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by Bruce Chadwick


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  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  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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