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Elizabeth Street African Church, 555

Elizabethan Statute of Artificers (1562), 143

Elks Club, 1108

Ellis Island, 423, 1111, 1112, 1115, 1122

Elm Park, 1003, 1092

Elm Street, 481, 549, 575, 656

Elysian Fields, 733, 793

Emancipation, 349, 554, 884-87

Emancipation Day, 546, 549

Emancipation Proclamation, 951

Emanu-El (God Is with Us)

congregation, 749

Embargo, 410-12, 413, 423, 426

Embargo Act, 411

Emerald Street, 746

Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, 737

Emigrant Landing Depot, 738

Emigrant Refuge and Hospital, 738

Emigration Commission, 738-39

Eminent domain, 564-65

Empire Club, 635, 823

Empire Theater Stock Company, 1144, 1149-50 Empress of China, The, 275-76

Engineers, 969, 1062

English: as immigrants, 87, 194, 208, 213, 272, 307, 337, 516, 736, 737, 742, 744, 746

in Kieft administration, 35, 37, 40

in New Amsterdam/New Netherland, 37, 40, 60-61, 67-68, 70, 71-72

swear oath to States-General, 37

as threat to New Amsterdam/New Netherland, 35, 67, 70-72. See also Britain

British troops

New England

New York (proprietorship)

New York (royal colony)

specific person

Enoch Morgan’s Sons, 1049

Enterprise Rubber Works, 661, 746, 875

Entertainment: and Barnum, 643-44

and “b’hoys,” 753-54

as big business, 1137

and blacks, 487-90, 642-43, 1140

and city development, 946-48

and class issues, 402-6, 952

commercialization of, 1132-38

and communications, 1149, 1151

and corruption, 1137

in early nineteenth century, 486-90

earnings in, 816

for elites, 723-24

and immigrants, 1140

interracial, 403, 1168

in late nineteenth century, 946-48, 973-76, 993-96, 1132-54, 1162-65

in mid-nineteenth century, 642-45, 753-54, 814-17

for middle class, 973-76

and morality, 1136-38, 1148, 1162-65

and politics, 995, 1137

and public transportation, 994

in Queens, 994

and race, 642-44

and real estate, 1137

in 1790s and early 1800s, 373-74, 375, 402-6

and social class, 1088

and transportation, 1137, 1149

and women, 486, 814-17, 1145

for working class, 373-74, 486-87, 642, 816-17, 976, 993-96, 1134. See also type of entertainment

Entrepreneurs, 346, 425, 640, 657

Environment: and city-state relations, 837

in mid-nineteenth century, 828, 837

and morality, 784-88

Epidemics: and British occupation of New York, 249, 251, 252-53

in colonial New York, 125-26, 130, 151, 152

in early nineteenth century, 419, 447-48, 450, 503

in 1830s, 580-94, 751

and immigrants, 737

in late nineteenth century, 991, 1182, 1197

in mid-nineteenth century, 737, 784, 785, 787, 790

in post-revolutionary New York, 302

and prisoners of war, 252-53

in 1790s and early 1800s, 356-59, 360, 379, 381-82, 389

and water supply, 360

and working class, 594

Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 776

Episcopal Mission Society, 593

Episcopalians: blacks as, 400

in colonial New York, 103, 104

in early nineteenth century, 448, 452, 454, 456, 459, 469, 480, 500, 503, 531

as knickerbockers, 685

in late nineteenth century, 976, 1086, 1087, 1092, 1165, 1166, 1171-73, 1174, 1175, 1176

and literature, 685

in mid-nineteenth century, 621, 628, 685, 704, 714, 717, 728-20, 775, 776

and morality, 1165, 1166

organization of, 269

in post-revolutionary New York, 269

in Revolutionary New York, 232

in 1790s and early 1800s, 389, 400, 406

and Social Gospel, 1171-73, 1174, 1175, 1176. See also Anglicans

Trinity Church

specific person Equal Righters, 606-9

Equal rights, 989, 1018

Equitable Life Insurance Company, 940, 941, 1037

Equity courts, 817-18

Erasmus Hall, 391, 581

Erie Basin, 949

Erie Canal: building of, 420-21

celebration of opening of, 430-31

and Civil War, 873

cost of, 598

in early nineteenth century, 420-21, 422, 429-31, 432, 433, 434, 436, 441, 444-45, 440, 447, 450, 451, 461, 467, 472, 473, 479, 494, 497, 529

in 1830s, 563, 564, 567, 568

financing of, 444-45

and improvements along East River, 654

in late nineteenth century, 1153, 1219

in mid-nineteenth