Nooks & Corners of Old New York

by Charles Hemstreet

INDEX

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INDEX

Abingdon, Earl of, [109], [125]
Abingdon Road, [123], [124]
Abingdon Square, [109]
Academy of Music, [178]
All Saints' Church, [136]
Allen Street Memorial Church, [142]
American Museum, [37]
André, Major, [205]
Aquarium, Public, [5]
Arsenal in Madison Square, [182]
Art Street, [167]
Astor House, [78]
Astor, John Jacob, [163], [172]
Astor Library, [170], [171]
Astor Place, [172]
Astor Place Opera House, [168], [169], [170]
Astor, William B., [172]
Bank Coffee House, [146]
Bank Street, [113]
Banker Street, [134]
Bank for Savings, The, [38], [151]
Barnum, P. T., [5], [30]
Barnum's Museum, [30]
Barrow Street, [108]
Battery, [4]
Battery Park, [4]
Battery Place, [9]
Bayard Family Vault, [144]
Beaver Lane, [56]
Beaver's Path, [8]
Beaver Street, [8], [9], [10]
Bedford Street M. E. Church, [106]
Beekman House, [205]
Belle Vue Farm, [189]
Bellevue Hospital, [188], [189], [190]
Bible House, [166], [191]
Bleecker Street Bank, [151]
Block, Adrian, [56], [57]
Bloomingdale Road, [124], [128], [175], [180], [185], [199]
Bond Street, [149]
Bone Alley, [139], [140]
Booth, Edwin, [194]
Boston Post Road, [183], [192], [199]
Boston Turnpike, [183]
Boulevard, [181]
Bouwerie Lane, [46]
Bouwerie Village, [156], [157], [158], [159], [160], [161]
Bowery, The, [47]
Bowery Lane, [166], [175]
Bowery Road, [47], [128], [163], [164]
Bowery Theatre, [49]
Bowery Village Church, [162]
Bowling Green, [3], [55]
Bowling Green Garden, [84]
Bradford, William, [14]
Grave of, [63]
Brannan's Garden, [101]
Breese, Sydney, grave of, [62]
Brevoort, Hendrick, [174]
Brick Presbyterian Church, [31], [196]
Bridewell, [35]
Bridge Street, [9]
Broad Street, [9], [10]
Broadway, [12], [55], [175], [180], [181]
Broadway Theatre, [97]
Brougham's Lyceum, [97]
Brouwer Street, [15]
Bryant Park, [114], [197], [198], [199]
Bull's Head Tavern, [49], [190]
Bull's Head Village, [190], [191]
Bunker Hill, [144]
Burdell Murder, The, [149], [150]
Burr, Aaron, home of, [18], [104]
Office of, [40]
Last Friend of, [67]
Burton's Theatre, [39]
Café des Mille Colonnes, [39], [86]
Canal Street, [41], [42], [94], [95]
Canda, Madam, [171]
Castle Garden, [5], [178]
Cedar Street, [21]
Cemetery, New York City Marble, [154], [155]
Cemetery, New York Marble, [151], [152], [153], [154]
Central Park, [207], [208], [209], [210], [211]
Chambers Street, [34]
Chambers Street Bank, [37]
Chanfrau, Frank, [170]
Chapel Place, [83]
Chatham, Earl of, [18], [47], [90]
Chatham Square, [45], [46]
Chatham Street, [47]
Chelsea Cottages, [129]
Chelsea Village, [126], [127], [128], [129]
Cherry Hill, [51], [52]
Cherry Street, [51]
Church, All Saints', [136]
" Allen Street Memorial, [142]
" Bedford Street Memorial, [106]
" Bowery Village, [162]
" Brick Presbyterian, [31], [196]
" Dr. Schroeder's, [167]
" Duane M. E., [102]
" First French Huguenot, [9]
" First Moravian, [195]
" First Presbyterian, [154]
" First Reformed Presbyterian, [40], [118]
" Friends' Meeting House, [178]
" Grace, [58], [175]
