Broadway () is a street and major thoroughfare in the
U.S. state
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of
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
New York may also refer to:
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* ...
. The street runs from Battery Place at
Bowling Green
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Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
in the south of
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...
for through the
borough
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History
...
, over the
Broadway Bridge, and through
the Bronx
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, exiting north from
New York City
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to run an additional through the
Westchester County
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municipalities of
Yonkers
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,
Hastings-on-Hudson
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,
Dobbs Ferry
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,
Irvington,
Tarrytown
Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on th ...
, and
Sleepy Hollow, after which the road continues, but is no longer called "Broadway".
[It is variously called the ]Albany Post Road
The Albany Post Road was a post road – a road used for mail delivery – in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It connected New York City and Albany (NY), Albany along the east side of the Hudson River, a service now performed by U.S ...
and Highland Avenue, or both.[There are four other streets named "Broadway" in New York City's remaining three boroughs: one each in ]Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...
( see main article) and Staten Island
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, and two in Queens
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(one running from Astoria to Elmhurst, and the other in Hamilton Beach). Each borough therefore has a street named "Broadway". See also from Forgotten NY Forgotten New York is a website created by Kevin Walsh (born 1958) in 1999, chronicling the unnoticed and unchronicled aspects of New York City such as painted building ads, decades-old castiron lampposts, 18th-century houses, abandoned subway stati ...
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The latter portion of Broadway north of the
George Washington Bridge
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/
I-95
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underpass comprises a portion of
U.S. Route 9
U.S. Route 9 (US 9) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the Northeastern United States. It is one of only two U.S. Highways with a ferry connection (the Cape May–Le ...
.
It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, with much of the current street said to have begun as the
Wickquasgeck trail before the arrival of Europeans. This then formed the basis for one of the primary thoroughfares of the Dutch
New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam (, ) was a 17th-century Dutch Empire, Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The initial trading ''Factory (trading post), fac ...
colony, which continued under British rule, although most of it did not bear its current name until the late 19th century. Some portions of Broadway in Manhattan are interrupted for continuous vehicle traffic, including
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
,
Herald Square
Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...
, and
Union Square, and instead used as pedestrian-only plazas. South of
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, ...
, the road is one-way going southbound.
Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the
American commercial theatrical industry, and is used as a
metonym
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for it, as well as in the names of alternative theatrical ventures such as
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ...
and
Off-off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway theaters are smaller New York City theaters than Broadway theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway theaters, and usually have fewer than 100 seats. The off-off-Broadway movement began in 1958 as part of a response to perceived commerc ...
.
History
Colonial history
Broadway was originally the
Wickquasgeck trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its
Native American inhabitants.
[The name of the Indian band has variously been spelled Wiechquaeskeck, Wechquaesqueck, Weckquaesqueek, Wecquaesgeek, Weekquaesguk, Wickquasgeck, Wickquasgek, Wiequaeskeek, Wiequashook, and Wiquaeskec. The meaning of the name, however spelled, has been given as "the end of the marsh, swamp or wet meadow", "place of the bark kettle", and "birch bark country". See:
*
*] This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island.
Upon the arrival of the
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
* In specific terms, i ...
, the trail was widened
and soon became the main road through the island from ''Nieuw Amsterdam'' at the southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur
David Pietersz. de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 ("the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily"). The Dutch called it the ''Heeren Wegh'' or ''Heeren Straat'', meaning "Gentlemen's Way" or "Gentlemen's Street" – echoing the name of a similar street in Amsterdam – or "High Street" or "the Highway"; it was renamed "Broadway" after the British took over the city, because of its unusual width.
[It is also claimed that the Dutch called it "''Breede Weg''", of which "Broadway" is a literal translation. See:
*
*] Although currently the name of the street is simply "Broadway", in a 1776 map of New York City, it is labeled as "Broadway Street".
[See the map inset]
"Manhattan's Sandy Evacuation Zones Match Up With the Island's Original Coastline"
''gizmodo.com''
18th century
In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of
Wall Street
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. The part of Broadway in what is now
Lower Manhattan
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was initially known as Great George Street. Traffic continued up the
East Side of the island via
Eastern Post Road and the
West Side
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* West Side, a neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario
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United Kingdom
* West Side, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
* Westside, Birmingham ...
via Bloomingdale Road, which opened in 1703, continued up to 117th Street and contributed to the development of the modern
Upper West Side
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into an upscale area with mansions.
In her 1832 book ''
Domestic Manners of the Americans
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Context
Frances Troll ...
'',
Fanny Trollope
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wrote of her impressions of New York City in general and of Broadway in particular:
19th century
In 1868, Bloomingdale Road between 59th Street (at the Grand Circle, now
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, ...
) and 155th Streets would be paved and widened, becoming an avenue with landscaped medians.
It was called "Western Boulevard" or "The Boulevard".
An 1897 official map of the city shows a segment of what is now Broadway as "Kingsbridge Road" in the vicinity of
Washington Heights.
On February 14, 1899, the name "Broadway" was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard / Kingsbridge complex.
