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	Astor Place Riot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Astor Place Riot, one of the bloodiest days in New York's history, had its roots in a banal squabble between two arrogant actors.
		An attempt by Macready to play Macbeth at the Astor place Opera House on May 7, 1849 proved unsuccessful, as he was driven from the stage by an unruly crowd throwing, as he later cataloged, "eggs of doubtful purity, potatoes, a bottle of pungent and nauseating asafetida, old shoes, and a copper coin."
		They marched back down on Broadway and turned again into Astor Place, but the crowd was so thick and belligerent that they were forced to proceed in single file, squeezing themselves between the building and the mob.
	members.tripod.com /Fighting9th/History28.htm (983 words)

	Barbara Foley, "From Wall Street to Astor Place: Historicizing Melville’s 'Bartleby'"
		The Astor Place riot of 1849, I hypothesize, provides a covert historical subtext—one that is denied not so much by the narrator as by the author himself.
		What the debate over Astor’s “right” to his millions reveals is that the critique of great wealth was inextricably tied to the critique of land ownership; the capitalist and the landlord were closely linked in the radical imaginary of the 1840s and 1850s.
		Living in the posh area around Astor Place, Melville was dwelling in the shadow of Grace Church—in more senses than one—at the moment when the Episcopal diocese’s financial and moral affairs were figuring prominently in the newspapers that he habitually read.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /holbein/439/bf/foleybartleby.html (9010 words)

	octo-23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Astor Place was then picketed, but the restoration of order was only temporary, for the mob shortly returned from Third Avenue and attacked with pavingstones.
		Astor doubled the endowment of his father, "On the understanding that it was the settled and unchangeable basis of administering the library that its contents should remain in the library rooms for use by readers, and should not be lent or allowed to be taken from the rooms."
		Astor Place Opera House, at the end of the first "five seasons' subscription," was given over to business and the occupancy of the Mercantile Library; being remodelled for the purpose, and taking the old name of Clinton Hall after the library's earlier home.
	jmisc.net /octo/octo-23.htm (6104 words)

	Son removed as Brooke Astor's guardian - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The agreement allows the 104-year-old Astor's new guardians, Annette de la Renta and the JPMorgan Chase bank, to remain in place instead of her son, Anthony Marshall.
		Astor is the widow of Vincent Astor, a great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, who made a fortune in fur trading and New York real estate.
		In the decades after her husband's death in 1959, Astor gave away nearly $200 million to support New York's great cultural institutions and a host of humbler projects, winning a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998.
	cgi.cnn.com /2006/LAW/10/13/brooke.astor.ap/index.html (416 words)

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		The history of the riots that have taken place in a great city from its foundation, is a curious and unique one, and illustrates the peculiar changes in tone and temper that have come over it in the course of its development and growth.
		In the third place, in ordinary peace times, these uniformed regiments are not the steadiest or most reliable troops, as was witnessed in the riots of 1863, as well as in those of the Astor Place in 1849.
		In the fifth place, the military of the city cannot be called away from their work for two or three days, to parade the city, without a heavy expense, and hence the process is a costly one.
	www.jamesgoulding.com /americanhistoryebooks/Special_Topics/greatriotsofnewyork.txt (19947 words)

	Astor Place (Manhattan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Astor arrived in New York in 1783, and progressed to the point where he became the richest person in the United States at that time, and one of New York City's most famous sons.
		Astor Place was the site of the Astor Place Opera House on the corner of East 8th Street.
		The Astor Place Subway station is among the original 28 subway stations and is on the List of Registered Historic Places in New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astor_Place_(Manhattan) (658 words)

	Kevin Dispatch
		The Astor Place theatre is the destroyed place that we began this adventure, and the last place where Macready played in America.
		Astor Place Theatre was built in the center a wealthy neighborhood, and even though commoners were not outright excluded, they were certainly not desired.
		Astor Place's was a violent display of the stress that common workers underwent.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/111500/111500kevastor.html (1037 words)

	THE ASTOR PLACE RIOT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One of the worst disasters in the history of the theatre took place May 10, 1849 at the Astor Place Opera House.
		We have stated that the original cause of riot and bloodshed were the grossly insulting speeches of Macready, particularly the one delivered in the Astor Place Opera House, on the 25th of October.
		Bennett--stranger--came, as he said, from young Astor and other names of the first, he said, to say that this should be resisted, and to convey to me the expression of their regret, etc. I was not quite sure of my man. Gould came, when they were gone, in great distress, having heard all from Duyckirck.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /astorplaceriot.htm (11221 words)

	Theatre in New York: A Brief History - Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When a group of wealthy patrons built the Astor Place Opera House at the intersection of Astor Place and Broadway in 1847, few realized that the stage was being set for a civic tragedy.
		A period sketch depicts the Astor Place Opera House as it appeared in 1847.
		After the Astor Place Riot of 1849 entertainment in New York City was divided along class lines: opera was chiefly for the upper middle and upper classes, minstrel shows and melodramas for the middle class, variety shows in concert saloons for men of the working class and the slumming middle class.
	www.musicals101.com /bwaythhist2.htm (1418 words)

