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Sing Sing Prison,
245
,
470
,
485
,
554

Sitting Bull, Chief,
480

Six, Bix,
401–02

Six Nations,
103

Skinners,
172

Skyscrapers,
405–08

Slaves, Negro,
33
,
36–37
,
50
,
87
,
112–14
,
116
,
123
,
130–36
,
190
,
231
,
234–38
,
266–69
,
282
,
285–87

Sloughter, Colonel Henry,
97
,
100
,
101

Slums,
231–33
,
300
,
459

Smit, Claes,
37

Smith, Alfred E.,
372–73
,
375
,
376
,
395
,
445
,
457
,
493
,
524–25
,
548

Smith, F. Hopkinson,
388

Smith, Moe,
518

Smith, William,
120
,
124
,
125
,
134

Smugglers and smuggling,
35
,
46
,
105
,
142
,
171

Society for Promoting Arts,
149

Society for the Prevention of Crime,
425
,
429

Society for the Prevention of Vice,
429

Society for the Reformation of Youthful Delinquents,
229

Society of Friends,
see
Quakers

Society of Mayflower Descendants,
421

Society of the Cincinnati,
190
,
199

Sons of Liberty,
146
,
147
,
150–51
,
152
,
153
,
155
,
319

South Carolina,
290–91

South River,
see
Delaware River

Southwest Battery,
211–12

Spain and the Spaniards,
14
,
15
,
61
,
131
,
136–37
,
356
,
441–49

Spanish-American War,
442
,
444–49

Spencer, John C,
254

Spengler, Oswald,
598

Speyer, Albert,
344

Spring Street,
192

Spuyten Duyvil,
20

Staats-Zeitung,
281

Stalin, Joseph,
569

Stamford, Connecticut,
39

Stamp Act (1765),
142
,
143
,
144–49
,
154

Stamp Act Congress,
145–46

Stand, Bert,
576

Stanton, Edwin M.,
312

Staple rights,
32

Star Theatre,
402

State debts controversy,
188–89

State Department, U.S.,
501
,
507
,
563

Staten Island,
16
,
19
,
29
,
33
,
36
,
37
,
55
,
66
,
75
,
79
,
92
,
94
,
161
,
162
,
165
,
166
,
190
,
282–83
,
295
,
313
,
356
,
398
,
419
,
451
,
452
,
453
,
563

State police force,
280

Statue of Liberty,
384–92
,
559

Steamboats,
190–91
,
204–05
,
240
,
244
,
259
,
468–71

Stearns, John L.,
406–08

Steenmayer, Rev. Ferdinand,
178

Steenwyck, Cornelius,
78

Steffens, Lincoln,
435
,
436

Steinway Hall,
408

Steuben, Baron Friedrich von,
182

Steuer, Max D.,
493

Stevens, Mrs. Paran,
379

Stevens, Samuel,
249

Stewart, Alexander,
251
,
291

Stone, Charles Pomeroy,
388
,
389

Storrs, Rev. Richard S.,
391

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
268

Street lighting,
88
,
178
,
228
,
363–64

Strikes,
318
,
381
,
490
,
514
,
569

Strong, George Templeton,
241
,
248
,
250
,
258
,
270
,
279
,
283
,
294
,
299
,
301
,
311
,
312
,
314
,
315
,
316
,
318
,
321
,
325
,
332
,
345
,
351
,
411

Strong, William L.,
434
,
438
,
454

Strunsky, Simeon,
595

Stuyvesant, Balthazar,
74

Stuyvesant, Judith Bayard,
42–43

Stuyvesant, Nicholas William,
74

Stuyvesant, Peter,
41–43
,
44
,
45–46
,
47
,
48
,
50
,
51–52
,
54
,
55
,
56–60
,
61
,
62
,
63–64
,
65
,
66–67
,
68–70
,
72
,
75
,
81
,
139
,
479