20th century
In the 20th century, a 30-block stretch of Broadway, extending mainly between
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
at
42nd Street 42nd Street most commonly refers to:
*42nd Street (Manhattan), a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan
It may also refer to:
*42nd Street (film), ''42nd Street'' (film), a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film with lyri ...
and
Sherman Square at
72nd Street, formed part of
Manhattan
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's "Automobile Row".
Before the first decade of the 20th century, the area was occupied mostly by equestrian industries and was "thoroughly lifeless", but by 1907, ''The New York Times'' characterized this section of Broadway as having "almost a solid line of motor vehicle signs all the way from Times Square to Sherman Square". In the late 1900s and early 1910s, several large automobile showrooms, stores, and garages were built on Broadway, including the
U.S. Rubber Company Building at
58th Street, the
B.F. Goodrich showroom at
1780 Broadway
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(between 58th and
57th Streets), the Fisk Building at 250 West 57th Street, and the
Demarest and Peerless Buildings at 224 West 57th Street.
Broadway once was a
two-way street
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for its entire length. The present status, in which it runs
one-way southbound south of
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, ...
(
59th Street 59th Street station may refer to:
*59th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) in Brooklyn, New York; serving the trains
* 59th Street (IRT Third Avenue Line) a demolished elevated station in Manhattan
* 59th Street (IRT Ninth Avenue Line) a demolished e ...
), came about in several stages. On June 6, 1954,
Seventh Avenue became southbound and
Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway. None of Broadway became one-way, but the increased southbound traffic between Columbus Circle (Eighth Avenue) and
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
(Seventh Avenue) caused the city to re-stripe that section of Broadway for four southbound and two northbound lanes. Broadway became one-way from Columbus Circle south to
Herald Square
Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...
(
34th Street 34th Street most commonly refers to 34th Street (Manhattan)
34th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs the width of Manhattan Island from the West Side Highway on the West Side to FDR Drive on t ...
) on March 10, 1957, in conjunction with
Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The avenue is commercial for much of its length, and traffic runs northbound, or uptown.
Sixth Avenue begins four blocks b ...
becoming one-way from Herald Square north to 59th Street and Seventh Avenue becoming one-way from 59th Street south to Times Square (where it crosses Broadway). On June 3, 1962, Broadway became one-way south of
Canal Street
Canal Street may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Canal Street (Manchester), Manchester, England
* Canal Street, Oxford, Jericho, Oxford, England
United States
* Canal Street (Buffalo), a street and district at the western terminus of the Er ...
, with Trinity Place and
Church Street carrying northbound traffic.
Another change was made on November 10, 1963, when Broadway became one-way southbound from Herald Square to
Madison Square
Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for Founding Father James Madison, the fourth president of the United St ...
(
23rd Street) and
Union Square (
14th Street) to Canal Street, and two routes –
Sixth Avenue
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Sixth Avenue begins four blocks b ...
south of Herald Square and
Centre Street,
Lafayette Street
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, and
Fourth Avenue south of Union Square – became one-way northbound. Finally, at the same time as
Madison Avenue
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became one-way northbound and
Fifth Avenue
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became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square (where Fifth Avenue crosses) and
Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.
21st century

In 2001, a one-block section of Broadway between
72nd Street and
73rd Street at
Verdi Square
Verdi Square is a park on a trapezoidal traffic island on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Named for Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, the park is bounded by 72nd Street on the south, 73rd Street on the north, Broadw ...
was reconfigured. Its easternmost lanes, which formerly hosted northbound traffic, were turned into a public park when a new subway entrance for the
72nd Street station was built in the exact location of these lanes. Northbound traffic on Broadway is now channeled onto
Amsterdam Avenue to 73rd Street, makes a left turn on the three-lane 73rd Street, and then a right turn on Broadway shortly afterward.
In August 2008, two traffic lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas. Bike lanes were added on Broadway from
42nd Street 42nd Street most commonly refers to:
*42nd Street (Manhattan), a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan
It may also refer to:
*42nd Street (film), ''42nd Street'' (film), a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film with lyri ...
to
Union Square.
Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through
Duffy Square
Duffy Square, officially named Father Duffy Square in 1939, is the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded by 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It is now well known for the TKTS reduced ...
,
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
, and
Herald Square
Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...
have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city. The city decided that the experiment was successful, and decided to make the change permanent in February 2010. Though the anticipated benefits to traffic flow were not as large as hoped, pedestrian injuries dropped dramatically and foot traffic increased in the designated areas; the project was popular with both residents and businesses. The current portions converted into pedestrian plazas are between West 47th and 42nd Streets within Times and Duffy Squares, and between West
35th Military units
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*35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I
*35th Infantry Regiment (United States), a regiment created on 1 July 1 ...
and
33rd Streets in the Herald Square area. Additionally, portions of Broadway in
Madison Square
Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for Founding Father James Madison, the fourth president of the United St ...
and
Union Square have been dramatically narrowed, allowing ample pedestrian plazas to exist along the side of the road.
