by Fran Leadon
Burnham, Daniel H., 155, 189, 279–81
Burr, Aaron, 318, 330
Burr, Eliza Jumel, 330
Burroughs, John, 333
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 285
“Bye Bye Blackbird,” 212
“Cable Carnival,” 4–5, 6
cable cars, 147, 153, 445
Cady, Josiah Cleaveland, 196
Calahan, Edward A., 7
Calvary Church, 104
Calver, William L., 410
Camp, Hugh N., 375
Canal Street, 3, 65–69, 72, 73, 82, 140, 162
Candler, Isaac, 29
C & L Restaurant, 265–66
Carlton House hotel, 30
Carman, Richard F., 327, 330
Carmansville, 327, 330, 334
Carnegie Steel, 127, 376
Carr, George Kirwan, 27
Carrère & Hastings architects, 309
Caruso, Enrico, 231
Casino Theatre, 177, 195–96
Catharine Street (later Mulberry), 88
Catherine Lane, 286
Catholics, 118
bias against, 84, 221–23, 452
Catterina “Kate” (cat), 241–42, 245
Cedar Street, 315
cemeteries, 40, 326–30, 464
for the indigent, 144
Centennial Celebration (1876), 118–19, 126, 132
“Centennial Ode” (Bryant), 119
Central Labor Union, 126–27
Central Park, 4, 32, 58, 118, 126, 147, 149, 167, 217, 219, 236, 250, 256, 259–60, 345–47, 399
Central Park Commission, 217–21, 269, 397
Central Park West, 251, 260
Centre Street, 255
Cesio, Julius, 160
Chambers Street, 116
Chanfrau, Frank, 69–70, 71, 433–34
Chatham Street (later Park Row), 4, 26, 44, 49, 51, 412
Chattanooga Times, 189
Chelsea Methodist Episcopal Church, 288, 365, 468
Cherry Street, 22
Chesapeake (ship), 97
Chevilly, 236
Chicago, Ill., 181, 199, 288–89, 374–75
labor movement in, 127
World’s Fair in, 155, 177, 279–80
Chicago Temple, 288–89
Chidori restaurant, 299
Child, Lydia Maria, 31–32, 245, 460
Childs restaurant, 175, 200
Chinese Museum, 50
cholera, 32, 111
Christian Missionary Building (uncompleted), 289–90
Christopher Street, 82
Church, John B., 319
Church of England, 276
Church of Nuestra Señora del la Esperanza, 338
Church of the Intercession, 328, 331
Church of the Messiah, 105
Church of the Puritans, 89, 104, 117
Church Street, 28, 29, 167, 275–77
Cincinnati (ship), 417
Cingel, 14
Cioffi, Frank, 290
City Assembly Rooms, 48, 82, 434
City College of New York, 3, 148, 313, 322, 324
City Hall, 17, 22, 39, 56, 57, 94, 98, 131, 256, 305, 324
construction of new, 24–25, 64, 109, 316
City Hall Park, 4, 6, 12, 24–25, 26, 32, 42, 51, 70, 84, 88, 93, 97, 114, 116, 130, 139, 148, 184, 193, 219, 245, 255, 286, 305, 412
almshouse at, 30, 44
courthouse at, 221
theater district at, 73
City Hotel, 24, 81
City Saloon, 46
civic monuments, in city image, 109, 111
Civil War, xv, 28, 48, 189, 246, 247, 249, 286, 346, 382, 403, 429
New York City’s southern sentiment in, 115–17
onset of, 112–17, 115
Claremont Inn, 322
Claridge Hotel, 177
Clark, Alfred Corning, 387
Clark, Edward Cabot, 251, 387
Clarke, McDonald, 27
class distinction, 106–7, 120, 149–50, 257, 345–47
Clausen, George C., 149–51
Clay, Henry, 84
Clemente, Gaetano, 290
Clemm, Maria “Muddy,” 241–42, 244, 245
Clermont (later Mercer) Street, 66
Clinton, DeWitt, 416
Clinton & Russell, 188
Clinton Hall, 245
Cliveden, 186
Cloisters, 358, 388–90
Club Anatole, 211
Cohan, George M., xvi, 176, 198, 202–4, 202, 206, 210
Cohen, Abraham, 148–50
Colden, Cadwallader, 16–17
Cold Spring, N.Y., 419
Coliseum, 73
Coliseum Theater, 373
Collamore House hotel, 75, 78
Collect Pond, 63–65, 94
College of Physicians and Surgeons, 353
Collens, Charles, 390
