Abbey, Henry E., 379
Abolitionism and abolitionists, 235–38, 266–69, 287
Academy of Music, 377–78, 379, 380
Acton, Thomas C, 304, 312, 316
Actors’ Equity Association, 514
Actors’ Fidelity League, 514
Acuna, Chile Mapocha, 544
Adams, Hattie, 427
Adams, John, 166, 180, 186, 187, 195, 196
Adams, John Quincy, 560
Adirondack Mountains, 20
Adventure Galley (frigate), 108
Aertson, Jan, 190
Air Defense Command, 558
Alarm, The (leaflet), 155
Albany, Duke of, 75
Albany, New York, 16, 18, 24, 75, 177, 205
Alberti, Peter Caesar, 418
Alexander, James, 120, 123, 124, 125, 134
Alexander III, Czar, 417
Alexander VI, Pope, 14
Allen, Frederick Lewis, 530
Altman & Company, B., 397
Amen, John H., 567
American Antislavery Society, 266, 287
American Bank Note Company, 397
American Brotherhood, 256
American Colonization Society, 234
American Committee of the Statue of Liberty, 387
American Institute Fair, 339
American Museum of Natural History, 360, 451
American Red Cross, 274
American Republic, 256
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 451
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 306
Anastasia, Albert, 567, 568, 577
Ancient Order of Hibernians, 248
Andrea, Marie, 428
Andrews, Major Avery D., 434–35
Andros, Major Edmund, 84–85, 87–89, 90, 92, 93, 94
Anne, Queen, of England, 111
Anti-Federalist party, 180, 183
Appo, George, 433
Arcer, Jan, 80
Archer, John, 81
Arc lights, 363
Arnold Constable & Company, 317
Arthur, Chester A., 374, 375, 388
Articles of Confederation, 178
Asquith, Margot, 597
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor of New York City, 256
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 541
Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn (Mrs. William), 413–14
Astor, George, 177
Astor, Henry, 177
Astor, John Jacob, 176–77, 183, 190, 195, 208–09, 210, 211, 214, 216, 218, 232, 244, 247, 248, 257–58, 260, 444, 494, 560
Astor, John Jacob, Jr., 258
Astor, John Jacob, II, 298
Astor, John Jacob, III, 411, 414
Astor, John Jacob, IV, 414–15
Astor, Mary Dahlgren Paul, 414
Astor, William, 413
Astor, William Backhouse, 258, 318
Astor, William Waldorf, 414–15
Astor House, 288, 321, 398, 399, 400, 503
Astoria (Irving), 244
Astor Place, 194
Astor Place Opera House, 260–65, 274
Astor Place riot, 260–65
Atlantic cable, 283
Atomic bomb, 563–64
Atomic energy, 561–62
Atomic furnace, or pile, 562–63
Atom splitting, 561
Attlee, Clement, 581
Auctioneers, 217
Aurelio, Thomas A., 569
Automobile Club of America, 462
Bacon, Frank, 514
Baker, George, see Divine, Father
Baker, Joe, 576
Baker, Newton D., 507
Baker, Ray Stannard, 461–62
Baldwin, James, 588
Baline, Moses and Leah, 418
Bancroft, George, 288
Bandmann, Daniel E., 402
Bankhead, Tallulah, 514
Bank of New York, 179
Bank Street, 220
Barclay, Rev. Henry, 140
Barkley, Alben, 573
Barnard, George G., 304, 334–35, 342, 350, 352, 353, 355
Barnard College, 169
Barnum, P. T., 269–70, 361, 386, 402–03, 438
Barnum’s museum, 322
Barrymore, John, 403
Barrymore, Lionel, 403
Barrymore, Maurice, 403
Barsimon, Jacob, 60
Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 385–87, 388–89, 390, 391
Baruch, Bernard M., 395, 508–09, 527, 531–32
Battery, the, 19, 26, 104, 146, 165, 295, 390
Battery Park, 270
Baxter, George, 58
Baxter, Warner, 533
Bayard, Annake Stuyvesant, 42, 43, 63
Bayard, Colonel Nicholas, 74
Beach, Alfred Ely, 399–40
Beame, Abraham, 590
Beaver, 209–10
Beaver Street, 240
Becker, Charles, 484–85
Bedloe, Isaac, 79
Bedloe’s Island, 387, 388, 390
Beecher, Henry Ward, 268–69, 286, 288, 292, 320
Begun, Isadore, 536
Bell, Alexander Graham, 358–59
Bellamy, Francis Rufus, 539
Bellevue Hospital, 190
Bell Telephone Company of New York, 359
Belmont, August, 296, 297, 378
Benjamin, Herbert, 539
Bennett, James Gordon, 258, 287, 294, 296
Bennett, William Adriaense, 53
Bentyn, Jacques, 53
Berlin, Irving, 418
Bernstroff, Count Johann von, 503
Bierce, Ambrose, 595
Bigelow, John, 495
Big Six, 553
Black, Frank S., 446
Black Horse Tavern, 127
Black Jokers, 302
Blackman, Lieut. Lennon, 558
Blackouts, 559
Black Thursday, 528–30
Black Tom explosion, 502–03
Blackton, J. Stuart, 445
Blackwells Island, 265, 305, 354
Blanshard, Paul, 536
Bleecker Street, 193
Bliss, Henry H., 461
Blizzard of 1888, 393–404
Block, Paul, 545
Bloody Thursday, 515–16
Bogardus, Everardus, 31
Bogardus, New York, 32–33
Boldt, George C., 414
Booth, Edwin, 323
Booth, John Wilkes, 325
Borough Hall, 454
Boroughs, 53, 54–55, 453; see also under name of borough
Boston, Massachusetts, 79, 89, 90, 92, 93, 117, 138, 152, 154, 155–56, 158, 193
Boston Massacre (1770), 154
Boston Port Act, 155
Boston Post Road, 81, 87, 168, 194, 202
Boston Tea Party, 155
Bowery, the, 26, 32, 81, 173, 174, 183, 194, 259, 281
Bowery Theatre, 238–39
Bowling Green, 25, 32, 46, 154, 161
Bowman, Dr. Isaiah, 507
Bowne, John, 63
Boycotts of British goods, 146, 149, 152
Boyd, Robert, 181
Bradford, William, 28, 104–05, 117, 118, 121, 122, 123
Bradley, Richard, 124, 125, 126
Brady, Mathew B., 288
Breda, Peace of (1667), 78
Brennan, Matthew, 353
Brisbane, Arthur, 433
Britannia (tea ship), 154
British East India Company, 155
Broad Street, 187
Broadway, 19, 26, 74, 81, 109, 117, 148, 150, 161, 177, 188, 192, 194, 214, 251, 258, 318, 339, 379, 406, 495
Broadway Theatre, 262
Brockholls, Anthony, 87
Brodie, Steve, 399
Bronx, 55, 80, 92, 277, 451, 453
Brooklyn, 19, 53, 92, 162, 170, 226, 312, 370, 372, 374, 375, 397, 451, 452, 453, 454, 506
Brooklyn Bridge, 179, 185, 197, 369–76, 390, 397, 399, 463, 483
Brooklyn Dodgers, 465
Brooklyn Heights, 12, 159, 162, 163, 213, 373
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 53, 162, 208, 295, 444
Brooks Brothers, 295, 312, 444
Brown, Charles, 204
Brown, Edward Fisher, 597
Bruckberger, Raymond L., 595
Brush, Charles Francis, 363
Brush Electric Illuminating Company, 364
Bryan, William Jennings, 479, 486, 501
Bryant, William Cullen, 270, 289, 362, 494
Bryant Park, 250, 269, 494, 532
Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,” 553
Buchanan, James, 290
Buckley, William F., Jr., 590
Buffalo hunts, 179
Bull Run, First Battle of, 296
Bull’s Head Tavern, 174
Bundling, 116
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 156
Buntline, Ned (E. Z. C. Judson), 261, 264, 265
Burnet, William, 120
Burns, George, 146
Burr, Aaron, 168, 192, 195–97, 198–201
Burros, Howard, 403
Burton, Mary, 131, 132–33, 134, 135, 136, 137
Bush, Irving T., 527
Bushnell, David, 164–65
Butler, General Benjamin F., 319
Butterfield, Daniel, 343