2010s
A terrorist attempted to set off a bomb on Broadway in Times Square on May 1, 2010. The attempted bomber was sentenced to life in prison.
In May 2013, the
NYCDOT
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decided to redesign Broadway between 35th and 42nd Streets for the second time in five years, owing to poor connections between pedestrian plazas and decreased vehicular traffic. With the new redesign, the bike lane is now on the right side of the street; it was formerly on the left side adjacent to the pedestrian plazas, causing conflicts between pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
In spring 2017, as part of a capital reconstruction of Worth Square, Broadway between
24th and 25th Streets was converted to a
shared street, where through vehicles are banned and delivery vehicles are restricted to . Delivery vehicles go northbound from
Fifth Avenue
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to 25th Street for that one block, reversing the direction of traffic and preventing vehicles from going south on Broadway south of 25th Street. The capital project expands on a 2008 initiative where part of the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue was repurposed into a public plaza, simplifying that intersection. As part of the 2017 project, Worth Square was expanded, converting the adjoining block of Broadway into a "shared street".

In September 2019, the pedestrian space in the Herald Square area was expanded between 33rd and 32nd Streets alongside
Greeley Square
Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...
. Five blocks of Broadway—from 50th to 48th, 39th to 39th, and 23rd to 21st Street—were converted into shared streets in late 2021.
The block between 40th and 39th Streets, known as Golda Meir Square, was closed to vehicular traffic at that time.
2020s
During 2020, the section from 31st to 25th Street was converted to a temporary pedestrian-only street called NoMad Piazza as part of the
New York City Department of Transportation
The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) is the agency of the government of New York City responsible for the management of much of New York City's transportation infrastructure. Ydanis Rodriguez is the Commissioner of the Departm ...
's
Open Streets
Tactical urbanism, also commonly referred to as guerrilla urbanism, pop-up urbanism, city repair, D.I.Y. urbanism, planning-by-doing, urban acupuncture, and urban prototyping, is a low-cost, temporary change to the built environment, usually in ci ...
program. Following the success of the pedestrian-only street, the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership BID closed the section between 25th and 27th Streets to vehicular traffic again during 2021
and 2022.
City officials announced in March 2023 that the section of Broadway between 32nd and 21st Streets would be redesigned as part of a project called Broadway Vision. The section between 32nd and 25th Streets would receive a bidirectional bike lane and would be converted to a shared street. Cars would be banned permanently from 27th to 25th Street.
That work was finished the same July.
In March 2024, the DOT announced plans to convert the section between 17th and 21st Streets into a shared street.
Route
Route description
Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, roughly parallel to the
North River (the portion of the
Hudson River
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bordering Manhattan), from
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
at the south to
Inwood at the northern tip of the island. South of
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, ...
, it is a one-way southbound street. Since 2009, vehicular traffic has been banned at
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
between
47th and
42nd Streets, and at
Herald Square
Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...
between 35th and 33rd Streets as part of a pilot program; the right-of-way is intact and reserved for cyclists and pedestrians. From the northern shore of Manhattan, Broadway crosses
Spuyten Duyvil Creek
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via the
Broadway Bridge and continues through
Marble Hill (a discontiguous portion of the borough of Manhattan) and
the Bronx
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into
Westchester County
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.
U.S. 9 continues to be known as Broadway until its junction with
NY 117.
Lower Manhattan

The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's
ticker-tape parade
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s, and is sometimes called the "
Canyon of Heroes" during such events. West of Broadway, as far as
Canal Street
Canal Street may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Canal Street (Manchester), Manchester, England
* Canal Street, Oxford, Jericho, Oxford, England
United States
* Canal Street (Buffalo), a street and district at the western terminus of the Er ...
, was the city's fashionable residential area until ; landfill has more than tripled the area, and the
Hudson River
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shore now lies far to the west, beyond
Tribeca
Tribeca ( ), originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street". The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Str ...
and
Battery Park City
Battery Park City is a mainly residential planned community and neighborhood on the west side of the southern tip of the island of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by the Hudson River on the west, the Hudson River shoreline on the nor ...
.
Broadway marks the boundary between
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street (Manhattan), 14th Street to the north, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the s ...
to the west and the
East Village to the east, passing
Astor Place
Astor Place is a street in NoHo/ East Village, in the lower part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is divided into two sections: One segment runs from Broadway in the west (just below East 8th Street) to Lafayette Street, an ...
. It is a short walk from there to
New York University
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near
Washington Square Park
Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. The park is operated by the New York City Department o ...
, which is at the foot of
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue runs south from 143rd Street (Manhattan), West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The se ...
. A bend in front of
Grace Church allegedly avoids an earlier tavern; from 10th Street it begins its long diagonal course across Manhattan, headed almost due north.
Midtown Manhattan

Because Broadway preceded the grid that the
Commissioners' Plan of 1811
The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was the original design for the streets of Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march upto ...
imposed on the island, Broadway crosses
midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the ...
diagonally, intersecting with both the east–west streets and north–south avenues. Broadway's intersections with avenues, marked by "
squares
In geometry, a square is a regular polygon, regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal si ...
