New York panorama : a comprehensive view of the metropolis, Part 53

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Publication date: 1938
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Kent, Richard, 492


Kent, Rockwell, 197


Keppel, Frederick P., 6, 413


Kern, Jerome, 251, 257, 264


Kernell, Harry, 248


Kernell, John, 248


Kidd, William (pirate), 25, 46


Kieft, William, 39


Kilburn, Lawrence, 182


Kill van Kull, 22, 24, 30, 326, 333


Kilmer, Joyce, 103


Kilpatrick, William Heard, 474


Kimball & Husted, architects, 494


Kingsbridge, 67


Kingsley, Sidney, 228, 276, 277 Kingston, 51


Kirby, Rollin, 197


Kirk, Andy, 260


Klafsky, Katharina, 235


Kleine, George, 288, 289


Kline, Herbert, 275


Kneisel Quartette, 237


Knickerbocker Theater, 289


Knickerbocker Village, 426, 428, 433, 434, 435


Know Nothing Party, 89


Koehler, Ted, 264


Kohn, Robert D., 491


Koreans in New York, 120


Kossuth, Louis, 110


Kraines, S. H., 420


Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 235, 255


Kreisler, Fritz, 237


Kreymborg, Alfred, 273


Kroll, Leon, 200


Kubelik, Jan, 237


Kuhn, Walt, 199


Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 197, 200


Kuomintang, New York branch of, 119


Labor and labor unions, 379-396 Labor Congress, National, 387 Labor leaders, 378


Labor Temple, 100


Labor Unions, beginning of, 381, 31 first use of term "union," 382; efl of immigration on, 385; at end 19th century, 379, 380; decline 388; combating of, 388; in Ci War, 386; Communists in, 387, 3: 393; Germans in, 387; Italians 94, 95; Jews in, 128, 129; in polit 383, 384, 389, 393, 395, 396; c ruption and racketeering in, 390, 3! 395; publish paper, 384; oppose i migration, 89; growth of, 393; un NRA, 393, 394; and NLRB, 39 women's, 383; national organizat: of, 384, 386, 387, 389; internatio organization of, 131, 387, 388, 3: 392


Artists, 200; building trades, 1 390, 391; carpenters, 115; ci makers, 389; electrical workers, 39 garment workers, 95, 114, 128, 2: 382, 391, 393, 394, 433; hotel ¿ restaurant workers, 394; Knights Labor, 380; longshoremen and s men, 95, 115, 340, 341, 392; r. chanics and tradesmen, 59, 381; ml cians, 95, 145, 238, 253; nail‹ 382; National Trades Union, 31 National Labor Union, 387; ne' papermen, 310, 382, 389, 392, 39 painters, 115, 394; shoe workers, ! steel and metal workers, 391; the rical, 280, 391, 392; Trade Un Unity League, 393, 394; unemploy and WPA, 150; waiters, 95; write 177


American Federation of Labor, 1. SRL 150, 341, 380; established, 389, 3! 393, 394, 395, 446


C. I. O., 150, 341, 395, 446 I. W. W., 392


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Lachaise, Gaston, 198, 199


La Farge, John, 193, 194, 195


Lafayette Stock Company, 146


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Lafayette Street, 27


Lafayette Theatre, 146, 247


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La Guardia, Fiorello H., elected mayor, investigates conditions in Harlem, 1. 148; limits taxicabs, 358; propc Staten Island-New Jersey tunnel, 30 candidate of American Labor Party, 39 pushes city-planning, 421; fights c law tenements, 432; nominated by ] sion Party, 445; supports charter refor 446


Lake-Tysen House, 206


Lakeman-Cortelyou-Taylor House, 206 Lambert, Jacques, 413


Land speculation in Coolidge period, 435 Land values in New York, 428


Landers, Charles Scott, 415


Lanier, Sidney, 168


Lang, Eddie, 259


Lang, Sam, 146


Langner, Lawrence, 273


Lapinikan, village of, 25


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Literature in New York, 162-180 Lithuanians in New York, 87, 114 Little Neck Hill, 30 Little Theater, 271