Cable cars, 463
Cady, J. Cleveland, 378–79
Cameron, Colonel James, 295
Campbell, Allan, 259
Camp Black, 446
Cape’s Tavern, 174
Capital of the nation, 177, 184–89
Capito, Mathys, 418
Caplan, Charles, 514–15
Cardozo, Albert, 335, 350, 355
Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 335
Carey, Peggy, 131, 133–34, 135
Carnegie Hall, 409–11
Carpenter, Daniel C., 306, 307
Carrère, John Merven, 494
Carson, W. E., 423
Caruso, Enrico, 512
Castiglia, Francesco (Frank Costello), 553, 568–69, 573–74, 575–76
Castle Garden, 421–22
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 411–13
Catholic Church and the Catholics, 60, 91, 93, 94–95, 103, 111, 131, 135, 136, 178, 216, 232, 246, 248, 251–54, 256, 272–73, 281, 299, 360–61, 500
Cedar Creek, 177
Central Labor Union (C.L.U.), 381
Central Park, 168, 173, 270–72, 294, 337, 360, 362, 461, 532
Central Park Zoo, 551
Centre Market, 221
Century Club, 387
Cervera, Rear Admiral Pascual, 445, 447
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 362
Chamber of Commerce, 179, 224, 429, 463
Chambers, Captain James, 155
Chambers, John, 125
Chapin, Charles E., 482
Chapman, John Jay, 596
Charles I, of England, 30
Charles II, of England, 67, 75, 82, 84, 90, 92
Charleston, South Carolina, 158
Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions (1629), 28
Charter of New York City, 179, 336–37, 345, 451, 453, 583
Charter of 1683, 91–92
Chase National Bank, 503
Chatham Theatre, 248
Chickering Hall, 408
Child, Lydia Maria, 238
Chinatown, 426
Chloe, 220
Choate, Joseph H., 352
Christiaensen, Hendrick, 17–18, 24
Churchill, Winston S., 528
Church of England, 102, 109, 135, 140–41, 178–79
Ciroficci, Frank (Dago Frank), 485
City Affairs Committee, 544
City Hall, 36, 58, 109, 110, 148, 150, 161, 185, 197, 207, 208, 278–79, 283–84, 310, 325, 455, 525
City Hall Park, 19, 74, 81, 117, 178, 181, 195, 197, 211, 244, 280, 294, 308, 390, 398, 400, 455
City Hotel, 321
City Island, 76
City planning, 202–03
Civil liberties, 514
Civil rights demonstrations, 584–85
Civil War, 292, 293–99, 317–26, 332, 370
Clark, Aaron, 251
Clermont, steamship, 204–05
Cleveland, Grover, 374, 375, 381, 388, 390, 391, 422
Clews, Henry, 378
Clinton, De Witt, 224–26, 227–28, 251–52
Clinton, George, 138, 139, 177, 180, 198, 224, 225
Clinton, General James, 224
Clinton Hall Library, 274
Clipper ships, 259–60
Cobb, Irving S., 596
Cochrane, John, 290
Cohan, George M., 514
Colden, Cadwallader, 118, 146, 147, 148
Coleman, Edward, 231
Coleridge, Sir John Duke, 380
College of the City of New York, 395
Colles, Christopher, 224
Colman, John, 16
Colored Orphan Asylum, 305
Columbia College, 179, 181, 182
Columbia River, 211
Columbia University, 140–41, 561–62; see also Barnard College; Columbia College; King’s College
Columbus Day celebration (1792), 190
Columbus Day parade, 458
Columbus Park, 231
Commercial and Financial Chronicle, The, 530
Commercial electric lighting, 364–68
Commercial exchange, 80–81
Committee of Seventy, 352
Communist Club of New York, 281
Communists and communism, 535–39
Compromise of 1850, 267
Compton, Betty, 543
Comstock, Anthony, 429
Comstock & Andrews, 241
Concord, Battle of, 156
Congregation Shearith Israel, 61
Congress, U. S., 177, 178, 180, 186, 188, 189, 217, 234, 267, 329, 372, 387, 388, 443, 444, 504, 514; see also Continental Congress
Congress of Racial Equality, 586, 588
Conkling, Roscoe, 395, 399–400
Connecticut, 109
Connecticut River, 17
Connolly, Cyril, 597
Connolly, Richard B., 334, 335, 337, 345, 346, 347–48, 349, 351, 355
Conover, Daniel D., 278
Constitutional government, 100–01
Constitution of New York State, 177
Constitution of the United States, 178, 180–81, 183
Continental Congress, 156, 158, 161, 163, 166
Cooley, Simon, 152
Coontown, 427
Cooper, James Fenimore, 560
Cooper, Peter, 195, 212, 217, 249, 254, 273–75, 336, 351, 370
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 273–74, 288, 289, 290, 351
Coote, Richard, Earl of Bellomont, 107–08, 109, 110
Copeland, Dr. Royal S., 510
Copeland, William, 348
Copperheads, 310
Corbin, Abel Rathbone, 343
Cornbury, Lady, 110–11
Cornish, Samuel E., 235
Cornwallis, Lord Charles, 173
Corrie, W. C., 286
Corruption, 277, 318, 327–57, 381, 423–39, 484–85, 540, 566–71
Corsi, Giuseppe, 473
Cortelyou, Jacques, 45
Cosby, Colonel William, 120–21, 123–24, 127, 129
Cosgrove, Mike, 581
Counterfeiting, 243
Counties, 92, 453; see also under name of county
County courthouse, 349
Coup, W. C., 361
Cram, Ralph Adams, 413
Crane, John P., 577
Crane, Stephen, 447
Creelman, James, 480–81
Crime and criminals, 130, 178, 280, 298, 419, 551, 553–54, 566–69; see also Corruption; Gangs and gangsters; Racketeers
Croker, Richard, 382, 423, 429, 431, 433, 453, 454, 464
Croton River, 250
Croton water system, 250–51, 272
Crusades, 13
Crystal Palace, 269–70
Cuba, 441–48
Cuffee (Negro slave), 134
Cunningham, William, 172–73
Curtis, George William, 346
Cuyler, Lieut. Henry, 95
Daily Worker, 537
Daly, Augustin, 402
Damrosch, Leopold, 409
Dana, Charles A., 424
Daniels, Josephus, 509
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 418–19
Dauphine (Verrazano’s vessel), 11, 12, 13
Davidson, Henry P., 501
Davidson, Jo, 418
Davis, Matthew L., 196, 200, 212
Davis, Noah, 354
Davis, William E., 305
Day, Benjamin H., 237
De Bow, James D. B., 287
Debtors’ prison, 210, 218–19, 354
Declaration of Independence, 161
Declaratory Act, 149–50
De Forest, Hendrick, 52
De Greve, Arthur, 555–56
De Lancey, James, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 139, 140
Delaware Confederacy, 19
Delaware River, 17, 24, 27, 34, 64
Delmonico, Charles, 433
Democratic party, see Tammany Hall
Democratic-Republican party, 189, 195, 199
Denton, Daniel, 79
Depew, Chauncey M., 391, 397, 464
De Peyster, Captain Abraham, 95, 110
Depressions, 217, 242–46, 340, 381, 514; see also Great Depression; Panics, financial; Recessions
De Rapelje, Joris, 53
De Sapio, Carmine, 574
Desbrosses, Elias, 136
Despatch, U.S.S., 390
Deutsches Journal, 500
De Valera, Eamon, 419
Devlin, Charles, 278
De Voe, John, 221–22
Dewey, Thomas E., 553–54
Dickens, Charles, 255–56
Dieppe, France, 13
Dissenters, see Protestants
Divine, Father (George Baker), 534–35
Divorce, 102
Dix, General John A., 291, 319, 340
Doctors’ Riot, 181–83
Dolan, “Dandy Johnny,” 233
Dominion of New England, 92, 93
Dongan, Colonel Thomas, 90–92, 95, 97
Doto, Joseph (Joe Adonis), 553, 567
Douglas, Stephen A., 289
Douglass, David, 172
Douglass, Frederick, 266–67, 286
