Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1127]
opponents to, 1220-22
referendum on, 1231-33
and twentieth century, 1235-36
Constable, Rucker and Company, 276
Constable’s department store, 637, 945, 988
Constabulary, 92, 133, 142, 143, 144, 207, 257, 365
Constitution, New York State, 256-57, 267, 269, 284, 285, 513, 554, 967-68, 982, 1234
Constitution, U.S., 270, 288-96, 304-5, 306, 307-8, 331, 402, 867, 885, 886, 982
Construction industry, 448, 515, 617, 743-44, 746, 770, 833, 930, 936, 987-88, 1010, 1012, 1027, 1091
Consumerism, 335-36, 722-23, 878-79, 1153, 1178. See also Advertising industry
Consumers’ League, 1178
Continental Army: and British evacuation from New York, 260
and class issues, 232-33
Declaration of Independence read to, 232
desertions from, 243
housing for, 229
immigrants in, 233
need for standing, 243
New York men in, 246
recruiting for, 233
in revolutionary New York, 229
slaves in, 285
spies for, 255
suppliers for, 270, 271, 272, 279
Washington’s Farewell Address to, 261
Continental Association, 216-19, 221, 222
Continental Congress: and arrest of royal officials, 226
British negotiations with, 233
and British occupation of New York, 246
and British return to New York, 233, 234
declarations by, 226
and fall of New York, 240, 243
First, 217-18, 219, 221, 222
and independence, 224
and invasion of Canada, 226
and Lee (Charles), 227, 228
loyalists’ views of, 220
need for, 215
and need for navy, 228
and need for standing army, 243
New York meeting of, 266
and Olive Branch Petition, 226
pledges to obey, 224, 225
and Provincial Congress, 227, 230
and provisioning of Continental Army, 271
repudiation of, 246
Second, 221, 223
and Treaty of Paris, 278
Continental Iron Works, 874
Continental Life Insurance Company, 941
Continental Loan Office, 279
Continentalist essays (Hamilton), 270
Contoit’s New York Garden, 585
Contractors, 930-31
Contracts: city, 930-31
and Civil War, 875, 901
in mid-nineteenth century, 825, 826, 829
and reform, 829
and Tammany, 825, 826
Convent of the Sacred Heart, 631
Convention of Irish Societies, 828
Convicts, 85, 131, 213-14
Cooper Institute: and Civil War, 886, 887, 905
in late nineteenth century, 1024, 1080, 1100
in mid-nineteenth century, 820
and organized labor, 987, 988
Women’s Rights Convention at, 820
Cooper Union: and Civil War, 861, 864, 878, 879, 880, 885, 886
founding of, 782
in late nineteenth century, 1007, 1009, 1060, 1089, 1091, 1092, 1097, 1099, 1105, 1182, 1207
and Marx’s death, 1092
in mid-nineteenth century, 782
Most speech at, 1097
rallies at, 1091
Cooperative apartments, 1078, 1107
Cooperative Commonwealth, 1097
Cooperative Union Tailoring Establishment, 771
Cooperatives: in early nineteenth century, 517, 665
in mid-nineteenth century, 768-70, 771-72
Coopers, 901
Copperheads, 886-87, 902, 903
Corlear’s Hook, 39, 183, 247, 340, 387, 389, 412, 425, 441, 442, 475, 481, 484, 486, 495, 496, 506, 535, 592-93, 594, 774, 789, 805, 950, 991
Cornelia Street, 364
Cornell Iron Works, 660, 877, 878
Corona, 854, 939
Coroner, 92, 139-40, 1104
Corporate managers, 969
Corporation of the City of New York, 257, 268, 329-31, 353, 451, 465, 581, 836. See also Charters: city
Corporations: and corporate holding companies, 1045-46
and Crash of 1873, 1028, 1038
headquarters of, 1046-49
and history of New York, 1083
impact of, 1059
in late nineteenth century, 1028, 1038, 1062, 1205, 1225-26
and Panic of 1893, 1185
self-presentation of, 1052
and social class, 1088
taxes on, 1028
and utilities, 1062
Corre’s Hotel and Tavern, 311, 320
Correspondents: for merchants, 121. See also Committees of Correspondence
Corruption: of aldermen, 788, 900, 935, 1056, 1096, 1099
of banks, 325
and city development, 930-31
and Civil War, 900
and Consolidation, 1231
and Crash of 1873, 1021, 1022
and crime, 1001
in early nineteenth century, 317, 320, 325, 330, 445, 520
in 1830s, 608
and entertainment,