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in early and mid-nineteenth century, 581, 838

and ratification of Constitution, 291, 293

slavery in, 285

Richmond Hill, 178, 229, 324, 338, 447, 448, 972

Richmond Road, 8

Rickett’s Equestrian Circus, 369, 379, 406

Ridgewood Reservoir, 837

Riker’s Island, 656, 897, 1196

Ringling circus, 1148

River pirates, 757

River Road. See Pearl Street

Riverdale, 718, 1055

Riverside Drive, 1044

Riverside Park, 929, 1011, 1190

Rivington Street, 364, 532, 745, 787, 1000, 1118, 1120, 1176, 1188

Roach Guards, 633

Roach’s ironworks, 1065

Robberies, 999, 1000

Robinson Hall, 995

Rockaway, 5, 230, 937

Rockaway Avenue, 1117

Rockaway Indians, 5, 8, 68

Roller coasters, 1133-34

Roosevelt Avenue, 939

Roosevelt Club, 1103

Roosevelt Hospital, 1217

Roosevelt Island, 29, 32

Roosevelt Street, 340, 347, 359, 391, 890, 1126

Rose Hill, 178

Rose Street, 363, 413, 559, 1084

Rosenburg Jewelers, 1000

Rosenwach Tank Company, 1052

Rosenzweig affair, 1017

Rossville, 662

Rotunda, 468

Rotunda Bar, 879

Rough Riders, 1216

Row houses, 747, 972

Royal African Company, 71, 120, 126

Royal African Regiment, 249

Royal Exchange: building of, 176

Royal Irish Regiment, 225

Royal Navy: and Anglo-Dutch relations, 71

and British occupation of New York, 250

and British return to New York, 235

in “Burgis View,” 112

deserters from, 182

in early nineteenth century, 315, 326

and French and Indian War, 191

impressment by, 182, 193, 315, 409-10

and Napoleonic Wars, 326, 409-10

and resistance to British policies, 204

and rum, 119

Station Ship, 112, 118

suppliers for, 270

Royal Society, 10

Rule of 1756, 315

Rule of 1816, 315

Rum, 119-30, 123, 183-84

Rural life, 291, 692. See also Farmers/farming ...

Russia: trade with, 276

Russian Jews, 1114, 1116, 1117, 1118, 1174, 1182, 1187

Rutgers Female Institute, 799

Rutgers Street, 178, 340, 347, 389, 391

Rye House Plot, 94

Sabbath: and class issues, 405-6

in colonial New York, 94, 129, 148

in early nineteenth century, 454, 481, 510-15

in 1830s, 553, 593

in late nineteenth century, 1082, 1202-3, 1206

in New Amsterdam, 58

in post-revolutionary New York, 269, 302

in 1790s and early 1800s, 405-6. See also Sunday closing laws; Sunday schools

Sachs Collegiate Institute, 1087

Safety Fund, 451, 575

Sagtikos Manor, 105

Sailmakers Society, 348

Sailors’ Snug Harbor, 467, 580

Sailor’s Welcome Home, 996

St. Andrew’s Society, 193, 248, 291, 375

St. Ann’s Avenue, 661

St. Ann’s Sunday school, 705-6

St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1126

St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, 459

St. Barthomew’s Day, 46

St. Cecilia Society, 375

St. Cecilia’s Catholic Church, 1101

St. claas, 463

St. David’s Society, 375

St. Denis Hotel, 672

St. Francis Hospital, 776

St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 750

St. George Manor, 105

St. George Society, 248

St. George’s Cricket Club, 733

St. George’s Episcopal Church, 177, 250, 455, 593, 1171, 1179

St. George’s Fields (London), 210

St. George’s Society, 193, 375

St. James Place, 133

St. James’s Catholic Church, 480, 543

St. James’s Episcopal Church, 460

St. John the Divine Cathedral, 1087

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 750, 1176

St. John’s Chapel, 374

St John’s Church, 728

St. John’s College (later Fordham), 750

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 545, 583

St. John’s Hall, 455

St. John’s Island, 164

St. John’s Park, 374, 457, 546, 547, 559, 577, 715, 767, 944

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 543

St. Kitts, 119, 183. See also Leeward Isbmds

St. Lawrence River, 12, 13

St. Luke’s in the Fields, 447, 448, 578

St. Mark’s in the Bouwerie, 389, 467, 695

St. Mark’s Methodist Episcopal, 993, 1000

St. Mark’s Place, 811, 978

St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 543, 938

St. Mary’s Island, 106

“Saint Monday,” 405

St. Nicholas Avenue, 931

St. Nicholas Day. See Christmas

St. Nicholas Hotel, 671, 672, 892, 903

St. Nicholas Society, 455, 1083

St. Nicholas’s Catholic Church, 543-44

St. Patrick, Feast of; 159

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 401, 455, 480, 481, 543, 544, 546, 565,