" John Street, [26], [161], [162]
" Little, Around the Corner, [192], [193], [194], [195]
" Madison Square Presbyterian, [186]
" Mariners', [133], [134]
" Dutch Middle Reformed, [21], [22], [171]
" New Jerusalem, [89]
" Oliver Street Baptist, [133]
" St. Ann's, [167]
" St. George's, [29], [179]
" St. John's, [91]
" St. Mark's, [86], [156], [157], [158], [159]
" St. Mary's, [137]
" St. Patrick's, [144], [145]
" St. Patrick's Cathedral, [203]
" St. Paul's, [75], [76], [77], [78]
" St. Peter's, [81]
" Sea and Land, of, [135]
" Second Street Methodist, [156]
" Spring Street Presbyterian, [102]
" Transfiguration, of the (Episcopal), [192], [193], [194], [195]
" Transfiguration, of the (Catholic), [44], [45]
" Trinity, [20], [56], [58], [60], [61]
Church Farm, [59]
Churchyard, St. Paul's, [155]
" Trinity, [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [71], [72]
Churcher, Richard, Grave of, [61]
City Hall, [35]
City Hall (first) Site of, [7], [8], [12]
City Hall in Wall Street, [17]
City Hall Park, [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39]
City Hospital, [88], [89]
City Hotel, [73], [74]
City Library, [120]
City Prison in City Hall Park, [35]
Clarke, Capt. Thomas, [127]
Cliff Street, [24]
Clinton, Gen. Charles, [205]
Clinton Hall, [28], [168], [169]
Coenties Lane, [13]
Coenties Slip, [12], [13]
Collect, The, [41]
College of the City of New York, [186], [187]
College Place, [83]
Collis, Christopher, Tomb of, [77]
Colonnade Row, [172]
Columbia College, [81], [82], [83], [202]
Commons, The, [34]
Company's Farm, [59]
Cooke, George Frederick, Grave of, [77], [78]
Cooper, James Fenimore, House of, [147]
Cooper Mansion, [191]
Cooper, Peter, [164], [165], [166]
House of, [191], [192]
Statue of, [165]
Cooper Union, [161], [164], [165]
Corcoran's Roost, [201]
Cornbury, Lady, [66]
Corlears Hook Park, [136]
Country Market, [75]
Coutant, John, House of, [161]
Cox, Samuel S., Statue of, [168]
Cresap, Michael, Grave of, [70]
Croton Water Celebration, [177], [197]
Cryptograph in Trinity Churchyard, [64], [65], [66]
Crystal Palace, [198]
Custom House, [16], [18]
Cuyler's Alley, [15]
Debtors' Prison, [34], [35]
Delacroix, [163]
De Lancey, Etienne, [10], [72], [73], [74]
De Lancey, James, [72], [73], [143], [144]
De Lancey, Susannah, [100]
Delmonico's, [16], [25]
De Voor House, [207]
Dickens, Charles, [31]
Drew, Daniel, [191]
Duane M. E. Church, [102]
Duke's Farm, [59]
Dutch West India Company, [2]
Eacker, George, Grave of, [78]
East River Bridge (second), [137]
Eleventh Street, [174]
Elgin Garden, [201], [202], [203]
Eliot Estate, [172]
Emmet, Thomas Addis, [77], [155]
Essex Market, [143]
Exterior Market, [75]
Fayette Street, [133]
Federal Hall, [17], [18]
Fields, The, [34]
Fifth Avenue Hotel, [185]
Fire of 1835, [14]
First French Huguenot Church, [9]
First Graveyard, [56]
First House Built, [56]
First Moravian Church, [195]
First Presbyterian Church, [154]
First Prison Labor, [110]
First Reformed Presbyterian Church, [40], [118]
First Savings Bank, [37]
First Sunday School, [161]
First Tenement House, [136]
Fish, Hamilton, Park, [139]