Collier’s, 212
Columbia College (formerly King’s College), 3, 36, 103, 276–77, 438, 440
Columbia Hotel, 299
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 348–49, 353
Columbia Spy, 243
Columbia University, 155, 246, 262, 276–86, 295–96, 306, 308, 459
Columbus (Ninth) Avenue, 252
Columbus Circle, 220, 262
Comedy Theatre, 197
Commissioners of Central Park, 346
Commissioners’ Plan (1811), xiii, 56, 108–9, 144–45, 217–20, 395, 474
grid layout of, 95, 219–20, 271, 344–45
Committee of Twenty-One, 56–57
Committee on Slum Clearance Plans, 226, 297, 299
Common Council, 5, 15, 17, 24, 56–57, 64–65, 94–95, 97–100, 109, 111, 162, 164, 219, 327
Common Lands, 219, 234
Commons, 14–17, 23, 24, 63
Communist International, 130
Communists, 128, 130–32
Como, Joseph, 290
Comstock, Sarah, 403–4
concealed weapons, 78, 80
Concord Street (later West Broadway), 66
Coney Island, 148, 178–79
Congregation Mount Sinai Anshe Emeth synagogue, 366
Conkling, Frederick A., 273
Conkling, Roscoe, 123, 273
Connelly, Edward, 225
Connolly, Charles M., 345
Connor, Arthur, 79
Conrad, George, 246–47
constellations, 161–62
Convent Avenue, 320, 321, 323
Coogan’s Bluff, 349
Cooney, John, 226
Coontown, 29
Cooper, Peter, 86
Cooper Union, 223
Corbett, James J., 168
Corbin, Austin, 178–79, 196
Corbin, Margaret, 374, 390
Corey, Ed, 172
Corliss steam engine, 164, 165
Cornelius van Tienhoven farm, 14–15
Corpus Christi Church, 290, 296, 300
Corson, Amelia, 7
Cortissoz, Royal, 279, 282
Cosmopolitan, 212
Coster, John G., 235
“Cottage” (Union Square pavilion), 126–27, 130–31, 132
Cotting, Amos, 320
cotton industry, 30–31, 67, 115–17
Court Street, 84
Craft, James B., 169–70
Crane, Stephen, 147
crime, 31, 77–84
crusaders against, 159
in housing projects, 307–8
in Inwood, 398–99
lighting as deterrent to, 167, 170, 172
organized, 210
politics and, 79–80
in Tenderloin district, 167–70, 172
see also specific crimes
Crisalli, Rocco, 130, 442
Croker, Richard, 169
“Croppies Lie Down,” 223, 452
Crosby Street, 66, 67, 68, 78
Cross-Bronx Expressway, 366, 368
Croton Aqueduct system, 4, 32, 34, 36, 38, 429
Croton Expressway, 419
Croton
River, 32
Crotonville, N.Y., 419
Cruger, Nicholas, 94
Cruger, Ruth, 210
Cruikshank, William, 274
Crystal Palace, 4, 8
Cubiéres, Simon-Louis-Pierre, marquis de, 236
Cumberland building, 153–55, 179
Cumberland Realty Company, 154
Cunard Line, 157
Cutting, William, 184
Czolgosz, Leon, 128
Daily Register, 181
Daily Telegram (Clarksburg), 208
Daily Worker, 130, 131
Dakota apartments, 251–52, 387
Daniels, Raleigh Henry, 322
Dante Square, 219
D. Appleton & Company, 85, 113
Darlington apartments, 257
Daughters of the American Revolution, 397
Davis, Jefferson, 48, 114
Davis, Lefty, 351
Davis, Richard Harding, 146, 147, 168
Day, Dorothy, 133
“Dead Man’s Curve,” 147
Dead Rabbits, 77
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 277, 349
Dean, Bashford, 403–4
Dean, Robert S., 79
Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (Jacobs), 305–6
deeds of cession, 96–97
De Forest, William H., 319–20
Delacroix, Jacques M. J., 162
de Lancey, James, 402
Delmonico’s restaurant, 164
Democratic Party, 81, 123, 220–21, 243, 274
demolition:
of early tall buildings, 12
of landmark buildings, 39, 85, 117, 197, 277, 322, 353, 399
of mansions, 112, 117, 186, 246–48, 248
New York’s propensity for, 404