Downing, Andrew J., 271
Draft Riots (1863), 136, 299–316, 319
Dressler, Marie, 514
Drew, John, 514
Drexel Building, 368
Duffus, R. L., 595
Dunderberg, ironclad vessel, 313
Dunham, Warden, 355
Dunn, Elias B., 393–94
Dunning, John R., 561
Dutch East India Company, 15, 17, 21, 22
Dutch Reformed Church, 27, 57, 60, 80, 94, 102, 140
Dutch West India Company, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 34, 35, 39, 41, 42, 45, 51, 53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 74, 83, 86
Duyckinck, Evert, 51
Eagan, John, 303–04
East River, 18, 20, 26, 33, 45, 117, 163, 165, 166, 167, 173, 197, 212, 369, 370, 371, 372, 451, 468, 504
Ederle, Gertrude, 526
Edict of Nantes, revocation of, 92
Edison, Thomas Alva, 363–68
Edward (tax-stamp vessel), 146
Edwards, “Big Bill,” 482
Edwards, Jonathan, 196
Education, 86–87, 112, 201–02, 251–54, 273–74, 458–59
Eidlitz, Cyrus L. W., 471
Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave, 386
Einstein, Albert, 562
Einstein, Izzy, 517–18
Electric Vehicle Company, 461
Elevated trains, 338–39, 340–41, 394, 398, 463, 470
Elizabeth I, of England, 30
Ellington, Duke, 521
Ellis Island, 46, 80, 422, 473–76, 505
Emancipator, 237–38
Embargo Act (1807), 207–08
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 247
Emmet, Robert, 259
Emmet, Thomas, 259
Emmott, James, 352
Empire State Building, 415, 496, 552
Empress of China, 179
England and the British, 21, 23, 30–31, 35, 39, 53, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 67–70, 71–85, 86–99, 100–14, 115–28, 129–37, 138–42, 143–56, 171–73, 205, 206–08, 211–14, 216–17
English East India Company, 107
English Revolution of 1688, 93
Epidemics, 80, 111, 118, 130, 190, 219–20, 239–40, 510–11
Episcopal Church, see Church of England; Protestant Episcopal Church
Epstein, Jacob, 418
Equitable Building, 394
Equitable Coach Company, 545
Erie Railroad, 341–42
Erving, John Langdon, 425, 427, 428
Evacuation Day, 173–74
Evarts, William Maxwell, 391
Everett House, 321
Ewald, George F., 541
Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, 269–70
Farley, Thomas M., 541
Farmer, Moses Gerrish, 365
Farquhar, George, 119
Farrelly, Richard, 400
Farren, George Percy, 239
Fashions and styles, 116–17, 194–95, 459
Father Knickerbocker, 204
Federal Hall, 185, 186, 187–88
Federalist party, 180, 183, 189, 192, 195, 196, 198, 199
Fenton, Reuben E., 338
Ferdinand, of Spain, 61
Ferguson, Frank E., 413
Fernandez, Angel, 361
Ferryboats, 80, 194, 220, 370, 371, 372, 398, 464
Field, Cyrus W., 406
Fifth Avenue, 258, 460, 495, 527
Fifth Avenue Coach Company, 462
Finns, 64
Fires, 118–19, 132, 133, 169, 178, 240–42, 250, 300, 321–24, 490–92, 493
First New York Fire Zouaves, 295, 296
First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, 444
Fish, Hamilton, 356
Fisk, James, 364
Fisk, James, Jr., 342–45
Fiske, John, 72
Five Nations, 103–04
Five Points district, 231–33, 240, 255, 261, 278, 288, 300
Flannagan, Edward, 251
Flatlands, 452
Flegenheimer, Arthur (Dutch Schultz), 553, 554
Fletcher, Benjamin, 101, 104–05, 106, 107
Flour and bread industry, 88–89, 101
Flushing Remonstrance (1657), 63–64
Flynn, John G., 571
Flynn, Tom, 248–49
Foley, John, 352
Foley Square, 230
Forbes, Gerret, 243
Ford, Henry, 508
Forest Hills, 55
Fort Amsterdam, 27, 31, 33, 38, 39, 72
Fort Casimir, 64
Fort Good Hope, 35
Fort Greene, 213
Fort LaFayette, 324
Fort Wadsworth, 55
Fort Washington, 170–71
Fortune (Christiaensen’s vessel), 17–18
Foster, William Z., 537–39
Four Hundred, The, 413
Fourteenth Street, 363
Fox, George, 80
France and the French, 14, 15, 55, 67, 81–82, 83, 92–93, 97, 103, 104, 105, 111, 138–39, 141–42, 191–92, 205, 207–08, 384–92
Francis I, of France, 13, 14, 15
Franco-American Union, 386, 390
Franklin, Benjamin, 48, 117–18, 139, 166
Franklin, James, 117
Franklin, U.S.S., 356
Franklin, Walter, 185
Franklin Square, 185
Fraunces Tavern, 174
Frazius, Bernhardus, 89–90
Freedman, Andrew, 464
Freedom of the press, 123–28
Freedom’s Journal, 235
French and Indian Wars, 94
French Antislavery Society, 385
Frenchtown, 427
Frese, Albert F., 469
Fribbles, 116
Frick, Henry Clay, 514
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, 178
Fugitive Slave Act, 267
Fulton, Robert, 204–05
Fur trade, 17, 25, 28, 32, 33, 34, 177, 211
Gage, Father Charles, 91
Gage, General Thomas, 148, 150, 152
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 530
Gallagher, James J., 481–82
Galloway, Captain, 210
Gangs and gangsters, 229, 230–34, 238–39, 254, 261, 263, 280, 303, 419, 520, 553–54, 566–69
Gardiners Island, 108
Gardner, Charles W., 425, 426, 427, 428
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 419
Garrison, William Lloyd, 236, 237, 266–67
Garrison Dramatic Club, 172
Garvey, Andrew J., 349, 353, 354, 355
Gaslights, 363
Gaynor, William Jay, 479–84, 485–86, 489, 499
Geddes, Sir Patrick, 597–98
Gelb, Arthur and Barbara, 520
General Slocum disaster, 468–71
General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 180
George II, of England, 141
George III, of England, 141, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155, 161, 166, 188
George, Henry, 380–83
Gerard, James W., 504
German, Jacob, 461
Germans, the, 232, 247, 257, 281, 417, 468–71, 473, 500–01
Gerrit, Manuel, 36–37
Gerry, Elbridge, 306
Gershovitz, Morris and Rose, 418
Gershwin, George, 418
Gerster, Etelka, 379
Ghent, Treaty of (1814), 213
Gilbert, Bradford Lee, 406–08
Gilbert, Douglas, 526
Gilmore, Patrick S., 361
Gilmore’s Concert Garden, 361
Girard, Stephen, 214
Gitlow, Benjamin, 536
Glorious Revolution of 1689, 93
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 350, 442
Godwin, Parke, 267
Goelet, Peter, 306
Golden Hill, Battle of, 152–54
Gold Exchange, 343–45
Goldstein, Jonah, 569
Gompers, Samuel, 381
Goodwin, Nat C., 403
Gore, Thomas P., 488
Gotham, 203
Gould, Helen M., 444
Gould, Jay, 342–45, 353, 364, 378, 388, 463
Gounod, Charles, 386
Gouwane, Mohawk Chief, 53
Government, see Constitutional government; Municipal government
Governors Island, 24–25, 32, 65, 111, 165, 190, 211, 387, 465, 504, 505, 506, 557
Gowanus, 53
Gowanus Bay, 162
Gracie, Archibald, 560
Graham, Billy, 595
Grand Central Terminal, 338, 464
Grant, Colonel Frederick D., 434, 435
Grant, Hugh J., 424
Grant, General Ulysses S., 325, 342–43, 344, 360, 372, 386, 387
Grass, Günter, 595
Great Depression, 530, 531–35, 551–53
Great Dock, 88
Greater New York, 450–55
Great Roman Hippodrome, 361
Greek fire, 320–21
