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Metropolitan Gas, 826

Metropolitan Hotel, 672, 868

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1050

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 446, 964, 1081-83, 1086

Metropolitan Opera House, 1074, 1075, 1085, 1086, 1148, 1154

Metropolitan Police, 638

Metropolitan Police Act (1857), 838-39

Metropolitan Police Commission, 838-39

Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, 879

Metropolitan Street Railway Company, 1068

Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1061

Metropolitan Traction Company, 1057-58

Mexican War (1840s), 676, 677, 852, 874

Middle class:

boardinghouses for, 728, 959-60

in Brooklyn, 728-29

Catholics as, 750-51, 752

clothes of, 727

in colonial New York, 141-42

and Comstock reforms, 1017–18

and Consolidation, 1231, 1236

and Crash of 1873, 1022, 1026

culture of, 973-76, 1165-67

deference or indifference of, 141-42

in early nineteenth century, 530

and elections of 1886, 1103-6

elevated for, 1055

entertainment for, 973-76

and evangelical religion, 530

as genteel, 730-34

and Good Government, 1194

housing for, 188, 727-28, 970-73

as immigrants, 739-40

Irish as, 752, 1095, 1103-6

in late nineteenth century, 930, 933, 934, 959-60, 1017–18, 1022, 1026, 1101, 1103–6, 1110, 1156-69, 1194

members of, 966

in mid-nineteenth century, 621, 726-34

and morality, 970, 980, 1156-69

neighborhoods for, 727–28

occupations of, 726

and politics, 621, 978-80

professional-managerial class as, 966-85

and publishing, 730-31

as reformers, 1101

religion for, 976-78

and resistance to British colonial policies, 200

servants for, 731-32

in 1790s and early 1800s, 375

and slavery, 551

sports for, 733

and Sunday schools, 781

women as, 973-74, 980-85, 989, 1017-18

women as domestic managers in, 731-32

working conditions for, 726-27. See also Social Gospel

Middle Dutch Reformed Church, 250, 252, 942

Middleburgh, 67, 68

Midwives, 799-800

Midwout (Vlachte Bos), 36

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, 1047

Milewout (Midwout), 67

Military academy, 243

Military Association, 225

Military and Civic Hotel, 608

Military Club, 249

Militia: annual dances of, 816

and Astor Place riot, 763-65

and Civil War, 896

and Dongan administration, 92

drafting of, 896

in early nineteenth century, 520

in 1830s, 545, 579-80, 605, 606, 611

and elections of 1834, 575

and farmers’ uprisings, 203

and Fletcher’s administration, 107

and flour riots, 611

and French and Indian War, 168

and French threat, 96, 97

and immigrants, 829

and insurrection of slaves, 248

Irish, 545

Jews in, 133

and Leisler, 97, 98, 100

on Long Island, 96

in mid-nineteenth century, 636-37, 829

and oaths of allegiance to British, 246

patrols in revolutionary New York by, 224

as police, 636-37

and ratification of Constitution, 291

recruitment for, 225

reorganization of, 156

in revolutionary New York, 225

and strikes, 605, 606, 636, 1202

Tory, 246, 255

in Virginia, 167

and working class, 225, 520

workingmen as, 225. See also Continental Army

specific leader or regiment

Milk supply, 788, 1198

Mill Street. See William Street

Mill Street synagogue, 250, 481

Millerites, 628

Milliners, 812, 813

Million Bank, 309-10

Mills Building, 1065

Millstone River, 90

Mineola, 938

Miner’s Bowery, 1140

Minetta Creek, 33, 325, 480

Minetta Lane, 33, 854, 894

Minetta Waters, 580

Ministry Act (1693), 103-4, 107, 115, 145, 209, 269

Ministry Act (1753), 180

Minstrel shows, 487-90, 643, 644, 758, 1148

Miss Pierce’s School, 377

Miss Spence’s School for Girls, 1087

Missionaries: to Indians, 115

urban, 385, 495-96

Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, 1126

Missione Italiana delta Madonna di Loreto, 1126

Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, 564, 567, 625

Mohawk Indians, 13, 22, 23, 29, 37, 86, 215

Mohawk River Valley, 130

Molasses, 72, 119-20, 121-22, 191, 195, 321. See also Molasses Act

Rum Molasses Act (1733), 119-20, 121-22, 150, 171

Money/currency: and British colonial policy, 196

and Civil War,