in progress and rebuilding, 39, 67–68, 85, 89, 153–55, 246, 304, 308, 389–90, 436
in urban renewal, 299–300, 302, 303–9
in Washington Heights bridge and expressway projects, 365–67
Department of Sanitation band, 132
de Peyster, Nicholas, 270
Detroit River, 362
Deutal Bay (Densel-bay), 411
Devery, William S., 349, 352–53
Devlin, Hudson & Company, 115, 440
Devlin & Company, 57, 87, 440
De Vries, David Pietersz, 410–11
Dewey, George, 3
De Witt, Simeon, 344
D. F. Tiemann & Company Paint and Color Works, 297–98
Diagonal Street (Hamilton Place), 313
Dickens, Charles, 30–31, 121
Dinkelberg, Frederick S., 155
disease, 326–27
displacement:
urban renewal and, 226, 299–300, 302, 303
in Washington Heights bridge and expressway projects, 366–67
Dix, John A., 58
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 419
Dodworth, Allen, 75, 84, 116, 119, 120
Doggett, John, Jr., 38
Doggett’s Directory, 38, 438
“dollar side” (Broadway’s high-end west side), 28
Domestic Sewing Machine Company, 117
Donald Court, 365
Dorilton Hotel, 229
Douglass, Frederick, 286
Downing, Andrew Jackson, 99
Draft Riots (1863), 48
Dreiser, Theodore, 148, 179, 211
Drennan, Hugh, Mary, and Elizabeth, 403
Dresser, Paul, 179
drug dealing, 133, 263, 307
drugstores, 263, 265, 297
dry goods trade, 42, 75, 88–89, 137–41, 261–62
Duane Street, 270
Duarte Square, 348
Duboy, Paul E. M., 229
Dunham, David, 96, 98, 108
Dunlap, David W., 323, 353
Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue (Sloan), 158
Dutch West India Company, 13, 314, 412
Dwyer, James, 399
Dyckman, Isaac, 345, 402
Dyckman, Isaac Michael (formerly James Frederick Smith), 402–3
Dyckman, Jacobus (Jan’s son), 401
Dyckman, Jacobus (William’s son), 402
Dyckman, Jan, 401
Dyckman, Mary Alice and Fannie, 403–4
Dyckman, Michael, 402
Dyckman, Nicholas, 234–35
Dyckman, William, 401–2
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, 401–5
Dyckman’s Meadows, 398
Dyckman Street, 297, 356, 374, 396, 398, 416
Dyckman Theatre, 398
Earl Carroll Theatre, 211
East Broadway, 4, 245
East River, 13, 20, 34, 179, 316, 346–47, 349, 359, 410, 416–17
East Side, 256, 259–60, 262, 346
École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 277, 387
economic inequality, 28, 30–31, 73, 106–7, 120, 133, 143, 348
in burials, 327
in land ownership, 383
in public parks, 144–52
Economist, The, 139
economy, 67
downturns of, 30, 58, 97, 127; see also Great Depression; Panics
upturns in, 153
Eddy, Thomas, 270–71
Edelsohn, Rebecca, 129
Eden, Joseph, 183
Eden, Medcef, Jr., 183
Eden Farm, 183, 187–88, 194
Eden Musèe, 146
Ederle, Gertrude, 7
Edis, Theunis, 413
Edison, Thomas, 7, 165–66, 177
Eggers & Higgins architects, 303
Eidlitz, Cyrus L. W., 189
Eighth Avenue, 218, 220, 244, 251–52, 261, 262, 381
massacre at, 222–23
8th Street, 111
8th Ward, 67
18th Street, 165
80th Street, 232, 260, 266
81st Street, 251, 266
82nd Street, 242, 265, 266
83rd Street, 243
84th Street, 242, 246, 247
85th Street, 242
86th Street, 219, 249, 258, 259, 262, 265, 327
history of Broadway split at, 269–70
87th Street, 258
88th Street, 250, 316
89th Street, 266
Einstein, Albert, 7
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 296
Eisman, Levy, Corn & Lewine, 383
E. J. Denning & Company, 140
Elaine, 417
electric lights, 161, 163–72, 177–82, 191, 210, 282