Greeley, Horace, 236, 243, 281, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 296, 297, 308, 309, 310, 372
Green, Andrew Haswell, 272, 352, 450–51, 452, 455, 494
Greene, Maj. General Nathaniel, 170–71
Greenwich, Connecticut, 40
Greenwich Village, 52, 118, 130, 194, 202, 220, 519–20
Grey, Sir Edward, 507
Griswold, J. N. A., 378
Groves, Brig. General Leslie R., 564
Guidebook of New York, first, 203
Gunther, Charles Godfrey, 319
Gunther, John, 563
Hackensack, New Jersey, 133, 171
Hagan, Edward, 355
Hale, Nathan, 170
Half Moon (Hudson’s vessel), 15–16
Halifax, Earl of, 139
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 158
Hall, Abraham Oakley, 333–34, 335, 337, 345, 346, 347, 349, 352, 353, 355
Hall, Ralph and Mary, 76–77
Hallam, Lewis, 191
Hallett, William, 54
Halley, Rudolph, 574
Hamburger, Philip, 570
Hamilton, Alexander, 156, 179, 180, 181, 182, 187, 189, 192, 196–97, 198–201, 560
Hamilton, Andrew, 125–28
Hamilton-Burr duel, 199–201
Hamlet, James, 267
Hampshire House, 532
Hampton, John, 111
Hanna, Mark, 443
Hardenbergh, Henry J., 414, 415
Hardwick, Thomas R., 515
Harlem, 52, 81, 167, 168, 174, 520–22, 534–35
Harlem Heights, 170; Battle of, 169, 412
Harlem River, 20, 36, 80, 109, 451
Harper’s Weekly, 273, 345–46, 350, 351, 464
Harrigan, Edward “Ned,” 359
Harris, Charles K., 446
Harris, George, 521
Harrison, Father Henry, 91
Harrison, Katherine, 77
Hart, Eli, 244–45
Hart, Peter, 293
Hart, Tony, 359
Hartford River, 24
Harvey, Charles T., 338
Harvey, Father Thomas, 91
Hastings, John A., 545
Hastings, Thomas, 494
Havemeyer, William F., 351, 353
Hay, John, 362
Hayes, Rutherford B., 360, 363
Headley, Joel T., 315
Headley, Lieutenant John, 320, 321–24
Hearst, William Randolph, 440–45, 447, 449, 454, 457, 481, 500, 509
Hearst, Mrs. William Randolph, 566
Heins, George Lewis, 412
Held, Martha, 503
Helfand, Julius, 571
Hell’s Kitchen, 401
Hempstead, Long Island, 73–74, 76
Henry, Patrick, 145
Hesse-Cassel, Landgrave of, 161
Hewitt, Abram S., 370, 381, 382, 383, 396, 421, 463
Hewitt, Mrs. Abram S., 342
Hickey, Thomas, 160
Hicks, Granville, 535
Hicks, Whitehead, 153
High Bridge, 250
Hilliard, Robert, 403
Hines, James J. “Jimmy,” 554
Hiroshima, Japan, 564
History of the Five Nations (Colden), 118
History of the Great American Fortunes (Myers), 218
Hitler, Adolf, 557
Hobart, Garret A., 415
Hobart, John Henry, 411
Hoboken, 66
Hodgkinson, John, 191
Hodgson, Robert, 62–63
Hoffman, John T., 333, 334, 335, 336, 340, 350
Hoffman House, 403
Hofstadter, Samuel H., 544, 546, 547
Hofstadter Committee, 544–48
Hogan, Frank, 569
Hogg, Robert, 131
Holland and the Dutch, 14, 15, 17–18, 20–21, 23–40, 41–69, 76, 77, 82–84, 422, 473
Holland Tunnel, 138
Hollow Way, 168
Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, 544
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 230
Home Insurance Building, 406
Hone, Philip, 217, 232, 235, 241, 244, 246, 257, 258, 259
Hood, Zachariah, 144
Hook, Sidney, 596
Hooper, Admiral S. C., 562
Hoover, Herbert C., 498, 506, 527, 530
Hopkins, Harry, 500
Horowitz, Harry (Gyp the Blood), 485
Horsemanden, Daniel, 132
Horse mills, 28
Hospitals, 45, 181–83, 190, 459, 533
Hot-corn Girls, 194
House, Colonel Edward M., 478–81, 486–88, 497–98, 501, 503, 506, 507, 508
House of Refuge, 229
House of Representatives, 196
Howe, Admiral Richard, 158, 160, 161, 164
Howe, General William, 158, 161, 163, 166, 167, 168
Howland, Carrie A., 412
Hrdlička, Aleš, 421
Hudson and Manhattan tubes, 477
Hudson Dusters, 520
Hudson River, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 29, 30, 52, 64, 74, 75, 80, 117, 158, 185, 204, 476
Hudson River Tunnel Company, 476–77
Hughes, Charles Evans, 503
Hughes, Archbishop John, 246, 251, 252–54, 256, 268, 272–73, 282, 313–15, 361
Hughson, John and Mrs., 131, 133–34, 135
Hugo, Victor, 386
Huguenots, 42, 73, 75, 92–93, 102
Hull, Cordell, 555
Hundred Years’ War, Second, 94
Huneker, James, 595
Hunt, Richard Morris, 414
Hunter, Robert, 111, 112–13, 117, 122
Husted Act, 341
Hutchinson, Anne, 55
Hutchinson River, 55
Hyde, Edward, Lord Cornbury, 110–11
Hyde, George, 560–61
Hylan, John F., 509, 511, 524–25
Immigrants and immigration, 72–73, 111–12, 217–18, 227, 228, 231–32, 247–48, 251–54, 255–57, 281, 329, 416–22, 458, 472–76, 515, 579–80, 583–84; see also Chinese; Germans; Irish; Italians; Jews; Puerto Ricans
Impellitteri, Vincent R., 582
Incandescent lighting, 363–68
Indentured servants, 131
Indians, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18–19, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37–40, 43, 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 60, 64–67, 68, 79, 82, 90, 97, 103–04, 138–39, 142; see also under names of tribes
Industrial Revolution, 216
Ingersoll, Robert, 382
Ingoldsby, Richard, 97–98, 101, 111
Innocent XI, Pope, 94
Inquisition, 61
Insane asylums, 88
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 467
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G.W.U.), 490
Invalid Corps, 298, 301, 302, 303
Irish, the, 227, 231–34, 240, 243, 245–46, 247, 248, 251–54, 255–57, 268, 282, 298, 299, 304, 305–06, 311, 417, 420, 458
Iroquois Indians, 38, 97, 103–04
Irving, Henry, 402
Irving, Washington, 195, 201, 203–04, 212–13, 216, 244, 261, 274, 560
Irving, William, 203
Isabella, of Spain, 61
Italians, the, 418–20, 421, 458, 473, 519, 567
Jackson, Andrew, 242
Jackson, John, 208
Jamaica, Long Island, 55
Jamaica Pass, 162
James, Henry, 596
James, Major Thomas, 146, 147, 148
James I, of England, 31
James II, of England, 67, 72, 91, 92, 93, 94
Jamestown, Virginia, 30
Japan and the Japanese, 555–56, 564
Jay, John (grandson of the Chief Justice), 267
Jay, William, 234
Jazz Age, 513
Jefferson, Thomas, 180, 189, 195, 196, 198, 207, 208, 209, 210–11, 224
Jenney, William Le Baron, 406
Jennings, Louis J., 346, 348, 350
Jerome, Leonard Walter, 299
Jersey City, 66
Jews, 60–62, 102, 109, 111, 257, 417–18, 420, 436, 458
Jogues, Father Isaac, 60
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 141
Jolson, Al, 514
Jumel Mansion, 166–67
Kane, William, 135–36
Kefauver, Estes, 573
Kefauver Committee, 573–78
Kelley, William, 155
Kennedy, John A., 299, 300, 301, 303–04, 315, 319
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 532, 591
Kent, James, 229
Kerryonians, 231
Kidd, Sarah Oort Cox, 107
Kidd, Captain William, 106–09
Kieft, Willem, 33–34, 35, 36, 37–38, 39, 40, 43–45, 56
King’s College, 140–41, 156, 179
Kingsland, Ambroise, C., 271
Kingsley, William C., 371, 372
Kingston, New York, 67
Klein, Alexander, 597
