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These pages follow the New York metro (five boroughs, Westchester, Long Island, northern NJ) research set. The towns below are the ones recorded in that file, after obvious spelling duplicates were combined.

Towns covered: Baldwin, Bardonia, Bayonne, Bloomfield, Bronx, Bronxville, Brooklyn, Chappaqua, Cresskill, Croton-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, East Orange, Edgewater, Elizabeth, Elmsford, Englewood, Flushing, Forest Hills, Garden City, Great Neck, Greenwich, Hackensack, Hoboken, Irvington, Islip Terrace, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Jersey City, Kearny, Kenilworth, Linden, Little Falls, Livingston, Long Island City, Mamaroneck, Massapequa, Melville, Montclair, Morristown, Mount Kisco, Mt. Vernon, New York, New York (Manhattan), Newark, North Arlington, North Bergen, Nutley, Orange, Paramus, Pearl River, Pleasantville, Port Washington, Queens, Queens (Kew Gardens), Ramsey, Richmond Hill, Ridgefield Park, Ridgewood, Rockville Centre, Roslyn, Rutherford, Rye Brook, Scarsdale, Scotch Plains, Short Hills, Sleepy Hollow, Somers, Springfield, Staten Island, Summit, Sunnyside, Union, Uniondale, Verona, Wayne, Weehawken, West Orange, Westfield, White Plains, Whitestone, Woodside, Wyckoff, Yonkers, Yorktown Heights.

Order on each live list is the research file's source count, then the strength of the recognitions that were actually recorded, then the research notes' suggested order. A source count of zero stays alphabetical under Also serving the area. There is no featured placement and no composite score.

Last updated: October 2026.