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Kings County Elevated Rail Road, 1055

Kings County Sabbath School Society, 500

King’s (formerly Queen’s) Farm, 115, 180, 269

King’s Head Tavern, 247, 248. See also Hull’s Tavern

Kings Highway, 8, 30, 67, 235

King’s Orange Rangers, 246

Kingsbridge, 417, 746, 1055

Kingsbridge Road, 184, 364, 1093

Kip’s Bay, 240, 460, 564

Kleindeutschknd (Little Germany): in late nineteenth century, 989, 993, 1089, 1106, 1112, 1117, 1152

in mid-nineteenth century, 745, 747, 749, 750, 753, 766, 773, 774, 800, 805, 829, 840, 870, 894

and Paris Commune, 1002, 1003

Knickerbocker Apartments, 97” Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, 733

Knickerbocker dub, 954, 1083, 1088, 1115

Knickerbocker magazine, 684, 685-86, 702

Knickerbockers: as bankers, 444

characteristics of, 452-55, 685

in early nineteenth century, 434, 444, 452-55, 456, 459, 460, 464-65, 466, 469, 472, 494, 529-30, 535, 539

in 1830s, 570, 577, 583, 584-86

elites as, 452-55, 456, 459, 460, 464-65, 466, 469, 472

and evangelical religion, 520-30, 535, 539

exclusion from, 485

and history of New York, 1083

housing for, 971

in late nineteenth century, 954, 955, 963, 971, 1076, 1083, 1084, 1086, 1087

and literature, 685

merchants as, 434

in mid-nineteenth century, 725, 728, 776

St. Nicholas Society as club for, 455

and sense of history, 695

and social life, 954, 955

and temperance, 776

and Young Americans, 685-86

Knickerbocker’s History (Irving), 462

Knights of Labor, 1090-91, 1092, 1093, 1095, 1097, 1098, 1100, 1102, 1106, 1108, 1156, 1163, 1172, 1177, 1195, 1102

Knights Templar of the United States, 380

Knoedler (Herman) Art Gallery, 1163

Know-Nothings, 829, 831, 832, 835, 836, 850, 861

Kommunisten Klub, 849

Konaande Kongh: as Indian campsite, 6

Koster and Bial’s Music Hall, 1148

Kreischerville, 662

Ku Klux Klan, 1011

La Amistad, 857

La Grange Terrace, 458-59

La Salle Academy, 751

Labor Day, 1090-92, 1172

Labor movement. See Organized labor; specific person or organization

Labor Relief Bureau, 1025

Laborers, 628, 743-44

Laborers Union Benevolent Association, 770

Laborers United Benevolent Association, 828, 986

Ladies’ Bowling Alley, 798

Ladies’ Home Missionary Society (LHMS), 775, 776

Ladies’ Mile, 945-6, 947, 1145, 1149

Ladies’ Oyster Shop, 798

Ladies’ Reading Room, 798

Lads of Kilkenny, 416

“Lady class,” 798-800, 802

Lafayette Place, 448, 459, 723

Lafayette Street, 33, 363, 459, 782

Lafayette Theater, 486

LaGuardia Airport, 1137

Laight Street, 374

Laight Street Church, 530, 556, 558

Lamartine Hall, 1006

Lambs Club, 948, 1150

Land: and Bellomont’s administration, 112

in Brooklyn, 933

in colonial New York, 170, 187

Colve’s confiscation of, 83

Common Council sells, 110-11

and Consolidation, 1223

and Cornbury’s administration, 114

and Crash of 1873, 1023

devaluation of, 950

and Dongan administration, 92–93, 110

and Duke’s Laws, 81

and Dutch culture, 89-90

in early nineteenth century, 335, 446-49, 517

in 1830s, 599

and Fletcher’s administration, 105, 112

George’s views about, 1093

immigrants’ desire for, 194

as key to power and status, 93

in Kieft administration, 35, 40

in late nineteenth century, 1174, 1204

on Long Island, 105

in mid-nineteenth century, 846

in New Haarlem, 70

in New Netherland, 35-36, 40, 67, 68-69, 70

in New Orange, 83

and New York as corporation, 138-39, 140

and Panic of 1837, 614

and Panic of 1857, 846

in post-revolutionary New York, 279, 307

price of, 170, 187, 388, 933, 940, 950, 1100

and proprietary New York, 81

for railroads, 899

and resistance to British policies, 203

in 1790s and early 1800s, 388

speculation in, 307, 335, 446-47, 846, 899, 930-31, 1204

and Stuyvesant’s administration, 67, 68-69, 70

taxes on, 279

uprisings about, 203

and West India Company, 35

Land League, 1093, 1104

Land reform, 766-68, 771, 772, 792

Land wars, 1098

Landed interest, 142, 144, 151, 152, 179-81, 196

Landlords: in early nineteenth century, 478, 484, 517, 532

in 1830s, 587,