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Women’s Central Association of Relief for the Sick and Wounded of the Army, 880

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 1164

Women’s club movement, 1165, 1167

Women’s Hospital and Dispensary (Brooklyn), 980

Women’s Hospital of New York, 800

Women’s Medical Association of New York City, 980

Women’s Medical College, 980, 1176

Women’s Municipal League, 1193

Women’s Patriotic Association for Diminishing the Use of Luxuries, 879

Women’s Prison Association, 806

Women’s rights, 93, 377, 801, 817-20, 1176

Women’s Rights Conventions, 818-19, 820, 983

Women’s School of Design, 782

“Women’s work”, 801

The Wooden Horse tavern, 54

Woodhaven, 939, 992

Woodhaven Boulevard, 939

Woodhull, Claflin, and Co., 984

Woodlawn, 656, 1055

Woodrow, 854

Wood’s Museum, 956

Woodside, 583, 939

Woodworkers, 742, 1012-13

Wooster Street, 363, 804

Work ethic, 1032

Workers League, 773

Workhouses, 145-46, 156, 382, 508, 621, 624, 873, 1032

Working class: and anti-authoritarianism, 213

and auction of confiscated Tory property, 268

British soldiers compete for jobs with, 182, 193, 211

and city development, 930

and city-state relations, 840-41

and Civil War, 865, 881-82, 883-34, 885, 886-87, 888-95, 896, 901

and collapse of government, 224

in colonial New York, 181, 182, 187-90, 192, 193, 199, 200, 201

in early nineteenth century, 314, 316, 319, 321, 328, 475-78, 480-83, 486-87, 491-92, 510, 511–12, 515–22, 530

in 1830s, 587-88, 594, 603, 605-0, 609, 613, 616, 618

and events leading to Civil War, 861-62

and formation of state government, 231

and Hamilton, 279

in late nineteenth century, 930, 934, 976, 987, 991-96, 1023-27, 1055, 1056, 1082, 1091, 1094-95, 1100, 1134, 1152, 1154, 1156, 1165, 1167, 1194, 1200, 1202

and Lee’s troops, 228

and Leisler, 98, 100

in mid-nineteenth century, 800-802, 805, 806, 812, 814, 816-17, 819, 823, 831-32, 838, 840-41, 849, 861-62

in post-revolutionary New York, 257, 266-67, 268, 279, 280, 307, 308, 310

in proprietary New York, 93

protests by, 181–82

and resistance to British colonial policies, 200

in revolutionary New York, 208, 211, 213, 216, 224, 225, 231

in 1790s and early 1800s, 373-74, 387-85, 392-93, 395-98, 406-8. See also specific topic

Working conditions, 665-66, 726-27, 801, 1102. See also Eight hour work day; Ten hour day

Working women: boardinghouses for, 478, 992

and class issues, 990-91

clubs for, 1165

as consumers, 813

and day care, 811

in early nineteenth century, 346, 443, 476-78, 516-17

and fashions, 813

and feminism, 517, 802-3, 989-90

housing for, 789, 992

in late nineteenth century, 980-81, 989-91, 992, 1165, 1177-78

in mid-nineteenth century, 665-66, 801, 802-3, 811, 813, 846

as middle class, 980-81, 989

and organized labor, 604, 802, 845, 989, 990-91, 1090

and poor/poverty, 802

single, 666, 801

and Social Gospel, 1177-78

strikes by, 516-17

as unemployed, 846

wages for, 443, 478, 665-66, 800-802, 818, 1178

working conditions of, 665-66, 801, 990. See also specific type ofa/ork

Working Women’s Society, 1177-78

Workwoman’s Advocate (newspaper), 519-22, 553

Workingman’s School, 1173

Workingmen’s Association, 1025

Workingmen’s Centra] Council, 1024

Workingmen’s Home, 789

Workingmen’s Party, 519, 521, 522, 526, 572, 607, 765, 1036, 1089, 1098, 1101

Workingmen’s Union, 901, 986, 987-88

Workingmen’s United Political Association, 897

Workingwoman’s Association, 990, 991

Workplace, 142, 372, 475, 554

World Tower, 1051-52, 1213

World War 1, 1236

World’s Temperance Convention (1853), 777, 818-19

Worth Street, 392, 530, 819

W.R. Grace and Company, 1104

Writs of assistance, 195

Wyoming Apartments, 1080

XYZ Affair, 325

Yachts, 954, 1066

“Yankee Doodle” (song), 227, 557

Yankees: and Knickerbockers, 452-55. See also Elites; New England Society

Yiddish theater, 1138-39

Yonkers, 259, 661, 670, 1058

York Street, 1117

Yorkshire County, 80-81

Yorktown: Cornwallis’ surrender at, 255-56

Yorktown Heights, 405

Yorkville, 535, 565, 627, 721,