Little Theater movement, 273


Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce of New York, 395


Livingston, Phillip, 50


Local Improvement Boards, 451


Locke, Alain, 142


Loewy, Raymond, 492


London, Jack, 172


Long Island, 23, 27, 30, 69


Long Island, Battle of, 51


Long Island City, 24


Long Island Sound, 22, 23, 327


Longacre Square, 72


Longmans, Green & Company, publishers, 104


Longshoremen, 340, 341


Lorentz, Pare, 287 Lott House, 206


Louis, Joe, 147


Lovet-Lorski, Boris, 199


Lovett, Robert Morss, 175


Low, Isaac, 50


Low, Mayor Seth, 71


Lowell, Amy, 175 Lower Bay, 21, 326 Lozowick, Louis, 197


Luciano, Charles "Lucky," 77


Ludlow Street Jail, 67


Luks, George, 172, 196, 198


Lumpkin, Grace, 176


Lunceford, Jimmie, 145


Lunt, Alfred, 282


Lynch, Thomas, 101


Lyon, James, 232, 233


MacArthur, Charles, 144, 278


MacDowell, Edward, 103, 237


MacDowell Chorus, 239


MacGowan, Kenneth, 272


Mackenzie, May, 250


MacLeish, Archibald, 18, 177


Macmillan Company, publishers, 104 MacMonnies, Frederick, 195


Macomb, Robert, 56


Macready, W. C., 266, 267


Madison Square, 24 Madison Square Garden, 313-315, 274, 317, 318, 322


Magazines, see Periodicals


Mahler, Gustav, 235


Maier, Guy, 237


Maiginnac (Corlear's Hook), 25


Malibran, Maria, 234


Maltz, Albert, 275


Mangin, Joseph, 208, 210


Manhattan, geography of, 23, 24; geology of, 27, 28; origin of name, 24; highest point of, 28; Indians on, 35; early map of, 37; steamship terminals on, 334; bridges on, 360 Manhattan Company, 26 Manhattan Railway Company, 348, 355


3&rdner, Ring, 155 ; ef


Redd, Cora, 145 end arsen, Nella, 142, 143 ne ditin Americans in New York, 123-124 Glitvians in New York, 87 ,3surent, Robert, 199 ns fw, colonial, 44 politilow Department, 441 6; cdawson, Ernest, 17, 196 0, 3gwson, John Howard, 175, 274, 275 se league of American Writers, 176 undague of Composers, 238 , 39: Corbusier, Charles E., 10 lizatie, Arthur, 199 ation:e, Canada, 147 3, 3se, "Chief," 148 fevre, Maynard, 210 efferts Mansion, 206 dig gal aid, 467 39: Gallienne, Eva, 274 2schman, Governor Herbert H., 77, 144, 394, 396 tel a ght hman, Lilli, 235 isler, Captain Jacob, 46, 97, 438 ,


Enfant, Major Pierre Charles, 11, 402, 403


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[Enfant's Washington Plan, 207, 208, 402-403 ner onard, Eddie, 254 , 39 nox, James, 105 scaze, William, 492


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thelessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 278 Unietts in New York, 114 aploy write ver Law, 392 wis, Harold M., 414 wis, James, 268 , 1 wis, Meade "Lux," 256 wis, Nelson P., 6, 17, 406, 410 9, 3 wis, Sinclair, 172 wis, Ted, 257 wisohn, Irene and Alice, 273 xington, Battle of, 50 xow, Clarence, 443 xow Committee, 17, 74, 443 liberty boys," 439 berty Island, see Bedloe Island berty Street, 25


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brary, Public, 48, 54, 209, 476 braries, Bureau of, 476 ght, James, 272, 273 ncoln, Abraham, 98, 99, 264, 363, 383 ncoln-Douglas debates, 245 ncoln Theater, 146 ncoln Tunnel, 344, 362, 408, 418, 420


propos 1, 36 V, 39 its 0 by refor nd, Jenny, 234 ngard, William, 249 nk, Harry, 242 on Brewery, 99 ppard, George, 170 ppmann, Walter, 304 spenard Creek, 25 spenard Meadows, 25 terary clubs of 19th century, 165, 178 terary Guild, 178 terary and Philosophical Society of New York, 55, 178


