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Top: Regional: North_America: United_States: New_York: Localities: N: New_York_City: Manhattan: Business_and_Economy

Submit sites for most companies based in this locality. Also see sub-categories when present. Certain companies should submit to Travel and Tourism, Arts and Entertainment, or Sports and Recreation instead. Compare existing listings for best results.

Most sites should be submitted to a locality. Listing at higher levels is allowed for companies with multiple locations spanning several localities or counties, and for clubs or associations drawing members from a broad area.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of business or organization.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
For companies and business organizations based in this locality.

Advertising and Marketing

This category is for advertising agencies, marketing services and public relations firms. Companies specializing in photography should submit to Arts and Entertainment instead.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For advertising and marketing companies based in this locality.

Animals

For animal-related businesses including veterinarians, breeders, kennels, livestock, training, boarding, grooming, and pet food and supply businesses. Submit sites for animal welfare and rescue groups or animal shelters under Society and Culture instead.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For businesses based in this locality that are concerned with animals.

Automotive

For automotive companies including dealers, repair shops, and parts sellers concerned with cars, pickup trucks, vans, sport utility vehicles, trucks and trailers, RVs, and motorcycles.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company or dealership.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For car, truck and motorcycle dealers, repair shops, and parts sellers based in this locality.

Beauty and Cosmetic Services

For the listing of personal services such as salons, spas, tanning facilities, and manicurists. Also see this locality's Shopping sub-category for stores selling health and beauty supplies.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company or salon.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.

more information (editors only)

This category is for the listing of personal services such as salons, spas, tanning facilities, and manicurists.

Computers and Internet

For computer dealers, repair shops, computer and network consultants, and companies and individuals offering computer and software training.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company or individual.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For computer companies and consultants based in this locality.

Construction and Maintenance

This category is for construction and maintenance companies including builders, contractors, and cleaning companies. Submit union locals to Society and Culture instead of Business and Economy.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For local companies and individuals concerned with building construction such as general contractors, trades such as electrical and plumbing contracting, and commercial cleaning and maintenance companies.

Employment

This category is for companies concerned with local employment opportunities such as employment agencies and executive recruitment firms. Also submit sites posting local job openings such as those offered by human resources and personnel departments of employers as well as web pages specifically listing job openings in this locality.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company or service.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
This category is for sites pertaining to local employment conditions, including sites offering help in finding jobs in the local economy.

Entertainment and Media

For the listing of sites pertaining to the entertainment industry including but not limited to audio and video production, recording studios, and talent agencies.

For the listing of sites pertaining to the entertainment industry including but not limited to audio and video production, recording studios, and talent agencies.

Event Planning

This category is for local providers of event planning services including caterers, convention centers, rental banquet halls, and wedding planners. Photographers, videographers and musical performers should see Arts and Entertainment instead. Submit hotels under Travel and Tourism/Lodging instead.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company or facility.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For event planning businesses located in this locality.

Financial Services

For financial service companies such as banks, credit unions, mortgage and loan companies, accountants, tax consultants and financial planners.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.

more information (editors only)

For banks, credit unions, and providers of financial services based in this locality.

Funeral Services

For local funeral homes, mortuaries, cemeteries, and sellers of caskets and monuments.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For local funeral homes, mortuaries, cemeteries, and sellers of caskets and monuments.

Home and Garden

For local companies offering products and services intended for the home and garden. Products include sellers of plants and trees, garden supplies, swimming pools, and windows. Services include suppliers of water softeners, interior design, lawn maintenance, pest control, and house-sitting. Home repair services should submit to Construction and Maintenance instead. Furniture and home decor stores should submit to this locality's Shopping sub-category.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For local companies offering products and services intended for the home and garden such as plant nurseries, lawn maintenance, and interior designers.

Industrial

Submit manufacturing companies and those supplying materials or services to industrial clients other than those specified in other Business and Economy sub-categories. Subjects include manufacturers, trucking and maritime shipping firms, publishers, and entertainment suppliers such as video production services. Also see sub-categories for Business to Business and Construction and Maintenance when present.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For companies based in this locality. To include manufacturers; producers and suppliers of industrial goods, machinery and equipment used by manufacturers; engineering and consulting firms serving manufacturers; publishers; trucking and maritime shipping firms serving industrial clients; and entertainment suppliers such as video production services.

Legal Services

For attorneys, law firms, and providers of legal services.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For attorneys, law firms, and providers of legal services based in this locality.

Marine Sales and Services

This area is for the listing of wet and dry marinas, boat dealers, service centers, and other businesses offering services to recreational boaters in the borough of Manhattan, New York County, New York.

Organizations

This category is for business organizations and associations. Sites consisting of lists of businesses should submit instead to a Business and Economy/ Directories sub-category if available, or to the main Business and Economy category if not.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the group.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For business associations and organizations drawing members from this locality.

Real Estate

To improve your chances of a successful submission, please observe the following guidelines:"

  • Submit each site only once.
  • Submit only to the locality where the office is physically located.
  • Include areas served in the description (up to three).
  • Use the following title format:

    •       Individual Sites: Agent Name - Company Name
          Company Sites: Company Name
  • Summarize the main features and the subject matter of your site in one or two short sentences or phrases.
  • Proof your description for spelling and grammar errors before you click on submit.
Example: Myron Froghatcher - Century 25 Lilypad Realty
Serving buyers and sellers in Warter, Ponder, and the Toad-Metro area. Site offers virtual tours, tools for prospects, and application for discounted home warranty.

Any of the following will delay the review process:

  • Advertising hype
  • Excessive use of caps
  • Keyword stuffing
  • Lack of verifiable address
Please Note: Multiple submissions and other repeated attempts to circumvent the guidelines may lead to the banning of your site at the discretion of Dmoz Staff.
This category will be used for all sites related to real estate in Manhattan, New York. Please submit only sites related to the local Manhattan area in this category.

Restaurants and Bars

For restaurants and bars in this locality.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
Restaurants are commercial establishments offering prepared food either for consumption on the premises or to take out. Bars are similar establishments offering liquid refreshment, usually taken to mean cocktail lounges but also including those serving fruit juice or coffee and espresso. This category is for restaurants and bars in this locality.

Security

For businesses in Manhattan that provide security services. This includes security guards, locksmiths, and stores that sell security devices.
Includes security guards, locksmiths, and stores that sell security devices.

Services

For providers of services not specified in other sub-categories such as personal chefs, language translation, piano tuning, and appliance repair. Spas and beauty salons should see the Health and Beauty sub-category if present, or submit to the main Business and Economy category if not.

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For providers of services that are not specified in other topical sub-categories, and that are based in this locality.

Shipping, Storage, and Logistics

Please submit here if your business is based in Manhattan.

Web sites for companies that provide moving and storage of belongings.

Shopping

This category is for local bricks-and-mortar shops that sell merchandise, but may also include direct Internet sellers based in this locality as long as location is clearly shown, preferably by address or local phone number. Internet merchants should generally submit to Shopping/ instead of Regional/ .

Tips for Faster Acceptance:

  1. Location must be shown, preferably by address or local phone number.
  2. For title, submit actual name of the company or store.
  3. Make description factual, avoiding promotional language and Unnecessary Capitalization.
  4. Compare existing listings for best results.
For shops and stores offering merchandise for sale in this locality.

Telecommunications

Please do NOT submit here if you have many branches in other areas, and Manhattan is just one of them.

Websites focused on the business of operating, maintaining or providing access to facilities for the transmission of voice, data, text, and video between network termination points, and telecommunications reselling, which are based in Manhattan, New York City.

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Last update: 12:56 PT, Friday, August 31, 2007 - edit