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Broadway_A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

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by Fran Leadon

Fort Tryon Park, xvi, 374–78, 380, 390

  Fort Washington, 343–45, 349, 374

  Fort Washington, Battle of, 351

  Fort Washington Avenue, 343, 349–50, 375, 380, 386, 390

  Fort Washington Park, 345, 350

  Fort Washington Presbyterian Church, 343

  Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 289, 296, 300

  Foster, William Z., 131

  “Four Hundred,” 185

  Fourth Avenue, 104, 111, 167, 255, 259, 397

  Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, 365

  14th Street, 50, 111–12, 117, 120–21, 123–25, 164, 165, 167

  40th Street, 32, 228, 413

  42nd Street, 4, 167, 172, 188, 193, 197–98, 255–56, 261

  43rd Street, 176

  44th Street, 188, 197, 200, 211, 376

  45th Street, 197–98, 413

  47th Street, 176

  49th Street, 277

  Fox, William, 354

  Frame, James A., 252

  Fredericksz, Cryn, 13, 412

  French, P. W., 377

  French flats, 256

  Friars Club, 198

  Frick, Henry Clay, 127

  Fried, Emil, 383

  Front Street, 37

  Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, The (Downing), 99

  Fuller, Margaret, 106–7, 245, 272

  Fulton, Robert, 40

  Fulton Fish Market, 49

  Fulton Street, 45, 51, 52–53, 54, 59

  funeral processions, 82, 84

  fur trade, 184–85

  Gaiety Theatre, 177, 198

  Gallatin family, 145

  gambling, gambling dens, 80, 142, 167, 169, 172, 276, 375

  “Garden City” movement, 304

  Garment District, 126, 261–62, 356

  Garrison, William Lloyd, 286

  gaslights, 162–63, 165

  Gaynor, John P., 87

  Geddes, Patrick, 304

  Gehrig, Lou, 285

  gender discrimination, 138–39, 141–42, 151, 276, 281, 282, 460

  General Motors, 217

  George III, king of England, statue of, 17, 20

  George A. Fuller Construction Company, 155–56, 158

  George Burns’s tavern, 16

  George Foster’s dance hall, 225

  George Washington Bridge, 343, 359–68

  George Washington Bridge Bus Station, 367–68

  Germaine, Alice, 209

  Gibson, Ida McGlone, 210

  Gilbert, Cass, 362

  Gilded Age, 141, 143, 196–97, 278, 374, 399

  Gilded Ghetto, 262, 266

  Gilman, Arthur D., 41

  Gilpin Park, 361

  Gilsey House hotel, 188–89

  Gimbel Brothers, 175

  Girl I Left Behind Me, The, 200

  Girl of the Golden West, The, 200

  “Give My Regards to Broadway,” 204

  Glackens, William, 147

  Glance at New York in 1848, A (Baker), 69–70, 72

  Godwin, Parke, 335–36

  Goelet, Peter, 112, 305

  Goelet, Robert, 112

  Goerck, Casimir, 94

  Golden Gate Bridge, 364

  Goldman, Emma, xvi, 127–28

  Goldman family, 260

  Gold Star Mothers, 390

  Good, James William, 362

  Goodwin, Nat, 123, 202

  Gorham’s, 140

  Gorman Park, 171

  Gould, Jay, 9, 10, 196

  Government House, 23, 24

  Governor’s Lady, The, 200

  Grace Church (new):