Knickerbocker’s History of New York (Irving), 203–04
Knights of the Golden Circle, 299, 319
Knowlton, Major Thomas, 168
Know-Nothing movement, 234, 281–82, 329, 332
Knox, General Henry, 175
Kroll, Bastiaen Jansen, 31
Labor movement, 490; see also Strikes; Trade unions
Laboulaye, Édouard René de, 384–85, 386, 387
La Farge, Christopher Grant, 412, 413
Lafayette, Marquis de, 384
LaGuardia, Achille Luigi Carlo, 419
LaGuardia, Fiorello H., 419, 430, 449, 457, 475, 479, 499, 526, 541, 550–52, 555, 557, 559, 560, 566, 567, 568, 569, 583
Laine, Honoré, 447
Lancaster, Joseph, 202
Lansky, Meyer, 553
Lardner, Ring, 596
Latting, Warren, 270
Latting Tower, 270
Lawrence, Cornelius W., 245
Lawrence, Captain James, 293
Lawrence, John, 84
Lazarus, Emma, 388
League of Nations, 506, 507–08, 522
Leander, H.M.S., 206–07
Leavitt, Joshua, 237
Lee, Sergeant Ezra, 165–66
Lee, General Robert E., 295, 298, 311, 318, 325
Leisler, Jacob, 94, 95–99, 100
Leisler Rebellion, 95–99
Lempou, Jan, 27
Lenox, James, 494
Lenox Library, 494
Leo XIII, Pope, 443
Leslie’s Illustrated, 300
Lesseps, Count Ferdinand Marie de, 390, 391
Lewis, Alfred Henry, 351
Lewis, Colonel Morgan, 186, 198, 199
Lexington, Battle of, 156
Lexow, Clarence, 429
Liberty Island, 80
Liberty magazine, 569
Lieb, John W., 367
Lincoln, Abraham, 282, 287–91, 295, 296, 297, 298, 304, 308, 311, 318, 319, 320, 325, 333, 362
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 299
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 287
Lind, Jenny, 269
Lindbergh, Charles A., 526
Lindsay, John V., 590–92
Lippmann, Walter, 507
Little Italy, 419
Livingston, Edward, 197
Livingston, Robert R., 107–08, 187, 188, 204, 205
Livingston, William, 140
Loan sharks, 45
Lockouts, 381
Lodowick, Captain Charles, 95
Loewy, Raymond, 596
London (tea ship), 155
London Gazette, 105
Long, William “Pudding,” 349
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 386
Long Island, 18, 19, 32, 35, 53, 54, 58, 59, 68, 162, 242, 451; Battle of, 162–64, 166
Long Island Rail Road, 259, 476
Long Island Sound, 18, 20, 185, 212, 240, 244
Lotteries, 45, 140, 195, 277, 534
Louis XIV, of France, 81–82, 92, 93, 111
Louisiana, purchase of, 205
Louis Philippe, of France, 191–92, 560
Lovelace, Dudley, 78
Lovelace, Colonel Francis, 78–81, 82–84
Lovelace, Thomas, 78
Low, Seth, 453
Lowber, Robert W., 283–84
Lower Bay, 11, 12, 15, 16, 130
Luciano, Charles “Lucky,” 550, 553, 554
Ludlow Street Jail, 354, 355, 356, 357
Lurting, Robert, 119
Lusitania, sinking of, 501–02
Lutherans, 80
Lynch, James, 310
Lyons, Stephen C, 347
MacFadden, Bernard, 460
Macready, William, 260–65
Madagascar, 106
Madison, James, 181, 186, 211, 215, 224, 226
Madison Square, 194
Madison Square Garden, 361, 387, 402, 461
Madison Square Presbyterian Church, 423, 424
Mahler, Solomon, 344
Mahoney, Michael P., 499
Maiden Lane, 117
Maine, U.S.S., 443
Makemie, Rev. Francis, 111
Malone, Dudley Field, 504–05
Mangin, Joseph and Charles, 191, 197
Manhattan Island, 92, 451, 453; discovery of, 11–22; Dutch in, see Holland and the Dutch; English in, see England and the British; first settlers of, 23–40; purchase of, 25–26
Manhattan Project, 562–63, 564
Manning, Captain John, 80, 82, 83, 86
Mansfield, John, 596
Mapleson, Colonel James H., 379, 380
Marie, Queen, of Rumania, 526
Marrow, Dr. Alfred J., 583
Martin, James J., 431
Martin, Lieut. Colonel Robert, 320, 323–24
Marx, Harpo, 529–30
Marx, Karl, 281
Maspeth, Long Island, 54
Masterson, Bat, 517
Mathews, Charles, 219
Matsell, George W., 262, 263, 264, 277
Matthews, David, 160
Maurice, Count of Nassau, 18
May, Cornells Jacobsen, 18, 24, 25
Mayflower (Pilgrims’ ship), 23
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 418, 477, 498
McAllister, Ward, 413
McClave, John, 434
McClellan, General George B., 319, 320
McClellan, George B., Jr., 445, 466, 483
McCloskey, Archbishop John, 361
McComb, John, Jr., 197
McComb House, 188
McCombs, William F., 486
McCormick, James J., 541
McCue, Alexander, 371
McCunn, John H., 311, 335, 355
McCurtin, Daniel, 160
McDonald, John B., 464–65, 466
McEvers, James, 146
McGlynn, Edward, 382
McGowan’s Pass, 173
McIntyre, O. O., 518
McKee, Joseph V., 549, 550, 566
McKee, Oliver, 401
McKinley, William, 415, 442, 443, 444, 457
McLaughlin, Patrick, 282
McSorley’s Ale House, 274
Megalopolis, 598
Meisinger, Edward, 397
Melting pot, the, 421
Menen, Aubrey, 596
Merchants’ Coffee House, 147, 148
Merchant shipping, 205, 259–60
Merry, Mrs. Robert, 195
Methodist Episcopal Church, 253
Metropolitan Hotel, 322
Metropolitan Improvement Company, 379
Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, 495
Metropolitan Magazine, 476
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 362–63
Metropolitan Opera House, 377–80, 408, 492, 504
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, 464
Mexican War (1846), 257
Mezes, Dr. Sidney E., 507
Michaelius, Jonas, 27
Milborne, Jacob, 98
Militia, 182, 279–80, 283, 302, 312
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 519–20
Miller, George S., 349
Miller, Henry, 596
Minuit, Peter, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29–30, 31, 34, 35, 52
Mitchel Field, 558
Mitchell, John Purroy, 499–500, 501, 509–10
Mitchill, Dr. Samuel Latham, 203, 209, 211
Mohican Indians, 55
Mohawk Indians, 138
Moley, Raymond, 548
Montauk Point, Long Island, 448
Montgomerie, John, 120
Moody, Lady Deborah, 53–54
Moore, Sir Henry, 146, 148, 149, 151
Moran, James J., 572, 574, 576, 577
Morand, Paul, 599
Morgan, Edwin D., 318
Morgan, Eugene F., 469–70
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 360, 362, 364–65, 368, 375, 395, 400–01, 444, 454, 456–57, 511, 515, 529
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 516
Morgan & Company, J. P., 501
Morley, Christopher, 596
Morningside Heights, 411–12
Morningside Park, 532
Morris, Gouverneur, 128
Morris, Joe Alex, 556
Morris, Colonel Roger, 166
Morrisania, 80
Mortier, Abraham, 158
Moses, Robert, 457, 551, 552, 554, 583, 590, 595
Moskowitz, Henry, 492
Mulberry Street, 231
Mullan, George V., 499
Muller, Frank (Whitey Lewis), 485
Mulrooney, Edward P., 544
Mumford, Lewis, 223
Municipal government, 57–58, 75, 454
Munsey, Frank, 502
Murphy, Jay Edwin, 502
Murray, Joseph, 140
Murray, Max, 597
Murray, Robert, 168
Murtagh, John M., 580
Musical concerts, 129
Music Hall Company, 409
Mussolini, Benito, 526
Myers, Gustavus, 218
Narrows, the, 12, 16, 162, 194, 208, 505
Nast, Thomas, 346, 348, 350, 351, 356
Nathan, George Jean, 597
National Academy of Design, 388
