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North America

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New York

Company data from the New York business register, through the Topograph API.

Overview

Topograph reads New York Department of State, Division of Corporations and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of New York companies through one API.

Coverage

What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.

Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).

Datapoints

  • Company profileYes
  • Legal representativesYes
  • Other key personsYes

Documents

  • Register extractYes
  • Articles of associationNo
  • FinancialsNo
  • UBO extractNo

Documents, as the register names them

  • NY DOS Business Entity Information (printed)

Speed

A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 1 s in verification mode.

These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.

Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

  • New York Department of State, Division of Corporations

    Official New York State business entity register maintained by the Department of State, Division of Corporations. Covers ~4.2M active entities (corporations, LLCs, LPs, LLPs, not-for-profits). Its Public Inquiry portal is the live register, with fields such as authorized stock, the next biennial statement due date, and separate service-of-process, registered-agent and executive addresses. The Department also publishes the same database as NYS Open Data, refreshed daily, which serves company data, company search and former-name matching.

  • GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary

    Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

Identifiers

Request a company by its DOS ID as the id, with countryCode set to US-NY. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.

The full New York reference

The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.

  • Identifiers and formats2
  • Search patterns3
  • Quirks5
  • Legal forms84
  • Officer roles2
  • Company statuses4
  • Documents1
  • Example responses5
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New York business register guideHow the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.