Surrogates Court

Surrogates Court, 31 Chambers Street, New York

Location of The New York City Municipal Archives, which was was founded in 1950. It holds historical records of New York City's government. The earliest record is from the seventeenth century. There are 160,000 cubic feet of records on paper and microfilm. The collection has manuscripts, still and moving images, ledgers, vital records, maps, blueprints, and city directories. The archives are located in the Surrogate's Courthouse on Chambers Street in Manhattan.

Photo 294, Oct 2010