  building of, 103–7, 111, 327

  class exclusivity at, 105–7, 108, 120

  Grace Church (original), 26, 93, 100

  Grachtengordel (Amsterdam canal system), 13

  Gracie, Archibald, 235, 316

  Gracie mansion, 316

  Graham, Lillian, 232

  Graham, Robert M., 78–79

  Graham, Stephen, 212–13

  Gramercy Park, 35, 39, 87, 108, 111

  Grand Basin, 279

  Grand Boulevard, see Boulevard

  Grand Central Depot, 277, 397

  Grand Central Station, 188, 193, 324, 418

  Grand Street, 3, 4, 66, 68, 69, 80, 88–89, 115, 327

  Grange, 315–25, 318, 321, 335

  Granger, Alfred, 288

  Grant, Hugh J., 169, 386

  Grant Houses (General Ulysses S. Grant Houses), 300, 302, 304

  failure of, 303–8

  Grant’s Tomb, 282

  Graybar Building, 191

  Great Blizzard of 1888, 273

  Great Chicago Fire (1871), 86

  Great Depression, 6, 130–32, 210, 263, 291, 354, 363, 405–7

  “Greatest Show on Earth,” 146

  Greatest Street in the World, The (Jenkins), 409

  Great Fire of 1776, 21–23, 37, 39, 40, 277

  Great Fire of 1835, 34, 37

  Great Fire of 1845, 33, 36–39

  Great Jones Street, 116

  “Great Union Meeting” (1861), 109, 116–17, 118

  Great White Fleet, 280

  Great White Way, 95, 172, 175–82, 190, 193, 368, 419, 448

  country-wide emulation of, 181–82, 183

  Greeley Square, 175

  Green, Andrew Haswell, 217–21, 223, 269, 275, 346–47, 399

  Greene Street, 167

  Greenwald, Dorothy, 261–62

  Greenwich Street, 3, 21, 35–36, 38, 39, 44, 78, 122, 241, 242

  Greenwich Village, 64, 94, 184, 215, 245, 320

  Gregory, Julian A., 365

  Greyhound (ship), 18

  Gribayedoff, Valerian, xv

  Grinnell, George Bird, 337–38

  Gude, O. J., 179–80

  Guinan, Mary Louise “Texas,” 211–13

  Gunn, James, 22

  Gunn, Thomas Butler, 77

  Hadden, John Aspinwall, 4

  Haight, D. M., 76

  Halifax, Nova Scotia, 18

  Hall, A. Oakey, 128, 221

  Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 245

  Hamilton, 324

  Hamilton, Alexander, 22, 40, 94, 314–19, 322, 335

  burial site of, 319, 326

  mansion of, see Grange

  Hamilton, Alexander, Jr., 235

  Hamilton, Alexander, III, 318, 321

  Hamilton, Alexander, IV, 321

  Hamilton, Alexander, V, 321

  Hamilton, C. L., 321

  Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler “Eliza,” 314–19, 324

  Hamilton, Philip, 315

  Hamilton Grange National Monument, 322

  Hamilton Heights, 313

  Hamilton Place, 313, 458

  Hammerstein, Oscar, 155, 197–99

  Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 197

  Hammond, Abijah, 433

  Hancock, John, 20

  Handbook for Active Service (Viele), 113

  Handbook of Artillery (Roberts), 113

  Hankins, Marie Louise, 141

  Harison, Richard, 96

  Harlem, 172, 256, 259, 261, 262, 297, 316, 320, 368, 384, 412, 418

  Harlem Canal Company, 382, 416

  Harlem Cove, 297

  Harlem Heights, 20, 270–75, 277–78, 282

  Harlem Heights, Battle of, 270

  Harlem Plains, 316

  Harlem River, 363, 374, 395, 397–98, 413, 415–17

  Harlem River Ship Canal (United States Ship Canal), 395, 416–18, 418

  Harlem Speedway, 374–75

  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, xiii, 396

  Harper’s Weekly, 50, 51, 54, 55, 139, 163, 165, 221

  Harrigan & Hart, 123

  Harris, Sam H., 203

  Harrison, Wallace K., 296, 303

  Harrison, William Henry, funeral procession of, 101–2

  Harrison & Abramovitz, 303, 305–6

  Harsen, Jacob (nephew), 234–36

  Harsen, Jacob (uncle), farm of, 234–36

  Harsenville, 234–38

  Hart, Francis, Jr., 36–37
r />   Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., 419

  Hatch, Cora, 287

  Hatfield, Robert G., 88

  Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 220

  Haven, John A., 345

  Hayes, A. A., Jr., 164–65

  Haymarket Affair (1886), 127

  Haymarket dance hall, 172

  Hebrew Tabernacle Synagogue, 357

  Heere Straat, 13

  Held, Anna, 209

  Hell Gate, 315

  Hell’s Kitchen, 167, 172, 224–25

  Hemstreet, William, 246

  Henri, Robert, 147

  Henry, Joseph, 21, 427

  Henry Hudson Parkway, 308

  Hepner, Elizabeth R., 300

  Herald Building, 175–76, 176, 282

  Herald Square, xvi, 124, 175–76, 176, 183, 192, 195, 261, 287, 305, 348

  Herald Square Theatre, 175, 177, 200

  Herschel, John, 242

  Herter Brothers, 140

  Heth, Joice, 46

  Hevins (later Broome) Street, 66

  Higgins, William H., 381

  Hillside Avenue, 383

  Hilltop Park (American League Park), 349–53, 350, 354

  Hispanic Society of America, 338

  History of the City of New York (Lamb), 409

  Hitler, Adolf, 355

  H. J. Heinz Company, 179

  hoaxes, 242

  Hoffman, John T., 58

  Hollow Way, 297

  Holy Ground (red-light district), 29, 167, 276

  homelessness, 133, 148

  Homestead Strike, 127

  Hone, Philip, 39, 43, 101–2, 105, 272, 287, 333–34

  Hooley’s Theatre, 122

  “hootchy-kootchy” (belly dance), 177

  Horn & Hardart automats, 356

  Hose Company No. 7, 74

  Hostos Community College, 405

  hot air balloons, 242

  Hotel Astor, 177, 188–89, 192–94, 197, 208

  Hotel Bretton Hall apartments, 256–57

  Hotel Cadillac, 177, 190

  Hotel Gregorian, 209

  Hotel Langham apartments, 257

  Hotel Netherland, 187, 376

  Hotel Normandie, 176, 180

  hotels:

  construction boom in, 75–79

  see also specific buildings

  House of Refuge, 144

  Housing Authority, 299, 306, 307

  housing projects, 226, 304

  crime and violence in, 307–8

  failures of, 303–9

  low-income, 299–300, 302, 304

  middle-income, 299–300, 302, 304, 368

  racial and ethnic demographics of, 306

  Houston Street, 73, 74, 78, 113, 330

  real-estate speculation on, 66–68

  Howard, Ebenezer, 304

  Howard Street, 69, 80

  Howe, William, 18, 20

  Huber’s Museum, 125

  Hudson Heights, (northern Washington Heights), 373

  Hudson River, 14, 15, 18, 21, 64–65, 81, 82, 183, 192, 224, 234, 236, 242, 243, 262, 270, 271, 297, 314, 316–17, 325, 327, 328, 335, 343–47, 349, 374–75, 379, 397, 413

  commercial use of, 416, 418

  docks, 114, 241

  George Washington Bridge over, 359–64

  Hudson River Railroad, 298, 337, 350, 375, 396–97

  Hudson Street, 82, 321

  Hudson Theatre, 197

  “Hudson Tubes,” 359

  Hughes, John J., 5, 117

  Hughes, Richard J., 367

  Humphreys, Moses C., 70, 434

  Hunn, John S., 96–97

  Huntington, Archer Milton, 338

  Hunts Point, 418

  “Hurricane Corner,” 158–59, 159

  Huston, Joseph Miller, 387–88

  Huston, Tillinghast L’Hommedieu, 353

  Hyer, Thomas, 79

  Ibsen, Henrik, 203

  ice skating, 64, 64

  Iconography of Manhattan Island, The (Stokes), 411–12

  “Ideal Church,” 40

  immigration, immigrants, 10, 119

  bias and discrimination against, 73, 80–81, 84, 232, 346

  Dominican, 313, 348

  ethnic communities of, 259–66

  German, 36, 119, 127, 140, 183–84, 259, 298, 346, 397

  German-Jewish, 189, 259–60, 354–58

  Greek, 259, 262

  Hungarian, 259, 355, 356

  internal discrimination and conflict between, 262–63

  Irish, 36, 37, 42, 80–81, 119, 203, 220, 221–23, 224–25, 236, 259, 262–63, 298, 327, 330, 346, 355–57, 397, 403, 452

  Italian, 127, 130, 178, 262–63, 290, 355, 397, 399, 405–7, 417

  Jewish, 7, 127, 178, 200, 259–66, 456

  in labor movement, 126–27

  in multi-racial neighborhoods, 355–56

  Polish, 127, 259, 355

  Puerto Rican, 262, 296, 306–7, 355

  Russian, 355

  as servants, 378–79

  wealthy, 259–60

  West Indian, 224, 331

  incandescent lights, 164, 177, 180

  Independent Subway System, 262

  Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis (R. P. Bolton), 409–10, 414

  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW; “Wobblies”), 128–31, 442

  Institute of Musical Art, 284

  Interborough Rapid Transit system (IRT), 188, 189, 193, 197, 255–56, 398, 405

  International House, 296

  International Merchant Marine Company Building, 12

  see also Archibald Kennedy mansion; Washington Building (Field Building); Washington Hotel

  Interstate 95, 359, 366, 368

  Interstate Bridge Commission, 360

  Interstate Highway System, 366

  Inwood, 297, 373, 417

  archeological digs in, 409–10

  development of, 405–7

  farms and farming in, 401–7, 406

  as remote and underdeveloped, 396–400, 409

  see also Tubby Hook (later Inwood)

