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Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1115]

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actors, 947

all-male, 796, 1123

for apprentices, 442

for blacks, 857, 890

and British evacuation from New York, 259

and British occupation of New York, 255

in Chelsea, 1212

and commercial expansion, 436

in early nineteenth century, 323, 340, 436, 442, 457, 476, 478, 485, 496

in 1830s, 600

and “Gallomania,” 323

for Germans, 800

Grahamite, 533, 551

for immigrants, 737, 746-47, 770, 785, 1123

in late nineteenth century, 947, 959-60, 970-71, 992, 1212

in mid-nineteenth century, 728, 737, 746-47, 770, 774, 785, 796, 800, 801, 857

for middle class, 728, 959-60, 970-71

in post-revolutionary New York, 296

for seamen, 496

in 1790s and early 1800s, 372, 375, 393, 406, 407, 408

and single women, 801, 992

and Washington’s inauguration, 296

women as owners of, 406, 407, 408

for working women, 478

in Yorkville, 1212

Boerum Hill, 728, 972

“Bohemians,” 710-11

Bolton and Sigel’s tavern, 210

Bond Street, 448, 458, 459, 476, 578, 579, 702, 715, 862

BONY. See Bank of New York

Book stores, 339, 378, 385, 395, 948

Books: first American, 107-8

Booth’s Theater, 947, 1007, 1150

Borough Hall, 8

“Bosses,” 515-18, 553-54

Boston Circular Letter, 207, 215-16

Boston, Massachusetts: and Andros’ arrest, 96

British troops in, 168, 207, 211, 215, 223, 224, 115, 226, 228, 229, 232

as capital of Dominion of New England, 95

electoral procedures in, 152-53

founding of, 28

French threat to, 97

Kidd in, 113-15

merchants in, 207

as money and banking center, 657

and need for Continental Congress, 216

and nonimportation, 207

parliament closes port of, 215

population of, 30, 172, 194

postal service to, 79, 107

printing in, 108

and ratification of constitution, 293

resistance to British policies in, 207

riots in, 108

schools in, 45

siege of, 228

and Stamp Act, 198

and Townshcnd Duties, 207

Boston Massacre, 211

Boston Post Road, 249, 661. See also Park Row

Boston Tea Party, 215

Boswijk (Long Island), 36

Bottomfeeders, 638–40

Bowery: “b’hoys” on, 753–54

book stores on, 683

and British evacuation from New York, 259, 260

and British occupation of New York, 248

during Civil War, 870, 888

and class issues, 475

in colonial New York, 178, 179

De Lancey estate on, 178, 179

in early nineteenth century, 422, 482, 484, 486-87, 511, 518, 532

in 1830s, 545, 546, 557, 565, 589, 604, 608

as entertainment center, 476, 486-87, 642-43, 753-54, 761-62, 946-47, 994-95, 996, 1060, 1134, 1138, 1139, 1140, 1142, 1143, 1144, 1147, 1148, 1151

and Good Government, 1186, 1188, 1190

homeless on, 1188

and immigrants, 1117, 1123, 1127, 1131

in late nineteenth century, 946-47, 989, 994-95, 996, 998, 1000, 1055, 1060, 1105, 1109, 1117, 1123, 1127, 1131, 1134, 1138, 139, 1140-41, 1142, 1143, 1144, 1147, 1148, 1151, 1558, 1175, 1182, 1186, 1188, 1190, 1227

in iterative, 698, 758-59

in mid-nineteenth century, 628, 633, 635, 642-43, 683, 698, 740, 742, 745, 753-54, 755, 757, 758-59, 760, 761-62, 763, 792, 795, 806, 813, 816, 827, 839, 856

and morality, 1155, 1158

Negroes’ Farms near, 33

in New Amsterdam, 31, 33

parades on, 248, 430, 604, 1105

in post-revolutionary New York, 273

in proprietary New York, 93

prostitutes on, 806

retailers on, 740

in 1790s and early 1800s, 364, 389

and Tammany, 827, 1109, 1190

and water supply, 589

and working class, 486-87, 989, 904, 995, 996, 998, 1000

as working quarters, 475

Bowery Amphitheater, 757

Bowery Bay, 938, 1137

Bowery Boys, 633, 634, 754, 759, 839, 998

Bowery Garden Theater, 1138

Bowery Savings Bank, 445

“The Bowery” (song), 1146

Bowery (Stuyvesant estate), 178

Bowery Theater, 467, 475, 486-87, 489, 490, 522, 530, 538, 557, 642, 643, 695. See also New York Theater

Bowling Green: and British evacuation from New York, 261

and British occupation of New York, 247

and burning of Jay Treaty, 322

in colonial New York, 175, 184, 187, 199–200, 203

cricket on, 247

in early nineteenth century, 318, 322, 456, 460,

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