	Astor Place Riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Astor Place Riot was a riot that occurred May 10, 1849 at the Astor Place Opera House in New York City which resulted in over 22 people being killed.
		By the late 1840's it catered mostly to a working class audience from the notorious, immigrant-heavy Five Points section of lower Manhattan a mile and a half to the south.
		Wealthier patrons, to avoid mingling with the immigrants and the Five Points crowd, had built the Astor Place Opera House on the corner of Broadway and Astor Place in 1847, a twelve minute walk to the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astor_Place_Riot (303 words)

	The Astor Place Riot 1859 and A Riot Among The Soldiers Of The Third Regiment Irish Brigade 1861 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Astor Place Riot 1859 and A Riot Among The Soldiers Of The Third Regiment Irish Brigade 1861
		The soldiers, accompanied by their friends, rushed forward; but the latter being driven back with force by the guard at the gates, all again became a scene of confusion, and a disgraceful riot spread through the whole, extending itself as the numbers increased, and the passions of the men became more inflamed.
		It is asserted by the officers that but little liquor was drank by the soldiers previous to their arrival at the place of embarkation.
	www.thehistorybox.com /ny_city/riots/sectionII/printerfriendly/nycity_riots_article5a.htm (1097 words)

	Welcome to ELAD Properties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Astor Place was opened in 1836, and its angled intersection with Lafayette and Fourth Avenue created something of a ceremonial air, especially as it continued east to connect with another diagonal street, Stuyvesant Street.
		In 1847 the Astor Place Opera House opened on the narrow triangle of land at 13 Astor Place, where Starbucks is now a retail tenant.
		That year, the old Astor Place Opera House was remodeled as Clinton Hall, which included space for the New York Mercantile Library, established in 1821 as a public institution for clerks and business owners.
	www.eladproperties.com /press4.htm (1257 words)

	Preservationist on warpath over Astor Pl. demap plan
		While the Astor Place Task Force ponders the pros and cons of the city Department of Transportation’s proposal to close a part of Astor Pl. to auto traffic and make it a pedestrian way, Christabel Gough, a task force member and preservationist, went to the history books to make her point.
		The path that eventually became Astor Pl. was shown in a 1639 map; the end of the road near the Bowery was known as the Gerritsen Wagon Way after the owner of a farm that it bordered.
		Astor Pl. was the site in 1849 of a deadly riot between fans of two rival Shakespearean actors, one British and the other American.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_84/preservationistonwarpath.html (823 words)

	SPRING 3100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		There were so many public disturbances in 1834 that it became known as "The Year of the Riots." The worst problems centered on the Bowery and the notorious Five Points neighborhood which contemporaries called "a rendezvous for thieves and prostitutes" and which was said to be the scene of a murder a night.
		With no traffic regulations in place until 1910, cops on foot at intersections controlled traffic with semaphore disk marked stop" and "go." The Mounted Unit reached its peak with 800 horses, most of which were assigned to traffic patrol.
		Severe rioting in 1964 and again in 1968 tested the department's capacity to defuse and control explosive situations.
	www.ci.nyc.ny.us /html/nypd/html/3100/retro.html (1746 words)

	NYPD - SPRING 3100 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		THE ASTOR PLACE RIOT: People took their theater seriously, so seriously that a rivalry between two tragedians resulted in a riot at the Astor Place Theater 1849 as a mob tried to prevent one of the actors from taking the stage.
		With the large mob hurling cobblestones, the police were overwhelmed.
		The riots occasioned the first police training in riot control and military drill and the authorization of the first police weapon, a 22-inch club to be used only in cases of urgent self-defense.
	www.nyc.gov /html/nypd/html/3100/retro-3.html (96 words)

	Sam Haynes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Astor Place riot is often cited as an important benchmark in the American urban experience.
		On May 10, 1849, a combined force of New York City police and state militia fired upon a massive crowd that had gathered at the Astor Place Opera House to disrupt the performance of William Macready, a British actor and long-time rival of the enormously popular American, Edwin Forrest.
		Yet it is important to remember that the confrontation at Astor Place was the culmination of a long tradition of theatrical disturbances involving British actors.
	www.h-net.org /~shear/s2000.d/ab/HaynesSam.htm (677 words)

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		By comparison, the New York riots and rebellions were, Luc Sante observes, “rampages, headless and tailless and flailing about.”12 Moreover, even in the 1840s and 1850s the politics of New York working-class movements were colored by the nativism and racism that would culminate in the 1863 Draft Riot.
		On 10 May 1849 New York was shaken by the violence of the Astor Place riot.
		The view that Melville’s Young America acquaintances took of the Astor Place riot is suggested by the account of the event offered by Joel C. Headley, the historian who accompanied Melville and the rest on the Monument Mountain hike of 1850.
	newton.uor.edu /FacultyFolder/jim_sullivan/112/assignments/Bartlecrit.doc (6657 words)

	tiara.org » history factlet of the day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Astor Place Riot was a riot that occurred May 10, 1849 at the Astor Place Opera House in New York City.
		The riot was the result of tensions arising from class antagonisms: the elite Astor Place Opera House was the target of working class Bowery b’hoys.
		The trigger for the riot involved rivalry between elite and popular theaters, and specifically between the English actor William Charles Macready, who was playing the title role in Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the Astor that night, and American actor Edwin Forrest.
	www.tiara.org /blog/?p=151 (496 words)

