by Sam Roberts
Luna Park, 198
RMS Lusitania, 105, 160
Lyceum Theater
balconies of, 156
criticism of, 152, 155
murals of, 155–56
productions of, 157–60
views of, 151, 160
Lyons, James J., 231–36, 239
Lyric Theater, 154
McCarthy, Justin Huntly, 151–52
McClellan, George B., Jr., 110–11, 113, 117–18, 154
McComb, John, Jr., 36, 37–40, 43, 67
McKim, Mead & White, 43, 55, 181
Macomb’s Dam, 89
Macy’s department store, 71, 145, 257–58
Madison Square, 142, 143, 147, 153, 223
Madison Square Garden, 115
Madison Square Park, 142, 143, 147, 149
Mangin, Joseph François, 36, 39–40, 80
Manhattan
elevated lines in, 111, 113, 115
office space in, 223
population of, 77, 88, 91, 111, 113
railroad accident of 1902, 180
rent-controlled apartments and, 252
Edgar Saltus on, 149–50
Silicon Alley, 268
street grid of, 76, 77–78, 80–81, 86, 104
tenements in, 87, 208
water supply of, 83–91
Manhattan Beach, 199, 200, 206
Manhattan Company, 85–86
Manhattanhenge, 75
Manhattan Lake, 88
Marble Palace
design of, 68–70
opening day of, 70–71
Alexander Turney Stewart and, 64–74
as Sun Building, 73
views of, 64, 74
Marcus, Bernard, 211–12, 214, 216, 218
Marcus, Joseph S., 208–11, 250
Mayflower Hotel, 259
Melville, Herman, 27, 93–94, 102–3, 108–9
Merchant’s Exchange, 27–28
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 155, 223, 235
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 73, 163, 272
Metropolitan Opera House, 154
Minsky, Billy, 191, 195
Moore, Clement Clarke, 78, 80
Morgan, Anne, 103, 139
Morgan, J. P., 172–73, 217
Morgan, J. P., Jr., 217
Morgenthau, Henry, 145, 170–71
Morningside Heights, 253
Morris, Gouverneur, 169–70, 231
Morris, Lewis, 169, 229–31, 233, 239
Morrisania, South Bronx, 169–70, 229–31
Moses, Robert, 121, 123, 175, 202, 205, 236
Mumford, Lewis, 78, 226–27, 246
Municipal Building, 42–43, 55
Munsey, Frank, 73, 146
Murray Hill, 91, 221–22
Museum of the City of New York, 55
Nast, Thomas, 54, 58, 60
National Academy of Design, 166
National Actors’ Theater, 159
National Register of Historic Places, 101, 106
New Amsterdam, 7–12, 33, 79, 84, 149
New Amsterdam Theater, 155
New Burlesque Theater, 190, 190–91
New Deal, 4, 140, 228, 242, 243, 246
New Netherland, 76, 79
New Netherland Council, 8, 10, 11
New York Aquarium, 205
New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 200
New York Central Railroad, 181, 182
New York City
British occupation of, 18, 24, 79, 85, 87, 222
capacity for reinvention, 271
as City of Angles, 76
as cultural capital, 161
denial of home rule, 42
diversity of, 7–12, 20
economy of, 46, 66
as gateway for immigrants, 25
harbor of, 16, 25, 102, 106, 107, 108
housing regulations in, 242–43
manufacturing employment in, 46, 51–52, 107, 132–33
maritime trade and, 103
as nation’s first capital, 23–24, 34, 43, 152, 230, 239
overdevelopment of, 76, 77, 78, 86
perspective on cityscape, 1–2
population of, 88, 92
sugar trade in, 46–47
Theater District in, 152–55
Water Tunnel No. 3, 92
New York City Housing Authority, 243, 244, 245–46, 248–49
New York City Pavilion, 236
New York Clearinghouse banks, 214, 216
New York County Board of Supervisors, 57–58
New York County Court House. See Tweed Courthouse
New York Custom House, 23, 25, 26–27, 94, 95
New York Daily Advertiser, 34, 66
New Yorker, 63, 94, 231
New York Herald, 66, 71, 147
New-York Historical Society, 143, 167
New York Journal, 17, 85
New York Public Library, 87
New York Stock Exchange, 30, 173, 174
New York Sun, 73, 98
New York Times
on American Bank Note Plant, 171
on Apollo Theater, 195–96
on Armory Show, 166–167
on Chester A. Arthur, 97–98, 99
on Bank of United States, 213
on Bossert Hotel, 122
on Bronx, 235
on City Hall, 42
on Coney Island Boardwalk, 198
on Domino Sugar Refinery, 49–50
on Empire State Building, 224
on Federal Hall, 23, 29
on First Houses, 246
on Flatiron Building, 144
on Grand Central Terminal, 183–84
on Harlem, 189–90
headquarters of, 154, 172, 179
