Online Resources

For consumers and business owners researching insurers, find in-depth analytical reports and finanical strength ratings. 

Compare your company’s financial performance to local and national companies of similar size by industry. Download BizMiner’s Industry Financial Profiles and Industry Market Reports; view the reports as HTML in order to input your company’s data.

Contains complete articles from thousands of business journals, market research and industry reports for hundreds of industries, as well as international economic reports. 

Lists changes for corporations and organizations resulting from stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations, exchanges, liquidations and more, providing the security holder with facts to compute gain or loss in capital.  This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library. See a librarian.

Media outlets and contacts. Share your news release with journalists, bloggers and social influencers via Cision PR.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Cross-reference listings of names, phone numbers and addresses for residential and business addresses in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Authoritative research on key business management topics from The Conference Board, a business membership and research association. Topics include workforce planning, governance, economics, markets, risk management, and organizational design. 

Crain’s New York Data Center is currently unavailable. Please check back shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience. Data on leading companies and organizations that operate in the NYC market; includes the New York Book of Lists; use these lists to benchmark your business, gather competitive intelligence, and target potential new clients

Search for obsolete or existing stocks using CUSIP number, stock symbol or company name. Previously known as the Annual Guide to Stocks and the Directory of Obsolete Securities. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Source of funding for students, researchers, marketers and other individual grant seekers. Provides contact and basic factual information on the largest nonprofit organizations in the United States. 

Learn how to invest, find news on market trends and personal finance, and access the digital IBD Weekly

Historical Mergent (Moody’s) Manuals of global corporate data in digitized PDF documents dating back to 1909. Also includes historical D&B Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios from 1979, Million Dollar Directory from 1959, and Who Owns Whom from 1961. 

Market research reports with analysis of consumer markets, companies, and brands.   

Provides information for owners and managers of residential real estate, covering topics like rent stabilization, rent control, building maintenance requirements, and correction of code violations. (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Provides landlord-tenant court decisions as far back as 1993, including cases from the NYC Civil Court, NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), and NYC Environmental Control Board.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. 

This site combines proprietary data with public data. View the comprehensive listing of a given property including its sale history, ownership information, zoning etc. Foreclosure listings and comparable sales along with phone numbers and maps are also available.(This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Net worth and biographical information of Americans with estimated net worth of $25 million or more.   (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)

Investment advice and information from interviews with CEOs and analysts offering comments on specific equities, specific industries, finance and investing.  (This resource is accessible via username and password at the Central Library.  See a librarian.)