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INDEX
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Abbey’s Park Theatre, 146
abolitionists, 116, 277, 286–87
Abraham Davis’s tavern, 66
Abraham de la Montagne’s tavern, 16
Academy of Arts and Letters, 358
Academy of Music, 119, 120–21, 123, 125
Metropolitan Opera House vs., 196–97
Acosta, Rita Hernandez de Alba, 232
“Act for the Laying out Regulateing Clearing and preserving Publick Comon highways thro’out this Colony, An,” 412
Actors’ Equity Association strike, 210
Adams, Maude, 208
Adelphi Hotel, 38
advertising, 123, 207
electric billboards, 147, 177–81
Afara; or, the Belles of Broadway, 27
Alamac Rexall Drugs, 263, 265
Albany, N.Y., 109, 123, 314–16, 419
Albany Post Road, 419
alcohol abuse:
of Poe, 241–42, 245–46
Prohibition and, 210–13
violence and, 78–79
Alexander Macomb mansion, 22
All About New York: An Intimate Guide (R. James), 354–55
Ambassador Bridge, 362
Ameno, Anthony, 290
“American Apollonicon,” 45
American Citizen, 371
American Civic Association, 180
American Communist Party, 131
American Fur Company, 184
American Geographical Society, 338
Americanism, 84, 85
American League, 349
American Museum, 51, 70, 122, 125
fire at, 48–50, 49
sensational exhibits at, 44–45, 47–48, 72, 431
American Mutual, 39
American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens), 31
American Numismatic Society, 338
American Phrenological Journal, 138, 142
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 192, 321, 322, 377, 399
American Surety Building, 11, 156, 194
Amity Street (later Third Street), 245
Ammann, Othmar, 361–64, 367
Ammerman, Fred, 364
Amos Street, 81
Amsterdam (Tenth) Avenue, 234, 252, 277, 282, 300, 306
Anarchist Exclusion Act (1903), 128
anarchists, anarchy, 69–70, 127–29, 132, 442
Anderson, Agnes, 208
Anderson, Robert, 113–14, 117
Anderson, William, 412–13
Anne, queen of England, 15
Ann Street, 45, 48–49, 51, 244
Ansonia Holding Corporation, 233
Ansonia Hotel, xvi, 229–33, 230, 234, 257, 453
Anthony, Edward, 114
Anthony (Worth) Street, 270
anti-Semitism, 178, 260, 355–56
apartment buildings, 288, 298, 321, 322, 338, 349, 352, 365, 373
largest, 258
West Side transformed by, 249, 256–58, 261, 286, 384
apartment hotels, 229–33, 256–57
Apollo Rooms, 73
Apollo Theatre, 210–11
Apthorp, Charles Ward, mansion of, 222, 245–48, 248, 258
Apthorp Apartments, xiv, 258
archeological digs, 409–10
Archibald Kennedy mansion, 8, 15–17, 18, 21, 22, 39, 419
Architectural Record, 157
architecture:
Beaux-Arts, 338
Belle Époque, 229
Federal, 23, 108
Georgian, 15–16, 23, 246
Gothic Revival, 12, 40–41, 103–5, 108, 145, 201, 288–89, 309
Greek Revival, 85, 108, 111
of housing projects, 303–5
Italianate, 43, 87, 88, 140, 145, 396
Modernist, 226, 228, 303–4
Moorish Revival, 48, 195–96
Neoclassical, 155, 279–82, 316
opulent and ostentatious, 377–79, 396, 399
Queen Anne, 9, 155
Renaissance Revival, 189, 191, 192
for retail establishments, 86–89, 140, 176
Romanesque, 155, 196, 320
for skyscrapers, 11–12
Victorian, 337
see also specific architects and firms
Architecture d’aujourd’hui, L’, 295
Archtectural Iron Works, 86
arc lamps, 163–66, 166, 167, 282
Arden, Rachel, 98–99
Arnold, Constable & Company (“Constable’s”), 140–43, 144, 164
Arnold, Dorothy, 210
Arnstein, Richard and Charlotte, 356
Aronson, Rudolph, 195–96
Arthur, Chester A., 123
Art Street, 68, 97
Art Students League, 387
Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 185–86, 197
Astor, John Jacob, 23–24, 29, 66–67, 101, 184–85, 187, 190, 330
Astor, John Jacob, III, 185, 196
Astor, John Jacob “Jack,” IV, 185–89, 185, 193–94, 330
Astor, Mary, 186
Astor, Sarah Todd, 101
Astor, Vincent, 381
Astor, Waldorf, 186
Astor, William Backhouse, 86, 184–85
Astor, William Backhouse, Jr., 185
Astor, William Waldorf “Willie,” 185–89, 185, 192–94, 258
Astor family, 184–86, 218, 2
