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encouragement and enthusiasm when it counted most. Roy was followed by many others who contributed advice, information, and many other kinds of support. We’ve been helped by outstanding academics from a wide variety of fields and by tour guides, history buffs, political activists, architects, lawyers, engineers, journalists, union leaders, and historic preservationists, among many others.

With regrets for lacking space to give them adequate personal recognition, we salute and thank Jean-Christophe Agnew, David Amram, Jeanie Attie, David Birnbaum, Dan Bluestone, Pat Bonomi, Steve Brier, Josh Brown, Ric Burns, Paul Byard, Barbara Cohen, Page Cowley, Jacques D’Amboise, Bruce Davidson, Susan Davis, Gloria Deak, Vicki DeGrazia, Kanak Mani Dixit, Joe Doyle, Edward Robb Ellis, Jason Epstein, Liz Fee, Joe Fried, Deborah Gardner, Marvin Gelfand, Eugene Genovese, Brendan Gill, David Gordon, Christopher Gray, Carolyn Grimstead, Herb Gutman, John Halpern, Erich Hartmann, Susan Henderson, Ken Jackson, Brooks Jones, Alfred Kazin, Derek Keene, Thomas Kessner, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jeff Kroessler, Richard Lieberman, Tony Lukas, Harry Magdoff, Pedro Mateos, David Melville, Mike Merrill, Simon Middleton, Jane Miliken, Sandy Miller, John Mulligan, Charles Musser, Palden Namgyal, David Nasaw, De Nederlandsche Bank, Peter Neill, Paul Otto, Chimie Pemba, T. T. Pemba, Mike Pertschuk, the members of the Radical History Review Collective, Paul Resnik, Dick Roberts, Dan Schiller, Dinitia Smith, Deborah Solbert, Peter Solbert, Paul Sweezey, Bill Tabb, Walter Thabit, Danny Walkowitz, Margaret Wallace, Suzanne Wasserman, Jon Wiener, Sean Wilentz, Bill Wise, Alan Wolfe, and Sally Yarmolinsky.

In the home stretch, supplementing Sheldon Meyer’s sharp-eyed rereadings, three people plowed through the entire manuscript. Eric Foner brought his wide-ranging historical expertise to bear and provided a sweeping and reassuring assessment. Betsy Blackmar, a penetrating scholar of the city, gave the manuscript a brilliant, cranky, loving, and tough-minded going over—exactly what it needed. For Hope Cooke, herself a virtuoso metropolitan historian (see her Seeing New York), this was but the latest journey through these pages, having read every preceding draft, and her final insights were as invaluable as all her earlier ones.

Index of Names

Abbott, Lyman, 1170, 1181

Abraham, Abraham, 1188, 1191

Adam, Robert, 177, 344, 369

Adams, Abigail, 305, 327

Adams, John, 209, 217-18, 240, 265, 299, 325, 326, 327, 328, 344, 374, 401

Adams, John Quincy, 514, 520

Adams, Julius, 969

Adams, Samuel, 207

Adams, Thomas, 125

Addison, Joseph, 132, 133, 180, 242

Adler, Felix, 1173, 1176, 1178, 1181, 1190, 1199, 1200

Adler, Jacob, 1139

Adler, Samuel, 1173, 1174

Agassiz, Louis, 964

Agen, Hugh, 131

Ah Sue, 1127

Aimes, Charles, 414

Albee, Edward E, 1145

Albert (prince of England), 713, 1119

Alberto, Cicero, 31

Alcott, Bronson, 710

Aldridge, Ira, 488, 489

Alexander (Czar of Russia), 951, 1113

Alexander, James, 132, 151, 154, 155, 161, 168, 180, 221

Alexander, James Waddell, 847

Alexander, Kitty, 270, 304

Alexander, William, 229, 236, 237, 270, 271

Alexis (Grand Duke of Russia), 951

Alger, Horatio Jr., 976, 977-78, 997, 1013, 1016

Allaire, James, 442, 502, 532, 587, 613

Allen, Horatio, 659

Allen, Moses, 407

Allen, Richard, 400, 972

Allen, Stephen, 344-45, 454, 498, 504, 580, 589, 504

Alsop, John, 217, 277

Alsop, Mr., 751

Altman, Benjamin, 1076, 1081

Amelia, Maria, 723

Amherst, Lord Jeffrey, 178, 255

Anderson, Hiram, 742

Anderson, James, 132

Anderson, John, 637

Anderson, Margaret, 144

Anderson, Mary, 185

Anderson, Robert, 869

Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 811, 812, 989

Andros, Edmund, 84-85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 95, 96, 99

Angola, Anthony, 56

Angola, Anthony van, 32

Angola, Catalina van, 32

Angola, Dorothy, 56

Angola, Laurens van, 32

Angola, Lucie d’, 32

Angola, Paulo d’, 31, 32-33

Anne (queen of England), 114, 177

Anneke, Fritz, 801

Anneke, Mathilde Giesler, 801

Anthony, Allard, 51, 78

Anthony, Domingo, 33

Anthony, Edward,