The Epic of New York City (116 page)

Turtle Bay,
166

Tuthill, William B.,
409
,
410

Twain, Mark,
337

Tweed, Richard,
329

Tweed, William Marcy (“Boss”),
304
,
309
,
310
,
326
,
327–57

Tweed, William Marcy, Jr.,
355–56

Tweed Ring,
330–31
,
333–35
,
341
,
342
,
346–55

Twelve Men, the,
37–38

Twentieth century, opening of the,
456–67

Twenty-second Infantry Regiment,
505

Tyng, Rev. Stephen H.,
295

U-boats,
see
Submarines

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe),
268

Underground Railroad,
267

Underground wires,
359–60
,
366

Underhill, Captain John,
39–40
,
59

Unemployment,
208
,
243
,
381
,
500
,
532
,
551

Unemployment relief,
45

Union Ferry Company,
370

Union League Club,
304
,
308
,
311
,
362
,
387
,
437

Union Square,
222
,
296
,
454
,
537–39

United Labor party,
382

United States Hotel,
321

United States Steel Corporation,
457

Universal East India Company,
20–21

Upper Bay,
12
,
13
,
15–16
,
20
,
159
,
194

Uranium ore,
563–64

Ury, John,
135–36

Utrecht, Treaty of (1713),
117

Valdemoro, Angel,
361

Van Cortlandt, Stephanus,
102

Van Dam, Rip,
119–20
,
124

Vanderbilt, Cornelius,
190
,
195
,
212
,
240
,
244
,
259
,
299
,
318
,
338
,
340
,
342

Vanderbilt, William Henry,
378
,
380

Vanderbilt, Mrs. William K.,
528

Van der Donck, Adriaen Cornelissen,
55
,
56

Van Doren, Carl,
519
,
533
,
595

Van Dyck, Hendrick,
65
,
66

Van Ness, William P.,
199
,
200
,
201

Van Nieuwenhuysen, Wilhelmus,
89–90

Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen,
29
,
31

Van Schaick, William H.,
469
,
470

Van Tilburgh, Peter,
112

Van Twiller, Wouter,
31–33
,
52

Van Werckhoven, Cornelis,
54

Van Wyck, Robert A.,
453

Van Zandt, John,
130
,
132

Varick, Caesar,
131
,
133

Varick, Richard,
185
,
555

Vaterland,
S.S.,
504–05

Vaux, Calvert,
272

Vendôme, Duke of,
13

Verhulst, Willem,
25

Verlett, Annake Stuyvesant Bayard,
63

Verlett, Nicholas,
43

Verrazano, Giovanni da,
11–13
,
14–15
,
16

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge,
11
,
162

Vesey, Rev. William,
109

Vice in New York City,
423–39

Villard, Oswald Garrison,
500

Virginia Resolves,
145

Vitale, Albert H.,
541

Vizcaya,
Spanish cruiser,
443

Volunteers of America,
274

Wagner, Robert F.,
493
,
500
,
581

Wagner, Robert F., Jr.,
493
,
581–90
,
591
,
593
,
594
,
595

Waldman, Louis,
491

Waldo, Rhinelander,
483–84

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
413–15
,
552

Walker, James J.,
457
,
523–27
,
538
,
540
,
543
,
544
,
545–48
,
549
,
566

Walker, Stanley,
517

Wallabout Bay,
53
,
162

Walling, George W.,
278–79

Walloons,
24–25
,
53

Wall Street,
59–60
,
69
,
109
,
187
,
189
,
194
; bombing of,
515–16
; crash of 1929,
528–30

Walton, William,
117

Wanderer,
slave ship,
286

Wappinger Confederacy,
18

Ward, Artemus,
320

War Department, U.S.,
372
,
443
,
448

Ward's Island,
32
,
250
,
329
,
422
,
506

Warnecke, William,
481

War of 1812,
211–14
,
225

Warren, Peter,
130
,
132

Washington, George,
156
,
157–59
,
160
,
161
,
162–65
,
166–71
,
173–75
,
180
,
183
,
184–88
,
189
,
192
,
195
,
196

Washington, Martha,
158

Washington Building,
406

Washington Square,
159
,
262

Waterman, Frank D.,
525

Waterman, Henry,
270

Water supply,
115–16
,
192
,
245
,
249–51
,
459

Watson, Jimmy,
346–47

Waugh, Alec,
595

Webb, Captain William R.,
325

Weehawken, New Jersey,
199

Weeks, Levi,
192

Weiner, David,
493

Welfare, public,
88

Welfare Island,
32
,
80
,
86

Welles, Gideon,
318

Wells, Henry,
460

Werner, M. R.,
337
,
431

Westchester County,
36
,
40
,
277
,
451

Westervelt, J. J. V.,
264
,
279

West Indies,
22

Westminster, Treaty of (1674),
84

Whalen, Grover,
458
,
529
,
536
,
537–39

Whig party,
282
,
254

White, E. B.,
595

White, Pearl,
498

White Plains, Battle of,
170

Whitestone,
54

Whitman, Charles,
484
,
485

Whitman, Walt,
292
,
393
,
417
,
596

Whitney, David J.,
425

Whitney, Richard,
528
,
529

Whitney, William C,
359
,
390

Wigs,
116

Wilder, W. W.,
238

Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
497–98

Wilkins, Roy,
585

Willett, Thomas,
58
,
75–76
,
84

William of Orange,
83
,
84
,
93

William III and Mary II, of England,
93
,
96
,
107
,
108
;
see also
William of Orange

William IV, of England,
172

Williams, Alexander,
431–32
,
437

Williamsburg,
452

Willson, Hugh B.,
338

Wilmington, Delaware,
35

Wilmington, North Carolina,
15

Wilson, Woodrow,
462
,
477
,
486–88
,
496
,
497
,
501
,
503
,
504
,
506
,
507
,
508
,
509
,
514

Windmills,
28

Wise, Rabbi Stephen S.,
492
,
544

Wisner, George W.,
237

Witches and witchcraft,
51
,
76–77
,
136

Wodehouse, P. G.,
597

Women's Trade Union League,
490

Wood, Benjamin,
277
,
297

Wood, Fernando,
275
,
276–81
,
284
,
285
,
291
,
294
,
296
,
297
,
328

Wood, George,
76

Wood, Colonel Leonard,
444

Woodhull, Caleb S.,
262
,
264

Woods, Arthur,
499
,
500
,
505
,
506

Wool, Maj. General John Ellis,
301
,
307

Woolcott, Alexander,
528

Woolworth, Frank W.,
495–96

Woolworth Building,
495–96

World War I,
497–99
,
500–12

World War II,
555–56
,
557–64
,
582

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
596

Wright, James Hood,
365

Wright, “Poke,”
249

Wurster, Frederick W.,
454

Wynn. Ed,
514

Yale University,
74

Yellow journalism,
449

Yonkers, New York,
37
,
38
,
55
,
451

York, Duke of,
71
,
74
,
75
,
77
,
79
,
84
,
90
,
91
,
92

Yorkville,
258

Young Men's Republican Union of New York City,
288

Zenger, John Peter,
121
,
122–28
; trial of,
124–27

Zito, Joseph,
491