I received this from our library administrator and thought it might be helpful for others doing NY research:  Dear Genealogist, Did you have an ancestor living in New York, NY at the time of the 1940 census? If so, you need to visit the following link: http://directme.nypl.org/ This is a web site created by the NY Public Library. It will help you to identify the Enumeration District in which the address is located. What they have done is to digitize the 1940 phone book. There is a separate phone book for each borough. You find the name in the phone book and when you click on the name it links you to the next screen where you enter the street address shown in the phone book. This is necessary because most of the street names were abbreviated in the phone book. This will automatically pull in the Steve Morse web site where you will see a map with the location. Identify the cross or back streets shown on the map and you will usually reduce the number of EDs down to one ED. Once you select an ED, you are then taken to the National Archives web site to view the census schedules. While this system does not provide an index to the specific page where the individual is listed, it will help you to identify the ED where the address will be found. One problem with this system is that it works better with browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera rather than Internet Explorer. I have exchanged a number of e-mails with the staff of the NYPL regarding Internet Explorer. The NYPL was eventually able to get Internet Explorer version 8 to work but you may still encounter problems if you do not have the latest version 8 of Internet Explorer. I believe you will have better results with an internet browser such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera. When a person dies, a library closes. Researching: NJ: Snook, Bozarth, Dickerson, Dalton, Hicks, Asay NY: Semlear, Stoothoff, Foster, Murray, Dierks, Cairns PA: Hicks, Shaw, Roberts, Swartz/Black, Penrose Nova Scotia: Arthur, Hutt, Eisenhauer, Conrod, Morris     www.azwvgs.org