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The Epic of New York City

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by Edward Robb Ellis


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  Index

  Abbey, Henry E., 379

  Abolitionism and abolitionists, 235–38, 266–69, 287

  Academy of Music, 377–78, 379, 380

  Acton, Thomas C, 304, 312, 316

  Actors’ Equity Association, 514

  Actors’ Fidelity League, 514

  Acuna, Chile Mapocha, 544

  Adams, Franklin P., 493, 528

  Adams, Hattie, 427

  Adams, John, 166, 180, 186, 187, 195, 196

  Adams, John Quincy, 560

  Adirondack Mountains, 20

  Adler, Polly, 517, 531

  Adventure Galley (frigate), 108

  Aertson, Jan, 190

  Air Defense Command, 558

  Alarm, The (leaflet), 155

  Albany, Duke of, 75

  Albany, New York, 16, 18, 24, 75, 177, 205

  Alberti, Peter Caesar, 418

  Alexander, James, 120, 123, 124, 125, 134

  Alexander III, Czar, 417

  Alexander VI, Pope, 14

  Algonquin Indians, 18, 19, 38

  Allen, Frederick Lewis, 530

  Altman & Company, B., 397

  Amboyman, Prince, 131, 133

  Amen, John H., 567

  American Antislavery Society, 266, 287

  American Bank Note Company, 397

  American Brotherhood, 256

  American Colonization Society, 234

  American Committee, 261, 262

  American Committee of the Statue of Liberty, 387

  American Institute Fair, 339

  American Museum of Natural History, 360, 451

  American Red Cross, 274

  American Republic, 256

  American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 451

  American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 306

  Amter, Israel, 537–38, 539

  Anastasia, Albert, 567, 568, 577

  Ancient Order of Hibernians, 248

  Andrea, Marie, 428

  Andrews, Major Avery D., 434–35

  Andros, Major Edmund, 84–85, 87–89, 90, 92, 93, 94

  Anne, Queen, of England, 111

  Anti-Federalist party, 180, 183

  Appo, George, 433

  Arcer, Jan, 80

  Archangel (frigate), 97, 98

  Archer, John, 81

  Arc lights, 363

  Arnold Constable & Company, 317

  Arthur, Chester A., 374, 375, 388

  Articles of Confederation, 178

  Asbury, Herbert, 232, 315

  Asquith, Margot, 597

  Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor of New York City, 256

  Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 541

  Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn (Mrs. William), 413–14

  Astor, George, 177

  Astor, Henry, 177

  Astor, John Jacob, 176–77, 183, 190, 195, 208–09, 210, 211, 214, 216, 218, 232, 244, 247, 248, 257–58, 260, 444, 494, 560

