Table of Contents

• Frontispiece
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• New York of Yesterday
• Chronological Sketch of the Progress etc.
• The Song of Mosholu
• Obsolete Names of Localities on etc.
• Manners and Customs of the Indians etc.
• Digest of City Ordinances, Prior to etc.
• The Ships and Vessels of Our Port in etc.
• The Grade of Broadway, from the Present etc.
• Standing Water in the Meadows
• Verrezano's Voyage
• Forty Years on Twenty-Third Street
• The Grave of Jacob Leisler
• Recollections of Postmaster James
• The Sons of the Revolution Celebrate etc.
• Washington in New York
• The First Attempt to Introduce Running etc.
• Manners and Customs in Dutch New York
• Collect or Fresh Water Pond
• Some Early Houses of Luxury in New York
• Famous New York Hotels of the "Seventies"
• Museum of the City of New York
• Stuyvesant Fish
• Getting the Granite for the New County etc.
• Boyhood Recollections of Gracie Mansion
• Miss Spence
• Henry Clay Gets a Manual
• P. T. Barnum
• Windmills
• Old, Old New York
• City Hall Park and Its Neighborhood
• Old Brooklyn, The Eastern District in etc.
• Old-Time Ferry Boats to Brooklyn
• Early Days of Schools and etc.
• Bibliography
• Opening of the American Academy of Arts etc.
• Address to the American Academy of Arts etc.
• Early Steamboat Days on the Hudson River
• Old Time Fishing on the North River
• A Place Up the Hudson
• Blackwell's Island
• Concerning Back Issues of the "Manual" etc.
• John Calvin Coolidge, Notary Public
• Index