The Epic of New York City (114 page)

Philadelphia
Ledger,
265

Philipse, Frederick,
120

Philipsen, Hendrick,
87

Phillips, Wendell,
236

Phyfe, Duncan,
179

Pickford, Mary,
511–12

Pierce, John,
206–07

Pilgrims,
23
,
47

Pine Street,
177

Pirates,
28
,
105–09

Pitt, William,
144
,
149

Pius VII, Pope,
216

Pius IX, Pope,
268

Platt, Thomas C.,
423
,
429
,
452
,
453

Plowman, Matthew,
94

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
268

PM,
569

Pneumatic tubes,
339–40

Police force,
231
,
232
,
277–81
,
306–07
,
308
,
311
,
429–39
,
459
,
484–85

Police riot,
277–81

Policy games,
534
,
554

Political parties,
180
,
183
,
189
,
195
,
196
,
281–82
,
382
,
536–39
;
see also
under name of party

Polk, Frank,
499

Poole, Bill,
282

Population of New York City,
145
,
158
,
178
,
180
,
185
,
197
,
202
,
214
,
218
,
251
,
430
,
453
,
458
,
594

Portsmouth, Duchess of,
92

Portugal and the Portuguese,
15
,
20
,
22
,
42
,
61

Post, Jehiel,
250

Postal service,
81

Post offices,
45

Potter, Charles T.,
366

Potter, George,
282

Potter, Bishop Henry Codman,
392
,
411

Potter, Horace,
343

Potter, Bishop Horatio,
411

Powell, James,
587
,
588

Price, Stephen,
191
,
219

Priem, Charles,
432

Printing,
79
,
104–05
,
117–18

Printing House Square,
308

Prison ships,
172

Privateers,
105
,
106
,
213

Progress and Poverty
(George),
381

Prohibition,
516–19
,
524
,
553

Prospect Park,
163

Prostitutes,
131
,
159
,
171
,
318
,
425–26
,
427–28
,
432
,
433
,
460
,
490

Protestant Episcopal Church,
178–79
,
411–13

Protestants,
103
,
111
,
140
,
252–54
,
268
;
see also
under name of church

Public School Society,
252
,
253
,
254

Puerto Ricans,
560
,
579–80
,
583–86

Pulitzer, Joseph,
388
,
389
,
442
,
444
,
449

Pulitzer Building,
408

Puritans,
46

Purroy, Henry D.,
396

Quack (Negro slave),
132
,
134
,
135

Quackenbos, Walter,
153

Quakers,
62–64
,
80
,
90

Quarantine,
130

Quarantine riot, Staten Island,
282–83

Quartering Act (1765),
150
,
151

Quedagh Merchant,
108

Queens,
53
,
54–55
,
92
,
452
,
453

Queesting,
116

Quill, Michael J.,
583

Racketeers,
553–54
,
566–69

Railroads,
259
,
338
,
340
,
341–42
,
476–77

Ralph, Julian,
396

Randall, John, Jr.,
202

Randall, Captain Robert R.,
194

Randall Plan,
202–03
,
270

Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company,
465

Rasoe, Burton,
519

Raymond, Henry J.,
287
,
308

Real estate,
79
,
83
,
101
,
179
,
195
,
228
,
242
,
277
,
458

Recessions,
317

Recife, Brazil,
61

Recruiting Officer, The,
119

Red Hook, New York,
53

Rehan, Ada,
402

Reid, Ed,
570

Reles, Abe “Kid Twist,”
567
,
568
,
576–77

Relief programs,
551–53

Religious sects,
89–90

Religious toleration,
80

Remington, Frederic,
442

Renwick, James, Jr.,
272

Republican party,
282

Revere, Paul,
155

Revolutionary War,
157–75

Rhode Island,
59

Richard, Paul,
127

Richard,
sloop,
206

Richmond, Duke of,
75

Richmond County,
75
,
92
,
277
,