on High Bridge, 90
on IRT Powerhouse, 111, 115
on Lyceum Theater, 152, 155
on Walter O’Malley, 128
on Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, 162, 163, 164
on Alexander Turney Stewart, 64–65, 71
on Tweed Courthouse, 57, 58–59, 60
on United Nations, 236–37, 238
New York Times Magazine, 235
New York Tribune, 41, 48–49, 148, 158, 165, 264
New York University, 132, 133, 134
New York World’s Fair (1939), 29
Niblo’s Garden, 153
O’Malley, Walter, 119, 120, 128, 129
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 88, 183
134 East Sixtieth Street
Jean Herman’s brownstone apartment at, 252–54, 256–57, 260, 270
original tenants of, 254–55
views of, 251, 259
123 Lexington Ave, Manhattan
Chester A. Arthur’s ownership of, 94–95, 97–100
subsequent owners of, 100–101
views of, 93, 101
Park Row Building, 145
Parsons, William Barclay, 112, 113
Passikoff, Alexander G., A Façade of Buildings, 271
Payton, Philip A., Jr., 188–89, 194
Pennsylvania Hotel, 235
Pennsylvania Station, 179, 182–86, 188
Perkins, Frances, 139, 140
Philadelphia, 24, 34, 35–36, 230–31, 237, 239
Pier A
clock in honor World War I servicemen, 105–6
construction of, 104–5
decline of, 103, 108
Harbor House, 107, 109
preservation of, 106–7
views of, 102, 109
Plaza Hotel, 145
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 108
Porter, Cole, 203, 212–13
Port of New York, 27, 46, 72, 107–9
Post, Langdon, 245–46, 249
Printers Park, 172
progressivism, 54, 166
Prospect Park, 121
Public Bank of New York, 209
public housing projects, 242–50
Quakers, 6–7, 8, 9, 10–12, 34, 208, 230, 231
Queens, 170, 232, 272
Quigg, H. D., 234–35
Quo Tai-chi, 237
Rand, Ayn, 2
Raskob, John Jakob, 220–21, 222, 223, 225–27
Ratliff, Ben, 195–96
real estate
African Americans and, 188–89
development of, 77, 78, 170, 182, 223, 252–53, 260, 271
public versus private development, 163–64, 183
recycling of, 4, 153
Reconstruction, 94, 96, 189
Reed & Stem, 181, 183
Reeves, Thomas C., Gentleman Boss, 95
Reid, Daniel G., 105–6
religious diversity, 7–14
rent-controlled apartments, 251–54, 256–60
Republican Party, 95–96, 97, 99
Rickey, Branch, 120, 122–23, 128
Riverbank State Park, 109
Robinson, Jackie, 122–23, 127, 129, 194
Rockefeller, John D., 157
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 237
Rockefeller, Nelson, 120, 236–37
Rockefeller Center, 179, 232, 258
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 245, 246, 249
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 140, 228, 245
Roosevelt, Robert, 57
Roosevelt, Theodore, 49, 166
Root, Elihu, 98, 99
Rozenholc, David, 258–59
Ryan, Mary P., 39–40
St. George Hotel, 122
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, 73, 81
St. Paul’s Chapel
building of, 15–17
Glory altarpiece, 17, 18
graveyard of, 20–21
Montgomery monument in, 17
Trinity Church fire and, 18–19, 20
views of, 15, 21
Saltus, Edgar, 149–50
Sanders, James, 148, 224
San Juan Hill, 116, 188
Schiffman, Frank, 191–92, 194
Sea Gate, 199
Sea Lion Park, 198
Seamen’s Church Institute, 262
Seamon, Harry, 190–91
Seixas, Moise Mendes, 20
Selfridge, Harry Gordon, 72
Selwyn Theater, 190
September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, 20, 29, 165, 227
Siddons, Sarah, 155–56
Siegel-Cooper, 257–58
Sims, Howard “Sandman,” 193, 195
Singer, Saul, 211–12
Sing Sing, 134, 218
60 Hudson Street
design of, 262–63, 265
MCI headquarters at, 266
retrofitting of, 267, 268
views of, 261, 269
Western Union headquarters at, 262–63, 265, 266
Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory
Armory Show of 1913, 165–68
construction of, 161–62, 164
September 11, 2001, terrorist attack and, 165
site for, 163–64
views of, 161, 168
slaves and slavery, 34, 35, 40, 95
Smith, Alfred E., 43, 139, 140, 200, 220–21, 224, 226, 228
South, 25, 47, 94, 96, 189
Sprague, Frank, 112, 113, 180
Stamp Act Congress (1765), 23
Staten Island, 124
Statue of Liberty, 105, 107, 149, 163, 226
