
  • Dryden Herald 
  • Dryden News 
  • Dryden Weekly Herald 
  • Dryden Weekly News
  • Groton Journal 
  • Journal And Courier
  • Rumseys Companion 
  • Rural News 
  • Tompkins County Rural News 

Ulysses Philomathic Library

  • Advance
  • Anti Masonic Sentinel 
  • Echo 
  • Eclectic Scalpel 
  • Free Press 
  • Free Press and Sentinel 
  • Herald 
  • History of Trumansburg 
  • Independent 
  • Lake Light 
  • Messenger 
  • Reunion Souvenir 
  • Saturday Review Independent
  • Tompkins County Sentinel 
  • Trumansburg Advertiser 
  • Trumansburg Advertiser and Tompkins County Whig 
  • Trumansburg Advertiser and Weekly Miscellany 
  • Trumansburg Gazette 
  • Trumansburg Herald 
  • Trumansburg Leader 
  • Trumansburg News 
  • Trumansburg Sentinel 
  • Trumansburg Sun 
  • Trumballs Corner Courier
  • Wasp 

Ulster County
Saugerties Public Library 

  • Catskill Mountain Star 
  • Daily Post 
  • Old Dutch Post Star 
  • Saugerties Daily Post 
  • Saugerties Daily Post And The Kingston Ulster Press
  • Saugerties Post 
  • Saugerties Post And The Kingston Ulster Press 
  • Saugerties Post Star 
  • Saugerties Telegraph 
  • The Saugerties Daily Post 
  • Ulster Telegraph 
  • Post Star
  • Saugerties Old Dutch Post Star

Woodstock Public Library 

  • Woodstock Times 
  • Hudson Valley One

Wayne County
Clyde-Savannah Public Library 

  • The Clyde Herald
  • The Clyde Times
  • Democratic Herald 
  • Crossroads Advocate 
  • The Clyde Weekly Times 
  • The Independent
  • Clyde Eagle 
  • The Weekly Clyde Times
  • The Industrial Times 
  • The Times
  • The Clyde Independent and The Rose Times 
  • The Independent And Advertiser
  • Rose Times
  • Industrial Times
  • The Clyde Gazette
  • The Clyde Commercial 
  • The Clyde Commercial Advertiser 

Sodus Community Library

  • Record 
  • Sodus Record
  • Wayne County Alliance
  • Wayne County Mail

Williamson Free Public Library

  • Sun 
  • Sun And Record 
  • Williamson Banner 
  • Williamson Sentinel 
  • Williamson Sentinel And The Challenge Combined
  • Williamson Sun 
  • Williamson Sun And The Williamson Sentinel 

Westchester County
Chappaqua Public Library 

  • Patent Trader
  • New Castle Tribune
  • Horace Greeley Papers
  • The Times New Castle Tribune
  • Inside Chappaqua
  • The Chappaqua Journal
  • The New Castle News
  • Chappaqua Sun
  • The Item
  • Inside Chappaqua and Millwood

North Castle Public Library

  • North Castle Sun
  • North Castle News 
  • Villager
  • The Sun
  • North Castle Monitor

Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library 

  • Port Chester Journal
  • Port Chester Daily Item

Mount Pleasant Public Library

  • Pleasantville Chronicle
  • Pleasantville Journal
  • Pleasantville Post
  • Saw Mill River Record
  • The Chronicle
  • The Valhalla Voice

Katonah Village Library

  • Katonah Record 
  • Katonah Times 
  • North Westchester Times 
  • The Katonah Times 

Wyoming County
Perry Public Library

  • American Citizen
  • Buffalo Evening News
  • Countryman
  • Democrat And Chronicle
  • Free Citizen
  • Herald
  • Impartial Countryman
  • New York Times
  • Perry Democrat
  • Perry Herald
  • Perry Herald And News
  • Perry Herald News
  • Perry Live Wire News
  • Perry Record
  • Perry Semi Weekly Herald
  • Perry Star
  • Register
  • Rochester Times Union
  • Silver Lake Herald
  • Silver Lake Sun
  • Stars And Stripes
  • Western New Yorker
  • Wyoming County Herald
  • Wyoming County Star
  • Wyoming Times