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516 INDEX


Manhattan Square, 26 Mann, Thomas, 175 Manship, Paul, 199, 490 Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, 47 Manufacturing plants in New York, 377 Manumission Society of New York, 471 Mara, Tim, 319 Marconi, Guglielmo, 295


Maretzek, Max, 234


Marin, John, 17, 197, 198


Marine Society, 52


Maritime affairs of New York, 325-345


Mark, Mitchell, 289


Marsala, Joe, 258, 262


Marsh, Reginald, 17, 197, 200


Marshall, Margaret, 177


Marti, José, 122


Martin, Homer D., 193, 195


Martin, Peter, 263


Marx brothers, 285


Marx, Karl, 99, 387


Mason, Daniel Gregory, 240


Mason's Arms, 134


Masons, Negro Lodge of, 150


Mastel, Jacob, 279


Masters, Edgar Lee, 162


Materna, Amalia, 235


Matsell, George W., 63


Mazzei, Filippo, 81


McAllister, Ward, 170


McAneny, George, 6, 412


McBean, James, 209 McBride, Robert, 238


McClellan, Mayor George B., 71


McClellan Commission, 406


Mcclendon, Rose, 146, 273


McCloskey, Cardinal, 102


McComb, John, 208 McCooey, John H., 308


McCormack, John, 103, 237


McCrea, Roswell C., 413, 414


McDonald, John B., 103, 349


McDonnell, J. P., 379


McEvoy, J. P., 263 McGlynn, Father, 379


McHugh, Jimmy, 264


Mckay, Claude, 142, 143


Mckay, Donald, 4


Mckenzie, "Red," 259, 260, 262, 411


Mckenzie, Vorhees & Gmelin, architects, 219


McKim, Charles, 18, 118, 221, 222


McKim, Mead & White, architects, 228 Mckinney, Nina Mae, 146


McNeven, William, 103


McQuade, James A., 77


Mechanics' Lien Law, 440 Melville, Herman, 9, 15, 165, 166, 167 Melyn, Cornelius, 69


Mencken, H. L., 155, 162, 171


Mendelssohn Glee Club, 237, 239


Mercury Theater, 272, 280, 281


Metal and machine-shop products of New York, 376


Metropolitan Opera House, opened, 72, 96,


235; Swedish singers of, 116; Wa nerian opera introduced at, 237; broa casts from, 295, 299 Metz, Theodore, 252


