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and Tammany, 512-13, 630, 741, 825, 828, 829, 1005, 1008, 1093, 1103-6, 1109, 1193, 1194

voting by, 330, 331, 402

wages of, 800

wards of, 832, 851

women as, 740, 800, 801, 812, 813, 828, 871, 889, 890, 1128

and Wood administration, 831-32, 835, 839, 851

as working class, 487, 991, 1005, 1110, 1120, 1205

Irish Brigade, 870-71, 881, 898, 1008

Irish Emigrant Society, 737, 738

Irish Greens, 424

Irish Legion, 871

Irish Sixty-ninth, 1006

Irish Societies Convention, 773

Iron Founders, 901

Iron industry, 171, 307, 442, 659-62, 668, 873, 874, 945, 1013, 1025-26, 1133, 1210, 1218, 1228. See also specific firm

Iron and Metal Exchange, 1103

Iron and Metal Workers League, 1013

Iron Tower, 1132

Iroquois Indians, 12-10, 13, 23, 86, 94, 96, 117, 251, 315, 334, 335, 380

Irving Hall, 898, 961-62

Irving House Hotel, 815

Irving Place, 577, 765, 971

Isseks Brothers, 1052

Italian Legion, 870

Italian Opera House, 584

Italians: as Catholics, 1121, 1125-26

and Civil War, 870, 881, 904

and Consolidation, 1227

and entertainment, 1139, 1140, 1144

as immigrants, 1112, 1120, 1121–25, 1126, 1131, 1176, 1180

and Irish, 1125–26

in late nineteenth century, 936, 948, 1105, 1110, 1112, 1120, 1121-25, 1126, 1131, 1139, 1140, 1144, 1168, 1176, 1180, 1182, 1195

and Lincoln’s second inaugural, 904

in mid-nineteenth century, 740, 746, 845

militia, 829

neighborhoods for, 746

occupations of, 740, 1027, 1122, 1123, 1195

and Panic of 1857, 845

women as, 1123

J.A. Westervelt and Company, 845

Jackson Avenue, 937, 938

Jackson and Badgers Foundry, 1006

Jackson Iron Works, 660

Jacksonians, 572, 574, 614, 685

Jails: in colonial New York, 139, 181, 185, 192, 193

in mid-nineteenth century, 636

and “Montgomerie Charter,” 139

prostitutes in, 806

and resistance to British policies, 203

in revolutionary New York, 213–14. See also Debtors’ prison; Prisons

Jamaica Avenue, 8

Jamaica Bay, 8, 29, 67, 583, 934, 1196

Jamaica Hills, 4

Jamaica (island), 71, 119, 121, 122, 147, 200, 218, 246

Jamaica (Long Island): blacks in, 479, 854

and British return to New York, 236

British troops in, 254

and Consolidation, 1227

and Cornbury’s administration, 115

in early nineteenth century, 479

and French threat, 96

and immigrants, 1120

in late nineteenth century, 937, 939, 1120

Quakers in, 61

religion in, 115

in 1790s and early 1800s, 391

slavery in, 148

Tories in, 219

transportation to, 567, 613, 937

Jamaica Pass, 236

Jamaica Pilot Boat. See Merchants’ Coffee House

Jamaica Road, 236

James Slip, 168

James Street, 391

Janes and Kirtland Iron Works, 661

Japanese, 1127

Jay Cooke and Co., 1020

Jay Street, 51, 480

Jay Treaty (1704), 320-22, 333, 334, 337

Jefferson Market Police Court, 1019

Jefferson Park, 1126

Jefferson Street, 340, 1115, 1176

Jeffersonians, 414, 531

Jerome Avenue, 954

Jerome Park, 954

Jersey City, New Jersey, 28, 35, 442, 649, 656, 662, 845, 869, 870, 887, 901

Jewelers Union of Newark, 1091

Jewelry, 723

Jewish Theological Seminary, 1114

Jews: Ashkcnazim, 134-35, 481, 503

and British occupation of New York, 250

children as, 1162

citizenship for, 60, 133

civil rights for, 60

and Civil War, 864

in colonial New York, 104, 133-35, 168

Conservative, 1114

and Consolidation, 1227

conversion of, 1157

divisiveness among, 134-35, 481, 1114-17

in early nineteenth century, 440, 480, 481, 503

Eastern European, 1110, 1112, 1114, 1119

as Elites, 714

and entertainment, 1136, 1138, 1140, 1146, 1152

in France, 133

German, 481, 740, 745, 748-49, 1023, 1087-88, 1114-20, 1126

and Good Government, 1187, 1188, 1194, 1203, 1205, 1206

holidays for, 1152

images of, 699, 1155

as immigrants, 133-35, 740, 741-42, 748-49, 1106, 1112-20, 1121, 1122, 1124, 1131

as intellectuals, 1119-20

in late nineteenth century, 1047, 1087–88, 1106, 1110, 1112-20, 1121, 1122, 1124, 1131, 1136, 1138, 1140, 1146, 1152, 1155, 1156, 1162, 1169, 1171, 1173-74, 1175, 1182, 1187, 1188, 1194, 1203, 1205, 1206