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 274, 585
National Guard, see Militia
Native American Democratic Association, 248
Native American party, 256
Native Sons of America, 256
Navigation Acts, 59, 67, 105, 142
Ned Buntline’s Own, 261
Negroes, 137, 234–38, 243, 247, 257, 266–67, 285–87, 295, 298, 305, 307, 309, 312, 419, 458, 520–22, 534–35, 560, 580, 584–90; see also Slaves, Negro
Negro revolution, 584–90
Negro World, 522
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, 172
New Amsterdam, 26–28, 36, 48–52, 56
New Castle, Delaware, 64
New Haven, Connecticut, 39
New Lots, 452
New Netherland, 17, 18, 21–22, 24, 31, 35, 41, 43, 83
New Netherland (vessel), 23, 29–30
New Rochelle, New York, 93, 265
Newspapers, 118, 121, 122–28, 180–81, 235, 236, 237, 281, 310; see also under title of paper
Newsweek magazine, 578
New Sweden, 64
New Sweden Company, 34
Newtown, 54
New York and Harlem Railroad, 259, 361
New York Bridge Company, 372
New York Central Railroad, 338, 340, 397, 476
New York City, Battle of, 166–69, 171
New York Commercial Advertiser, 209, 211
New Yorker, 243
New Yorker Herold, 500
New York Evening Mail, 493
New York Evening Post, 262, 267, 270, 287, 290, 291, 315, 337, 348, 350, 435, 442
New York Evening Star, 237
New York Express, 314
New York Gazeteer, 213
New York Gazette, 118, 121, 123, 146
New York Herald, 261, 266, 287, 290, 296, 318, 323, 337, 339, 393, 395, 396
New York Hospital, 181, 183, 190
New York Independent Journal, or Weekly Advertiser, 180–81
New York Journal, 441–42, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 454
New York Journal of Commerce, 235, 237, 291, 297, 370
New York Printing Company, 346
New York Public Library, 250, 451, 494–95, 560
New York Sabbath Committee, 295
New York Sacred Music Society, 238
New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 218
New York Stock Exchange, 189, 359, 396–97, 498, 515, 527–28; crash of 1929, 528–30
New York Sun, 237, 339, 350, 396, 424, 429, 435, 486
New York Symphony Orchestra, 409
New York Times, 274, 287, 299, 309, 314, 338, 343, 346–47, 348–49, 351, 364, 367, 387, 438, 459, 471–72, 477, 486, 498, 529, 537, 539
New York Tribune, 273, 281, 286, 287, 288, 296, 297, 304, 308, 318, 340, 454, 455, 461, 463, 518
New York Weekly Journal, 123–24
New York World, 297, 388, 400, 401, 423, 424, 430, 434, 440, 441, 443, 444, 449, 463, 466, 482, 484
New York World’s Fair (1939), 554–55; (1964–1965), 586–87
New York World-Telegram, 526
New York Yacht Club, 286
New York Zoological Society, 451
Niblo’s Garden, 402
Nichols, Lieut. Colonel K. D., 564
Nicholson, Captain Francis, 92, 93, 94, 95–96, 97
Nicolls, Matthias, 76
Nicolls, Colonel Richard, 68, 69, 72, 73, 75–76, 77–79, 80
Nilsson, Christine, 379
Nine Men, the, 43, 48, 55, 56, 57, 59
Nixon, Richard, 592
Nonimportation agreement, 146, 149, 152
Nonintercourse Act (1809), 211
Nordhoff, Charles, 350
Normandie Hotel, 410
North, Lord Frederick, 154, 156
North American Review, 349
North Brother Island, 469, 470
North River, see Hudson River
Nuclear chain reaction, 562, 563
Nugent, Robert, 298
Oates, Titus, 136
Ober, Margarete, 504
O’Brien, James, 347–48
O’Brien, John P., 549, 550, 551
O’Brien, William P., 571, 572–73
Ochs, Adolph S., 471–72
Ochs, Iphigene, 471–72
O’Connor, Charles, 353
Odets, Clifford, 535–36
O’Dwyer, William, 476, 565–78, 579, 582
Oglethorpe, James, 136
Old Town, 55
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 272, 294
Olympic Theatre, 233
O’Neal, Hugh, 60
Oneida Indians, 138
O’Neill, Eugene, 520
O’Neill, James, 520
Onrust (Block’s vessel), 18
Opdyke, George, 302, 304, 307–08, 310, 312, 318
Orange Tree, 25
O’Rourke, Matthew J., 347–48
Orr, John S., 282
Osborn, Sir Danvers, 139–40
Osgood, Samuel, 185
Ottoman Turks, 14
Outcault, R. F., 449
Pachelbel, Charles Theodore, 129
Paisley Place, 220
Palace, The, 185
Panama Canal, 390
Panics, financial, 242–46, 343–45, 472, 528–30
Parasitopolis, 598
Parker, Admiral Peter, 158, 160
Parkhurst, Rev. Charles H., 424–30, 434
Parks, municipal, 202, 270–72, 551; see also under name of park
Park Theatre, 191, 194, 195, 219
Parliament, British, 141, 143, 149, 155
Parochial schools, 253–54
Pastor, Tony, 402
Pathopolis, 598
Patroon system, 28–29, 30, 31, 35, 55, 73
Paulding, James Kirke, 203
Pavonia Massacre (1643), 38, 44
Peach War, 65–67
Pearl Harbor, attack on, 556
Pearson’s Magazine, 480
Peers, Rosanna, 230–31
Peinovie, Lawrence, 218
Pelham Bay Park, 55
Pell, Thomas, 55
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 200, 201
Penn, Admiral William, 90
Pennington, Rev. James C. W., 286
Pennsylvania Railroad, 476–77
Pennsylvania Station, 476–77
Petition and Remonstrance of New Netherland (1649), 56
Phelan, James, 455
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 89, 118, 139, 152, 156, 180, 189, 193, 256
Philadelphia Ledger, 265
Philipse, Frederick, 120
Philipsen, Hendrick, 87
Phillips, Wendell, 236
Phyfe, Duncan, 179
Pickford, Mary, 511–12
Pierce, John, 206–07
Pine Street, 177
Pius VII, Pope, 216
Pius IX, Pope, 268
Platt, Thomas C., 423, 429, 452, 453
Plowman, Matthew, 94
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, 268
PM, 569
Pneumatic tubes, 339–40
Police force, 231, 232, 277–81, 306–07, 308, 311, 429–39, 459, 484–85
Police riot, 277–81
Political parties, 180, 183, 189, 195, 196, 281–82, 382, 536–39; see also under name of party
Polk, Frank, 499
Poole, Bill, 282
Population of New York City, 145, 158, 178, 180, 185, 197, 202, 214, 218, 251, 430, 453, 458, 594
Portsmouth, Duchess of, 92
Portugal and the Portuguese, 15, 20, 22, 42, 61
Post, Jehiel, 250
Postal service, 81
Post offices, 45
Potter, Charles T., 366
Potter, George, 282
Potter, Bishop Henry Codman, 392, 411
Potter, Horace, 343
Potter, Bishop Horatio, 411
Priem, Charles, 432
Printing House Square, 308
Prison ships, 172
Progress and Poverty (George), 381
Prospect Park, 163
Prostitutes, 131, 159, 171, 318, 425–26, 427–28, 432, 433, 460, 490
Protestant Episcopal Church, 178–79, 411–13
Protestants, 103, 111, 140, 252–54, 268; see also under name of church
Public School Society, 252, 253, 254
Puerto Ricans, 560, 579–80, 583–86
Pulitzer, Joseph, 388, 389, 442, 444, 449
Pulitzer Building, 408
Puritans, 46
Purroy, Henry D., 396
Quack (Negro slave), 132, 134, 135
Quackenbos, Walter, 153
Quarantine, 130
Quarantine riot, Staten Island, 282–83
Quartering Act (1765), 150, 151
Quedagh Merchant, 108
Queens, 53, 54–55, 92, 452, 453
Queesting, 116
Quill, Michael J., 583
