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Nathan, Benjamin, 165

National Police Gazette , 333 -35

National Theatre, 165 , 194

Near, Rachel, 88

Ned Buntline's Own , 161

Neighborhoods, New York City. See New York City population

Newspaper editors, controversies of, 161 -62, 374 n.38

New York City population, 52 ;

demographic and geographic patterns, 175 -95, 378 nn.20-21;

immigrants and ethnic clusters, 52 -54, 118 -19, 176 -77

New York City residents. See Black New York residents; Foreign-born residents; "Respectable" residents

New York Daily Times , and Mayor Wood's reform program, 112 -15

New York Female Benevolent Society, 20

New York Female Moral Reform Society, 66 , 311

New York Herald , 9 -11

New York legislature, 138 , 141 -42, 281

New York Magdalen Society, 18 , 43 , 89 , 268 . See also McDowall, Rev. John: 1831 report by

New York Public Library, 178

New York Society for the Prevention of Paupers, 65

New York Society Library, 178

Niles, George, 230

Norman, Amelia (alias Lydia Brown), 141 -43, 170

Nosworthy, William, 171