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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
Grade Mansion, 559–60, 577
Graham, Billy, 595
Gramercy Park, 177, 314
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
Gravesend, 53, 452
Gray, Sidney H., 304, 308
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
Greenpoint, 53, 452
Greenwich, Connecticut, 40
Greenwich Village, 52, 118, 130, 194, 202, 220, 519–20
Grey, Sir Edward, 507
Griswold, J. N. A., 378
Grogshops, 218, 273
Gross, Harry, 570, 572–73
Groves, Brig. General Leslie R., 564
Guiana, 22, 78
Guidebook of New York, first, 203
Gunther, Charles Godfrey, 319
Gunther, John, 563
Hackensack, New Jersey, 133, 171
Hackett, James H., 260, 262
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
Hanover Square, 36, 235
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, Fletcher, 346, 351
Harper, James, 256, 277
Harper’s Weekly, 273, 345–46, 350, 351, 464
Harrigan, Edward “Ned,” 359
Harris, Charles K., 446
Harris, George, 521
Harris, Isaac, 490, 493
Harrison, Father Henry, 91
Harrison, Katherine, 77
Hart, Eli, 244–45
Hart, Peter, 293
Hart, Tony, 359
Hartford, Connecticut, 35, 58
Hartford River, 24
Hartford Treaty, 64, 67
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, George, 440, 441
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 Gate, 18, 212
Hell’s Kitchen, 401
Hempstead, Long Island, 73–74, 76
Henry, Patrick, 145
Hesse-Cassel, Landgrave of, 161
Hessians, 161, 162, 167, 177
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
Horse racing, 73–74, 116
Hosack, Dr. David, 200, 201
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, Henry, 15–17, 21
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
Hughson, Sarah, 133, 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
Imports, 216–17, 228
Impressment, 205, 213
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
Indian wars, 38–40, 44, 65–67
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
Iron Grays, 212, 213
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
Izard, Ralph, 186, 187
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, 180, 181, 182
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
Jesuits, 103, 178, 248
Jews, 60–62, 102, 109, 111, 257, 417–18, 420, 436, 458
Jogues, Father Isaac, 60
Johnson, Lyndon B., 586, 589
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 141
Jolson, Al, 514
Jones, George, 346, 350, 351
Juet, Robert, 15, 18
Jumel Mansion, 166–67
Kalbfleisch, Martin, 372, 375
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
Kennedy, Michael J., 569, 576
Kennedy, Robert, 322–23, 324
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
Kings County, 92, 277
Kingsland, Ambroise, C., 271
Kingsley, William C., 371, 372
Kingston, New York, 67
Kip’s Bay, 166, 167
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
Kuyter, 44–45, 56
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
Lamont, Thomas W., 501, 529
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
Lehman, Herbert H., 553, 566
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
Lexow Committee, 430–34, 437
Liberator, 237, 266
Liberia, 234, 522
Liberty Island, 80
Liberty magazine, 569
Liberty tree, 150–51, 153
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 Germany, 469, 470
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
Louis XVI, of France, 94, 185
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
Macy’s, 397, 400
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 Company, 192, 249
Manhattan Island, 92, 451, 453; discovery of, 11–22; Dutch in, see Holland and th
e 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, Groucho, 528, 530, 533
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
McDonald, Miles F, 571, 575
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
Melville, Herman, 261, 267–68
Melyn, 44–45, 56
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
Minor, Robert, 537–38, 539
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