Railroads, 259, 338, 340, 341–42, 476–77
Ralph, Julian, 396
Randall, John, Jr., 202
Randall, Captain Robert R., 194
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, 465
Rasoe, Burton, 519
Real estate, 79, 83, 101, 179, 195, 228, 242, 277, 458
Recessions, 317
Recife, Brazil, 61
Recruiting Officer, The, 119
Red Hook, New York, 53
Rehan, Ada, 402
Reid, Ed, 570
Reles, Abe “Kid Twist,” 567, 568, 576–77
Relief programs, 551–53
Religious sects, 89–90
Religious toleration, 80
Remington, Frederic, 442
Renwick, James, Jr., 272
Republican party, 282
Revere, Paul, 155
Revolutionary War, 157–75
Rhode Island, 59
Richard, Paul, 127
Richard, sloop, 206
Richmond, Duke of, 75
Richmond County, 75, 92, 277, 453
Richmond Dispatch, 296
Ridley & Company, E., 397
Rikers Island, 295
Riverside Drive, 341
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 465
Rockefeller, John D., 411
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 553
Roebling, Emily Warren, 373–74, 375
Roebling, John Augustus, 369–70, 372, 373
Roebling, Washington A., 373–75
Roelandsen, Adam, 27
Rogers, Hugo, 574
Romaine, Benjamin, 201
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 419, 422, 457, 500, 506, 510, 541–42, 543, 544, 547–48, 562, 568
Roosevelt, James, 228
Roosevelt, Nicholas, 113
Roosevelt, Theodore, 381, 382, 383, 434, 435–39, 443, 444, 446, 447, 457, 499, 506
Root, Elihu, 353
Rose, Aquila, 117
Rosenberg, Louis (Leftie Louie), 485
Rosenschweig, Jacob, 484–85
Rosenthal, Herman, 484–85
Rothstein, Arnold, 541
Round Table, 332
Ruark, Robert, 572
Ruser, Commodore Hans, 504–05
Russia and the Russians, 17, 536, 537, 538
Russwurm, John Brown, 235
Rutledge, Edward, 166
Rynders, Isaiah, 261, 263, 265, 267, 277
Sachs, Alexander, 562
Sackett, Richard, 118
Sage, Russell, 464
St. Denis Hotel, 358
St. Nicholas Hotel, 304, 307, 310, 323
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 216, 254, 272–73, 294, 360–61
St. Patrick’s Day parade, 268
St. Paul’s Chapel, 171, 188, 397
St. Peter’s Church, 178, 216, 272
Saint-Saëns, Charles Camille, 502
Salmagundi essays, 203
Sands, Gulielma Elmore, 192
Sandy Hook, 130, 159, 207, 505
Sanford, Maj. General Charles W., 262, 280, 302
Satterlee, Herbert L., 365
Sawyer, Charles Pike, 402
Schneider, Wolf, 598
Schneiderman, Rose, 492
Schuylkill River, 17
Schwab, Charles M., 533
Screvane, Paul R., 589
Seabury, Samuel, 542–44, 545–48, 550
Sears, Isaac, 153
Second Anglo-Dutch War, 68, 77–78
Seeley, Clinton Burton, 438
Seeley, Herbert Barnum, 438
Seneca Chief (canal packet), 227
Seneca Village, 362
Sengier, Edgar Édouard, 563–64
Settlers, arrival of, 23–40
Seventh Regiment, 262, 279–80, 313, 374, 454
Seventy-first Regiment, 447
Seventy-fourth Regiment, 313
Seventy-ninth Highlanders, 295, 296
Seven Years’ War, 143
Seward, William Henry, 252, 254, 288, 290, 319
Seymour, Horatio, 297–98, 299, 309, 310–11, 314, 315, 316
Shandley, Edward J., 333
Shannon, David A., 536
Shapiro, Jacob “Gurrah,” 553
Shaw, George Bernard, 490
Shay, Charles O., 396
Shea, John D. G., 387
Sherman, Irving, 574, 575, 576
Sherman, General William T., 319, 320, 324, 401
Sherwood, Russell T., 545–46
Shinplasters, 243
Shipbuilding, 29–30, 50, 79, 109, 117, 216, 243
Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,” 553, 568
Simmons, Edward H. H., 528
Simpson, Edmund, 219
Simpson, Sloan (Mrs. William O’Dwyer), 570
Sing Sing Prison, 245, 470, 485, 554
Sitting Bull, Chief, 480
Six, Bix, 401–02
Six Nations, 103
Skinners, 172
Skyscrapers, 405–08
Slaves, Negro, 33, 36–37, 50, 87, 112–14, 116, 123, 130–36, 190, 231, 234–38, 266–69, 282, 285–87
Sloughter, Colonel Henry, 97, 100, 101
Smit, Claes, 37
Smith, Alfred E., 372–73, 375, 376, 395, 445, 457, 493, 524–25, 548
Smith, F. Hopkinson, 388
Smith, Moe, 518
Smith, William, 120, 124, 125, 134
Smugglers and smuggling, 35, 46, 105, 142, 171
Society for Promoting Arts, 149
Society for the Prevention of Crime, 425, 429
Society for the Prevention of Vice, 429
Society for the Reformation of Youthful Delinquents, 229
Society of Friends, see Quakers
Society of Mayflower Descendants, 421
Society of the Cincinnati, 190, 199
Sons of Liberty, 146, 147, 150–51, 152, 153, 155, 319
South Carolina, 290–91
South River, see Delaware River
Southwest Battery, 211–12
Spain and the Spaniards, 14, 15, 61, 131, 136–37, 356, 441–49
Spanish-American War, 442, 444–49
Spencer, John C, 254
Spengler, Oswald, 598
Speyer, Albert, 344
Spring Street, 192
Spuyten Duyvil, 20
Staats-Zeitung, 281
Stalin, Joseph, 569
Stamford, Connecticut, 39
Stamp Act (1765), 142, 143, 144–49, 154
Stamp Act Congress, 145–46
Stand, Bert, 576
Stanton, Edwin M., 312
Staple rights, 32
Star Theatre, 402
State debts controversy, 188–89
State Department, U.S., 501, 507, 563
Staten Island, 16, 19, 29, 33, 36, 37, 55, 66, 75, 79, 92, 94, 161, 162, 165, 166, 190, 282–83, 295, 313, 356, 398, 419, 451, 452, 453, 563
State police force, 280
Statue of Liberty, 384–92, 559
Steamboats, 190–91, 204–05, 240, 244, 259, 468–71
Stearns, John L., 406–08
Steenmayer, Rev. Ferdinand, 178
Steenwyck, Cornelius, 78
Steinway Hall, 408
Steuben, Baron Friedrich von, 182
Steuer, Max D., 493
Stevens, Mrs. Paran, 379
Stevens, Samuel, 249
Stone, Charles Pomeroy, 388, 389
Storrs, Rev. Richard S., 391
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 268
Street lighting, 88, 178, 228, 363–64
Strikes, 318, 381, 490, 514, 569
Strong, George Templeton, 241, 248, 250, 258, 270, 279, 283, 294, 299, 301, 311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 318, 321, 325, 332, 345, 351, 411
Strong, William L., 434, 438, 454
Strunsky, Simeon, 595
Stuyvesant, Balthazar, 74
Stuyvesant, Judith Bayard, 42–43
Stuyvesant, Nicholas William, 74
Stuyvesant, Peter, 41–43, 44, 45–46, 47, 48, 50, 51–52, 54, 55, 56–60, 61, 62, 63–64, 65, 66–67, 68–70, 72, 75, 81, 139, 479
Submarines, 164–66, 501, 505, 558
Sullivan, Mark, 506
Sulzer, William, 418
Swartout, Samuel, 212
Sweden and the Swedes, 34–35, 49, 64
Sweeny, Peter Barr, 334, 342, 346, 355
Sweet, Edward, 516
Sweet’s Restaurant, 286
Swift, Jonathan, 111
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 484, 485, 504
Szilard, Leo, 562
Taber, Henry M., 429
Taft, William Howard, 495
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 21
Tallmadge, Frederick, 263, 277
Tammany Hall, 234, 248, 294, 298, 331, 335, 340, 347, 353, 382, 383, 417, 419, 424, 426, 429, 430, 434, 438, 452, 453, 459–60, 464, 480, 493, 503, 509, 524, 525, 526, 540–41, 544, 545, 548, 550, 554, 567, 568, 569, 574, 581, 582
