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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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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
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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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