  Astor, John Jacob, Jr., 258

  Astor, John Jacob, II, 298

  Astor, John Jacob, III, 411, 414

  Astor, John Jacob, IV, 414–15

  Astor, Mary Dahlgren Paul, 414

  Astor, William, 413

  Astor, William Backhouse, 258, 318

  Astor, William Waldorf, 414–15

  Astor House, 288, 321, 398, 399, 400, 503

  Astoria, 54, 211

  Astoria (Irving), 244

  Astor Library, 491, 494

  Astor Place, 194

  Astor Place Opera House, 260–65, 274

  Astor Place riot, 260–65

  Atlantic cable, 283

  Atomic bomb, 563–64

  Atomic energy, 561–62

  Atomic furnace, or pile, 562–63

  Atom splitting, 561

  Attlee, Clement, 581

  Auctioneers, 217

  Aurelio, Thomas A., 569

  Automobile Club of America, 462

  Automobiles, 460–62, 509, 527

  Bacon, Frank, 514

  Baker, George, see Divine, Father

  Baker, Joe, 576

  Baker, Newton D., 507

  Baker, Ray Stannard, 461–62

  Baldwin, James, 588

  Baline, Moses and Leah, 418

  Bals, Frank C, 568, 576–77

  Bancroft, George, 288

  Bandmann, Daniel E., 402

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 514

  Bank of New York, 179

  Bank Street, 220

  Barclay, Rev. Henry, 140

  Barkley, Alben, 573

  Barnard, George G., 304, 334–35, 342, 350, 352, 353, 355

  Barnard College, 169

  Barnum, P. T., 269–70, 361, 386, 402–03, 438

  Barnum’s museum, 322

  Barrymore, Ethel, 403, 514

  Barrymore, John, 403

  Barrymore, Lionel, 403

  Barrymore, Maurice, 403

  Barsimon, Jacob, 60

  Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 385–87, 388–89, 390, 391

  Baruch, Bernard M., 395, 508–09, 527, 531–32

  Battery, the, 19, 26, 104, 146, 165, 295, 390

  Battery Park, 270

  Baxter, George, 58

  Baxter, Warner, 533

  Bayard, Annake Stuyvesant, 42, 43, 63

  Bayard, Colonel Nicholas, 74

  Bayard, Samuel, 42, 43, 201

  Beach, Alfred Ely, 399–40

  Beame, Abraham, 590

  Beaver, 209–10

  Beaver Street, 240

  Becker, Charles, 484–85

  Bedloe, Isaac, 79

  Bedloe’s Island, 387, 388, 390

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 268–69, 286, 288, 292, 320

  Begun, Isadore, 536

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 358–59

  Bellamy, Francis Rufus, 539

  Bellevue Hospital, 190

  Bell Telephone Company of New York, 359

  Belmont, August, 296, 297, 378

  Belmont, August, II, 465, 466

  Benjamin, Herbert, 539

  Benjamin, Judah P., 319, 324

  Bennett, James Gordon, 258, 287, 294, 296

  Bennett, William Adriaense, 53

  Bentyn, Jacques, 53

  Bergen, John C, 304, 316

  Berlin, Irving, 418

  Bernstroff, Count Johann von, 503

  Bierce, Ambrose, 595

  Bigelow, John, 495

  Big Six, 553

  Black, Frank S., 446

  Black Friday, 343–45, 364

  Black Horse Tavern, 127

  Black Jokers, 302

  Blackman, Lieut. Lennon, 558

  Blackouts, 559

  Black Thursday, 528–30

  Black Tom explosion, 502–03

  Blackton, J. Stuart, 445

  Blackwells Island, 265, 305, 354

  Blanck, Max, 490, 493

  Blanshard, Paul, 536

  Bleecker Street, 193

  Bliss, Henry H., 461

  Blizzard of 1888, 393–404

  Block, Adriaen, 17, 18

  Block, Paul, 545

  Bloody Thursday, 515–16

  Bogardus, Everardus, 31

  Bogardus, New York, 32–33

  Boldt, George C., 414

  Bolshevism, 515, 536

  Bolting Laws, 89, 101

  Booth, Edwin, 323

  Booth, John Wilkes, 325

  Borough Hall, 454

  Boroughs, 53, 5
4–55, 453; see also under name of borough

  Boston, Massachusetts, 79, 89, 90, 92, 93, 117, 138, 152, 154, 155–56, 158, 193

  Boston Massacre (1770), 154

  Boston Port Act, 155

  Boston Post Road, 81, 87, 168, 194, 202

  Boston Tea Party, 155

  Boutwell, George S., 343, 344

  Bowery, the, 26, 32, 81, 173, 174, 183, 194, 259, 281

  Bowery Theatre, 238–39

  Bowling Green, 25, 32, 46, 154, 161

  Bowman, Dr. Isaiah, 507

  Bowne, John, 63

  Boycotts of British goods, 146, 149, 152

  Boyd, Robert, 181

  Bradford, William, 28, 104–05, 117, 118, 121, 122, 123

  Bradley, Richard, 124, 125, 126

  Brady, Mathew B., 288

  Brazil, 22, 28, 32, 36, 61

  Breda, Peace of (1667), 78

  Brennan, Matthew, 353

  Brisbane, Arthur, 433

  Britannia (tea ship), 154

  British East India Company, 155

  Broad Street, 187

  Broadway, 19, 26, 74, 81, 109, 117, 148, 150, 161, 177, 188, 192, 194, 214, 251, 258, 318, 339, 379, 406, 495

  Broadway Tabernacle, 257, 266

  Broadway Theatre, 262

  Brockholls, Anthony, 87

  Brodie, Steve, 399

  Bronck, Jonas, 36, 38, 55

  Bronx, 55, 80, 92, 277, 451, 453

  Bronx River, 55, 81

  Brooklyn, 19, 53, 92, 162, 170, 226, 312, 370, 372, 374, 375, 397, 451, 452, 453, 454, 506

  Brooklyn Bridge, 179, 185, 197, 369–76, 390, 397, 399, 463, 483

  Brooklyn Dodgers, 465

  Brooklyn Eagle, 371, 446, 570

  Brooklyn Heights, 12, 159, 162, 163, 213, 373

  Brooklyn Navy Yard, 53, 162, 208, 295, 444

  Brooks Brothers, 295, 312, 444

  Broun, Heywood, 533, 535, 597

  Brown, Charles, 204

  Brown, Edward Fisher, 597

  Bruckberger, Raymond L., 595

  Brush, Charles Francis, 363

  Brush Electric Illuminating Company, 364

  Bryan, William Jennings, 479, 486, 501

  Bryant, William Cullen, 270, 289, 362, 494

  Bryant Park, 250, 269, 494, 532

  Bryce, James, 232, 328, 333

  Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,” 553

  Buchanan, James, 290

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 590

  Buffalo hunts, 179

  Bullfights, 197–98, 361–62

  Bull Run, First Battle of, 296

  Bull’s Head Tavern, 174

  Bundling, 116

  Bunker Hill, Battle of, 156

  Buntline, Ned (E. Z. C. Judson), 261, 264, 265

  Burnet, William, 120

  Burns, George, 146

  Burr, Aaron, 168, 192, 195–97, 198–201

  Burros, Howard, 403

 

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