Fish Market, [75]
Fitzroy Road, [126], [128]
Five Points, [42], [43]
Five Points House of Industry, [44]
"Flat and Barrack Hill", [16]
Fly Market, [23]
Forrest, Edwin, [168], [169]
Forrest-Macready Riots, [168], [169], [170]
Fort Amsterdam, [1], [2]
Fort Clinton, [4]
Fort George, [2]
Fort James, [2]
Fort Manhattan, [2]
Fountain in Union Square, [177]
Franconi's Hippodrome, [185]
Franklin House, [50]
Franklin Square, [51]
Fraunces' Tavern, [10], [11]
Free Academy, [186], [187]
Fresh Water Pond, [41]
Friends' Meeting House, [178]
Fulton Street, [20]
Garden, Bowling Green, [84]
" Brannan's, [101]
" Castle, [5], [178]
" Elgin, [201], [202], [203]
" Niblo's, [146], [147]
" Ranelagh, [94]
" Vauxhall (first), [84], [163]
" Vauxhall (last), [163], [164], [170]
" Winter, [148]
Garden Street, [16]
Gardner, Noah, [110], [111]
General Theological Seminary, [126], [127], [129]
George III, Statue of, [3], [19]
Gold Street, [23]
Golden Hill, [23]
Golden Hill, Battle of, [24]
Golden Hill Inn, [24], [25]
Government House, [1], [2]
Governor's Room, City Hall, [36]
Grace Church, [58], [175]
Gramercy Park, [179]
Graveyard, Jewish, [50], [116], [117], [122], [123]
" Paupers', [34], [114], [115], [181], [197], [204]
" St. John's, [105]
" St. Paul's, [155]
" Trinity, [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68]
" New York City Marble, [154], [155]
" New York Marble, [151], [152], [153], [154]
Great Bouwerie, [157]
Great Kiln Road, [118], [121], [122], [125]
Great Queen Street, [12]
Greenwich Avenue, [116]
" Lane, [116], [166]
" Road, [80], [81]
" Street, [80], [81]
" Village, [98], [99], [100], [101]
Grove Street, [108]
Hale, Nathan, [38], [135], [204]
Hall of Records, [34]
Hamilton, Alexander, Grave of, [66]
Hamilton, Alexander, Home of, [18]
Hamilton, Philip, [67]
Haunted House, [165], [166]
Holland, Joseph, [193]
Holt's Hotel, [21]
Hone, Philip, [159]
Horse and Cart Street, [26]
Hosack Botanical Garden, [82]
Hosack, David, [202]
Hotel, Astor, [78]
" City, [73], [74]
" Fifth Avenue, [185]
" Holt's, [21]
" Metropolitan, [147]
" Riley's Fifth Ward, [89], [90]
" St. Nicholas, [145]
" Tremont, [149]
" United States, [20]
Houghton, Rev. Dr. George H., [194]
House of Aaron Burr, [18], [104]
House, First, of White Men, [56]
House of James Fenimore Cooper, [147]
House of Peter Cooper, [191], [192]

House of John Coutant, [161]
House of the De Lanceys, [10], [72], [73], [74]
House of Alexander Hamilton, [18]
House of Thomas Paine, [107], [108]
House of President Monroe, [145]
House of Refuge, [182]
House of Charlotte Temple, [48], [167]
House of Francis Bayard Winthrop, [201]
Houston Street, [150]
Howe, Sir William, [205]
Huguenot Memorials in Trinity Churchyard, [69], [71]
Inclenberg, [199]
Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, [202]
Island of Manhattan, [138]
"Jack-knife," The, [23]
Jail in City Hall Park, [34]
James Street, [133]
Jans' Farm, [59], [60]
Jeanette Park, [13]
Jefferson, Joseph, [193]
Jewish Graveyard in New Bowery, [50]
Jewish Graveyard in Eleventh Street, [116], [117]
Jewish Graveyard in Twenty-first Street, [117], [122], [123]
