Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1189]
United East India Company. See East India Company
United Englishmen, 395
United German Trades, 1089, 1120
United Hebrew Charities (UHC), 1115, 1116, 1120, 1188
United Hebrew Trades (UHT), 1120, 1186
United Insurance Company, 336
United Irishmen, 327, 395, 401, 402, 542, 543
United Labor Party (ULP), 1099, 1100, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1108, 1181
United New Netherland Company, 19. See also New Netherland Company
United Provinces. See Netherlands
United States: two centers in, 306
United States Hotel, 720, 741
United States Mail Steamship Company, 649-50
United States pleasure garden, 300
Universal Printer, 1060
Universal Society, 395
Universities Settlement Association, 1174
University of the City of New York, 531. See also New York University
University Club, 1184
University Place, 531, 580, 717, 782
University Settlement, 1175, 1176, 1193, 1206, 1207
University of the State of New York. See State University of New York
Uranian Society, 313
Urban missionaries, 385, 775-8
Urbanism, 291, 692-93, 701-2, 944-45
US. Christian Commission, 881
US. Coastal Survey, 822, 950
US. Military and Philosophical Society, 468
US. Sanitary Commission, 879, 880, 887
Utilities: buried lines for, 1067-68
and corruption, 1069
and electricity, 1063-68, 1069
monopolies in, 1069
municipalization of, 1069
telephones as, 1060-62, 1067
useful and unuseful, 1068-70
Vagrancy: in colonial New York, 145-46, 156
in early nineteenth century, 485, 504
in late nineteenth century, 1030–32, 1091, 1160, 1201
in mid-nineteenth century, 621, 623, 779, 780, 807
and police, 485
and poor relief, 145-46
and prostitutes, 485, 807
punishments for, 146
in revolutionary New York, 213, 214
in 1790s and early i Boos, 366, 394
Valencia Apartments, 1078
Van Cortlandt Avenue East, 249
Van Pelt Manor, 1228
Van dam Street, 660
Varick Street, 178, 363, 374, 447, 558, 890
Variety shows, 642, 643-44, 995, 1140, 1141, 1144-46, 1153
Varley’s joint, 1000, 1001
Vaudeville, 642, 1145
Vauxhall Gardens, 176, 200, 448, 458, 547, 585, 600, 642, 643, 644
Vendue masters, 192
Venereal disease, 808
Venezuela, 1210, 1213
Vereins, 989
Vernon Avenue, 744
Verrazano Narrows Bridge, 11
Vesey Street, 373, 707
Vestrymen, 103-4, 151,
Viaduct Railroad, 932, 950
Victoria Hotel, 959
Vigilance Committee, 829, 1010
Vine Street, 875
Vinegar Hill, 390
Virginia: class issues in, 241
Dunmore as governor of, 213
freedmen in, 249
and French and Indian War, 167
militia in, 167
Nicholson as governor of, 97
and ratification of Constitution, 292
slavery in, 32, 48, 127, 128, 248, 249, 259
Virginia Resolves, 210
Visiting nurse service, 1175-76
Volk’s Garden, 1145
Volunteers of Ireland, 246, 248
Voting: by blacks, 285-86, 514, 548, 549, 554, 857, 982, 983, 985, 1034-35
by Catholics, 112
and city-state relations, 330
and class issues, 329-31
in colonial New York, 112, 140
“cumulative”, 980
and democracy in municipal government, 1032-33
in early nineteenth century, 328, 329-30, 512, 513-14
in 1830s, 548, 554
and formation of state government, 231, 256
by Irish, 402
by Jews, 133-34
in late nineteenth century, 980, 982-83, 985, 1032-33, 1034-35
in mid-nineteenth century, 622, 823, 824, 857
and “Montgomerie Charter”, 140
for municipal government, 329-30
in post-revolutionary New York, 256, 267, 268, 281, 284, 285-86
property qualifications for, 291, 328, 329-30, 512, 549
and ratification of Constitution, 291
and republicanism, 330
by secret ballot, 153, 207, 231, 256, 257, 330
in 1790s and early 1800s, 402
and Tammany, 823, 824
and Tilden Commission, 1032-33
by Tories, 257-58, 267, 281
universal manhood, 231
by voice, 142, 257, 330
by women, 284, 818-19, 982-83
by working class, 328. See also Elections
W. and J. Sloane, 945
Wages/salaries: and Civil War, 883, 884, 901
in colonial New York, 141, 181
and Crash of 1873, 1027, 1035
in early nineteenth century, 346, 351, 443, 478, 483, 516
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