Mexicans in New York, 122, 123


Meyers, Jerome, 197 Michaelius, Jonas, 42


Micheaux Corporation, 146


Milborne, Jacob, 97


Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 18, 273


Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 17, 197


Millet, Jean Francois, 193


Millrose track meet, 321


Mills, Clark, 181


Mills, Florence, 144


Mineralogical Club, New York, 29


Miner's Eighth Ave. Theater, 249


Minetta Brook, 26


Minor, Robert, 172, 197


Minuit, Peter, 38, 39, 88 Mitchel, Mayor John Purroy, 73, 74, 2


Mitchell, Abbie, 146


Mitchell, Joseph, 18


Mitchell, Stewart, 175


Mitsui (Japanese importing house), 118


Mizrachi (Zionist organization), 130


Moeller, Philip, 273


Mohammedan mosque, 117


Mohammedan Unity Society, 117


Mok, Michael, 155


Mole, "Miff," 258


Molyneaux, Tom, 146


Monroe, Harriet, 173


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Montgomerie, Governor, 438


Moody, William Vaughn, 270, 271, 276


Mooney, William, 101


Moore, Fred R., 138


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Moore, George, 175


Moore, Sir Henry, 50


Moore, Marianne, 175


Mora, Helene, 241


Moral Reform Societies, 134


Morand, Paul, 4, 13


Morgan, J. Pierpont Sr., 313


Morningside Park, 28


Morrell, Peter, 146


Morris, George Pope, 165


Morris, Gouverneur, 402, 404


Morris, Lewis, 43


Morrisania, 67


Morrow, Dwight W., 412


Morse, Samuel F. B., 185


Morton, "Jelly-Roll," 260


Moscow Art Theater, 274


Moses, Robert, 6, 73, 321, 421


Moss, Carlton, 146


Most, Johann, 388


Motion Picture Patents Co., 288


Motion pictures in New York, 284-293


Motor bus transportation, 356, 375


Mount, William Sidney, 186, 187


Mount Morris, 28


Mount Tom, 28


Mulberry Bend, 94, 430


Mulberry Community House, 96


Mulberry Street, 26


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Wal Muldoon, Bill, 317 broaMultiple Dwelling Law, 432, 437 [umford, Lewis, 6, 18, 175, 211, 226, 397, 403, 405, 492, 500 [undy, Jimmy, 260 uni, Paul, 279 unich School of painting, 194


unicipal Building, 72, 215 unicipal Government, 447-450


.unicipal Housing Authorities Law of 1934, 434


unicipal Reference Library, 476 unicipal shelters, 466


unsey, Frank, 305, 307 Murderers' Alley," 430


urphy, Charles, 54, 75, 102 urphy, Isaac (jockey), 137 urray, Don, 259


urray Hill, 26 urrell, Holt, 242 Turrell, Sara, 143


useums: American Museum of Natural History, 3, 29, 404; Brooklyn Mu- seum, 30; Dyckman House, 206; Jan Huss House, 162; Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, 186; Museum of Mod- ern Art, 200, 288


usic Clubs, National Federation of, 238 usic League, National, 238


usic Library (of N. Y. Public Library), 476


usic in New York: classical, 231-240; popular, 241-265


usical societies, early, 233; modern, 238 utual Assurance Company, 53


utual Broadcasting System, 297, 300, 301 utual Relief, New York Society for, 134


adelman, Elie, 199 aguchi, Isamu, 199 ail Brothers, 137 ail, J. B. Sr., 138 akian, Reuben, 199


arcotic smuggling, 339 arrows, The, 14, 22 assau Street Theater, 232 ast, Thomas, 17, 66, 192 athan, George Jean, 278 ation, 98, 163, 177, 178, 382


ational Academy of Design, 185, 195, 196


ational Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 149 ational Baseball League, 319


ational Broadcasting Company, 296, 297, 300, 301 ational Guard, New York, 150 ational Labor Congress, 387 ational Labor Relations Act, 394 ational Labor Relations Board, 394 ational Negro Baseball League, 316 ational Negro Congress, 149 ational Recovery Act, 393


ational Security Board, 458 ational Symphony, 236


National Urban League, 149 Nationalities, 81-131; Italians, 93-96; Ger-


mans, 97-101; Irish, 101-103; Eng- lish, Scotch, Welsh, 103-106; Rus- sians, 106-107; Ukrainians, 107; Greeks, 107-109; Rumanians, 109,


110; Hungarians, 110, 111; Czecho- slovaks, 111, 112; Balkan Slavs, 112- 114; Estonians, 114; Lithuanians and Letts, 114-115; Scandinavians, 115, 116; peoples of the Near East, 116- 118; Orientals, 118-121; Spanish- speaking people, 121-125; Jewish people, 125-131


Natural Setting of New York, 20-34 Navy Yard, 330


Neau, Elias, 133


"Negro Plot" of 1741, 48


Negro Theater in Harlem, 279


Negroes in New York, 132-151; during Civil War, 64; sports activities of, 316,


320; in the labor movement, 381; see also essay on Popular Music


Neighborhood Playhouse, 272, 273


Nelson, Thomas, & Son, publishers, 104


Neuman, Gustav Adolph, 98


Nevada, Emma, 234


Nevin, Ethelbert, 251


Nevins, Allan, 59


New Amsterdam, founding of, 38


New England, Dominion of, 45


New Gaol (debtor's prison), 26


New Masses, 176, 177


New Netherland, founding of, 37


New Orange, 45


New Republic, 163, 177


New York, origin of name, 43


New York African Society for Mutual Re- lief, 150 New York Central Railroad, 328, 337 New York Central Underground Railway Company, 349