John Street, [26]
John Street Church, [26], [161], [162]
John Street Theatre, [26]
Jones' Woods,[208]
Jumel, Mme., [40]
Keene, Laura, Theatre of, [147]
King's College, [82]
King's Farm, [59]
Kip's Bay, [200]
Kip, Jacob, [200]
Kipsborough, [183], [200]
Kissing Bridge, [47], [184]
Lawrence, Capt., Grave of, [68]
Lafarge House, [148]
Lafayette, General, [172]
Lafayette Place, [167], [170], [171], [172]
La Grange Terrace, [172]
Leeson, James, Grave of, [64]
Leisler, Jacob, Where Hanged, [31], [32]
Lich Gate of Little Church Around the Corner, [194]
Light Guards, [7]
Lind, Jenny, [5]
Lispenard's Meadows, [80], [93], [94], [95]
Little Church Around the Corner, [192], [193], [194], [195]
Logan, the Friend of the White Man, [70]
London Terrace, [129]
Love Lane, [121], [124], [125], [126], [128]
Macneven, William James, [77], [155]
Macomb's Mansion, [57]
Macready-Forrest Riots, [168], [169], [170]
Macready, William Charles, [168], [169]
Madison Square, [182], [183]
Madison Square Presbyterian Church, [186]
Madison Street, [134]
Maiden Lane, [13], [22]
Mandelbaum, "Mother", [141], [142]
Manetta Brook, [99]
Manetta Creek, [113], [114]
Manhattan Island, [137], [138], [142]
Manhattan Market, [139]
Marble Houses on Broadway, [148], [149]
Mariners' Church, [133], [134]
Mariners' Temple, [133]
Market, Country, [75]
" Essex, [143]
" Exterior, [75]
" Fish, [75]
" Fly, [23]
" Manhattan, [139]
" Meal, [20]
" Uptown, [74]
" Washington, [74]
Marketfield Street, [8]
Martyrs' Monument, [63], [64]
Masonic Hall, [87], [88]
Meal Market, [20]
Medical College Hall, [195]
Mercantile Library, [28], [29], [170]
Merchants' Exchange, [16]
Metropolitan Hall, [148]
Metropolitan Hotel, [147]
Middle Dutch Reformed Church, [21], [22], [171]
Middle Road, [192]
Mile Stone, [143], [178], [204]
Military Prison Window, [41]
Milligan's Lane, [117], [118]
Minetta Street, [99], [113], [114]
Monroe, President James, [145], [155]
Montgomery, General, [76]
Monument Lane, [115], [166]
Moore, Bishop Benjamin, [127], [128]
Moore, Clement C., [128], [129]
Morris Street, [56]
Morse, Samuel F. B., [5]
Morton, General Jacob, [7], [37]
Morton, John, [6]
Mount Pitt, [137]
Mount Pitt Circus, [137]
Mulberry Bend, [43]
Murder of Dr. Burdell, [149], [150]
Murder of Mary Rogers, [145], [146]
Murderers' Row, [97]
Murray Family, [199], [200], [201]
Murray Farm, [200]
Murray Hill, [199], [200]
Nassau Street, [17], [18], [21], [22]
Nean, Elias, Grave of, [71]
Nean, Susannah, Grave of, [71]
Negro Insurrection, [42]
New Jerusalem Church, [89]
New York City Marble Cemetery, [154], [155]
New York Hospital, [88], [89]
New York Institute, [37]
New York Marble Cemetery, [151], [152], [153], [154]
New York Society Library, [119], [120]
New York Theatre, [170]
New York Theatre and Metropolitan Opera House, [148]
Niblo's Garden, [146], [147]
Niblo's Theatre, [146]
Nicholas William Street, [161]
North Street, [150], [151]
Obelisk Lane, [115]
"Old Brewery", [44]
Oldest Grave in Trinity Churchyard, [61]
Old Guard, [7]
Oliver Street, [133]
Oliver Street Baptist Church, [133]