Tammany Hall (Werner), 337
Tammany Society, 190, 196, 199, 201, 331
Tappan, Arthur, 235, 237–38, 244
Tappan, Lewis, 235, 238, 239, 244
Tariffs, 217
Taxes and taxation, 43, 45, 75, 91, 142, 144–49, 151–56, 552
Taylor, James, 346
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 410–11
Tea drinking, 115
Tea tax, 154–55
Telephone Company of New York, 359
Telephones, 358–60
Telephone wiretapping, 506, 569
Television, 559
Temperance movement, 248–49
Temple, Sir John, 182
Tenderloin district, 401, 427, 476
Tenth Regiment, 302
Terranova, Ciro, 541
Terry, Ellen, 402
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 596
Theaters, 119, 172, 191, 194, 195, 238–39, 402
Theatre Comique, 359
Theofel, John, 541
Third Anglo-Dutch War, 81–84
Third International, 536
Thomas, Evylyn, 461
Thomas, Norman, 536
Thompson, Jacob, 319, 320, 324
Thorn, Charlie, 248
Throgmorton, John, 55
Tiemann, Daniel F., 284
Tiffany’s, 295
Tiger (Block’s vessel), 18
Tilden, Samuel J., 351, 352, 353, 354, 450, 494
Tilden Library, 494
Times Square, 466, 472, 512, 564
Times Tower, 471
Tito, Marshal, 569
Tizard, Sir Henry, 563
Tobacco culture, 32, 33, 34, 52, 79
Tobey, Charles W., 575
Todd, Robert, 129
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 480
Tontine Coffee House, 195, 207
“Top Knot” Betty, 88
Tories, 159, 160, 166, 169, 171, 172, 173
Tornado, 190
Tower Building, 406–08
Townsend, Henry, 63
Toynbee, Arnold, 598
Tracy, Benjamin, 453
Trade unions, 180, 318, 381, 489–90, 494, 553
Traffic problems, 461–62
Traffic signals, electric, 462
Transportation, 258–59, 337–42, 451, 460–67
Triangle Waist Company fire, 490–94
Triborough Bridge, 532
Trinity Church, 109–10, 140, 169, 178–79, 190
Tunnels, river, 476–77
Turkus, Burton B., 568
Turnpikes, 223
Turtle, submarine, 164–66
Turtle Bay, 166
Twain, Mark, 337
Tweed, Richard, 329
Tweed, William Marcy (“Boss”), 304, 309, 310, 326, 327–57
Tweed, William Marcy, Jr., 355–56
Tweed Ring, 330–31, 333–35, 341, 342, 346–55
Twelve Men, the, 37–38
Twentieth century, opening of the, 456–67
Twenty-second Infantry Regiment, 505
Tyng, Rev. Stephen H., 295
U-boats, see Submarines
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 268
Underground Railroad, 267
Underground wires, 359–60, 366
Underhill, Captain John, 39–40, 59
Unemployment, 208, 243, 381, 500, 532, 551
Unemployment relief, 45
Union Ferry Company, 370
Union League Club, 304, 308, 311, 362, 387, 437
Union Square, 222, 296, 454, 537–39
United Labor party, 382
United States Hotel, 321
United States Steel Corporation, 457
Universal East India Company, 20–21
Upper Bay, 12, 13, 15–16, 20, 159, 194
Uranium ore, 563–64
Ury, John, 135–36
Utrecht, Treaty of (1713), 117
Valdemoro, Angel, 361
Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, 102
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 190, 195, 212, 240, 244, 259, 299, 318, 338, 340, 342
Vanderbilt, William Henry, 378, 380
Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K., 528
Van der Donck, Adriaen Cornelissen, 55, 56
Van Doren, Carl, 519, 533, 595
Van Ness, William P., 199, 200, 201
Van Nieuwenhuysen, Wilhelmus, 89–90
Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen, 29, 31
Van Schaick, William H., 469, 470
Van Tilburgh, Peter, 112
Van Twiller, Wouter, 31–33, 52
Van Werckhoven, Cornelis, 54
Van Wyck, Robert A., 453
Vaterland, S.S., 504–05
Vaux, Calvert, 272
Vendôme, Duke of, 13
Verhulst, Willem, 25
Verlett, Annake Stuyvesant Bayard, 63
Verlett, Nicholas, 43
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 11–13, 14–15, 16
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, 11, 162
Vesey, Rev. William, 109
Vice in New York City, 423–39
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 500
Virginia Resolves, 145
Vitale, Albert H., 541
Vizcaya, Spanish cruiser, 443
Volunteers of America, 274
Wagner, Robert F., 493, 500, 581
Wagner, Robert F., Jr., 493, 581–90, 591, 593, 594, 595
Waldman, Louis, 491
Waldo, Rhinelander, 483–84
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 413–15, 552
Walker, James J., 457, 523–27, 538, 540, 543, 544, 545–48, 549, 566
Walker, Stanley, 517
Walling, George W., 278–79
Wall Street, 59–60, 69, 109, 187, 189, 194; bombing of, 515–16; crash of 1929, 528–30
Walton, William, 117
Wanderer, slave ship, 286
Wappinger Confederacy, 18
Ward, Artemus, 320
War Department, U.S., 372, 443, 448
Ward’s Island, 32, 250, 329, 422, 506
Warnecke, William, 481
Washington, George, 156, 157–59, 160, 161, 162–65, 166–71, 173–75, 180, 183, 184–88, 189, 192, 195, 196
Washington, Martha, 158
Washington Building, 406
Waterman, Frank D., 525
Waterman, Henry, 270
Water supply, 115–16, 192, 245, 249–51, 459
Watson, Jimmy, 346–47
Waugh, Alec, 595
Webb, Captain William R., 325
Weehawken, New Jersey, 199
Weeks, Levi, 192
Weiner, David, 493
Welfare, public, 88
Welles, Gideon, 318
Wells, Henry, 460
Westchester County, 36, 40, 277, 451
Westervelt, J. J. V., 264, 279
West Indies, 22
Westminster, Treaty of (1674), 84
Whalen, Grover, 458, 529, 536, 537–39
White, E. B., 595
White, Pearl, 498
White Plains, Battle of, 170
Whitestone, 54
Whitman, Walt, 292, 393, 417, 596
Whitney, David J., 425
Wigs, 116
Wilder, W. W., 238
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 497–98
Wilkins, Roy, 585
Willett, Thomas, 58, 75–76, 84
William III and Mary II, of England, 93, 96, 107, 108; see also William of Orange
William IV, of England, 172
Williams, Alexander, 431–32, 437
Williamsburg, 452
Willson, Hugh B., 338
Wilmington, Delaware, 35
Wilmington, North Carolina, 15
Wilson, Woodrow, 462, 477, 486–88, 496, 497, 501, 503, 504, 506, 507, 508, 509, 514
Windmills, 28
Wise, Rabbi Stephen S., 492, 544
Wisner, George W., 237
Witches and witchcraft, 51, 76–77, 136
Wodehouse, P. G., 597
Women’s Trade Union League, 490
Wood, Fernando, 275, 276–81, 284, 285, 291, 294, 296, 297, 328
Wood, George, 76
Wood, Colonel Leonard, 444
Woods, Arthur, 499, 500, 505, 506
Wool, Maj. General John Ellis, 301, 307
Woolcott, Alexander, 528
Woolworth, Frank W., 495–96
Woolworth Building, 495–96
World War II, 555–56, 557–64, 582
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 596
Wright, James Hood, 365
Wright, “Poke,” 249
Wurster, Frederick W., 454
Wynn. Ed, 514
Yale University, 74
Yellow journalism, 449
Yonkers, New York, 37, 38, 55, 451
York, Duke of, 71, 74, 75, 77, 79, 84, 90, 91, 92
Yorkville, 258
Young Men’s Republican Union of New York City, 288
Zenger, John Peter, 121, 122–28; trial of, 124–27
Zito, Joseph, 491