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North Battery, 423

North Beach, 1137

North Dutch Reformed Church, 177, 250, 252

North Dutch Street. See William Street

North, Lord, 233

North River, 18, 19, 31, 903 See also Hudson River

North Side Board of Trade, 1232

North Ward, 92

Northern Boulevard, 937

Northern Pacific Railroad, 1021

Norton’s Point, 827, 1132

Nostrand Avenue, 236, 1055

Notaries, 97

Noten Island. See Governor’s Island

Nova Scotia, 259

Novelty Iron Works, 567, 659-60, 662, 726, 743, 874, 901

Nuns, Catholic, 750, 776, 801, 1161-62, 1176

Nursery for the Children of Poor Women, 811

Nurses’ Settlement, 1176, 1197

Nursing school, 382

Nutten Island. See Governor’s Island

Oath of allegiance, 83, 133, 246, 319

Obscenity, 1014-16, 1017, 1018, 1163

Ocean Avenue, 933

Ocean dumping, 1196

Ocean Hill, 1135

Ocean National Bank, 999

Ocean Parkway, 1135

Ocean Pavilion, 1132-33

O’Connell Guards, 545, 633

Odd Fellows, 733, 749, 823, 1089

Odeon Theater, 816

Office space, 659, 940-41, 942-43, 1049-53. See also Skyscrapers

Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, 571, 842

Oil, 874, 904, 1045, 1046, 1047

Old American Company, 269

Old Bowery Theater, 995

“Old Brewery,” 476, 486, 747, 775

Old Butcher Troop, 424

Old Church Society, 248

Old Merchant’s House Museum, 532

“Old Pease’s School,” 776

Old Slip, 338, 451, 598

Old Slip Market, 184

Old Slip Street, 125

Old Stone House, 237

Old Strangers Hospital, 1032

Olive Branch Petition, 226

Oliver Street, 347, 364, 391, 1127

Olympia, 272, 390

Olympia Bay, 390

Olympic Theater, 642, 758

Omnibuses, 547, 565, 567, 772, 974

100th Street, 745, 929

104th Street, 930

150th Street, 751

106th Street, 241, 1101, 1123, 1124

108th Street, 1124

110th Street, 929, 931, 1054

111th Street, 1125

112th Street, 1124

115th Street, 1124, 1126

119th Street, 6, 8

120th Street, 241, 930

122nd Street, 929

125th Street, 241, 747, 929

126th Street, 70, 259

129th Street, 70, 1054

132nd Street, 123

134th Street, 661

135th Street, 655

152nd New York Volunteers, 895

155th Street, 421, 422, 1054

160th Street, 485

162nd Street, 240, 656

171th Street, 854

175th Street, 854

177th Street, 1054

181st Street, 232

183rd Street, 1222

One-Armed Charley, 757

Oneida Indians, 13

Onondaga Indians, 13, 146

Opera, 584-85, 724, 960, 961, 1139, 1149

Opera House, 953, 1074-78, 1145, 1148, 1154

Opium, 435, 652, 1127, 1153, 1162, 1168

Orange, 662

Orange County, 5, 136

Orange Mountains, 718

Orange Street, 398, 558, 729, 785, 811. See also Baxter Street

Orangemen, 491-92, 513, 1003-8, 1013, 1017

Orchard Street, 178, 1118

Order of the Holy Cross, 1172

Order of the Star Spangled Banner, 829

Organized labor: and blacks, 604, 771, 1090

and boycotts, 1098, 1100

and business community, 1098

and Civil War, 884, 886-87, 901

and class issues, 987, 990-91, 1090, 1091, 1098

and Consolidation, 1236

and cooperatives, 771-73

crackdown on, 1012-13, 1017

and craftsmen, 1089, 1090, 1107

and Crash of 1873, 1024, 1025-26, 1027, 1028

and Democrats, 515, 1110

in early nineteenth century, 414, 515–16, 522

and economy, 1090, 1186

and eight-hour work day, 987-88, 989, 1012-13

in 1830s, 575, 603-6, 618

and elections of 1886, 1099-1101, 1103-6

and ethnicity, 604, 771

and events leading to Civil War, 862

and feminism, 989-91, 1018–19

and financial system, 988

and George’s mayoral race, 1099-1101

and Good Government, 1186, 1188, 1201-2, 1205, 1207

and immigrants, 604, 770, 1090

and Jews, 1120

journeymen’s societies as, 515–16

in late nineteenth century, 987-91, 1095-98, 1120, 1186, 1188, 1201-2, 1205, 1207

in mid-nineteenth century, 770-3, 826, 827, 845-46, 850-51, 862

and money/currency, 1091

as monopolies, 606

and morality, 605-6

Most’s influence on, 1097, 1098

and municipal government, 1098-1100

and municipal reform, 1028

and Panic of 1857, 845-46

parades by, 604, 606, 1100, 1105

and Paris Commune, 1003

and politics, 575, 773, 988, 1098-1101, 1106

and populism, 1205

and press, 516, 522

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