Orphan Asylum, Roman Catholic, [203]
Olympic Theatre, [96], [147]
Paine, Thomas, Home of, [107], [108]
Paisley Place, [122]
Palmo Opera House, [39], [87]
Parade-Ground, [181]
Park, Battery, [4]
" Bryant, [114], [197], [198], [199]
" Central, [207], [208], [209], [210], [211]
" City Hall, [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39]
" Corlears Hook, [136]
" Gramercy, [179]
" Hamilton Fish, [139]
" Jeanette, [13]
" St. John's, [91], [92]
Park Row, [47]
Park Theatre (first), [30]
Patti, Adelina, [148]
Payne, John Howard, [36]
Pauper Graveyard, [34], [114], [115], [181], [197], [204]
Pearl Street, [9], [11], [12], [13], [14]
Peck Slip, [12]
Petticoat Lane, [8], [9]
Pie Woman's Lane, [22]
Pitt, William, Statue of, [18], [47], [90]
Platt Street, [23]
Poelnitz, "Baron", [173]
Poor House in City Hall Park, [34]
Post Office, [21], [33]
Post Road, [47], [124], [125], [180], [181], [182], [204]
Potter's Field, Bryant Park, [114], [197]
Potter's Field, City Hall Park, [34]
Potter's Field, Madison Square, [181]
Potter's Field, Third Avenue, [204]
Potter's Field, Washington Square, [114], [115]
Printing-Press, First in Colony, [13]
Prison Manufactures, [110]
Prison Riots, [111]
Prison, State, [109], [110], [111], [112]
Queen's Farm, [59], [81]
Rachel, the Actress, [148]
"Rag Gang", [201]
Randall, Robert Richard, [173], [174]
Ranelagh Garden, [94]
Red Fort, [92]
Reservoir Square, [198]
Revolutionary House, [79]
Revolutionary War, First Blood of, [24]
Richmond Hill, [103], [104], [105]
Riley's Fifth Ward Hotel, [89], [90]
Road, Abingdon, [123]
" Boston Post, [183], [192], [199]
" Bowery, [47], [128], [163], [164]
" Fitzroy, [126], [128]
" Great Kiln, [118], [121], [122]
" Greenwich, [80], [81]
" Middle, [192]
" Post, [47], [124], [125], [180], [181], [182], [204]
" Skinner, [117]
" Southampton, [117], [120], [125]
" Union, [117], [118], [119], [120]
" Warren, [126]
Rogers, Mary, Murder of, [145], [146]
Rotunda in City Hall Park, [37]
Ruggles, Samuel B., [180]
Rutgers, Anthony, [92], [93], [94]
Rutgers, Col. Henry, [135]
Rutgers Farm, [135]
Sailors' Snug Harbor, [173], [174]
St. Ann's Church, [167]
St. Gaudens, Augustus, [165]
St. George's Church, [29], [179]
St. George Square, [51]
St. James Street, [133]
St. John's Burying-Ground, [105]
St. John's Church, [91]
St. John's Park, [91], [92]
St. Mark's Church, [86], [156], [158], [159]
St. Mary's Church, [137]
St. Nicholas Hotel, [145]
St. Patrick's Cathedral, [203]
St. Patrick's Church, [144], [145]
St. Paul's Chapel, [75], [76], [77], [78]
St. Paul's Churchyard, [155]
St. Peter's Church, [81]
Savings Bank, the First, [37]
Schroeder, Rev. Dr., [167]
Scudder's Museum, [37]
Second East River Bridge, [137]
Second Street Methodist Church, [156]
Sewing Machine Exhibited, [87]
Shakespeare Tavern, [27], [28]
Shearith Israel Graveyard, [50], [116], [122]
Sheep Pasture, [8]
Shot Tower, [206]
Shipyards, [134]
Skinner Road, [117]
Smit's V'lei, [22]
Southampton, Baron, [109], [122]
Southampton Road, [117], [120], [125]
Sperry, John, [163]
Spring Street Presbyterian Church, [102]
Spring Valley Farm, [207]