Pioneer Library System

  • Advertiser
  • Albany Argus and Daily City Gazette
  • Arcade Enterprise
  • Arcade Herald
  • Bliss News
  • Cattaraugus Press
  • Chaffee Enterprise
  • Clifton Springs Review
  • Clyde Times
  • Countryman
  • Courier Journal
  • Dansville Advertiser
  • Dansville Breeze
  • Dansville Chronicle
  • Dansville Express
  • Dansville Express And Advertiser
  • Dansville Herald
  • Dansville Weekly Herald
  • Delevan Press
  • Eighteenth Ward Naborhood News
  • Family Visiter
  • Family Visitor
  • Genesee Country Express And Advertiser
  • Holland Review
  • Lake Shore News
  • Livingston Register
  • Livingston Sentinel
  • Lyons Countryman
  • Lyons Countryman and Anti Masonic Recorder
  • Lyons Republican
  • Naples Church Union
  • Naples Daily Record
  • Naples Free Press
  • Naples News
  • Naples Record
  • Naples Weekly Express
  • Naples Weekly Journal
  • National Journal
  • Neapolitan
  • Neapolitan Record
  • Owenews
  • Palmyra Courier
  • Palmyra Courier Journal
  • Palmyra Courier Journal And The Macedon Journal
  • Palmyra Democrat
  • Palmyra Herald and Canal Advertiser
  • Palmyra Journal
  • Palmyra Register
  • Phelps Citizen
  • Phelps Citizen Echo
  • Phelps Citizen Echo and Clifton Springs Review
  • Phelps Country Editor
  • Picket Line Post
  • Reflector
  • Reporter
  • Sanatorium
  • Sandusky News
  • Sardinia Censor
  • Silver Springs Signal
  • Tri County Times
  • Union School Journal
  • Village Chronicle
  • Wayne County Dispatch
  • Wayne County Journal
  • Wayne Sentinel
  • Western Farmer
  • Western New York Advertiser
  • Western Spectator and Anti Masonic Star
  • Wyoming County Herald
  • Wyoming County Leader
  • Livonia Gazette
  • Perry Record
  • Wayne County Mail
  • Wayne County Mail And The Ontario Register

Stevens Memorial Library & The Attica Historical Society

  • Attica News 
  • News 
  • Potter Collection 
  • Scrapbooks 
  • Wyoming County 

Hudson River Valley Heritage Historical Newspapers – Southeastern New York Library Resources Council 

Queens Library Newspapers

  • The Wave of Long Island
  • Transition
  • Communique
  • Black Spectrum
  • Harlem youth speaks

Rochester Library Historical Newspapers 

  • The Airscout’s Snapshot
  • The Anti-Masonic Enquirer   
  • Family Journal and Christian Philanthropist  
  • Frederick Douglass’ Paper  
  • Industrial School Advocate  
  • Liberal Advocate     
  • Monroe Democrat   
  • Moore’s Rural New Yorker 
  • North Star  
  • Northern Freeman  
  • Penfield Extra
  • Rights of Man  
  • Rochester Courier  
  • Rochester Daily Advertiser (Luther Tucker & Co.) 
  • Rochester Daily Advertiser (Isaac Butts) 
  • Rochester Daily Democrat  
  • Rochester Evening Express  
  • Rochester Evening News  
  • Rochester Evening Post  
  • Rochester Herald  
  • Rochester Gazette  
  • Soldier’s Aid  
  • The Voice of Truth, and Glad Tidings of the Kingdom at Hand  
  • The Western New Yorker  

Staten Island – New York Public Library Newspapers

  • Daily Advance
  • Richmond County Advance
  • Richmond County Democrat
  • Staten Island Independent
  • Staten Island Leader 
  • Staten Island Magazine
  • The Sepoy
  • The Staten Island World
  • Richmond County & Staten Island Gazettes
  • Richmond County Sentinel
  • Staten Island Advance 
  • Staten Island Transcript
  • The News Letter
  • The New-York Mirror
  • The Richmond County Free Press
  • The Richmond County Mirror

