Local Newspapers

All newspapers and microfilm must be used in the library.

 

Yonkers News Archive (Online Database)

• Yonkers News Archive – Onsite Edition (1,230,000 pages)–  Access to the Yonkers Herald Statesman (1932-1998), Yonkers Statesman (1863-1932), Yonkers Herald (1891-1932), Yonkers Examiner (1857-1863), Yonkers Gazette (1868-1893) & Yonkers Daily Record (1883). NOTE: You must be on a YPL public computer or YPL’s free wireless network to access this archive. If you access it remotely, you will be redirected to Newspapers.com. 
• Yonkers News Archive – Remote Edition (ypl.newspapers.com) (6,890 pages) – Access to the Yonkers Examiner (1857-1863) & Yonkers Gazette (1868-1893)

The Journal News

• October 12, 1998 – (microfilm except for most recent months)
  Selected stories from recent issues and an obituaries archives may be accessed at www.thejournalnews.com.

Yonkers Examiner

• January 29, 1857 – December 21, 1863  (microfilm)

Yonkers Gazette

• January 4, 1868 – December 30, 1893  (microfilm & online database)

Yonkers Herald

• January 2, 1891 – March 14, 1932  (microfilm & online database)

Yonkers Herald Statesman

• March 15, 1932 – October 11, 1998  (microfilm & online database)

Yonkers Rising (successor newspaper to Martinelli’s Yonkers Home News and Times)

• Current and recent back issues only

Yonkers Home News (published by the Alexander Smith Memorial Foundation, Inc., for Yonkers servicemen during WWII)

• June 17, 1941 – January 29, 1946  (5 v., bound; last issue:  The Honored dead and wounded in the war – Note: there are some errors in this list)

Yonkers Statesman

• December 3, 1863 – March 14, 1932  (microfilm & online database)