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		But in their place were beautiful trees with spreading branches, stretches of sand-hills, and green patches of grass.
		But he had them placed in such a position that the building in the fort cut off the wind from their sails, and the mills were almost useless.
		The fence in time gave place to a wall, and when in still later years the wall was demolished and a street laid out where it had been, the thoroughfare was called Wall Street, and remains so to this day.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/8/4/13842/13842.txt (24299 words)

	History of the New York Police, Index pageI
		During one of the days of the draft riots, while the mob was howling for the arms which were stored in the armory, a bullet whizzed past the Inspector's head.
		During the longshoremen's riots, in 1857, Captain Dilks was in the Fifteenth Precinct.
		During the Orange riots Inspector Dilks was one of the officers, who had to protect the procession down as far as Bleecker Street and the Bowery, and from there to Astor Place.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/state/police/ch17pt1.html (3468 words)

	South Beach, Florida restaurant reviews
		Astor Place's comfy banquettes combine with sunny colors to create an easy-going vibe.
		Astor Place is a must stop on the SoBe dining scene.
		Named for the colorful jitney buses seen around this lively island, Tap Tap is a riot of color, from the festive wall murals to the tabletops and rotating art.
	sallys-place.com /food/dining_directory/north_america/south_beach.htm (3520 words)

	Oregon Boundary Dispute, 1849
		Speaking of anniversaries, the Bard of Avon was indirectly involved in one of the bloodiest riots in the United States, 150 years ago next month.
		Wealthy New Yorkers were furious at the incident; a man had to be clean-shaven and wear gloves to enter the Astor Place.
		On May 10, 1849, a crowd of roughly 15,000 assembled in front of the Astor Place Opera House to protest the appearance of the English Shakespearean actor William Charles Macready in a performance of Macbeth.
	www.xphomestation.com /xp-ns-more.html (2659 words)

	Edwin Forrest
		In May 1849, when Macready was acting Macbeth in the Astor place opera house, the friends of Forrest hissed and interrupted the performance.
		The Astor place riot ensued, which resulted in the death of twenty-two men and the wounding of thirty-six others.
		On his appearance during the last period of the lawsuit at the Broadway theatre as Damon, the house was crowded to suffocation, and his success for sixty nights exceeded anything ever known in the history of the theatre.
	www.famousamericans.net /edwinforrest (1782 words)

	"Baltimore and Uncle Tom's Cabin: Crisis of Identity" by Mark Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Astor Place Riot was a result of the contradictions between the imagined community of the Bowery Boys and the imagined community of the New York elite,
		Although the apparent cause of the riot was a feud between American actor Edwin Forrest and English actor William Macready, the underlying causes are more important.
		The riot drew from deep divisions within New York society, class conflict between Astor Place elite and working class "Bowery Boys," after the working class Bowery Theatre, and a frustration over the lack of a purely American cultural identity, distinct from the hated English.
	www.janus.umd.edu /Feb2001/Parker/06.html (480 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Reputed fomenter of the riot is "Captain" Isaiah Rynders, Tammany boss of the notorious Sixth Ward and undisputed chief of the Five Points gangs in New York.
		Hooted off the stage of the Astor Place Opera House on May 7th, Macready was persuaded to reappear today, May 10th, in the Year of Our Lord 1849.
		But when an angry mob estimated at 15,000 bombarded the theater with bricks and set it on fire, the British actor was forced to flee.
	www.shout.net /~bigred/riot1849 (250 words)

	The Writer's Almanac from American Public Media
		ASTOR PLACE RIOT, in New York City, 1849.
		The feud simmered from 1836 to 1849 when, on the evening of May 10, a mob stormed the Astor Place Opera House in New York, where Macready was appearing in Macbeth.
		The Museum of the City of New York has an exhibit on the Astor Place Riot through October.
	writersalmanac.publicradio.org /programs/1999/05/10/index.html (1673 words)

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		Many a gentle flirtation was carried on in these delightful places, and many a wedding ensued in consequence; nor were they ignorant of settlements in accordance with the code of honor which led to the duel in the early morning,___a relic of barbarism now happily gone forever.
		Shortly after the War of 1812, it was used as a place for drilling officers of the militia; later, two brick buildings were erected on the site, in one of which the novelist Cooper lived for some time.
		The place was known as the Columbia Gardens in 1823 when William Niblo leased it, opening it as a restaurant and garden.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Manhattan/Broadway/Amusement.html (4918 words)

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