Stern, Robert A. M., 5, 117, 172, 183, 224, 263, 270
Steuer, Max, 209–10, 214–15
Stewart, Alexander Turney, 64–74
Stieglitz, Alfred, 141–42, 149, 150
stock market crash of 1929, 212, 221
Stuyvesant, Peter, 7–12, 46, 78–79, 81, 84
Stuyvesant, Petrus, III, 79, 80, 81
Stuyvesant Street, 75–76, 79, 81–82. See also 21 Stuyvesant Street
subway service
in Bronx, 170, 208, 236, 255
in Brooklyn, 113, 170
to Coney Island Boardwalk, 200
construction of, 110–13
electrification of, 111–15, 117–18
Sukeforth, Clyde, 122, 123
Sullivan, Louis, 2, 3
Sullivan, Robert, 30–31
Sun Building, 73
Taconic Investment Partners, 177
Tammany Hall, 42, 58–60, 72, 139, 144, 233, 272
Tea Water Pump, 84
telegraph, 263–66, 268
Tenderloin, 154, 188
tenements, 87, 135, 179, 188, 208, 243–44, 249–50
Tilden, Samuel J., 96
Tilden Trust, 42
Tilyou, George C., 198, 200, 204
Times Square, 154, 223
Times Tower, 145
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 78
Tompkins Market Armory, 162
Triangle Waist Company, 136–40, 209
TriBeCa, 133, 262
Triborough Bridge, 112
Trinity Church, 15, 16, 18–19, 20, 47, 70, 243
Tweed, William Magear “Boss,” 53–55, 56, 57–59, 60, 63, 72
Tweed Courthouse
cast-iron interior space of, 56, 60, 61
construction of, 56, 59, 60–61
cornerstone-laying ceremony of, 56, 57
cost of, 57–60, 61, 62
criticism of, 61–62, 63
as legacy of “Boss” Tweed, 53–55, 59, 63
restoration of, 62–63
views of, 53, 62
Tweed Ring, 54–55, 58, 59–60
21 Stuyvesant Street
as official city landmark, 75–76
as Stuyvesant-Fish house, 81–82
as town house, 75–76, 79
views of, 75, 82
United Cigar Store, 147, 257, 258
United Nations Security Council, 4, 232–33, 234, 235–40
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 36
U.S. Constitution, 7, 13, 23, 29
U.S. Customs House, 170
U.S. Supreme Court, 43–44, 124, 183, 242
Urquhart, Brian, 238–39
Van Alen, William, 224, 225
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 72, 103
Verizon, 268
Wagner, Robert F., 139, 140
Waldorf-Astoria, 222, 225, 232
Walker, Ralph, 262, 263
War of 1812, 37, 39
Warren, Whitney, 181, 185–86
Washington, D.C., 24, 230
Washington, George
on Empire State, 226
inauguration at Federal Hall, 19, 23, 24, 29, 30–31, 234
St. Paul’s Chapel and, 15
as theatergoer, 152
Washington Hall, 67
Washington Parade Ground, 132
Washington Square Park, 134
Wells, H. G., 149, 150
Wenger, Beth S., 210–11
Werner, Morris Robert, 61–62
Western Union, 261–66, 269
Whalen, Grover, 234, 236
White, Norval, 55–56
White, Stanford, 2, 115, 134
Whitman, Walt, 103, 109, 127
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 253
Wilde, Oscar, 159, 269
Wilgus, William, 113, 180–81, 182, 183
Willensky, Elliot, 55–56, 129
Williams, Roger, 7, 14
Witten, George, 100–101
Wood, Fernando, 41–42, 56
Woolworth Building, 162, 170, 223, 272
Works Progress Administration, 243, 246
World Trade Center, 228
World Trade Center towers, 20, 29, 106, 227
World War I, 28, 105–6, 114
World War II, 106, 122
Wray, Fay, 228
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 3
Wright, Wilbur, 105
Zeckendorf, William, 237
Zeckendorf Development, 259
Zukor, Adolph, 157–58
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Sam Roberts has covered New York for fifty years, most recently as the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times. He hosts The New York Times Close Up cable television program, which he inaugurated in 1992, and the podcast Only in New York, anthologized in a book of the same name. He is the author of A History of New
York in 101 Objects, Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America, and The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Atom Spy Case, among others. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Vanity Fair, and New York. He was born in Brooklyn and lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
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