" (some merely triangular slivers of open space), have induced some interesting architecture, such as the
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a 22-story, steel-framed triangular building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinke ...
.
At
Union Square, Broadway crosses
14th Street, merges with
Fourth Avenue, and continues its diagonal uptown course from the Square's northwest corner; Union Square is the only location wherein the physical section of Broadway is discontinuous in Manhattan (other portions of Broadway in Manhattan are pedestrian-only plazas). At
Madison Square
Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for Founding Father James Madison, the fourth president of the United St ...
, the location of the Flatiron Building, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at
23rd Street, thereby moving from the east side of Manhattan to the west, and is discontinuous to vehicles for a one-block stretch between 24th and 25th Streets. At
Greeley Square
Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street. Named for the now-defunct ''New ...
(West 32nd Street), Broadway crosses
Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The avenue is commercial for much of its length, and traffic runs northbound, or uptown.
Sixth Avenue begins four blocks b ...
(Avenue of the Americas), and is discontinuous to vehicles until West 35th Street.
Macy's Herald Square
Macy's Herald Square (originally named the R. H. Macy and Company Store) is a department store building on West 34th Street (Manhattan), 34th Street at Herald Square in New York City, New York (state), New York, United States. It was designed b ...
department store, one block north of the vehicular discontinuity, is located on the northwest corner of Broadway and West 34th Street and southwest corner of Broadway and West 35th Street; it is one of the largest
department store
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store under one roof, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store mad ...
s in the world.
One famous stretch near
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
, where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue in
midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the ...
, is the home of many
Broadway
Broadway may refer to:
Theatre
* Broadway Theatre (disambiguation)
* Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
** Broadway (Manhattan), the street
** Broadway Theatre (53rd Stre ...
theatres
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communica ...
, housing an ever-changing array of commercial, large-scale plays, particularly
musicals
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement ...
. This area of Manhattan is often called the
Theater District A theater district (also spelled theatre district) is a common name for a neighborhood containing a city's theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences ...
or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline "Found on the Great White Way" in the February 3, 1902, edition of the ''
New York Evening Telegram
''The New York Evening Telegram'' was a New York City daily newspaper. It was established in 1867. The newspaper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and it was said to be considered to be an evening edition of the '' New York Herald'' ...
''. The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater
marquees and
billboard
A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertis ...
advertisements that illuminate the area. After becoming the city's de facto
red-light district
A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex industry, sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters, are found. In most cases, red-light district ...
in the 1960s and 1970s (as can be seen in the films ''
Taxi Driver
''Taxi Driver'' is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in a morally decaying New York City following the Vietnam War, it stars Robert De Niro as veteran Marine and ...
'' and ''
Midnight Cowboy
''Midnight Cowboy'' is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, J ...
''), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being
Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the
New Amsterdam Theatre
The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater at 214 West 42nd Street (Manhattan), 42nd Street, at the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District of Manhattan in New York City, New Yor ...
on 42nd Street in 1993.
''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...
'', from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 2007.
Upper West Side

At the southwest corner of
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the List of parks in New York City, sixth-largest park in the ...
, Broadway crosses
Eighth Avenue (called Central Park West north of 59th Street) at
West 59th Street and
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue, Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, ...
; on the site of the former
New York Coliseum
The New York Coliseum was a convention center that stood at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City, from 1956 to 2000. It was designed by architects Leon Levy and Lionel Levy in a modified International Style, and included both a low buil ...
convention center is the new shopping center at the foot of the
Time Warner Center
Deutsche Bank Center (also known as One Columbus Circle and formerly Time Warner Center) is a mixed-use building on Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building occupies the western side of Columbus Circle and strad ...
, headquarters of
Time Warner
Warner Media, LLC ( doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City.
It was established as Time Warne ...
. From Columbus Circle northward, Broadway becomes a wide
boulevard
A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district.
In Europe, boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former ...
to 169th Street; it retains landscaped
center islands that separate northbound from southbound traffic. The medians are a vestige of the central mall of "The Boulevard" that had become the spine of the
Upper West Side
The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110th Street to the north. The Upper We ...
, and many of these contain public seating.
Broadway intersects with
Columbus Avenue (known as Ninth Avenue south of
West 59th Street) at West 65th and 66th Streets where the
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...
and
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5  ...
, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as the
Manhattan New York Temple
The Manhattan New York Temple is the 119th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It is the church's second "high rise" temple to be constructed, after the Hong Kong China Temple, and the third converte ...
of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian Restorationism, restorationist Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, denomination and the ...
are located.
Between West 70th and 73rd Streets, Broadway intersects with
Amsterdam Avenue (known as 10th Avenue south of West 59th Street). The wide intersection of the two thoroughfares has historically been the site of numerous traffic accidents and pedestrian casualties, partly due to the long crosswalks. Two small triangular plots of land were created at points where Broadway slices through Amsterdam Avenue. One is a tiny fenced-in patch of shrubbery and plants at West 70th Street called
Sherman Square (although it and the surrounding intersection have also been known collectively as Sherman Square), and the other triangle is a lush tree-filled garden bordering Amsterdam Avenue from just above West 72nd Street to West 73rd Street. Named
Verdi Square
Verdi Square is a park on a trapezoidal traffic island on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Named for Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, the park is bounded by 72nd Street on the south, 73rd Street on the north, Broadw ...
in 1921 for its monument to Italian composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma ...
