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.

New York history bibliography and biographical references
, compiled by a special committee ...

Selected New York City directories not found online

 * Wilson's

1. Wilson's Directory of New York City (1849–1850)

2. Wilson's Directory of New York City (1850–1851)

3. Wilson's Directory of New York City (1852–1853)

1. Wilson's Illustrated Guide New York, NY (1849)

2. Wilson's Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River (1849)

1. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City 91848–1851)

2. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1851)

3. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1853–1854)

4. Wilson's Business Directory (1855)

5. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1856)

6. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1857–1858)

7. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1858)

8. Wilson's Business Directory of New York City (1859)

9. Wilson's Business Directory for New York City (1860)

1. Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1855–1856)

2. Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1856–1857)

3. Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1857–1858)

4. Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1958–1859)

5. Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1859–1860)

6. Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory (1860–1861)
 * Trow's

1. Trow's New York City Directory (1853–1854)

2. Trow's New York City Directory (1854–1855)

3. Trow's New York City Directory (1855–1856)

4. Trow's New York City Directory (1856–1857)

5. Trow's New York City Directory (1857–1858)

6. Trow's New York City Directory (1858–1859)

7. Trow's New York City Directory (1859–1860)

8. Trow's New York City Directory (1860–1861)
 * Longworth's American Almanack, New-York Register, and City Directory

1. 20th Year of American Independence (1796)

2. 21st""(1797)

3. 22nd"" (1798)

4. 23rd"" (1799)

5. 24th"" (1800)
 * Longworth's American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory

1. 25th"" (1801)

2. 26th"" (1802)

3. 27th"" (1803)

4. 28th"" (1804)

5. 29th"" (1805)

6. 31st"" (1806)

7. 32nd"" (1807)

8. 33rd"" (1808)

9. 34th"" (1809)

10. 35th"" (1810)

11. 36th"" (1811)

12. 37th"" (1812)

13. 38th"" (1813)

14. 39th"" (1814)

15. 40th"" (1815)

16. 41st"" (1816)

17. 42nd"" (1817)

18. 43rd"" (1818)

19. 44th"" (1819)

20. 45th"" (1820)

21. 46th"" (1821)

22. 47th"" (1822)

23. 48th"" (1823)

24. 49th"" (1824)

25. 50th"" (1825)

26. 51st"" (1826)

1. Longworth's American Almanack, New York Register, and City Directory (1819–1842)

2. Longworth's New York Register and City Directory 1818
 * Doggett's New York City Directory

1. Doggett's New York City Directory (1845–1846)

2. Doggett's New York City Directory (1850–1851)

3. Doggett's New York City Directory (1848–1849)

4. Doggett's New York City Directory (1850–1851)

1. New York City and Co-Partnership Directory (1843–1844)

2. Doggett's New York City Co-partnership Directory (1846–1847)

3. Doggett's New York City Partnership Directory (1849–1850)

1. Doggett's New York City Street Directory 1851

1. Doggett's New York Business Directory 1846–1847
 * Rode's

1. Rode's New York City Directory (1850–1851)

2. Rode's New York Directory (1852–1853)

3. New York City Directory, The (12th ed.), Charles R. Rode 1853–1854

4. New York City Directory, The (13th ed.), Charles R. Rode 1854–1855

1. Rode's New York City Partnership Directory (1852–1853)

2. Rode's New York and Brooklyn Partnership Directory (1853–1854)

1. Rode's New York City Business Directory (1854–1855)
 * Citizen and Stranger's Guide

1. Citizens Directory and Strangers Guide (1814)

2. Citizen and Strangers' Pictorial and Business Directory (1853)

3. Directory for Citizens and Strangers (1860)
 * Guide books: Taintor's Route and City Guides

1. City of New York, The (1867)

2. City of New York, The (1876)

3. City of New York, The (1884)

4. City of New York, The (1885)
 * Other

1. 1665 (title page missing)

2. 1666–1785 (none published)

3. New York Directory 1786

4. New York Directory 1787

5. 1788 (none published)

6. New York Directory and Register for the Year 1789–1796

7. New Trade Directory for New York anno 1800

8. John Langdon and Son's New York City Directory 1804–1805

9. Jones's New York Mercantile and General Directory 1805

10. Alphabetical Table of the Situation and Extent of the Different Streets ... 1807–1808

11. Elliot & Crissy's New York Directory 1811

12. Elliot's Improved New York Double Directory 1812

13. New York As It Is 1833–1835, 1837, 1839–1849

14. Classified Mercantile Directory 1837

15. New York Business Directory 1840/41, 1841/42, 1844/45 (1842/43 t.p. missing)

16. Street Directory of the City of New York 1843

17. New York City Co-Partnership Directory 1844

18. New York City Directory 1844–1845

19. 1845 (t.p. missing)

20. United States Statistical Directory or Merchants' and Travellers' Guide With a Wholesale Business Directory of New York 1847

21. Merchant's Business director[y] and Stranger's Guide 1847–1848

22. 1847/48 (t.p. missing)

23. New York Mercantile Register 1848–1849

24. Map of the City and County of New York 1849–1850

25. New York, NY List of Persons 1850

26. A Map of the City and County of New York 1850

27. New York City Directory 1851–1852

28. School Directory of the City of New York 1856

29.

30. Boyd's Pictorial Directory of Broadway 1859

31. Deutscher Wegweiser durch New York und Umgegend, Tamsen & Dethleffs (eds.), 1884

32. Murphy's Business Directory for 1888

33. Holt's New-York Register, for 1804 Charles Holt (1772–1852) (printer & publisher);

34. Holt's New-York Register, for 1806

35. New-York Commercial List Containing the Names and Occupations of Principal Merchants, T.P. Richards (compiler), William W. Rose (printer) (1853);

36. Twitt's Directory of Prominent Business Men in New-York, Twitt & Co. (James Twitt) (publisher) (1858);

37. 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);

38. Gem, or Fashionable Business Directory, George Shidell (printer) (1844);

39. Who's Who in Harlem, Magazine & Periodical Printing & Pub. Co., Inc. (1950);

40. 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);

41. Stucker's Classified Business and Professional Directory, by Henri T. Stucker, New York: Henri T. Publishing Co., (1945–);