New York Local Registrars and STate Office maintain birth records for residents of it’s 62 counties. Five of these counties make up the five boroughs of New York City – the Bronx, Brooklyn, ,Queens Manhattan and Staten Island. New York Recorders store birth records for each of these counties. These details can be obtained by contacting these offices or ordering them online.
The New York City Office of Vital Records maintains and issue birth records in the New York City area since 1910. This includes Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. Birth records beofore 1910 are maintained by the Department of Records.
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,
Office of Vital Records,
125 Worth Street, CN4, Room 133,
New York, NY 10013
New York (Excluding New York City) Vital Records Office
Certification Unit
Vital Records Section Second Floor
800 North Pearl Street
Menands, NY 12204
Apply to the Municipal Archives for records of births reported before 1910, and deaths reported before 1949, in the five Boroughs of New York City.
For birth records after 1909 and death records after 1948, for all five boroughs of New York City. Apply to: New York City Department of Health’s Vital Records Division.
For records outside the five Boroughs of New York City.
New York State Department of Health,
Vital Records Section,
Empire State Plaza,
Tower Building,
Albany,
New York, NY 12337
Phone: 518-474-3075
Local Registrars New York
Local Registrar
City of Albany
Room 254M
City Hall
Albany, NY 12207
Local Registrar
City of Buffalo
Room 1308
65 Niagara Square
Buffalo, NY 14202
Local Registrar
City of Yonkers
Room 107
City Hall
Yonkers, NY 10701
New York State Department of Health
Vital Records Section,
Genealogy Unit,
P.O. Box 2602
Albany, NY 12220-2602
