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First Colored Presbyterian Church, 548, 549-50, 855

First on First Saloon, 1096-97

First Foreign Rifles, 870

First Free Presbyterian Church, 529

First International, 993

First National Bank, 1023

First National Guard Division, 1036

First New York regiment, 225, 228

First Presbyterian Church, 132, 208, 250, 456, 717

First Street, 422, 476, 1096-97

First Ward, 520, 595

Firth, Pond and Co., 863

Fishing, 71

Five Nations of the Iroquois, 86

Five Points: blacks in, 391-92, 400, 478-79, 480, 483, 555, 558, 746, 747, 854, 857

and Consolidation, 1227

Dickens’ trip to, 698

in early nineteenth century, 475, 476, 478, 479, 480, 483, 484, 485, 486, 490, 500, 530, 534-35, 536

in 1830s, 543, 545, 555, 558

entertainment in, 644, 994, 996

and evangelical religion, 530, 534-35, 536

gangs in, 633

interracial nature of, 478-79

Irish in, 543, 545, 746, 747, 854

in late nineteenth century, 994, 996, 1180

literature about, 683, 698, 699

in mid-nineteenth century, 630, 633, 644, 683, 692, 698, 704, 746-47, 758, 774, 782, 785, 789, 792, 802, 805, 807, 857

prostitutes in, 484, 805, 807

schools in, 500-501

in 1790s and early 1800s, 391-93, 400

and Social Gospel, 1180

and Tammany, 827

taverns in, 485

urban missionaries in, 775

working quarters in, 476

and working women, 802

Five Points House of Industry, 776, 789, 992

Five Points Mission, 775, 890

Flaneurs, 691-711

Flatbush: and British return to New York, 235, 236, 237

and Consolidation, 1231

Dutch culture in, 89, 90

in early nineteenth century, 347, 500

in 1830s, 581, 583

estates in, 179, 226, 231

geological history of, 4

Irish in, 581

in late nineteenth century, 1135

and Leisler, 100

in mid-nineteenth century, 719, 740, 751

population of, 128

in proprietary New York, 88, 89, 90

sale of Tory property in, 282

settlement of, 70

in 1790s and early 1800s, 391

slaves in, 56, 128

taxes in, 88

Tories in, 231, 282

wealth in, 88

Flatbush Avenue, 8, 30, 67, 235, 391, 837, 934, 1127

Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church, 219, 236

Flatbush Pass, 236

Flatham Square, 1054

Flatland Plains, 247

Flatlands, 30, 88, 235, 236, 391, 500, 719, 1227, 1231. See also New Amersfoort

Flour riots, 609-11

Flushing: and Anglo-Dutch relations, 63, 72

blacks in, 479, 854, 855

British troops in, 254

Golden retreats to, 224

and Consolidation, 1232

Crow Hill in, 479

in early nineteenth century, 479

in 1830s, 583

English immigrants in, 40, 68

estates in, 179

immigrants in, 1123

in late nineteenth century, 937, 939, 1123

in mid-nineteenth century, 661, 718, 746

religion in, 61

in 1790s and early 1800s, 391

Tories in, 219

transportation to, 937, 939

Flushing Avenue, 972

Flushing Creek, 67, 744

Flushing Rail Road, 939

Fly Market, 182, 338, 354, 368, 391, 451

Font Hill, 718, 751

Food, 460-61

Force Tube Avenue, 837

Fordham, 718, 728, 750, 954, 1055

Forfeitures Act of (1779), 258

Forsythe Street, 476, 745, 989, 1095

Fort Amsterdam, 21, 31, 34, 35-37, 42, 50, 63-64, 73. See also Fort James

Fort Charles Place, 364

Fort Columbus, 411, 423

Fort Gansevoort, 423

Fort George, 138, 159-60, 162, 163, 184, 198, 199, 200, 225, 260, 300, 372

Fort Greene, 728, 854, 972, 1123, 1227, 1228

Fort Greene Park, 993

Fort Hamilton, 8, 69, 583, 613, 636, 719, 728, 743, 886, 892, 902

Fort James, 73, 82, 85, 86, 91, 94, 97, 98

Fort Jay. See Fort Columbus

Fort Lafayette, 886, 903

Fort Lee, 229, 243

Fort Nassau (Delaware), 21

Fort Nassau (Hudson River), 19, 20. See also Fort Orange

Fort Orange, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 51, 73

Fort Putnam, 719

Fort Richmond, 902

Fort Schuyler Park, 242

Fort Sumter, 868, 869, 873

Fort Washington, 229, 232, 240, 242-43

“Forty Thieves”: Common Council as, 825-26, 827, 829, 830

Forty Thieves (gang), 633

Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, 898, 1110

40th Avenue, 1149

40th Street, 669, 747, 854, HOI. See also Crystal Palace

42nd Street: and Civil War, 889, 893

in colonial New York, 240

and draft riot, 893