Stadhuis Site, [7]
Stadt Huys, [12], [15]
State Prison, [109], [110], [111], [112]
State Street, [5], [6]
Stewart, Alexander T., [85], [86], [159]
Stewart Mansion, [86]
Stone Street, [15]
Stuyvesant's Creek, [142]
Stuyvesant's Pear Tree, [160]
Stuyvesant, Peter, [16], [156], [157], [158], [159], [160]
Stuyvesant's Pond, [179]
Stuyvesant Street, [167]
Sub-Treasury Building, [18]
"Suicide Slip", [95]
Sunday School, the First, [161]
Tammany Hall, [32], [33]
Tattersall's, [95], [96]
Tea Water Pump, [48]
Temple, Charlotte, Tomb of, [62], [63]
Temple, Charlotte, Home of, [48], [167]
Tenement House, the First, [136]
Ten Eyck, Conraet, [13]
Tompkins, Daniel D., [159]
Thames Street, [72]
Theatre Alley, [31]
Theatre, Academy of Music, [178]
" Astor Place Opera House, [168], [169], [170]
Theatre, Bowery, [49]
" Broadway, [97]
" Brougham's, [97]
" Burton's, [39]
" Laura Keene's, [147]
" John Street, [26]
" Metropolitan Hall, [148]
" New York, [170]
" New York Theatre and Metropolitan Opera House, [148]
" Niblo's, [146]
" Olympic, [96], [147]
" Palmo's, [39], [87]
" Park, [30]
" Tripler Hall, [148]
" Wallack's, [97], [176]
" Winter Garden, [148]
Thompson's Inn, Corporal, [185]
Thorne, Charles R., [170]
Tilden, Astor and Lenox Libraries, [199]
Tin Pot Alley, [57], [58]
Tombs, [41]
Tompkins Blues, [7]
Tontine Coffee House, [19]
Tontine Society, [19]
Tremont House, [149]
Trinity Church, [20], [56], [58], [60], [61]
Trinity Churchyard, [58], [59], [60], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69],
[70], [71], [72]
Tripler Hall, [148]
Turtle Bay, [184], [201]
Turtle Bay Farm, [201]
Twenty-first Street, [124]
Union Place, [177]
Union Road, [117], [118], [119], [120]
Union Square, [175], [177]
United New Netherland Company, [2]
United States Hotel, [20]

Uptown Market, [74]
Van Hoboken, Hermanus, [157]
Vauxhall Garden (first), [84], [163]
Vauxhall Garden (last), [163], [164], [170]
Virgin's Path, [22]
Wall, City's, [16]
Wall Street, [9], [13], [16], [17], [19], [20]
Wall Street, Trees in, [20]
Wallack, James W., [176]
Wallack's Lyceum, [97], [176]
Warren, Ann, [109]
Warren, Charlotte, [109]
Warren Road, [126]
Warren, Sir Peter, [100], [108], [109], [124]
Warren, Susannah, [109]
Washington Inaugurated, [17]
Washington Inauguration Ball, [73]
Washington's Broadway Home, [57]
Washington Hall, [85]
Washington's Headquarters, [11]
Washington's Headquarters at Richmond Hill, [104]
Washington's Home in Franklin House, [50]
Washington's Pew in St. Paul's Chapel, [76]
Washington Market, [74]
Washington Statue in Union Square, [177]
Washington Tablet, [37], [90]
Washington Square, [113], [115], [172], [181], [197]
Water Tank, [176]
Weavers' Row, [122]
Well in Broadway, [149]
Well in Rivington Street, [141]
Well of William Cox, [13]
West Broadway, [83]
West's Circus, [95]
West India Co., [2]
Whitehall Street, [8]
Wiehawken Street, [112]
William Street, [16]
Window of Military Prison, [40]
Winter Garden, [148]
Winthrop, Francis Bayard, [201]
Wolfe, Gen., Statue of, [115]
World's Fair Grounds, [198]
Worth Monument, [184], [185]
Wreck Brook, [41]