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1890 New York City Police Census
1940s Tax Department photographs
Alice Crimmins closed case files
Almshouse ledgers collection
Art Commission scrapbooks
Bernhard Goetz closed case files
Board of Education records
Board of Railroad Commissioners drawings
Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams records
Brooklyn Bridge drawings and plans
Burial transit registers (Bodies in Transit)
Carlo Tresca assassination closed case files
Charles "Lucky" Luciano closed case files
Commissioner Eugene Bockman records
Commissioner Idilio Gracia Peña records
De Gregario family lantern slide collection
Department of Buildings architectural drawings and plans for Lower Manhattan
Department of Housing Preservation and Development image collection
Early Mayors records
Edward F. Cavanagh scrapbook on the Department of Marine and Aviation
Grover A. Whalen papers
Health Commissioners records
James J. Hines Closed Case Files
Lindbergh baby kidnapping closed case files
Malcolm X assassination closed case files
Manhattan and Brooklyn liquor licenses
Mayor Ardolph L. Kline records
Mayor David N. Dinkins records
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia records
Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. records
Mayor John F. Hylan records
Mayor John P. Mitchel records
Mayor John P. O’Brien records
Mayor Joseph V. McKee records
Mayor Robert Van Wyck records
Mayor Seth Low records
Mayor William J. Gaynor records
Mayor William O’Dwyer records
Motion picture theatre matron license applications, circa 1933 to 1949
Murder, Inc. investigation records
New Amsterdam records
New York City Civil War Draft Riot claims
New York City historical vital records
New York City tax assessment property cards
New York County jury census
New York County Supreme Court insolvency assignments and index
New York County Surrogate's Court estate inventories
New York Police Department demonstrations and disturbances records
New York Police Department Intelligence Unit records
New York Police Department Office of the Chief Inspector records
New York Police Department surveillance films
Office of the City Register Reindexing Department maps, tract reports, and farm histories
Old Town records
Police officer William Kennel scrapbook
WNYC-TV moving images