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Index
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abolitionism; riots
abortions
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Adams, Samuel
advertising
agriculture
Albany, New York
Albany Evening Journal
alcohol. See drunkenness
almshouses
American Republicans
American Revolution
Ampère, Jean
Amphitheater
Anderson, John
Anne Street
antislavery movement; riots
Armstrong, John
arrests; drunkenness; methods of force; new police force and; of prostitutes; rates; on “suspicion”
Asian immigrants
assault crimes
Astor, John Jacob
Astor Hotel
Astor Place Opera House
Astor Place riot
Bacon, Reverend Leonard
badges, star
bakeries
Baltimore
banks; counterfeit notes
Barclay Street
Barnburners
Barnes, Hiram
Barnum, P. T.
bars and saloons; drunkenness; fights; Five Points; Sunday laws
baseball
Battery
Battery Park
Baxter, Charles
Baxter Street
beer
Bell, William
Bellevue Hospital
Bellows, Dr. Henry
Benedetti, Sesto
Bennett, James Gordon; crusade for professional police force; on Jewett case; on Rogers case
Bidwell, Marshall
Bigelow, John
billy clubs
birth control
Bishop, Isabella Bird
blacks; crime and; Five Points; homicide rates; Irish vs.; minstrel shows; race riots; slavery
Blackwell’s Island
boardinghouses
Boardman, James
Board of Aldermen
Board of Supervisors
bonds
Bond Street
Booth, Junius
Boston; press; religious riots; Tea Party
Boston Post, The
Bowery; youth
Bowery B’hoy
Bowery Boys gang
Bowery G’hal
“The Bowery Girls” (song)
Bowery Street Theater
Bowery Theater
Bowyer, Robert
Brace, Charles Loring
Brady, William
Bread and Cheese Club
Brennan, Christopher
bribes; police; political; stolen-property recovery-fee systems. See also corruption
Bridewell prison
broadside posters
Broadway
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Daily Times
Brooklyn Evening Star
Brother Jonathan
Brown, Mrs. A. E.
Brown, George Williams
Brown, “Princess” Julia
Brown, Richard Maxwell
brutality, police; methods of
Bryant, William Cullen
Bryce, James
Buchanan, James
Buffalo, New York
Buntline, Ned
Burdell, Harvey, murder of
Bureau for the Recovery of Lost Persons
Bureau of Information
Burns, Catherine
Burr, Ephraim
butcher boys
Butter Cake Dick’s
California gold rush
Camp, Enoch
Canal Street
Cantor, Jacob
capital punishment
cartmen
cartoons
Castle Garden
Catholics; Irish
cemeteries
Central Park
chamber pots
Chambers, William
Chatham Street
Chatham Street Chapel
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Child, Lydia Maria; reform and
childbirth, death in
children; abandoned; as criminals; daybreak boys; infanticide; mortality; pickpockets; in prison; prostitutes; ragpickers; street Arabs
Children’s Aid Society
China
Chinese immigrants
cholera
/> Christian, Charles
churches
cigars
Cincinnati
circus
Cisco, George
City Hall; 1857 police riots
City Hall Park
Civil War
Clark, Myron
Clarke, McDonald
clothing; Bowery; police uniforms; theft and bribes
coal
cockfights
coffee shops
coffins
Coleman, Edward
Colonnade Houses
Colt, John C.
Colt, Samuel
Colt revolvers
Columbia College
Columbia Spy
Committee of Seventy
Common Council
con artists
concert saloons
Congress, U.S.
Connor, Frances
Conover, Daniel
Constable & Co., Arnold
constables; arrest statistics; corruption; drunkenness and; early; failing hope of; fees; gay; Hays leadership; hiring; ineptitude of; Jewett murder and; leatherheads; night; penny press crusade against; prostitutes and; rattle watch; replaced by Municipal Police; riots and; Rogers murder and; salaries; size of force; state investigations of; system; uniforms
convicts
Cooper, Edward
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cooper, Peter
corruption; courts; fee system; police; political; prison; Wood mayoralty and
counterfeit rings
courts; Colt case; corruption; discrimination against women; drunkenness and; of 1850s; gambling and; ineptitude; Jewett case; prostitution and; reform; sentencing; state investigation of; trial juries; Wood mayoralty and
Cozzens’
Crapsey, Edward
crime; drunkenness and; 1830s–50s wave of; 1845 creation of NYPD and; of 1850s; 1857 creation of Metropolitan Police and; 1857 police riots and; of 1870s; failing hope of constables and; Five Points; gambling; Jewett murder; penny press on; police brutality and; prevention; prostitution; rates; Rogers murder; sentences; Wood mayorality and. See also specific types of crime
crime fiction
“criminal class,” concept of
Crockett, Davy
Crystal Palace
Cuba
Curtis, George William
Crimean War
Cunningham, Emma
Daily Transcript
dance halls; girls
dancing
dandies
Dauby, Augustine
Davenport, George
Davis, Nicholas
Davis, Thomas Aspinwall
Day, Benjamin
daybreak boys
Dead Rabbits
de la Sagra, Ramon
democracy
Democratic Party
Democratic Review
detectives; early; fiction; roundmen
Dicey, Edward
Dickens, Charles; Oliver Twist
disease; epidemics
disorderly conduct
dives
divorce
docks. See New York Harbor; shipping; waterfront