New York City News Association, 310


New York Dock Company Terminal, 332


New York & Harlem Railroad Co., 347 New York Manumission Society, 133 New York Railways Company, 357


New York Stock Exchange, 53


New Yorker Hotel, 224


Newark, 334


Newark Bay, 22, 326


Newark Lowland, 30


Newark Metropolitan Airport, 8, 365


Newell, James, 201


Newhouse, Edward, 176


News Association, New York City, 310


News Association, Standard, 310


Newspapers of New York, 304-311; first in New York, 98; number of in 1817, 59; Negroes' first newspaper, 135; Combined New York Morning News- paper, 392


Early Newspapers: Anti-Slavery Standard, 136; Commercial Adver- tiser, 383; Daily Advertiser, 164; Federalist, 439; Free Enquirer, 383;


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Newspapers of New York (Continued)


Daily Sentinel, 383; Freedom's Jour- nal, 135; Gazette, 43, 98; Liberator, 135; Weekly Journal, 14, 43, 98; Workingman's Advocate, 383


Current Dailies: American, 306; Bronx Home News, 308; Brooklyn


Eagle, 308, 309; Daily News, 309;


Daily Worker, 177, 308; Enquirer,


309; Graphic, 307; Herald, 277; Herald Tribune, 177, 305, 309, 310; Evening Journal, 307; Journal-Ameri- can, 306, 307, 309; Post, 98, 165, 177. 307; Sun, 136, 307; Telegram, 306; Times, 177, 300, 304, 309, 400; Tribune, 136, 166, 309, 385, 386, 389; World, 306; World-Telegram, 306


Trade Papers: British World, 106; Journal of Commerce, 383; Wall Street Journal, 308; Women's Wear, 308


Armenian, 117; Chinese, 119; Croa- tian, 114; Czech, 112; German, 98, 99, 385; Greek, 108; Hungarian, 111; Japanese, 119; Jewish, 131, 308; Negro, 141, 147, 309; Serbian, 114; Slovak, 114; Slovene, 114; Spanish, 124; Syrian, 117


Newsreel theaters, 291, 292


Newton, Frankie, 261


Newtown Creek, 23, 332


Niblo's Garden, 59


Nichols, "Red," 258


Nicholson, Lieutenant-Governor Francis, 46


Nicolls, Matthias, 45


Nicolls, Richard, 43, 44, 103


Niemann, Albert, 235


Nietzsche, Friedrich, 196


Nieu Utrecht, 68


Night clubs, 137, 155, 252, 259


Nilsson, Anna, 234


Nock, Albert J., 175


Non-Importation Resolution of 1769, 127


Nordica, Lillian, 234, 237


Norris, Frank, 171


North Beach Municipal Airport, 366


North River, 22, 23, 25, 26


Norton, Charles D., 6, 401, 407, 410, 411, 412


Norwegians in New York, 87, 115 Nugart, Bruce, 143


Nykino Films, 288


O'Casey, Sean, 274 Ochs, Adolph S., 304, 305 Odd Fellows, Negro lodge of, 134, 150 Odets, Clifford, 276


"O. Henry" (Sidney Porter), 171 O'Higgins, Harvey, 103 O'Keefe, Georgia, 200 Olcott, Chauncey, 103 Olinville, 67 Oliver, Joe, 263 Oliver, King, 260


Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr., 6, 60, 4 406


Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., 6, 413


Olympic Games, 318


O'Malley, Frank Ward, 304


O'Neal, Hugh, 101


Pay


O'Neill, Eugene, 144, 145, 146, 272, 2 276, 300


Onyx (night club), 155, 261, 262


Opdyke, Mayor George, 65


Oppenheim, James, 173


Oratorio Society, 236


Orchard Beach, 321, 421


Ordine dei Figli d'Italia (Sons of Ital 96


Orientals in New York, 118


Ornstein, Leo, 238


Orozco, José Clemente, 123, 200


Orphan Asylum Society, 454


Orphanages, 454, 456


Oswego Street, 25


Ottendorfer, Oswald, 99


Oude Dorp, 69


Over-Seas League, 106


Overton, Ada, 137


Owen, Robert Dale, 379, 383, 385


Owens, Jesse, 147


Oyster Bay, 338


Oyster Island, 33


Pach, Walter, 200


Pachelbel, Charles Theodore, 232


Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 237


Page, Thomas Nelson, 168


Paige, Myles A., 148


Paige, Satchel, 316


Paine, George Lyman, Jr., 495


Paine, Thomas, 105, 163, 164, 383


Palisades, 23, 29


Palmer, Attorney-General A. Mitchell, :


