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Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1189]

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Missionary Society, 496

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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