, which was erected in 1909, this triangular sliver of public space was designated a Scenic Landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1974, one of nine city parks that have received the designation. In the 1960s and 1970s, the area surrounding both Verdi Square and Sherman Square was known by local drug users and dealers as "Needle Park", and was featured prominently in the gritty 1971 dramatic film ''
The Panic in Needle Park
''The Panic in Needle Park'' is a 1971 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Al Pacino (in his first lead role) and Kitty Winn. The screenplay is written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, ...
'', directed by
Jerry Schatzberg
Jerry Schatzberg (born June 26, 1927) is an American photographer and film director. After establishing himself as a successful celebrity photographer, he transitioned to making feature films. He is best known for his films ''The Panic in Needle ...
and starring
Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino ( ; ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on stage and screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. His career spans more than five decades, duri ...
in his second onscreen role.
The original brick and stone shelter leading to the entrance of the
72nd Street subway station, one of the
first 28 subway stations in Manhattan, remains located on one of the wide islands in the center of Broadway, on the south side of West 72nd Street. For many years, all traffic on Broadway flowed on either side of this median and its subway entrance, and its uptown lanes went past it along the western edge of triangular Verdi Square. In 2001 and 2002, renovation of the historic 72nd Street station and the addition of a second subway control house and passenger shelter on an adjacent center median just north of 72nd Street, across from the original building, resulted in the creation of a public plaza with stone pavers and extensive seating, connecting the newer building with Verdi Square, and making it necessary to divert northbound traffic to Amsterdam Avenue for one block. While Broadway's southbound lanes at this intersection were unaffected by the new construction, its northbound lanes are no longer contiguous at this intersection. Drivers can either continue along Amsterdam Avenue to head uptown or turn left on West 73rd Street to resume traveling on Broadway.
Several notable apartment buildings are in close proximity to this intersection, including
The Ansonia
The Ansonia (formerly the Ansonia Hotel) is a condominium building at 2109 Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, between 73rd and 74th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The 17-story structure was designed by French archi ...
, its ornate architecture dominating the cityscape here. After the Ansonia first opened as a hotel, live seals were kept in indoor fountains inside its lobby. Later, it was home to the infamous
Plato's Retreat nightclub. Immediately north of Verdi Square is the
Apple Bank Building, formerly the Central Savings Bank, which was built in 1926 and designed to resemble the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Broadway is also home to the
Beacon Theatre at
West 74th Street
74th Street is an east–west street carrying pedestrian traffic and eastbound automotive/bicycle traffic in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs through the Upper East Side neighborhood (in ZIP code 10021, where it is known as East ...
, designated a national landmark in 1979 and still in operation as a concert venue after its establishment in 1929 as a vaudeville and music hall, and "sister" venue to
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and Theater (structure), theater at 1260 Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York C ...
.
At its intersection with West 78th Street, Broadway shifts direction and continues directly uptown and aligned approximately with the Commissioners' grid. Past the bend are the historic
Apthorp apartment building, built in 1908, and the
First Baptist Church in the City of New York
The First Baptist Church in the City of New York is a Baptist church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Its current structure was built in 1890–93 at the intersection of Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway and 79th Street (Manhat ...
, incorporated in New York in 1762, its current building on Broadway erected in 1891. The road heads north and passes historically important apartment houses such as
the Belnord, the
Astor Court Building
The Astor Court Building is a 12-story, 164 unit apartment building on Broadway between West 89th Street and 90th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most po ...
, and the
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...
Cornwall
Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
.
At Broadway and 95th Street is
Symphony Space
Symphony Space, founded by Isaiah Sheffer and Allan Miller, is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization at 2537 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Performances take place in the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theat ...
, established in 1978 as home to avant-garde and classical music and dance performances in the former Symphony Theatre, which was originally built in 1918 as a premier "music and motion-picture house". At 99th Street, Broadway passes between the controversial skyscrapers of
the Ariel
The Ariel East and Ariel West are a pair of apartment buildings on either side of Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway at 99th Street (Manhattan), 99th Street, the tallest buildings on Manhattan's predominantly residential Upper West Side. Ariel East i ...
East and West.
At 107th Street, Broadway merges with
West End Avenue
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance langu ...
, with the intersection forming
Straus Park __NOTOC__
Straus Park is a small landscaped park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, at the intersection of Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, West End Avenue, and 106th Street (Manhattan), 106th Street.
The most notable feature is a bronze 1913 ...
with its Titanic Memorial by
Augustus Lukeman.
Northern Manhattan and the Bronx

Broadway then passes the campus of
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
at
116th Street in
Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights is a neighborhood on the West Side of Upper Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Morningside Drive to the east, 125th Street to the north, 110th Street to the south, and Riverside Drive to the west. Morningsi ...