Submarines,
164–66
,
501
,
505
,
558

Subways,
339–40
,
463–67

Suez Canal,
375
,
390

Sullivan, Mark,
506

Sulzer, William,
418

Supreme court,
120–21
,
150

Swartout, Samuel,
212

Sweden and the Swedes,
34–35
,
49
,
64

Sweeny, Peter Barr,
334
,
342
,
346
,
355

Sweet, Edward,
516

Sweet's Restaurant,
286

Swift, Jonathan,
111

Swope, Herbert Bayard,
484
,
485
,
504

Szilard, Leo,
562

Taber, Henry M.,
429

Taft, William Howard,
495

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe,
21

Tallmadge, Frederick,
263
,
277

Tammany Hall,
234
,
248
,
294
,
298
,
331
,
335
,
340
,
347
,
353
,
382
,
383
,
417
,
419
,
424
,
426
,
429
,
430
,
434
,
438
,
452
,
453
,
459–60
,
464
,
480
,
493
,
503
,
509
,
524
,
525
,
526
,
540–41
,
544
,
545
,
548
,
550
,
554
,
567
,
568
,
569
,
574
,
581
,
582

Tammany Hall
(Werner),
337

Tammany Society,
190
,
196
,
199
,
201
,
331

Tappan, Arthur,
235
,
237–38
,
244

Tappan, Lewis,
235
,
238
,
239
,
244

Tariffs,
217

Taxes and taxation,
43
,
45
,
75
,
91
,
142
,
144–49
,
151–56
,
552

Taxicabs,
461
,
462
,
532

Taylor, James,
346

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich,
410–11

Tea drinking,
115

Tea tax,
154–55

Telephone Company of New York,
359

Telephones,
358–60

Telephone wiretapping,
506
,
569

Television,
559

Temperance movement,
248–49

Temple, Sir John,
182

Tenderloin district,
401
,
427
,
476

Tenth Regiment,
302

Terranova, Ciro,
541

Terry, Ellen,
402

Thackeray, William Makepeace,
596

Theaters,
119
,
172
,
191
,
194
,
195
,
238–39
,
402

Theatre Comique,
359

Theofel, John,
541

Third Anglo-Dutch War,
81–84

Third International,
536

Thomas, Evylyn,
461

Thomas, Norman,
536

Thompson, Jacob,
319
,
320
,
324

Thorn, Charlie,
248

Throgmorton, John,
55

Throgs Neck,
55
,
170

Tiemann, Daniel F.,
284

Tiffany's,
295

Tiger
(Block's vessel),
18

Tilden, Samuel J.,
351
,
352
,
353
,
354
,
450
,
494

Tilden Library,
494

Times Square,
466
,
472
,
512
,
564

Times Tower,
471

Tito, Marshal,
569

Tizard, Sir Henry,
563

Tobacco culture,
32
,
33
,
34
,
52
,
79

Tobey, Charles W.,
575

Todd, Robert,
129

Tolstoy, Count Leo,
480

Tombs, the,
354
,
493

Tompkins, Daniel D.,
212
,
213

Tontine Coffee House,
195
,
207

“Top Knot” Betty,
88

Tories,
159
,
160
,
166
,
169
,
171
,
172
,
173

Tornado,
190

Tower Building,
406–08

Townsend, Henry,
63

Townshend, Charles,
151
,
154

Townshend Acts,
151–52
,
153

Toynbee, Arnold,
598

Tracy, Benjamin,
453

Trade unions,
180
,
318
,
381
,
489–90
,
494
,
553

Traffic problems,
461–62

Traffic signals, electric,
462

Transportation,
258–59
,
337–42
,
451
,
460–67

Triangle Waist Company fire,
490–94

Triborough Bridge,
532

Trinity Church,
109–10
,
140
,
169
,
178–79
,
190

Truman, Harry S.,
564
,
571

Tryon, William,
158
,
160

Tunnels, river,
476–77

Turkus, Burton B.,
568

Turnpikes,
223

Turtle,
submarine,
164–66

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