elevators, 8, 87–88, 193, 196, 229, 233, 288
Eleventh (West End) Avenue, 269
11th Street, 100, 161, 396
El Fey Club, 211
Elizabeth Street, 382
Ellington, George, 141–42
Elliott, Henry H., 345–46
Ellis Island, 355
Ellwood, Helen, 232
Elm Park, 222, 247
Elmwood, 246–48, 248
El Paso Herald, 181
Elsworth, Clement, 412–13
Embargo Act (1807), 97
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 287
Emery Roth architects, 257
eminent domain, 95
Empire Garden, 169–70
Empire Garden Tragedy, The, 170
Empire State Building, 295
Empire Theatre, 177, 200
Emporia News, 137
Engine Company No. 8, 38
Engine Company No. 22, 36
England, 334
Enlightenment, 219
entertainment district, 120–25
northward expansion of, 145–47
Episcopal Church, 288
Equestrian Club, 376
Equitable Building, 10
Erie Canal, 32, 67, 416, 417
Erlanger, Abraham Lincoln “Dishonest Abe,” 198–99, 202, 203
escort services, 209
eugenics, 232
Evening Mirror, 244–45
Everyday Christian Church, 405
E. V. Haughwout & Company, 87–88
Exchange Place, 37
expressways, 366–68, 436
Fallotica, Nicholas, 290
“family theater,” 122
fancy goods trade, 87–88, 137, 243
F. A. O. Schwarz, 140
farmers markets, 133
Farmers’ Turnpike, 419
“Farm Maps” (Randel), 344
farms, farming, xv, 14, 15, 20, 65, 94, 98–103, 183–84, 187–89, 218, 232–36, 242–248, 270–73, 309, 314, 331, 344, 379, 390, 395, 397, 401–7, 406, 411
see also specific farms
Farrell, Frank J., 349, 352–53
Fashion Row, 261
Faust (Gounod), 197
Fay, Larry, 211
Federal Aid Highway Act, 366
Federal Census:
of 1880, 403
of 1930, 405
of 1940, 355, 407
“Feejee Mermaid,” 47, 431
Fellman, Leo, 405
Ferncliff, 187
Field, Cyrus W., 5, 196, 251
Atlantic Cable celebration for, 4–6, 9, 10, 52
sullied reputation and financial decline of, 9–10
in tall building construction, 8–11, 11
Field, Mary, 9
Fieldston, 419
Fifth Avenue, 4, 5, 6, 32, 94, 125, 140, 144–47, 153–58, 165, 179, 186–87, 212, 259, 375, 376
Fifth Avenue Hotel, 145, 146, 150, 154, 188
Fifth Avenue Theater, 146
Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist, 288
15th Street, 89, 111
53rd Street, 251
54th Street, 212
55th Street, 187, 260
56th Street, 287
57th Street, 225
bridge proposal for, 361–62
59th Street, 59, 187, 217–18, 220–21, 251–53, 256, 258, 273, 308
Fighting Cocks tavern, 21
financial district, 34, 139, 177, 212
Finney, Charles Grandison, 286
fire departments, firefighting, 21, 34, 36–38, 48, 74
fire insurance companies, 39
firemen, 334
funeral procession for, 84
as heroic figures, 70–73
fireproofing, 86, 231, 379, 386
fires, 20–23, 34, 38, 48–50, 74, 84, 162, 231, 402, 427
see also specific fires
Fish, Hamilton, 98, 170
Fish, Nicholas, 98, 170, 319
Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 208
Five Points, 70, 78, 287
Flagg, Ernest, 282
Flatiron Building, xiv, 153–60, 156, 159, 189–90, 229
“Flatiron Girls,” 159
Florence’s Hotel, 79
Floy, Michael, Jr., 161, 218
Flying Cloud, 330
Foley family, 320
footbridges, 54
Ford, George B., 300
Fordham, 246
Fordham University, 226
Ford’s Theatre, 86
Fort Amsterdam, 14
Fort George (formerly Fort James), 14, 15, 16–18, 22, 23
Fort George Avenue, 252
Fort George Hill, 397–98, 402
Fort Lee, 343, 360–64
Fort Tryon, 374–75
Fort Tryon Hall, 375–79, 378, 380–86, 385, 389
Molenaor’s claim to, 380–85
Fort Tryon Hill, 374, 376, 385, 386, 388
Cloisters located on, 389–90