Guide
Overview
New York has the largest newspapers in the country, the New York Times, the Daily News, the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal in the city and Newsday on Long Island, but the records researcher usually needs the upstate and regional dailies: the Buffalo News, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, the Post-Standard in Syracuse published online as syracuse.com, the Times Union in Albany, the Journal News in Westchester, the Poughkeepsie Journal, the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, the Watertown Daily Times and the Staten Island Advance. City & State and the Gothamist cover government online.
New York newspapers carry the legal notices state law requires for foreclosures, estates and government actions, publish obituaries for 62 counties, and hold court coverage that pairs with the state courts' WebCriminal and WebCivil searches.
Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.
Guide
New York Newspapers
Find local and statewide newspaper publications for New York. Access news, sports, classified, entertainment, and archived articles.
Guide
Major New York newspapers and what they cover
The Times covers the city, the state and the federal courts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, with back issues from the 1850s onward in the digital archives. The Daily News and the Post cover the city's courts and police closely. Newsday covers Nassau and Suffolk counties, the Buffalo News covers Erie County and western New York, the Democrat and Chronicle covers Monroe County, the Post-Standard covers Onondaga County and central New York, and the Times Union covers the Capitol and the Court of Appeals. County weeklies from the Adirondack Daily Enterprise to the Chautauqua weeklies carry county legislature minutes, sheriff's reports and surrogate's court notices.
Guide
Historic New York newspapers online
NYS Historic Newspapers, a free site from the Northern New York Library Network and the Empire State Library Network, offers millions of digitized pages from every New York county, and New York titles appear in Chronicling America. The New York State Library in Albany holds newspaper microfilm statewide, the New York Public Library provides free access to the Times, Daily News and Post archives with a library card, and the Brooklyn Public Library has digitized the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841 to 1955 free.
Guide
Legal notices, public notices and obituaries in New York
New York law requires foreclosure sale notices, surrogate's court citations, name changes, limited liability company formation notices, tax foreclosure lists and county, town and village notices to be published in a designated newspaper in the county, and the New York Press Association and the New York News Publishers Association collect them in a statewide search. Obituaries appear in most of New York's dailies and weeklies, and the New York Public Library and the State Library keep obituary indexes. Court coverage pairs with the WebCriminal and WebCivil searches of the state court system.
Guide
Browse Newspapers by State
Straight answers
New York Newspaper Directory, questions
Which New York newspapers cover the upstate courts?
The Buffalo News, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, the Post-Standard in Syracuse, the Times Union in Albany, the Journal News in Westchester and the regional dailies in Binghamton, Utica, Poughkeepsie and Watertown.
Where are historic New York newspapers online free?
NYS Historic Newspapers offers millions of free digitized pages from every county, Chronicling America adds more, and the Brooklyn Public Library has the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841 to 1955 free.
Where are New York foreclosure and LLC notices published?
In a newspaper designated for the county, collected in the press associations' statewide public notice search.