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in mid-nineteenth century, 620, 844, 847

and Panic of 1837, 615

and Panic of 1857, 844, 847

in post-Revolutionary New York, 290

and stock market, 1042

Banks: Adams’ views about, 325

for artisans, 425

charters for, 308, 445, 876

and city development, 931

and Civil War, 876-77, 888

collapse of, 1043

commercial, 444, 656

correspondent, 446

corruption of, 325

and Crash of 1873, 1020, 1021

and development of financial district, 939

in early nineteenth century, 325, 336, 425, 444-45, 446, 519, 522

efficiency of, 656-57

in 1830s, 594, 600, 601, 607, 608, 609, 611–12, 613–14

expansion of, 847

international, 445

investment, 445, 1022, 1038, 1044, 1046, 1088

in late nineteenth century, 931, 969, 988, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1027, 1038, 1043, 1044, 1046, 1062, 1223

and Lincoln’s second inaugural, 904

and merchants, 657

in mid-nineteenth century, 621, 656-57, 658, 842-43, 845, 847

middle-class workers in, 969

national, 876

New York as center for, 445, 446

and organization of first bank, 277

and organized labor, 988

and Panic of 1857, 842-43, 845, 847

and Panic of 1893, 1185

in post-revolutionary New York, 277, 279-80, 307-10

savings, 444-45, 931, 1022, 1027, 1223

in 1790s and early 1800s, 385

special ladies’ spaces in, 798

state, 425

and utilities, 1062

and women’s rights, 818

and working class, 519, 522, 572-73. See also Bankers; Financiers; Money/currency; specific bank

Banks Coffee House, 543

Baptism, 56, 59, 61, 157

Baptists, 16, 61, 157, 208, 209, 250, 384, 395, 400, 413, 481-82, 628, 706, 976, 1075, 1170

Barbados, 48, 105, 119, 121, 128, 147

Barbary pirates, 341

Barbers, 320, 744, 901, 993, 1122-23

Barclay Street, 181, 273, 373, 401, 456, 480, 561, 827

Bard Avenue, 1031

Bardin’s Tavern, 217

Barings. See House of Barings

Barnard College, 1087

Barnum’s circus, 1148

Barnum’s Museum, 645, 703, 711, 867, 903, 943, 1145

Baron de Hirsch Fund, 1115

Barrack Street. See Chambers Street

Barracks Board, 249, 250

Barrow Street, 383, 398

Bartlett Street, 875

Baseball, 733-34, 974-75

Baths, public, 771, 788, 796, 1194, 1198

Battery: and Civil War, 870, 903

in colonial New York, 118, 160, 185, 199, 234

drilling on, 316

Durant balloon liftoiffrom, 567

in early nineteenth century, 316, 318, 320, 326, 430, 439, 440, 448, 473, 481

early nineteenth century, 412

in early nineteenth century, 456, 465, 466

in 1830s, 567, 573, 580, 600

and elections of 1864, 903

and Erie Canal celebration, 430

homosexual meetings on, 796

and immigrants, 1116

in late nineteenth century, 1030, 1057, 1064

and late nineteenth century, 1116

lighting on, 439, 645

in mid-nineteenth century, 645, 649, 672, 676, 702, 705, 757, 792

in post-revolutionary New York, 300

promenades on, 792

rumors of British attack on, 320

in 1790s and early 1800s, 353, 368, 373-74, 385

and utilities, 1064

and Washington’s inauguration, 296, 297

and working class, 373–74

Battery F (Fourth US. Artillery Regiment), 583

Battery Park, 6, 372, 500, 1056

Battery Place, 372, 932

Battle Hill, 237

Battle Pass, 236

Bavarian Mountain Singers, 1092

Bawdy houses, 407, 408, 484, 638, 879

Baxter Street, 392, 398, 740, 746, 1116, 1127

Baxter Street Dudes, 998

Bay Ridge, 4, 69, 1055, 1058, 1132, 1224

Bay Ridge Park, 1228

Bay Ridge Parkway, 8

Bayard Street, 839, 1129

Bayard Woods, 389

Bayard’s Tavern, 294

Beach Street, 374

Bearbaiting, 403

Beaver Street, 45, 88, 133, 241, 363, 372, 599, 723, 877, 1050

Bedford, 236, 237, 254, 746, 972, 992, 993, 1058, 1135

Bedford Corners, 390, 719

Bedford Street, 1158

Bedford-Stuyvesant, 236, 639

Bedloe’s Island, 181, 357, 423, 1034, 1062

Beech Creek Railway, 1085

Beech Street, 364

Beecher (Henry Ward) affair, 1018

“Beecker’s Ferry,” 729

Beekman Street, 121, 175, 177, 218, 382, 398, 456, 480, 487, 527, 532, 945

Beekman’s Slip, 201

Beer gardens/halls, 816, 1098, 1137, 1143

Beethoven Hall, 993-94

Beggars, 1160. See also Vagrancy