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New York City

Board of Education
Office of Parent Outreach
110 Livingston Street, Room 106
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Attention: School Records
(718) 935-4320
Fax: (718) 935-3041
Mail requests only; or write directly to the local elementary or high school
Attention:  Record Secretary; Re: Old Pupil Records

NOTE: This office is planning to move to 49 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007 in 2003.

Board of Elections, Brooklyn
345 Adams Street, 4th Floor (between Willoughby & Pearl Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 330-2271
Fax: (718) 522-6227
E-mail: nruiz@boe.nyc.ny.us
Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Brooklyn Historical Society, The Donald F. and Mildred Tropp Othmer Library
128 Pierrepont Street (corner of Clinton Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 222-4111
Fax: (718) 222-3794
E-mail: library@BrooklynHistory.org

TEMPORARILY CLOSED DURING RENOVATION. REOPENING ANTICIPATED FALL 2003.

Brooklyn Public Library, Business Library
280 Cadman Plaza West (between Tillary & Clinton Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11201-2701
(718) 623-7000, Ext 3 (Reference Desk);  outside NYC, (800) 266-6696
Fax: (718) 222-5651, 5679
E-mail: busref@brooklynpubliclibrary.org

Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Grand Army Plaza   (cross streets:  Flatbush Avenue & Eastern Parkway)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 230-2100, Ext. 5 (Telephone Reference)
(718) 230-2483 (Brooklyn Collection)
(718) 230-2194 (History/Biography/Religion)
(718) 230-2129 (Periodicals and Micromaterials)
Fax: (718) 857-2245 (Brooklyn Collection)
E-mail: Use "e-resources" onlin. "Ask a BPL Librarian."

Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research
(See Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan)

City Clerk's Office - Brooklyn, Marriage License Bureau
(See City Clerk’s Office - Manhattan, Marriage License Bureau)

City Register's Office, Brooklyn
Municipal Building, Room 2 (between Court & Adams Streets)
210 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 802-3590 (City Register's Office)
(718) 802-3360 (Real Estate Assessment Office)
Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Civil Court of the City of New York, Brooklyn (Kings County)
141 Livingston Street (between Smith Street & Boerum Place)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 643-8125 (Room 304, Record Room)
(718) 643-8133 (Room 501, Index)
Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

County Clerk's Office - State Supreme Court, Kings County (Brooklyn)
360 Adams Street, Room 189 (cross streets:  Johnson, Court & Joralemon Sts)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 643-5790 (Census and Incompetency records, Room 122A)
(718) 643-4149 (Naturalizations and all other records, Room 079)
Room 122A, Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (closed 1-2 for lunch)
Room 079, Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

Family History Center
1212 Glenwood Road
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
Phone: (718) 434-8245

Sephardic Community Center, Sephardic Archives
1901 Ocean Parkway (Corner Avenue S)
Brooklyn, NY 11223
(718) 627-4300
Fax: (718) 627-4993
NOTE: Materials currently inaccessible. Renovation project is planned.

Surrogate's Court, Kings County (Brooklyn)
2 Johnson Street, Supreme Court Building (Cross Streets:  Adams St & Cadman Plaza)
Room 109
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 643-8016
Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (Pre-1975 files must be requested before 3:00pm.

U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York, Naturalization Division
(Naturalization records transferred.  See National Archives, Northeast Region in Manhattan)

Please provide corrections to info@jgsny.org

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