453

Richmond
Dispatch,
296

Ridley & Company, E.,
397

Riis, Jacob A.,
435
,
436
,
438

Rikers Island,
295

Riverside Drive,
341

Roadhouses and inns,
116
,
194

Robinson, Edwin Arlington,
465

Rockefeller, John D.,
411

Rockefeller, John D., Jr.,
553

Rockefeller Center,
553
,
557

Roebling, Emily Warren,
373–74
,
375

Roebling, John Augustus,
369–70
,
372
,
373

Roebling, Washington A.,
373–75

Roelandsen, Adam,
27

Rogers, Hugo,
574

Romaine, Benjamin,
201

Romme, John,
133
,
135

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
419
,
422
,
457
,
500
,
506
,
510
,
541–42
,
543
,
544
,
547–48
,
562
,
568

Roosevelt, James,
228

Roosevelt, Nicholas,
113

Roosevelt, Theodore,
381
,
382
,
383
,
434
,
435–39
,
443
,
444
,
446
,
447
,
457
,
499
,
506

Root, Elihu,
353

Rose, Aquila,
117

Rosenberg, Louis (Leftie Louie),
485

Rosenschweig, Jacob,
484–85

Rosenthal, Herman,
484–85

Rothstein, Arnold,
541

Rough Riders,
444
,
446
,
447

Round Table,
332

Ruark, Robert,
572

Ruser, Commodore Hans,
504–05

Russia and the Russians,
17
,
536
,
537
,
538

Russwurm, John Brown,
235

Rutledge, Edward,
166

Rynders, Isaiah,
261
,
263
,
265
,
267
,
277

Sachs, Alexander,
562

Sackett, Richard,
118

Sage, Russell,
464

St. Denis Hotel,
358

St. Martin Island,
42
,
68

St. Nicholas Hotel,
304
,
307
,
310
,
323

St. Patrick's Cathedral,
216
,
254
,
272–73
,
294
,
360–61

St. Patrick's Day parade,
268

St. Paul's Chapel,
171
,
188
,
397

St. Peter's Church,
178
,
216
,
272

Saint-Saëns, Charles Camille,
502

Salmagundi
essays,
203

Sandburg, Carl,
304–05
,
316

Sands, Gulielma Elmore,
192

Sandy Hook,
130
,
159
,
207
,
505

Sanford, Maj. General Charles W.,
262
,
280
,
302

Satterlee, Herbert L.,
365

Sawyer, Charles Pike,
402

Schneider, Wolf,
598

Schneiderman, Rose,
492

Schuylkill River,
17

Schwab, Charles M.,
533

Screvane, Paul R.,
589

Seabury, Samuel,
542–44
,
545–48
,
550

Sears, Isaac,
153

Secession,
198
,
290–91

Second Anglo-Dutch War,
68
,
77–78

Seeley, Clinton Burton,
438

Seeley, Herbert Barnum,
438

Seneca Chief
(canal packet),
227

Seneca Village,
362

Sengier, Edgar Édouard,
563–64

Settlers, arrival of,
23–40

Seventh Regiment,
262
,
279–80
,
313
,
374
,
454

Seventy-first Regiment,
447

Seventy-fourth Regiment,
313

Seventy-ninth Highlanders,
295
,
296

Seven Years' War,
143

Seward, William Henry,
252
,
254
,
288
,
290
,
319

Seymour, Horatio,
297–98
,
299
,
309
,
310–11
,
314
,
315
,
316

Shandley, Edward J.,
333

Shannon, David A.,
536

Shapiro, Jacob “Gurrah,”
553

Shaw, George Bernard,
490

Shay, Charles O.,
396

Shea, John D. G.,
387

Sherman, Irving,
574
,
575
,
576

Sherman, General William T.,
319
,
320
,
324
,
401

Sherwood, Russell T.,
545–46

Shinplasters,
243

Shipbuilding,
29–30
,
50
,
79
,
109
,
117
,
216
,
243

Siegel, Benjamin “Bugsy,”
553
,
568

Simmons, Edward H. H.,
528

Simpson, Edmund,
219

Simpson, Sloan (Mrs. William O'Dwyer),
570