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Coal Hole, 900

Coastwise Shipping Act, 1218

Cobble Hill, 719, 728, 933, 972

Coca-Cola, 1049

Cockfighting, 403, 486, 642, 777

Coenties Slip, 125, 596, 597, 611, 949

Coercive Acts (1774). See Intolerable Acts

Coffeehouses: in colonial New York, 108-9, 124, 201, 214, 216, 221

in early nineteenth century, 438

in 1830s, 614

entertaining in, 375

and philosophies, 376

in post-revolutionary New York, 269, 276, 277, 285, 308

in 1790s and early 1800s, 375, 376. See also specific coffeehouse

Colgate Company, 662, 1049, 1198

Collect Street. See Centre Street

Collectors: antique, 1086

artisans as, 207

election of, 257

College of New Jersey. See Princeton University

College of Physicians and Surgeons, 376, 739, 1198

College Point, 661, 746, 875, 992, 994

College Settlement, 1175, 1176, 1188

Collins Line, 653

Colonization, 548, 549, 550-51, 552, 553, 557, 783, 857, 885

Colonnade Hotel, 1100

Colonnade Row, 459

Colorado and Red River Land Company, 571

Colored Citizens of Queens County, 885

Colored Free Schools, 501

Colored Freeholders of the City and County of New York, 858

Colored Mission, 1186

Colored Orphan Asylum, 855-56, 890, 973, 982

Coloured Sailors Home, 845

Columbia Cafe, 995

Columbia Club, 1142–43

Columbia College: board of governors/regents for, 268, 281

and Civil War, 889, 897

in early nineteenth century, 466, 468, 504, 507

King’s College renamed, 268

in late nineteenth century, 944

in mid-nineteenth century, 530, 531, 612

moves to 49th Street, 715

in post-revolutionary New York, 281, 283, 300, 313, 320, 332

and radicals, 281

and Revolution Settlement, 283

in 1790s and early 1800s, 344, 373, 376, 378, 385, 386, 408. See also Columbia University; King’s College

Columbia Grammar School, 702

Columbia Street, 875

Columbia University, 968, 969, 980, 1086, 1087. See also Columbia College

King’s College Columbian Anacreontic Society, 375

Columbian Hotel, 417

Columbian Order, 315

Columbus Day, 315, 316

Columbus Hospital, 1126, 1176

Columbus obelisk, 315

Columbus Park, 1199

Comanche Clubhouse, 1190

Comic strips, 1152

Commercial banks, 444

Commercial interests: in proprietary New York, 78

and ratification of Constitution, 289, 290. See also Merchants; Trade; Traders; specific person

Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies, 257

Commissioners of Charity, 1023

Committee on Abie-Bodied Paupers, 1031

Committee of Arrangements, 904

Committee of the Benevolent, 591

Committee of Citizens, 1085

Committee of Correspondence, 202, 215-16

Committee of Defense, 427-28

Committee for Detecting Conspiracies, 271

Committee for the Detection of Conspiracies, 230, 231

Committee of Fifty, 518

Committee of Fifty-one, 216-17, 218–19, 222

Committee on Improved Housing, 1200

Committee of Inspection, 210, 215, 218-19

“Committee of Mechanicks,” 266

Committee of Mechanics, Grocers, Retailers, and Innholders, 267

Committee of Observation, 218-19

Committee of One Hundred, 224, 225, 230

Committee of Prominent and Wealthy Citizens, 1188

Committee of Safety, 99-100, 1024, 1025

Committee of Seventy, 1010, 1011, 1033, 1193

Committee of Sixty, 219, 223

Committee for the Suppression of Legalized Vice, 1162

Committee to Provide Suitable Accommodations for the Destitute Poor, 593

Committee of Vigilance, 214

Common: barracks constructed on, 168

and burning of New York, 241

in colonial New York, 151, 168, 183

corporate ownership of, 140

and economy of colonial New York, 183

militia on, 168

protests on, 202

punishment on, 151

in revolutionary America, 202

in revolutionary New York, 241

in 1790s and early 1800s, 368

Common Council: and assembly rooms’ funding, 176

and charter for New York, 138

City Hall rooms of, 109

and city-state relations, 837, 838

and Civil War, 883, 896, 900, 904-5

and class issues, 141

and Consolidation, 1234

and defense of New York, 326

Dutch as members of, 136

in early nineteenth century, 324, 326, 329-30, 331, 332, 339, 341, 410, 412, 413, 415, 422, 427,