Burton, Mary, 131, 132–33, 134, 135, 136, 137
Bush, Irving T., 527
Bushnell, David, 164–65
Bushwick, 53, 452
Butler, General Benjamin F., 319
Butterfield, Daniel, 343
Byrnes, Thomas F., 434, 437
Cable cars, 463
Cabot, John, 13, 30
Cady, J. Cleveland, 378–79
Cameron, Colonel James, 295
Campbell, Allan, 259
Camp Black, 446
Canada, 104, 142, 208, 319
Canarsie Indians, 19, 53
Canvas Town, 171, 178
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, Andrew, 409, 410–11
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
Castle Williams, 211–12, 325
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 I, of Spain, 14, 15
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
Cherry Street, 185, 248, 329
Chickering Hall, 408
Child, Lydia Maria, 238
Chinatown, 426
Chinese, the, 420–21, 473
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
Clarke, George, 130, 132
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, Christopher, 13, 14
Columbus Day celebration (1792), 190
Columbus Day parade, 458
Columbus Park, 231
Colve, Anthony, 83, 84–85
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
Coolidge, Calvin, 522, 527
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, Edward, 421, 472–73
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
Cowboys, 172, 359
Cram, Ralph Adams, 413
Crain, Thomas, 493, 542, 543
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
Cromwell, Oliver, 59, 60, 78
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
Curaçao, 42, 48, 61
Curry, John F., 540, 541, 549
Curtis, George William, 346
Cuyler, Lieut. Henry, 95
Daily Worker, 537
Daly, Augustin, 402
Damrosch, Leopold, 409
Damrosch, Walter, 409, 410
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
Dos Passos, John, 487, 535
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
Duane, James, 177, 181, 182
Duffus, R. L., 595
Duke’s Laws, 76, 87
Dunderberg, ironclad vessel, 313
Dunham, Warden, 355
Dunn, Elias B., 393–94
Dunning, John R., 561
Durant, Will, 389, 552
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
Eagle, H.M.S., 25, 165
Earthquakes, 45, 176
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
Edson, Franklin, 374, 375
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
Eight Men, the, 39, 40
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 Canal, 223–28, 375
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
Fermi, Enrico, 561, 562, 563
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
Fifth Avenue Hotel, 399, 401
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
Fitch, John, 190–91, 204
Five Nations, 103–04
Five Points district, 231–33, 240, 255, 261, 278, 288, 300
Flannagan, Edward, 251
Flatbush, 53, 452
Flatlands, 452
Flegenheimer, Arthur (Dutch Schultz), 553, 554
Fletcher, Benjamin, 101, 104–05, 106, 107
Flour and bread industry, 88–89, 101
Flushing, 54, 63–64, 144
Flushing Meadow, 554, 586
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
Forrest, Edwin, 239, 260–62
Fort Amsterdam, 27, 31, 33, 38, 39, 72
Fort Casimir, 64
Fort Christina, 35, 64
Fort Good Hope, 35
Fort Greene, 213
Fort James, 72, 82, 91, 94
Fort LaFayette, 324
Fort Lee, 170, 171
Fort Nassau, 18, 27
Fort Orange, 24, 27, 75
Fort Sumter, 292, 293, 294
Fort Wadsworth, 55
Fort Washington, 170–71
Fortune (Christiaensen’s vessel), 17–18
Forty Thieves, 231, 329
Foster, William Z., 537–39
Four Hundred, The, 413
Fourteenth Street, 363
Fowler, Gene, 524, 526
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
Frankfurter, Felix, 548, 591
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
Gallatin, Albert, 209, 210
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
Garvey, Marcus, 522, 535
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, Cass, 495, 496
Gilbert, Douglas, 526
Gilligan, Thomas, 587, 588
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
Goff, John W., 430, 431
Golden Hill, Battle of, 152–54
Gold Exchange, 343–45
Goldstein, Jonah, 569
Gómez, Esteban, 15, 16
Gompers, Samuel, 381
Goodwin, Nat C., 403
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