All newspapers and microfilm must be used in the library.
Local Newspapers:
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 lohud.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)
- digitized in 2025 through a grant from METRO Library Council, available through the YPL Digital Archives.
Yonkers Statesman
- December 3, 1863 – March 14, 1932 (microfilm & online database)
National Magazines & Newspapers on Microfilm:
Riverfront Library: | Grinton I. Will Library: | ||
| America: 1965-1992 | Advertising Age: 1980-1994 | ||
| Atlantic Monthly: 1875-1993 | America: 1965-2012 | ||
| Barron's: 1985-2009 | American City & Country: 1984-1993 | ||
| Black Enterprise: 1984-1994 | American Economic Review: 1964-1992 | ||
| Business Week: 1970-1994 | American Education: 1978-1985 | ||
| Christian Century: 1965-2002 | American Historical Review: 1963-1993 | ||
| Christian Science Monitor: 1985-2009 | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry: 1980-1992 | ||
| Commentary: 1984-1993 | American Journal of Public Health: 1983-1992 | ||
| Commonweal: 1965-1993 | American Journal of Sociology: 1959-1994 | ||
| Congressional Record: 1964-1968 | American Literature: 1959-1993 | ||
| Ebony: 1945-1994 | American Scholar: 1970-1993 | ||
| Education Digest: 1984-1994 | American Sociological Review: 1977-1992 | ||
| Essence: 1973-1994 | American Academy of Political & Social Science Annals: 1965-1993 | ||
| Film Comment: 1981-1992 | Architectural Record: 1960-1964 | ||
| Forbes: 1976-1993 | Art News: 1975-1993 | ||
| Foreign Affairs: 1922-1992 | Atlantic Monthly: 1930-1993 | ||
| Foreign Policy: 1984-1993 | Audio: 1975-1993 | ||
| Fortune: 1981-1993 | Aviation Week & Space Technology: 1980-1993 | ||
| Harper's Magazine: 1967-1993 | Barron's: 1970-2009 | ||
| Harvard Business Review: 1962-1993 | Billboard: 1970-2012 | ||
| JAMA: 1984-2004 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: 1978-1993 | ||
| JET: 1978-1994 | Business Month: 1987-1990 | ||
| Journal of Commerce: 1989-2000 | Business Week: 1970-1993 | ||
| Monthly Labor Review: 1954-1993 | Childhood Education: 1967-1994 | ||
| Nation: 1967-1993 | Christian Century: 1947-2015 | ||
| National Catholic Reporter: 1983-1993 | Christian Science Monitor: 1981-2009 | ||
| National Review: 1967-1993 | Christianity Today: 1993-2015 | ||
| New England Journal of Medicine: 1979-1993 | Commentary: 1948-1993 | ||
| New Republic: 1945-1993 | Commonweal: 1950-1993 | ||
| New York Times: 1851-current (except for most recent months) | Consumer Reports: 1978-1993 | ||
| Newsweek: 1933-2015 | Current History: 1942-1993 | ||
| People Weekly: 1990-1993 | Economist: 1976-1993 | ||
| Playboy: 1982-1993 | Education Digest: 1979-1994 | ||
| Popular Science: 1990-1993 | Esquire: 1961-1993 | ||
| Psychology Today: 1967-1993 | Forbes: 1970-1993 | ||
| Reader's Digest: 1984-1993 | Gerontologist: 1980-1992 | ||
| Saturday Evening Post: 1960-1968 | Harper's Magazine: 1926-1993 | ||
| Science: 1970-1993 | JET: 1979-1988 | ||
| Science News: 1970-1993 | Journal of Education: 1980-1993 | ||
| Scientific American: 1961-1993 | Journal of Marriage & Family: 1964-1992 | ||
| TIME: 1923-2016 | Journal of Negro History: 1982-1992 | ||
| U.S. News & World Report: 1967-2010 | LA Times: 1983-2003 | ||
| Wall Street Journal: 1967-2010 | LIFE: 1937-1972 | ||
| Washington Post: 1986-2003 | Ms.: 1972-1994 | ||
| World Almanac: 1868-1976 | The Nation: 1889-1993 | ||
| National Education Association: 1946-1994 | |||
| National Review: 1961-1992 | |||
| New Republic: 1962-1993 | |||
| New Statesman: 1962-1993 | |||
| New York Review of Books: 1963-1992 | |||
| New York Times: 1851-current (except for most recent months) | |||
| New Yorker: 1980-1993 | |||
| Newsweek: 1948-1995 | |||
| Popular Mechanics: 1960-1993 | |||
| Popular Science: 1962-1993 | |||
| Psychology Today: 1978-1995 | |||
| Rolling Stones: 1968-2016 | |||
| Science: 1962-1994 | |||
| Science News: 1966-1993 | |||
| Scientific American: 1940-1993 | |||
| Sky & Telescope: 1979-1993 | |||
| Sports Illustrated: 1961-1993 | |||
| TIME: 1923-1995 | |||
| U.S. News & World Report: 1933-1995 | |||
| Variety: 1975-2014 | |||
| Vogue: 1977-1988 | |||
| Working Woman: 1961-1993 | |||
| Wall Street Journal: 1979-2015 | |||
| Washington Post: 1983-1993 |
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