Palmer, John F., 249


Palmer's Theatre, 137, 234


Pandolfini, Joseph, 201


Panic, see Financial panic


Paper and paper products factories, 376


Paramount Building, 287


Paramount Theatre, 289


Parent-Teachers Association, 482


Park Row, 26


Parker, Dorothy, 178


Parkhurst, Rev. Charles H., 17, 443 Parks, Sam, 390


Parks, early plans for, 15, 406; Dep: ment of, 406; Alley Pond, 30; Bro 406; Bronx Zoological, 28; City H 50; Flushing Meadows, 30, 69, 4 Fort Tryon, 28; Gramercy, 24; wood, 28; Jacob Riis, 421; Juni Valley, 421; Pelham Bay, 406; P1 pect, 30, 406, 419; Red Hook, 4 Riverside, 406; Van Cortlandt, 406. See also Central Park


Parran, Dr. Thomas E., 458


Passaic River, 29, 326 Pastor, Tony, 241, 248, 250 Patti, Adelina, 95, 234


INDEX 519


, 40 aul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, 433 Paulding, James Kirke, 165 'aulist Fathers, 99 Paulist Press, 99 axton, Joseph, 500 ayton, Philip A., 138 2,2Peacock, Eulace, 147 eale, Charles Willson, 185, 191 earl Street, 24 eartree, Mayor William, 47 egler, Westbrook, 306 ellisier, Victor, 232 emberton, Brock, 282 Italyenn, William, 402 ennell, Joseph, 197 ennington, J. W. C., 135 ennsylvania Hotel, 224 ennsylvania Station, 9, 364


eople's Institute, 483 epusch, John Christopher, 232 eriodicals: literary magazines of 18th and early 19th centuries, 164, 165-166; American Weekly, 309; American Mercury, 174; Appreciation, 121; Bookman, 177; Catholic World, 99; Colored American, 135, 138; Critic, 178; Chap Book, 173; Century, 177; Dial, 174-175; Freeman, 175; Forum, 177; Fortune, 177; Genius of Free- dom, 135; Harper's Weekly, 66, 98, 177, 178; Home Journal, 165; Little Review, 173; Mirror of Liberty, 135; Nation, 98, 163, 177, 178; National Advocate, 134; National Police Ga- zette, 63; New Korea, 120; New Masses, 176, 177; New Republic, 163, 177; New Theatre, 252; New York Age, 147; New York Mirror, 164, 165, 429; New Yorker, 177; Opportunity, 149; Plumber and Sani- tary Engineer, 429; Poetry, 173; Saturday Evening Post, 309; Saturday Review of Literature, 163, 177; Time, 292; Time-Piece, 164; Scribner's, 177; Smart Set, 174; Survey Graphic, 142


Foreign: Al Islash, 124; Armenian Spectator, 118; As Sameer, 117; Az Ember, 111; Dharma, 121; Efyleti Elet, 111; Gotchnag, 177; La Nueva Democracia, 124; Tydenni Zpravy, 112; Vedanta Darpana, 120


Depferry, Commodore Oliver H., 105, 118 ersians in New York, 120


eters, Paul, 144, 275 ettis, Ashley, 240 halanxists (early political party), 379 hiladelphia, site of general Congress, 50 hilharmonic Orchestra, 110


hilharmonic Symphony Society of New York, 236 hillips, Adelaide, 235 hillips, David Graham, 307 hilomathean Lodge of Odd Fellows, 134, 150