Student Collections:

Adephi University – Garden City

Archbishop Molloy High School – Briarwood

Bard College Student Publications – Annandale-on-Hudson

Barnard College – New York City

Baruch College – New York City

Bishop Ford Central High School – Brooklyn

Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School – Brooklyn

Bronx Community College – Bronx

Brooklyn Technical High School – Brooklyn

Canisius College – Buffalo

Chaminade High School – Mineola

College of New Rochelle – New Rochelle

College of Staten Island – Staten Island

College of Saint Rose – Albany 

Columbia University – New York City

Cornell University – Ithaca

Erasmus Hall High School – Brooklym

Farmingdale State College – Farmingdale

Fordham University – Bronx

Fort Hamilton High School – Brooklyn

Girls’ High School – Brooklyn

Harborfields High School – Greenlawn

Hartwick College –  Oneonta

Hofstra University – Hempstead

Ithaca College – Ithaca

John Jay College of Criminal Justice – New York City

Le Moyne College – Syracuse

Marist College – Poughkeepsie

Massapequa High School – Massapequa

Monroe-Woodbury High School – Central Valley

Nazareth College – Rochester

New Hyde Park Memorial High School – New Hyde Park

New York Law School – New York City

New York University – New York City

Niagara University – Lewiston

Notre Dame College of Staten Island – New York City

Ossining High School – Ossoning

Pace University – New York City

Remsen High School – Remsen

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Troy

Rochester Institute of Technology – Rochester

Sarah Lawrence College – Bronxville

Sienna College – Loudonville

Skidmore College – Saratoga Springs

St. Johns University – New York City

St. Joseph’s College – Brooklyn

SUNY – Buffalo State College – Buffalo

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry – Syracuse

SUNY – Fredonia 

Stony Brook University – Stony Brook

Syracuse University – Syracuse

Union-Endicott High School – Endicott

University at Buffalo – Buffalo

University of Albany

Utica College – Utica

Vassar College – Poughkeepsie

Brooklyn High School Newspapers

  • Abraham Lincoln High School – Lincoln Log
  • Alexander Hamilton Vocational High School – The Spotlight
  • All Saints High School – The Flame
  • Bay Ridge High School – The Ridge Echo
  • Bishop Ford Central High School – High Point
  • Bishop Ford Central High School: – High Point
  • Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School – The Jamesonian
  • Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School – The Laurel
  • Boys High School – Red and Black
  • Brooklyn Female Academy – School Room Echoes
  • Brooklyn High School of Automotive Trades – Spark Plug
  • Brooklyn Preparatory School – Blue Jug
  • Brooklyn Technical High School – Survey
  • Bushwick High School – Bushwick Bulletin
  • Catherine McAuley High School – The McAuleyan
  • Clara Barton Vocational High School – Barton Clarion
  • East New York Vocational and Technical High School – East New Yorker
  • Eli Whitney Vocational High School – Green and Gold
  • Erasmus Hall High School – The Dutchman
  • Euphrasian High School – Euphradio
  • Fontbonne Hall – The Folio
  • Fort Hamilton High School – The Pilot 
  • Franklin K. Lane High School – Lane Reporter
  • George W. Wingate High School – Wingate World
  • Girls’ High School – Girls’ High Record
  • James Madison High School – Madison Highway
  • John Jay High School – The Double Jay
  • Lafayette High School – Lafayette News
  • Midwood High School – Midwood Argus 
  • New Utrecht High School – The NUHS
  • Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School – The Polygraphic
  • Prospect Heights High School – The Scribe
  • Queen of All Saints – The Gleaner
  • Saint Agnes Seminary – The Gazing Ball
  • Saint Angela Hall – The Angelus
  • Saint Brendan Diocesan High School – Stella Matutina
  • Saint Edmund’s High School – Edmund News
  • Saint Francis Prep – The Seraph
  • Saint Francis Xavier – The Courier
  • Saint John’s Preparatory School – Red Owl
  • Saint Joseph’s Commercial High School – Parmentier
  • Saint Michael’s Commercial High School – The Victor
  • Saint Saviour High School – Skyline
  • Saint Stephen’s High School – St. Stephen’s Gazette
  • Samuel J. Tilden High School – Tilden Topics
  • Sarah J Hale Vocational High School – Green and Gold
  • Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School – Green and Gold
  • Sheepshead Bay High School – Bay Times
  • St. Augustine’s High School – The Lance
  • The Berkeley Institute – The Blotter
  • The Mercy Juniorate – The Misericordia
  • Thomas Jefferson High School – Liberty Bell
  • William E. Grady Vocational and Technical High School – Grady Headliner
  • William H. Maxwell Vocational High School – Maxwell Magpie
  • Xaverian High School – X-Press

Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1942

Independent Voices – Alternative Press

  • 0 to 9 – New York
  • 13th Moon – Albany
  • 1sT Casualty, The – New York
  • About Face! – New York
  • Action and Information Bulletin – New York
  • Adventures in Poetry – New York
  • AFA Notes – New York
  • American Servicemen’s Union Newspackets – New York
  • Amnesty – New York
  • Amnesty News – New York
  • Amnesty Report – New York
  • Ant’s Forefoot – New York
  • Aphra – New York
  • Apocalypse – Purchase
  • Assembling – Brooklyn
  • Audit – Buffalo
  • Battle Acts – New York
  • Birth – New York
  • Bond, The – New York
  • Bread &  – New York
  • Broadway Boogie – New York
  • Challenge – Special Issues – Brooklyn
  • Chelsea – New York
  • Clown War – Brooklyn
  • Coldspring Journal, The – Cherry Valley
  • Column Left – Buffalo
  • Come Out! – New York
  • Committee for GI Rights – New York
  • Conditions – Brooklyn
  • Contact – New York
  • Cornell Mobe – Ithaca
  • Counter-Attack – New York
  • Credences – Buffalo
  • Dyke, A Quarterly – New York
  • Earth’s Daughters – Buffalo
  • East Village Other, The – New York
  • Echo of Sappho – Brooklyn
  • Echo of Sappho – Fort Hamilton
  • Eight Pager – Niagara Falls
  • Extensions – New York
  • Feelings from Women’s Liberation – Brooklyn
  • Feminist Art Journal – Brooklyn
  • Freedomways – New York
  • GI Voice – New York
  • Gargoyle, The – New York
  • Gay Flames – New York
  • GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee newsletter – New York
  • GI Counseling Services – New York
  • GI Press service – New York
  • GI Voice, Tillicum – New York
  • Guardian – New York
  • Hanging Loose – New York
  • Harris Review – New Yor
  • Head – Staatsburg
  • Heresies: A Feminist Journal on Arts and Politics – New York
  • IKON – New York
  • Kauri – New York
  • L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E – New York
  • Lactuca – SuffernY
  • Leviathan – New York
  • Little Mag – Niagara Falls
  • Maelstrom – New York
  • Mag City – New York
  • Magazine – New York
  • Magazine of Further Studies, The – Buffalo
  • Matter – Annandale-on-Hudson
  • Meeting Ground – New Paltz
  • Military Issues – New York
  • Montemora – New York
  • National Council for Universal and Unconditional Amnesty – New York
  • National Office Report – New York
  • New Wilderness Letter – New York
  • New Women’s Times – Rochester
  • New York Radical Feminists Newsletter – New York
  • Newspaper – New York
  • Niagara Frontier Review – Buffalo
  • Not Guilty – New York
  • Notes from the [Second/Third] Year – New York
  • Notes from the First Year – New York
  • O-blek – New York
  • Obligore, The – New York
  • Overthrow – New York
  • Palante – New York
  • Personal Injury – New York
  • Poems from the Floating World – New York
  • Potemkin – New York
  • Rebel, The (New York) – New York
  • Roof – New YorkY
  • Roy Rogers – New York
  • Some – BrooklynY
  • Strange Faeces – Penfield
  • Sun – New YorkY
  • Sundial – New YorkY
  • Telephone – New York
  • Things – New York
  • Tricky Dix Law and Orders – New York
  • Triple Jeopardy – New York
  • TROBAR – Brooklyn
  • Un Poco Loco – New York
  • Unnatural Acts – New York
  • Up From Under – New York
  • USSF – New York
  • Vietnam News Service – New York
  • War Resisters League – New York
  • Wch Way – Albany
  • Woman’s World – New York
  • Women Against Pornography – New York
  • Women and Art Quarterly – New York
  • Women Artist News – New York
  • Women Artists Newsletter – New York
  • World, The – New York
  • Wree-View of Women – New York
  • Wree-View of Women for Racial and Economic Equality – New York
  • Xpress – Fort Hamilton, Staten Island
  • YEAH – New York
  • Yipster Times, The – Staten Island
  • YOW! – New York