dogs; fights; licenses; riots over
domestic service
domestic violence
Douglas, Stephen
Doyle, Thomas
draft riots
drop game
drugs
drunkenness; arrests; Five Points; Sunday bar laws; temperance and
Dugdale, Richard
Dunn, Mary
East River; harbor pirates
economy; 1840s growth of; of 1850s; Panic of 1837; Panic of 1857; shipping
Eddy, Thomas
Edwards, Jonathan
Edwards, Ogden
1857 police riots
Election Day; riots
Eli and Hart store
Ely, Ezra Stiles
embezzlement
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
employment; unskilled labor
Eno, Amos
entertainment
Erhardt, Joel
Erich, Joe
Erie Canal
Europe. See also specific countries
Evening Post
Express
factories
Fagan, Simeon
faro
fashion
father, changing role of
Federalists
fees and rewards; prostitutes and; reform
fences
ferries
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue Hotel
fights, and masculinity
financial crises
Finney, Lydia
fire; departments; Great Fire of 1835; Great Fire of 1845
fireworks
First Ward
Fisher, Sidney George
fisticuffs
Five Points
Flash
flash papers
flour riot
food; begging; school; theft
forgery
Forrest, Edwin
fortune-tellers
Forty Thieves
Foster, George
Fourteenth Street
Fourth of July
Fourth Ward
France; crime
Francis, Emma
Franklin, Benjamin
Free Love League
Free Soilers
Fugitive Slave Act
Fuller, Margaret
Furlong, Robert
gambling; casinos; cheating; Five Points; horse racing; lotteries; police and
gangs; decline of; 1857 police riots and; Five Points; harbor pirates. See also specific gangs
garbage
gaslights
gay prostitution
Gerard, James
German immigrants
Germany
Gilliam, Henry
Gillian, William
Godkin, E. L.
gold rush
Gordon, Steve
government; corruption; of 1870s; police reform and; riots; state legislature control of police; Tammany Hall; Wood mayorality. See also specific mayors, boards, and councils
Graham, David
Grand Street
grave robbers
Great Britain; armed forces in American cities; crime; Parliament; police; press; theater
Greece
Greeley, Horace
green lanterns
Greenwich Street
guidebooks
guns; Colt revolvers; police use of
Haggerty, John
Hall, Basil
handbills
hangings
harbor pirates
Harper, James
Harper Brothers
Harper’s Weekly
Havemeyer, William; police reform and
Hays, Jacob
heat, summer
Henecker, Henry
Hester Street
Hill, Harry
Hoboken
Hodges, Willis
Hone, Philip; Jewett murder and
Hone Club
Honeymooners
horses; game; police; racing
hospitals
hot corn girls
hotels
House of Refuge
Houston Street
Hoxie, Joseph
Hubbard, Dimis
Hudson, Frederic
Hudson River
Hughes, John
Hunkers
Hunt, Walter
ice cream parlors
idlers
immigrants; anti-Irish sentiment; arrest of; crime and; German; Irish; reform; tenement life of; vote
imports and exports
Indian tribes
Industrial Revolution
infanticides
Ingraham, Abijah, A Biography of Fernando Wood
intelligence
Ireland; potato famine
Irish immigrants; anti-Irish sentiments; 1857 police riots and; in Five Poi
nts; as police; Tammany Hall and; vote
Irving, Washington
Italy
Jackson, Richard
Jefferson, Thomas
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City Riflemen
jewelry theft
Jewett, Helen, murder of
Jews
Johnson, William
Journal of Commerce
judges; corruption; prostitution and; reform
judicial system. See courts; judges; juries; prisons; trials
junk shops
juries; prostitution and
Kelly, Thomas
Kerryonians
King, John A.
Know Nothings
labor riots
landfills
laundry
Lawrence, Cornelius
Lexow, Clarence
Lexow Commission
Libby, James
Libertine
Life Illustrated
lighting
Lincoln, Abraham
Lind, Jenny
lineups, police
literacy
literature; crime fiction; on “criminal class”; on Five Points
Little Water Street
Livingston, Robert
Locke, Richard
London; police
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Long Island, New York
Long Island Patriot
Longstreet, Augustus
Lord & Taylor
lotteries
Low, Seth
Lower East Side
Lowndes, O. M.
Ludwig, Patrick
Lynch, Thomas
lynchings
MacLeod, Donald
Macready, William
madams
Madison, James
Madison Avenue
mail
Manufacturers of Marble Mantels Association
manufacturing
Marcy
Marryat, Frederick
masculinity; fights; symbols of
Matsell, George; as new police chief; Wood mayoralty and
mayors; Five Points and; police reform and; Tammany; Wood mayoralty. See also specific mayors
McCabe, James
McCreery & Co., James
McDowall, John
McGlory’s
McIlveen, James
McMahon, Patrick
medicine
Melville, Herman; Moby-Dick
men; Bowery B’hoy; brawls with constables; “criminal class”; dandies; domestic violence; father role; masculinity and fights; as prostitutes; sporting; young unmarried
mental illness
Metropolitan Police; 1857 creation of; 1857 police riots
Mexican War
Mexico
middle class
midwives
militia
Milnor, William
“missing” persons
model art shows
money; counterfeit; crimes
Monkkonen, Eric
Monroe, James
moonshine liquor
Morgan, William
morgue
Morris, Robert
Moss, Frank
Mott Street
Mozart Hall
mud
Mulberry Street
Municipal Police; 1845 creation of; 1857 police riots. See also police, New York
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