52, 257–58, 330, 375, 433, 449
Astor House hotel, 29, 39, 70, 114, 188
Astor Library, 140
Astor Place, 66, 70
Astor Theatre, 198
Atlantic Cable, 4–5, 5, 9, 10
Atlantic Monthly, 415
“Atlantic Telegraph Polka,” 5
A. T. Stewart & Company:
“Iron Palace” of, 87, 139–41
“Marble Palace” of, 42–43, 56, 85, 87, 137
Audubon, John James, 331–39, 333
Audubon, John Woodhouse, 332, 335, 337–38
Audubon, Lucy Bakewell, 331–32, 334–35, 337, 338
Audubon, Victor, 332, 335, 338
Audubon Avenue, 355
Audubon Park, 337–38, 345, 396
Audubon Society, 337
Audubon Terrace, 338
Audubon Theatre and Ballroom, 354, 467
Auliffe, Mme de’ (apocryphal), 236–37
Automobile Row, 217, 287
Ayala, Anna, 307
Babies Hospital, 353
Badger, Daniel D., 86–88
Baker, Benjamin A., 70
Baker, George F., Jr., 321
Baker, Lewis, 81–82
Ball, Black & Company, 87
Baltimore, Md., 67, 246
Barclay Street, 21, 276
Barnard, Edna Monroe, 387
Barnard, George Grey, 386–90, 389
Barnard College, 282, 296, 300, 306, 460
Barnard Court apartments, 458
Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 45–51, 46, 70, 72, 125, 146, 165, 193, 202, 431
see also American Museum
Barnum’s and Van Amburgh’s American Museum & Menagerie Company, 50
Barrymore, Ethel, 208, 211
baseball, baseball teams, 123, 144, 231, 263, 285, 287, 335, 349–53
Bates, Blanche, 200, 208
Battery, 3, 4, 10, 20–22, 26, 37–38, 412
Bayard, Nicholas (Samuel’s father), 65
Bayard, Nicholas (Samuel’s son), 66
Bayard, Samuel, estate of, 65–67, 162
Bayard’s Mount, 65–66
Bayonne Bridge, 364
Beach, Alfred Ely, 57–58, 188
Beach, Moses Yale, 242
Beach Pneumatic Railway, 57–58, 58
Beacon, N.Y., 419
Beacon Theatre, 263
Beaux-Arts Grill, 211
Beecher, Henry Ward, 286
Beechwood, 187
Beekman family, 66
Belasco, David, 198–203, 199, 208–9
Belasco Theatre, 177, 199–202
Belle of the Union tavern, 80
Bellow, Saul, 230
Belnord apartments, 258
Benedetto, Josephine, 407
Benedetto, Vincenzo and Mary:
children of, 405, 407
farm of, 405–7, 406, 473
Ben Hur, sky-sign for, 180
Ben-Hur apartments, 257
Bennett, James Gordon, 242, 334, 345, 381
Bennett Avenue, 373
Berkman, Alexander, 127–30, 132, 442
Bernstein, Adina, 356
Berry & Trenholm real estate, 257
Bessemer, Henry, 8
Bethel, Conn., 45
B. F. Palmer & Company, 116
Bijur, Nathan, 383–84
billboards, 147
electric, 177–81, 203
Billings, Albert Merritt, 374
Billings, Blanche, 375, 378, 386
Billings, Cornelius Kingsley Garrison “Ben,” 374–79, 386
estate of, see Fort Tryon Hall
horseback dinner of, 376, 377
Molenaor’s claim to property of, 380–85
Billings, Pauline and Albert, 378
Bird, Isabella Lucy, 51, 78, 115–16
Bird Bros. marble yard, 104
Birds of America, The (Audubon), 332–34, 336
Bisco, John, 245
Bixby, Francis M., 273–74
blackface, 45, 122, 199
Black Lives Matter, 133
blacks, 119, 296, 298, 306
bias and discrimination against, 29, 168, 224–26, 228, 235, 355
criminal scapegoating of, 170
in Harlem, 261
northern migration of, 224
poverty of, 30–31
rediscovered burial ground of, 65
stereotypes of, 116
on West Side, 224, 262
see also slavery, slaves
Blackwell & McFarlan’s Union Air Furnace, 66
Blackwell’s Island (later Roosevelt Island), 128
Blaine, James G., 177
Bleecker family, 66, 82
Bleecker Street, 5, 382
Bloomingdale, 218, 270
Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, 271–75, 271, 277
Bloomingdale Dutch Reformed Church, 235–36
Bloomingdale Road, 144, 218–20, 224, 234–37, 237, 242–43, 246–47, 249, 269–75, 298, 298, 313–16, 318, 412–13
gradual disappearance of, 258, 269–70, 324
surviving fragments of, 308, 313, 324, 458
Bloomingdale Square, 260
Bloomingdale stage, 244
B. L. Solomon & Sons, 140
BMT-Broadway Line, 58
Board of Health, 233
Bogardus, James, 86
Bolton, Guy, 409
Bolton, Reginald Pelham, 409–10, 412–14
Bond Street, 35, 108
Book of Fruits (Manning), 99
Booth Theatre, 208
bootleggers, 210
Boston, Mass., 17–18, 41, 66, 67, 86, 375, 387
