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mansions in, 179

manufacturing in, 661

in mid-nineteenth century, 656, 661, 741, 743, 746

rail lines to, 656

Bronx River, 8, 36-37, 345, 361, 589, 655, 1229

Bronxville, 718

Brook Avenue, 661

Brooklyn: abolitionists in, 560

baseball in, 974-75

Battle of, 235-39

blacks in, 390, 391, 400, 479, 548, 854, 855, 972-73, 993

Borough Hall in, 1235

and British return to New York, 229, 235-39

British troops in, 254

Catholics in, 480, 750, 751, 1094

churches in, 972-73

City Council in, 1202

and city-state relations, 837

class issues in, 1033

and Consolidation, 1219, 1220, 1222-23, 1224, 1226, 1227-30, 1231, 1232-33, 1234

cricket in, 247

debt of, 1229-30

development of, 449-50, 580-83, 728-29, 743, 933-37

draft riot in, 895

in early nineteenth century, 443, 449-50, 463, 475, 479, 480, 485, 494, 533

in 1830s, 545, 548, 560, 565, 567, 580-83

elites in, 718-20, 724

ethnicity in, 1227

explorations of, 11

farming in, 46

first newspaper in, 390-91

Germans in, 463, 745, 746, 773

and Good Government, 1191-92, 1202

housing in, 475, 933, 972-73, 991-2, 1229

immigrants in, 736, 933, 1112

impact of Queen’s development on, 938

incorporation of, 581

Indians in, 8, 29

Irish in, 583, 743, 746, 884, 1008

in late nineteenth century, 933-37, 972-73, 974-75, 991-92, 993, 1008, 1029, 1033, 1112, 1116, 1185, 1202

manufacturing in, 391, 443, 660-61, 662, 933, 1069, 1116, 1228

in mid-nineteenth century, 654, 660-61, 662, 718-20, 724, 728-29, 736, 743, 745, 746, 750, 751, 773, 830, 837

middle class in, 728-29

nativism in, 545, 830

and Panic of 1857, 845

police in, 1202

poor in, 494

poor relief in, 1029

population of, 128, 390, 746, 1228

in proprietary New York, 88

public works in, 949

purchase of indian lands in, 29

real estate in, 449

religion in, 208

retrenchment in, 1029

sale of confiscated Tory property in, 282

in 1790s and early 1800s, 389-91, 400, 403

slaves in, 128

sports in, 1164

streets and roads in, 934

strikes in, 1202

taverns in, 485

taxes in, 88

temperance in, 533

town plan for, 40

transportation in, 565, 567, 583, 613, 934, 972, 1055, 1068-69, 1202

unemployment in, 845, 1185

utilities in, 837, 934, 1068-69, 1228-29, 1230

waterfront in, 654, 949, 950, 1220, 1227–28

wealth in, 88

working class in, 901, 934, 1202. See also Bay Ridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Heights

Ferries

Fort Hamilton

Kings County Brooklyn African Woolman Benevolent Society, 400

Brooklyn Bridge, 118, 123, 934-37, 967, 1011, 1055, 1058, 1066, 1152, 1182, 1207, 1222, 1227, 1228

Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, 1159

Brooklyn City Railroad Company, 719, 972

Brooklyn Club, 972

Brooklyn Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, 799

Brooklyn Consolidation League (BCL), 1228, 1230, 1231

Brooklyn Elevated Company, 1055

Brooklyn Flint Glass Works, 661

Brooklyn Heights, 179, 228, 427-28, 440-50, 466, 581, 718, 719, 728-29, 933, 972, 1058, 1227, 1228

Brooklyn Humane Society, 494

Brooklyn Industrial School, 802

Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road, 565, 567

Brooklyn Lyceum, 1158

Brooklyn Navy Yard: in early nineteenth century, 341, 390, 412, 442, 465

in 1830s, 582, 597, 604

federal aid to work on, 822

in late nineteenth century, 972, 988, 993, 1112, 1123, 1215, 1227

in mid-nineteenth century, 653, 654, 661, 719, 746, 822, 868, 874, 933, 934

Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, 593

Brooklyn Savings Bank, 532

Brooklyn Tabernacle, 1168

Brooklyn Temperance Society, 532, 548

Brooks Brothers, 437, 664, 666, 667, 668, 726, 743, 845, 875, 884, 893

Broome Street, 294, 364, 397, 430, 511, 608, 663, 665, 668, 671, 724, 787, 989, 1091. See also Bullock Street

Brothels: and crime, 1000

in early nineteenth century, 483-55, 486, 487, 490, 534-37

in 1830s, 555

interracial, 403, 555

in late nineteenth century, 959, 996, 1000, 1017-18, 1134, 1148, 1162, 1163, 1168, 1169, 1192

in mid-nineteenth century, 642, 753, 804-7, 815, 832

and police corruption,