Marxist Newspapers

New York Jewish Publications

Japanese American Historical Newspapers Collection

American Popular Entertainment 1853-1929

  • The Player
  • Vaudeville News
  • New York Clipper
  • Collyer’s Eye
  • The Daily National Hotel Reporter

Small Town Papers

The Olden Times – New York

Newspaper Abstracts – New York

For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historic newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page.

Other Free Sites:

Albany

Brooklyn

Buffalo 

Elmira

Hudson

Jamestown

Lewiston

Mahopac

Middletiown

Minerva

New Brighton

New York City

Ogdensburg

Oneida

Rochester

Sag Harbor

Syracuse

Utica

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com

There are currently 90 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – New York

Genealogy Bank

There are currently 1,024 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Genealogy Bank – New York

Newspaper Archive

There are currently 495 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archives – New York

Newspapers.com

There are currently 217 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com – New York. 

And Finally:

You also need to check out the New York State Library, which can tell you the availability of microfilm and print versions of state newspapers and where they might be held.

Please note – even more may be available via a local library where a library card is required. And of course, there is always microfilm for those that have not been made available online as yet.

For more links for different states, provinces, and countries – please see the Newspaper Links page on this website.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

For all Free New York Links, click on the category of interest:

Newspapers
Yearbooks
Births
Marriages
Deaths
BMD Records
Alumni Records
Cemetery Records
Church Records
Coroner Records
Criminal Records
Digital Archives
Directories
Divorce Records
Immigration Records
Institutional Records
Military Records
Mortuary Records
Naturalizations
Obituaries
Photos
Place Finder
Probate and Wills
Research Toolkit
School Records
Tax Records
Voter Records

21 replies on “New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary”

Thanks! I just spent the last 2 hours going through and checking for any sites that may benefit my NY research. The Nassau County site really needs to be fixed. Not much there yet to search, but the search usually does not work anyway. Hoping this project is ongoing. Always appreciate your newspaper posts.

i am trying to find out whom Benjamine Forrester married. on Feb 1, 1916. listed in the Belfast N Y Blaze newspaper. i am having no luck. thank you

I am looking to search the New York Dramatic Mirror from 1895 to 1911 for a book project, but you only have them available one page at a time which will take an insane amount of time to pull down and query. Do you have the volumes available as a complete document rather than page by page?

Have a copy of the New York Evening Journal Wednesday September 3, 1930 Pages 22 to 28. Anyone interested in obtaining?

Were there no papers published on Staten Island prior to the 1890s? It seems no matter where I look, I can’t find papers for mid 1800s for Staten Island.

The 1860 J H French gazetteer of NY state has chapter for each county, and in the footnotes for each county it gives all the papers that were published up to that time. That title is available many places online for free as a downloadable PDF. The state also has a page at http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/, but that has not been updated since 2007 when they defunded the project.

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