, in part on the tract that housed the
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum (1821–1889) was an American private hospital for the care of the mentally ill, founded by New York Hospital. It was located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, where Columbia Un ...
from 1808 until it moved to
Westchester County
Westchester County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York, bordering the Long Island Sound and the Byram River to its east and the Hudson River on its west. The county is the seventh most populous cou ...
in 1894. Still in Morningside Heights, Broadway passes the park-like campus of
Barnard College
Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a grou ...
. Next, the Gothic quadrangle of
Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (shortened to UTS or Union) is a Private college, private ecumenical liberal Christian seminary in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, affiliated with Columbia University since 1928. Presently, Co ...
,
and the brick buildings of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York. It is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism as well as a hub for academic scholarship in Jewish studies ...
with their landscaped interior courtyards, face one another across Broadway. On the next block is the
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music a ...
.
Broadway then runs past the Manhattanville campus of Columbia University, and the main campus of
CUNY–City College near 135th Street; the Gothic buildings of the original City College campus are out of sight, a block to the east. Also to the east are the
brownstone
Brownstone is a brown Triassic–Jurassic sandstone that was historically a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States and Canada to refer to a townhouse clad in this or any other aesthetically similar material.
Ty ...
s of Hamilton Heights. Hamilton Place is a surviving section of Bloomingdale Road, and originally the address of
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 dur ...
's house,
The Grange, which has been moved.
Broadway achieves a verdant, park-like effect, particularly in the spring, when it runs between the uptown
Trinity Church Cemetery
The parish of Trinity Church (Manhattan), Trinity Church has three separate cemetery, burial grounds associated with it in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The first, Trinity Churchyard, is located in Lower Manhattan at 74 Trinity Place, n ...
and the former Trinity Chapel, now the
Church of the Intercession near 155th Street.
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital
The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospi ...
lies on Broadway near 166th, 167th, and 168th Streets in
Washington Heights. The intersection with
St. Nicholas Avenue at 167th Street forms
Mitchell Square Park
Mitchel Square Park is a small urban park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is a two part, triangle-shaped park formed by the intersection of Saint Nicholas Avenue, Broadway and 167th Street. ...
. At 178th Street,
US 9
U.S. Route 9 (US 9) is a north–south United States Numbered Highway in the states of Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in the Northeastern United States. It is one of only two U.S. Highways with a ferry connection (the Cape May–Le ...
becomes concurrent with Broadway.
Broadway crosses the
Harlem River
The Harlem River is an tidal strait in New York City, flowing between the Hudson River and the East River and separating the island of Manhattan from the Bronx on the United States mainland.
The northern stretch, also called the Spuyten Duyvi ...
on the
Broadway Bridge to
Marble Hill. Afterward, it then enters
the Bronx
The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...
, where it is the eastern border of
Riverdale and the western border of
Van Cortlandt Park
Van Cortlandt Park is a urban park, park located in the borough (New York City), borough of the Bronx in New York City. Owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, it is managed with assistance from the Van Cortlandt Park Al ...
. At 253rd Street,
NY 9A
New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) is a state highway in the vicinity of New York City in the United States. Its southern terminus is at Battery Place near the northern end of the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City, where it inte ...
joins with US 9 and Broadway. (NY 9A splits off Broadway at Ashburton Avenue in Yonkers.)
Westchester County
The northwestern corner of the park marks the New York City limit and Broadway enters
Westchester County
Westchester County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York, bordering the Long Island Sound and the Byram River to its east and the Hudson River on its west. The county is the seventh most populous cou ...
in
Yonkers
Yonkers () is the List of municipalities in New York, third-most populous city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and the most-populous City (New York), city in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County. A centrally locate ...
, where it is now known as South Broadway. It trends ever westward, closer to the
Hudson River
The Hudson River, historically the North River, is a river that flows from north to south largely through eastern New York (state), New York state. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains at Henderson Lake (New York), Henderson Lake in the ...
, remaining a busy urban commercial street. In downtown Yonkers, it drops close to the river, becomes North Broadway and 9A leaves via Ashburton Avenue. Broadway climbs to the nearby ridgetop runs parallel to the river and the railroad, a few blocks east of both as it passes
St. John's Riverside Hospital. The neighborhoods become more residential and the road gently undulates along the ridgetop.
In Yonkers, Broadway passes the historic
Philipse Manor house, which dates back to colonial times.
It remains Broadway as it leaves Yonkers for
Hastings-on-Hudson
Hastings-on-Hudson is a village in Westchester County located in the southwestern part of the town of Greenburgh in the state of New York, United States. It is a suburb of New York City, located approximately north of midtown Manhattan, and i ...
, where it splits into separate north and south routes for . The trees become taller and the houses, many separated from the road by stone fences, become larger. Another National Historic Landmark, the
John William Draper House
The Henry Draper Observatory, also known as Draper Cottage and incorrectly as the John William Draper House, is a historic house and local history museum in Draper Park off US 9 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States. Its core is an ast ...
