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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, Lewis, 120, 121
Morris, Newbold, 569, 570
Morris, Colonel Roger, 166
Morrisania, 80
Morse, Samuel F. B., 244, 248
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
Murder, Inc., 567, 568
Murphy, Henry C., 371–72, 451
Murphy, Jay Edwin, 502
Murray, Joseph, 140
Murray, Max, 597
Murray, Robert, 168
Murray Hill, 167, 168
Murtagh, John M., 580
Musical concerts, 129
Music Hall Company, 409
Mussolini, Benito, 526
Myers, Gustavus, 218
Napoleon Bonaparte, 205, 213
Narrows, the, 12, 16, 162, 194, 208, 505
Nast, Thomas, 346, 348, 350, 351, 356
Nathan, George Jean, 597
Nation, 350, 352
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
Neau, Elias, 112, 113
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
Nevins, Allan, 252, 381, 450
New Amsterdam, 26–28, 36, 48–52, 56
New Castle, Delaware, 64
New Haven, Connecticut, 39
New Jersey, 12, 29, 398
New Lots, 452
New Netherland, 17, 18, 21–22, 24, 31, 35, 41, 43, 83
New Netherland (vessel), 23, 29–30
New Orange, 83, 84–85
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 Utrecht, 54, 452
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 York County, 92, 277
New York Daily News, 297, 298
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, William, 260, 262
Niblo’s Garden, 402
Nichols, Lieut. Colonel K. D., 564
Nicholson, Captain Francis, 92, 93, 94, 95–96, 97
Nicoll, De Lancy, 424, 429
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
Northwest Passage, 12, 14, 16
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 Brewery, 232, 251
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
Opium dens, 426, 433
Orange Tree, 25
Oratorio Society, 409, 410
O’Rourke, Matthew J., 347–48
Orr, John S., 282
Osborn, Sir Danvers, 139–40
Osgood, Samuel, 185
Otis, James, 145, 187, 188
Ottoman Turks, 14
Outcault, R. F., 449
Paauw, Michael, 29, 35, 55
Pachelbel, Charles Theodore, 129
Paisley Place, 220
Palace, The, 185
Palatines, 111–12, 122
Palisades, 16, 117
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 514, 515
Panama Canal, 390
Panics, fi
nancial, 242–46, 343–45, 472, 528–30
Parasitopolis, 598
Park Avenue, 340, 527
Parker, Andrew D., 434, 435
Parker, Admiral Peter, 158, 160
Parkhurst, Rev. Charles H., 424–30, 434
Park Row, 116, 308
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
Pearl Street, 48, 177, 179
Pearson’s Magazine, 480
Peers, Rosanna, 230–31
Pegram, George B., 562, 563
Peinovie, Lawrence, 218
Pelham Bay Park, 55
Pell, Thomas, 55
Pendleton, Nathaniel, 200, 201
Penn, William, 90, 91
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
Pilgrims, 23, 47
Pine Street, 177
Pirates, 28, 105–09
Pitt, William, 144, 149
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
Policy games, 534, 554
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
Powell, James, 587, 588
Price, Stephen, 191, 219
Priem, Charles, 432
Printing, 79, 104–05, 117–18
Printing House Square, 308
Prison ships, 172
Privateers, 105, 106, 213
Progress and Poverty (George), 381
Prohibition, 516–19, 524, 553
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
Quakers, 62–64, 80, 90
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
Racketeers, 553–54, 566–69
Railroads, 259, 338, 340, 341–42, 476–77
Ralph, Julian, 396
Randall, John, Jr., 202
Randall, Captain Robert R., 194
Randall Plan, 202–03, 270
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company, 465
Rasoe, Burton, 519
Raymond, Henry J., 287, 308
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
Riis, Jacob A., 435, 436, 438
Rikers Island, 295
Riverside Drive, 341
Roadhouses and inns, 116, 194
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 465
Rockefeller, John D., 411
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 553
Rockefeller Center, 553, 557
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
Romme, John, 133, 135
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
Rough Riders, 444, 446, 447
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. Martin Island, 42, 68
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
Sandburg, Carl, 304–05, 316
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
Sc
revane, Paul R., 589
Seabury, Samuel, 542–44, 545–48, 550
Sears, Isaac, 153
Secession, 198, 290–91
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
Slums, 231–33, 300, 459
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