New York City Newspaper Collection The Library’s collection of New York City newspapers ranges from the first paper published in the city, Bradford’s New-York Gazette in 1725, to today’s copy of the New York Times. The collection includes both general New York City papers, such as the New York Post and the Daily News, as well as local papers like the Villager and the Bronx Home News.Click here for a list of these papers held in microform. Keep in mind that this is not a complete list of all New York City newspapers that are in the library’s collection, as some titles are not on microform but in bound print copies or available online. To search our library’s catalog, CATNYP, for newspapers published in New York, do a subject search for the phrase: New York N.Y. Newspapers.
Selected Free Public Programs
Science, Industry and Business Library
188 Madison Avenue (at 34th Street)
Wed, April 30 @ 5:30 PM
The Art and Engineering of Central Park’s Bridges
Satinder P. S. Puri, Consulting Structural Engineer, discusses the 44 bridges in Central Park, focusing on their architecture and decorative features He also mentions artists, like Edward Hopper and Maurice Prendergast, who used these bridges as subjects in their artwork.
Tue, May 13@ 5:30 PM
How to Transition Your eBay® Hobby into a Thriving Business.
There are 200 million people in the e-Bay marketplace, and this presentation by Barbara Weltman, a noted small business and eBay expert, will help you turn your hobby into a profitable business. Whether you do eBay full-time or part-time, learn to work smart to maximize your sales efforts, minimize your taxes, and avoid trouble.
LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
The LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection includes abstracting, indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for Congressional hearings from 1824-2003. Published hearings are the official record of committee hearings proceedings. Official hearings publications, which are printed by the Government Printing Office (GPO), usually include: written and oral statements of witnesses, transcripts of the verbal question-and-answer session between the committee and witnesses, reports, exhibits, and other materials submitted for the record by witnesses, and correspondence and other materials submitted by interested parties.
Historical Newspapers Databases
Full-text coverage with PDF images of pages
Boston Globe (1872-1924)
Black newspapers:
--New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
--Atlanta Daily World
--Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
--Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
First Research
First Research profiles cover a broad variety of industries, providing an industry overview, recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities, executive insight, financial information (including industry ratios), industry forecast and rating, web links and acronyms. Also includes state & province profiles with quarterly employment, real estate and business trends in U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and 10 Canadian provinces.
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