Philoptochos (Greek philanthropic soci- ety), 108


Phyfe, Duncan, 105


Picon, Molly, 279


Pierre Hotel, 224


Pike's Opera House, 235


Pilser Brewing Company, 99


Pinero, Arthur Wing, 269


Pinski, David, 273


Pious, Robert Savon, 143


Piracy in colonial period, 46-47


Piston, Walter, 238


Plan of New York and its Environs, Com- mittee on, 410


Plant and Structures, Department of, 450


Plantation Cafe, 145


Platt, Geoffrey, 491


Platt, William, 491


Plaza Hotel, 224


Poalei Zion, 130 Poe, Edgar Allan, 164, 166


Poles in New York, 82, 84, 87


Police, Metropolitan, 63, 441


Police Athletic League, 323


Police Department, 61, 71, 440, 463


Police Gazette, National, 63


Police radio stations, 301


Polk, Frank L., 412


Pollution of rivers and bays, 32


Polo Grounds, 147


Poole, Ernest, 425


Popular Price Theater, 279


Population density, 424, 428


Port of New York, 327-328, 329, 333


Port of New York Authority, 343-345, 331, 334, 367, 407, 408


Port Newark Terminal, 22 Porter, Cole, 264


Porter, Quincy, 240


Porter, Russell B., 304


Post, 98, 165, 307


Post, George B., 216


Post, Langdon W., 436


Potter's Field, 25


Pouch Terminal, 334


Pound, Ezra, 175 Powell, Maud, 237


Power, Tyrone, 266


Pratt, Charles E., 249


Pratt, Frederic B., 407, 412


Prendergast, Maurice, 196, 198


Press Associations, 310


Press in New York, 304-311


Press Radio Bureau, 300


Press Wireless, Inc., 300


Prestopino, Gregorico, 201


Prince's Bay, 30 Prison Ships in Wallabout Bay, 51


Producing Managers' Association, 391 Progressive education, 473-474


Propagation of Gospel in Foreign Parts, Society for the, 133, 471


Provincetown Players, 272 Provincetown Playhouse, 279 Provincial government, 438


Provost Street, see Franklin Street


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Public architecture, 221


Public carriers of New York, 346


Public Health Service, U. S., 458


Public School Athletic League, 321, 323 Public School Society, 55, 382


Public Service Commission, 353


Public Welfare, Department of, 466


Public Works, Department of, 450


Public Works Administration, 434, 435, 436


Publishing and printing in New York, 376 Puerto Ricans in New York, 121, 122, 123, 124


Pulitzer, Joseph, 98, 110, 306


Pupin, Michael I., 113


Purdy, Lawson, 412


Putnam watershed, 27


Pythians, Negro lodge of, 150


Quakers in New York, 44 "Queen Charlotte" tavern, 134


Queens Borough, 24, 30, 69


Queens Borough Public Library, 476


Queens College, 476, 484


Queens Midtown Tunnel, 363, 418, 420


Quetelet, Lambert, A. J., 411


Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 270


Quota Immigration Law of 1929, 86


Race tracks, 69, 324


Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 107


Radio City, 297, 301


Radio City Music Hall, 283, 290, 291


Radio Corporation of America, 296


Radio in New York, 294-303


Radio stations, 114, 125, 296, 298; devel-


opment of, 296; municipal, 300; police, 301


Radosavljevich, R. R., 113


Ragtime music, 245, 250, 254


Railroad Labor Board, 392


Railroad terminals, 332, 334


Railroads, freight distribution, 328, 329; marine operations, 330-331, 341-342; commuting traffic, 364


Railway trunk-line traffic, 365 Raines Law, 100


Randall (Randel or Randell), John, Jr., 54, 208, 402


Randall (Randel or Randell) Plan of 1811, 6, 402, 403, 404, 406, 410, 415


Randall's Island, 22, 421


Randall's Island Stadium, 147, 321


Randau, Carl, 310


Randolph, A. Phillip, 150


Rapee, Erno, 110


Rapid transit, 347, 355, 367, 431


Rapid Transit Act, 349


Commissioners,


Rapid Transit Railroad Board of, 349, 352 Rappold, Marie, 237


Raritan Bay, 22, 326 Raritan River, 326


Rascoe, Burton, 178


Rawson and McMurray, immigration agents, 88


Ray, Charles Bennett, 135 Raye, Martha, 261 Raymond, Henry J., 304 Raymond, Lou, 155 R. C. A. Building, 215, 217, 229 Reade Street, 27


Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 43. Recreation facilities, 461


Rector's (restaurant), 257


Red Hook, 30, 68


Reddie, Milton, 260


Redman, Don, 260


Reed, John, 175, 272, 273, 274


Reform, political, 442, 443, 445


Reform Society, New York, 135


Refregier, Anton, 201


Regents of the University of the State New York, 52, 479


Regional Plan, 410-420, 6, 10, 11


Regional Plan Association, 413, 434


Regional Plan Committee, 404, 407, 4 410, 412


Regional Survey, 413, 414, 415, 416


Rehan, Ada, 103, 268


Reid, Whitelaw, 305


Reisman, Philip, 197


Religious bodies, act of 1784 for inc poration of, 53


Religious freedom, 42, 44, 81, 101


Remsen House, 206


Renaissance Quintet, 147, 320


Rentals in New York, 424, 435, 436


Renwick, James, 210


Repairs and Supplies, Department of, 4 Research Bureau of the Welfare Coun 469


Resettlement Administration, 398, 434


Retail marketing, 370, 372


Revolutionary period, 48-52, 439


Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 184


Rialto Theater, 289


Rice, Elmer, 274, 277


Richardson, H. H., 212


Richardson, Willis, 143


Richmond, Borough of, 30, 69, 70


Richmond Hill, 25


Rickard, "Tex," 313, 314


Riesenfeld, Hugo, 289


Riis, Jacob A., 116, 427, 432


Riker's Island, 77


Riley, Eddie, 261


Ringling, John, 313


Riots of 1877, 388


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Ritz brothers, 155


Rivera, Diego, 123, 200


Rivera, Luis Munoz, 124


Riverdale Hill, 29


Rivers, Ellis, 148


Riverside Church, 223


Rivington Street, 25


Rivoli Theater, 289


Rizal, José, 120


Robeson, Paul, 144, 145, 273


Robinson, Bill "Bojangles," 144, 146


Robinson, Boardman, 197


Robinson, Chuck, 145


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.obinson, Gail, 263, 264 .ockaway Beach, 21, 321


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.ockefeller, John D., 223, 433, 436 .ockefeller Center, 229-230, 215, 218, 297, 301 .ocking stone in Bronx Park, 28 odgers, Richard, 264 oebling, John, 6, 17, 213, 214, 227 oebling, Washington A., 6, 213 oelantsen, Adam, 471 oerich, Nicholas, 107 oger, Robert Cameron, 251 ogers, Will, 146 ollins, William, 176 omains, Jules, 4, 10, 19, 399, 421 oman Catholic Officials, 46 oman Catholic See created, 53 omberg, Sigmund, 251 ome, Harold I., 264 ooney, Pat, 241, 248 oosevelt, Franklin D., 76, 396, 437 oosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D., 306 oosevelt, Theodore, 71, 74, 389, 443 oosevelt Hotel, 224 oosevelt Raceway, 322 oot, George F., 236 osebank, Staten Island, 333 oseland (dancehall), 155 osenfeld, Paul, 18, 175 osenthal, Doris, 197 oss, Albion, 400 othapfel, Samuel L. "Roxy," 289 oxy Theater, 283, 290 oyal Naturalization Act of 1740, 127 ugby football, 323 uggles, David, 135 umanian Book Depository Company, 109 umanians in New York, 82, 87, 109, 110, 169 unyon, Damon, 155 uppert Brewery, 99 ush, William, 183, 188 ussell, Luis, 258 ussell, "Pee-Wee," 262 ussian Orthodox Church, 113 ussians in New York, 82, 87, 106, 107 usswurm, John, 135 uth, "Babe," 313 uthenians in New York, 107 utherford, John, 402 utledge, Edward, 207 yder, Albert, 17, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 198 ye Pond, 56 yser, early explorer, 37 yssel, early Staten Island settler, 70




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