, was the site of the first
astrophotograph of the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...
.
In the next village,
Dobbs Ferry
Dobbs Ferry is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 10,875 according to the 2010 United States Census. In 2021, its population rose to an estimated 11,456. The village of Dobbs Ferry is located in, and is ...
, Broadway has various views of the Hudson River while passing through the residential section. Broadway passes by the
Old Croton Aqueduct
The Croton Aqueduct or Old Croton Aqueduct was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. The great aqueducts, which were among the first in the United States, carried water by gravity fr ...
and nearby the shopping district of the village. After intersecting with Ashford Avenue, Broadway passes
Mercy University
Mercy University (Mercy NY), previously known as Mercy College, is a private research university with a main campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and additional locations in Manhattan and the The Bronx, Bronx. It is a federally designated minority- ...
, then turns left again at the center of town just past
South Presbyterian Church, headed for equally comfortable
Ardsley-on-Hudson and
Irvington.
Villa Lewaro
Villa Lewaro, also known as the Madam C.J. Walker estate, is a 34-room mansion located at Fargo Lane and North Broadway ( US 9) in Irvington, New York, 30 miles north of New York City. Entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker commissioned architect V ...
, the home of
Madam C. J. Walker
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the ''Guinne ...
, the first African-American millionaire, is along the highway here.
At the north end of the village of Irvington, a
memorial
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as home ...
to writer
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy ...
, after whom the village was renamed, marks the turnoff to his home at
Sunnyside. Entering into the southern portion of Tarrytown, Broadway passes by historic
Lyndhurst mansion, a massive mansion built along the Hudson River built in the early 1800s.
North of here, at the
Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate (company), conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz on July ...
technical center, the
Tappan Zee Bridge becomes visible. After crossing under the
Thruway and I-87 again, here concurrent with
I-287, and then intersecting with the four-lane
NY 119
New York State Route 119 (NY 119) is an east–west state highway in Westchester County, New York, in the United States. The road starts in Tarrytown at an intersection with U.S. Route 9 (US 9) and comes to an end at a junct ...
, where 119 splits off to the east, Broadway becomes the busy main street of
Tarrytown
Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on th ...
.
Christ Episcopal Church, where Irving worshiped,
is along the street. Many high-quality restaurants and shops are along this main road. This downtown ends at the eastern terminus of
NY 448
New York State Route 448 (NY 448) is a long state highway in western Westchester County, New York, in the United States. The route begins in the village of Sleepy Hollow at U.S. Route 9 (US 9) and goes in a northeast direc ...
, where Broadway slopes off to the left, downhill, and four signs indicate that Broadway turns left, passing the
Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow
The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow (), listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dutch Reformed Church (Sleepy Hollow), is a 17th-century stone church (building), church located on Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9 in New York, U.S. ...
, another NHL. The road then enters
Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown), and forks: To the right is Bedford Road which traverses the hills up to
Pocantico Hills
Pocantico Hills is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet in the Westchester County, New York, Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States. The Rockefeller family estate, anchored by Kykuit, the family seat built by John D. Rockefeller ...
and
Kykuit
Kykuit ( ), known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York north of New York City. The house was built for oil tycoon and Rockefeller fa ...
, the
National Historic Landmark
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that was (and partially still is) the
Rockefeller family
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's
estate
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Law
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* Estates of the realm, a broad social category in the histories of certain countries.
** The Estates, representativ ...
.
To the left of the fork, Broadway passes down hill to pass the visitors' center for
Philipsburg Manor
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. Broadway then crosses th
Headless Horseman Bridgeand then passes the historic
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the cemetery, final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground of the ...
, which includes the resting place of Washington Irving and the setting for "
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled '' The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' Irving wrote the story while living in Bi ...
".
Broadway expands to four lanes at the trumpet intersection with
NY 117, where it finally ends and U.S. 9 becomes
Albany Post Road
The Albany Post Road was a post road – a road used for mail delivery – in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It connected New York City and Albany (NY), Albany along the east side of the Hudson River, a service now performed by U.S ...
(and Highland Avenue) at the northern border of
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York, Mount Pleasant in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County, New York (state), New York, United States.
The village is located on the east bank of the Hudson River, about ...
.
Nicknamed sections
Canyon of Heroes

''Canyon of Heroes'' is occasionally used to refer to the section of lower Broadway in the
Financial District
A financial district is usually a central area in a city where financial services firms such as banks, insurance companies, and other related finance corporations have their headquarters offices. In major cities, financial districts often host ...
that is the location of the city's
ticker-tape parade
A ticker-tape parade is a parade event held in an urban setting, characterized by large amounts of shredded paper thrown onto the parade route from the surrounding buildings, creating a celebratory flurry of paper. Originally, actual ticker tap ...
s. The traditional route of the parade is northward from
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
to
City Hall Park
City Hall Park is a public park surrounding New York City Hall in the Civic Center of Manhattan. It was the town commons of the nascent city of New York.
History
17th century
David Provoost came to New Netherland as early as 1638, probab ...