  Inwood Hill, 395, 397–99, 402, 416

  Iranistan (P. T. Barnum mansion), 48

  Ireland, 221, 452

  iron, in building construction, 8–9, 63, 85–86

  Irving, Washington, 101

  Irving Hall, 120

  Irving Place, 120

  Irwin, May, 123

  Isham, Julia (daughter), 398

  Isham, Julia (mother), 396

  Isham, William B., 396–98

  Isham Park, 398

  Izard, Ralph, 22

  Jacobs, Jane, 305–6

  James, Henry, 43, 44, 47, 112

  James, Rian, 354–55

  James II, king of England, 221

  James McCreery & Company, 140, 141, 396

  Jameson, J. Franklin, 411

  J. & W. Seligman & Company, 259–60

  Janes & Leo architects, 257

  Jan Jansen Damen farm, 15

  Jay, John, 22

  Jay, Peter, 101

  Jefferson, Charles Edward, 287–88

  Jefferson, Thomas, 22, 97, 315

  Jefferson Market Courthouse, 148, 149, 160

  Jeffrey’s Hook, 362

  Jenkins, Stephen, 409, 420

  Jennings, Ephraim, 439

  Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 308

  “Jewish Fifth Avenue,” 260

  Jewish Grand Dukes, 259, 456

  Jewish Theological Seminary, 284, 290–91, 296, 299, 300, 355

  John Golden Theatre, 211

  Johnson, Byron Bancroft “Ban,” 349, 351

  Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce, 159

  Joseph H. Semmons & Company opticians, 115

  Journey in Other Worlds, A: A Romance of the Future (John Jacob Astor IV), 187–88

  Juilliard School, The, 296

  Kagan, Clarice, 405

  Karlson, Janet, 307

  Kaufman, Theodore, 74

  Keeler, Wee Willie, 351, 353

  Keister, George, 200

  Keleher, B
ernard, 55

  Kendall, Edward Hale, 9

  Kennedy, Archibald, 16

  Kennedy, Archibald, Jr., 16, 17–19, 426

  Kennedy, John F., 322

  Kent, James, 318, 322

  Kent apartments, 257

  Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 396, 399

  Kieft, Willem, 411

  King’s Bridge, 413, 415

  Kingsbridge, 419

  Kingsbridge Road, 20, 270, 315–16, 335, 345, 373, 395–98, 402, 412–13, 415

  King’s College, 21, 276–77, 314

  see also Columbia College

  King’s Handbook, 137, 147

  Kiowa Realty Company v. Martin M. Molenaor et al., 383–84

  Kip, Samuel, 97

  Kisseloff, Jeff, 356

  Klaw, Marc, 198–99, 203

  Knickerbocker Hotel, 177, 190, 193–94, 197, 198

  Knickerbocker omnibus line, 244

  Knights of Labor, 126

  Knowlton, Thomas, 270

  “Know Nothing” party, 84

  Knox, Henry, 18

  Knox, Lucy, 18

  Knox, William, 18

  Knoxville Chronicle, 189

  Knyphausen, Wilhelm von, 344

  Konkle, Howard, 289

  Konkle, Oscar E., 286, 289–91

  Labor Day, 126, 132

  labor strikes, 153, 194, 210, 232, 375

  labor unions, 109, 126–30, 232

  Ladies’ Mile, 137–43, 164, 167, 261, 396, 443

  La Dinastia restaurant, 348

  Lafarge House hotel, 114

  Lafayette Circus, 48

  Lafayette Street, 255

  Lamb, Martha, 409–14

  Lamb, Thomas W., 355

  Lambert, John, 25, 26, 326–27

  Lambs Club, 198

  Landmarks Preservation Commission, 436, 452

  landowners:

  money and, 93–95, 98, 102

  rights of, 95–98, 100, 108–9

  Larson, Morgan F., 364, 367

  La Salle Street, 299, 303, 306

  Laura Keene’s Theater, 5, 116

  Laurie, James T., 74

  Lawrence, John B., 297

  Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 54

  Le Boutillier Brothers, 140

  Le Corbusier, 295–96, 304, 364

  Leeds, Lewis W., 346

  Le Gendre, Grace, 209

  Lehman, Meyer, 456

  Lehman, Robert L., 358–59

  Lenape Indians, 14, 409–10, 413

  Lenox Avenue, 256

  Lenox Hill, 259–60, 456

  Lent, Lewis B., 50

  Leonard Street, 29, 30, 36, 63, 80, 85

  Leopard (ship), 97

  Lescaze, William, 304–5

  Leslie’s Weekly, 158

  Lespinasse, George S., 252

  Levy, Franklin, 383

  Lewis, Sinclair, 181

  Lewis B. Lent’s New York Circus, 50, 120–21

  Lewisohn, Adolph, 456

  Lew M. Fields Theatre, 198

  Lexington Avenue, 148

  Lexow Commission, 169

  Liberty Street, 315

  Liberty Theatre, 198, 203

  Library of Congress, 86, 281, 334

  Lincoln, Abraham, 114

  funeral procession of, 129

  Lincoln, Mary Todd, 87

  Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 226, 228

 

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