You can likely get it from NYC but from the Office of Vital Records, just not the Municipal Archives: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/vr/vrbappl.shtml Pat > trying to order a death certificate for James Joseph Downey Sr. He was born May 5th, 1876 in Shenandoah, Pa, and died Nov. 30, 1952 in Brooklyn, Ny. I noticed on the NYC.gov website that they do not hold death cert's for Brooklyn past 1948. Where would be the appropriate place to order the death cert? > I am trying to order this for my sister-in-law. By law is she required to order it instead of me. Not quite sure. >