Boston Gazette, 24
Boston Post Road, 144, 412, 474
Boston Public Library, 278
Boston Red Sox, 231
Boulevard (Grand Boulevard), 217–23, 224, 246, 251–52, 260, 272, 274, 308, 313, 328, 346, 368
name changed to Broadway, 253
Bourget, Paul, 10–12
Bowery, 3, 4, 32, 70, 72, 78, 104, 108–9, 111, 122–23, 218, 433
Broadway extended to, 94–100, 412–13
“Bowery b’hoy” subculture, 72
Bowery Theatre, 48, 122
Bowling Green, xiii, xvi, 4, 6, 15, 17–18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 36–38, 42, 58, 103, 219, 253, 315
Boyne, Battle of the, 221
“Boz Ball,” 30
Brede Wegh (Broad Way), 13–14
Brennan, Margaret, 242, 244, 245
Brennan, Mary, 242–46
Brennan, Patrick, 242–45
Brennan farm, 242–46, 247, 248
Brennan’s Pond, 245, 246
Brentano’s bookstore, 164
Brevoort, Elias, 102
Brevoort, Henry, Jr., 98, 100–102, 103
Brevoort, Henry, Sr., 98–102, 99, 104
Brevoort, Henry, “of the Bowery,” 98
Brevoort, John Hendricks, 98
Brevoort, Sarah Whetton, 101
Brewer, John, 273
Brice, Fanny, 209
Bridge Apartments, 368
Bridgeport, Conn., 48, 49
bridges:
“arterial program” of, 366
failed proposals for, 359–61
of NY City, 364
see also specific bridges
Broad Street, 21, 37
Broadway:
class and economic divide of, 15–16, 28, 42, 69, 88, 245
commercial development of, 15, 23–24, 29, 35, 39, 42–43, 63, 74, 85, 87–89, 117–18, 137–43, 145, 172, 175, 418, 433, 434
cultural development of, 24, 69–74, 207
as emblematic of New York, 420
energy and exhilaration of, 51, 54, 57, 146–47, 175–82, 203, 305, 313, 419
establishment of, 12–14
evolution of name of, 14
extended beyond Manhattan, 373, 419–20
historical evolution and significance of, xv–xvi
Indian trail as debated origin of, 409–14
lighting of, 161–72, 177–82, 446,
447
Mile 1, 1–59, 19, 33, 51–52, 87, 235
Mile 2, 61–89, 83
Mile 3, 91–133, 110
Mile 4, 135–72, 171
Mile 5, 173–213, 205
Mile 6, 214–38, 227
Mile 7, 239–66, 264
Mile 8, 267–91, 283
Mile 9, 292–309, 301
Mile 10, 311–39, 329
Mile 11, 341–68, 369
Mile 12, 371–391, 391
Mile 13, 393–420, 408
No. 1 Broadway, 9, 16, 39, 419; see also Archibald Kennedy mansion; International Merchant Marine Company Building; Washington Building (Field Building); Washington Hotel
northernmost Manhattan extremity of, 415–19, 475
northward expansion of, 14–15, 35–36, 39, 48, 64–67, 74, 86–89, 108, 112, 124, 139, 167, 172, 183, 195, 253, 261
notables associated with, xv–xvi
ongoing building and rebuilding on, 85–89
period of decline on, 210
as Route 9, 373, 419
in search for the American Dream, 207–13
songs and plays about, 204, 206
Broadway Belles, 27, 29–30, 55, 137, 159
Broadway bend, 93–102, 109
Broadway Bridge, 395
Broadway House tavern, 79–80
Broadway Jones, 204, 206
Broadway Journal, 245–46
Broadway Squad, 54–55, 130, 159
“Broadway Stories” (Runyon), 212
Broadway Tabernacle:
new, 287–88
original, 35, 48, 286–88, 460
Broadway Temple (proposed), 288, 468
Broadway Theatre, 73, 177, 195, 201, 434
Broadway View hotel, 290
Bronx, 246, 261, 270, 279, 316, 353, 360, 364, 373, 386, 395, 397, 418–19, 475
Brooklyn, 84, 112, 179, 220, 246, 261, 262, 263, 277, 327, 346
Brooklyn, Battle of, 18
Brooklyn Bridge, 360–61
Brooklyn Eagle, 141
Brooklyn Heights, 277
Brooks Brothers, 115, 140
Broome Street, 3, 76, 87, 139
brothels, 28–29, 78, 80, 142, 167, 169, 172, 276
Brown, Ida, 209
Brown, Isaac H., 105
Brown, John, 277
Browne, Junius Henri, vii, xv, 89
brownstones, 112, 145, 248, 260, 277, 320
Brownsville, Brooklyn, 261
Brush, Charles Francis, 163–65, 167, 177–78, 446, 447
Brush, John T., 349
Brush Electric Light Company, 163–65, 166, 167
Bryant, William Cullen, 119
Bryant Park, 327
Bryant’s Minstrel Hall, 123
Buchanan, James, 6
Buckingham brothers, 323
Buckley, Thomas, 297
Buckley’s Hall, 123
Buek, Charles, 252–53, 255
Bull, Ole, 120, 287
Bunker Hill, Battle of, 17, 66
Burke, Billie, 209, 231
Burling, Mathilda, 390
Burling, Thomas and Samuel, 96, 98–99