. Most of the route is lined with tall office buildings along both sides, affording a view of the parade for thousands of office workers who create the snowstorm-like jettison of shredded paper products that characterize the parade.
While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day (also known as V-J Day, Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. The term has been applied to both of the days on wh ...
parade on August 14–15, 1945 – marking the end of
World War II
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– was covered with 5,438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the
New York City Department of Sanitation
The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) is the department of the government of New York City responsible for garbage collection, recycling collection, street cleaning, and snow removal. The DSNY is the primary operator of the New York ...
.
More than 200 black granite strips embedded in the sidewalks along the Canyon of Heroes list honorees of past ticker-tape parades.
Great White Way
"The Great White Way" is a nickname for a section of Broadway in
Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the ...
, specifically the portion that encompasses the
Theater District A theater district (also spelled theatre district) is a common name for a neighborhood containing a city's theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences ...
, between
42nd and
53rd Streets, and encompassing
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
.
In 1880, a stretch of Broadway between
Union Square and
Madison Square
Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for Founding Father James Madison, the fourth president of the United St ...
was illuminated by
Brush
A brush is a common tool with bristles, wire or other filaments. It generally consists of a handle or block to which filaments are affixed in either a parallel or perpendicular orientation, depending on the way the brush is to be gripped during u ...
arc lamp
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).
The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc between carbon electrodes in air, invented by Humphry Davy in the first decade of the 1800s, ...
s, making it among the first electrically lighted streets in the United States. By the 1890s, the portion from
23rd Street to
34th Street 34th Street most commonly refers to 34th Street (Manhattan)
34th Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs the width of Manhattan Island from the West Side Highway on the West Side to FDR Drive on t ...
was so brightly illuminated by electrical advertising signs, that people began calling it "The Great White Way". When the theater district moved uptown, the name was transferred to the Times Square area.
The phrase "Great White Way" has been attributed to Shep Friedman, columnist for the ''
New York Morning Telegraph
''The Morning Telegraph'' (1839 – April 10, 1972) (sometimes referred to as the ''New York Morning Telegraph'') was a New York City broadsheet newspaper owned by Moe Annenberg's Cecelia Corporation. It was first published as the ''Sunday Me ...
'' in 1901, who lifted the term from the title of a book about the Arctic by
Albert Paine.
The headline "Found on the Great White Way" appeared in the February 3, 1902, edition of the ''
New York Evening Telegram
''The New York Evening Telegram'' was a New York City daily newspaper. It was established in 1867. The newspaper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and it was said to be considered to be an evening edition of the '' New York Herald'' ...
''.
A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and "The Great White Way" late at night appeared in "Artist In Manhattan" (1940) written by the artist-historian
Jerome Myers
Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 – June 19, 1940) was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people. He was one of the main organizers of the ...
:
Transportation

From south to north, Broadway at one point or another runs over or under various
New York City Subway
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City serving the New York City boroughs, boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Tr ...
lines, including the
IRT Lexington Avenue Line
The IRT Lexington Avenue Line (also known as the IRT East Side Line and the IRT Lexington–Fourth Avenue Line) is one of the lines of the A Division (New York City Subway), A Division of the New York City Subway, stretching from Lower Manhatt ...
, the
BMT Broadway Line
The BMT Broadway Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division (New York City Subway), B Division of the New York City Subway in Manhattan. , it is served by four services, all colored : the on the express tracks and the on the local tracks ...
,
IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (also known as the IRT Seventh Avenue Line or the IRT West Side Line) is a New York City Subway line. It is one of several lines that serves the A Division, stretching from South Ferry in Lower Manhatt ...
, and
IND Eighth Avenue Line
The IND Eighth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line in the B Division of the New York City Subway. Opened in 1932, it was the first line of the Independent Subway System (IND); as such, New Yorkers originally applied the ''Eighth Avenue Subwa ...
(the
IND Sixth Avenue Line
The IND Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in the United States. It runs mainly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and continues south to Brooklyn. The B, D, F, and M trains, which use ...
is the only north–south trunk line in Manhattan that does not run along Broadway).
* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
to
Fulton Street ().
* The BMT Broadway Line runs under it from
City Hall
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to
Times Square–42nd Street
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Time or times may also refer to:
Temporal measurement
* Time in physics, defined by its measurement
* Time standard, civil time specificat ...
().
* The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
to
168th Street (), and again from 218th Street to its terminal in
the Bronx
The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...
at
Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street ().
* The northern portion of the IND Eighth Avenue Line runs under Broadway from
Dyckman Street
Dyckman Street ( ), occasionally called West 200th Street, is a street in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is commonly considered to be a crosstown street because it runs from the Hudson River to the Harlem River and int ...
to
Inwood–207th Street ().
Early
street railway
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
s on Broadway included the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad's Broadway and University Place Line (1864?) between
Union Square (
14th Street) and
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and Neighborhoods in New York City, neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway (Manhattan), ...
(
42nd Street 42nd Street most commonly refers to:
*42nd Street (Manhattan), a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan
It may also refer to:
*42nd Street (film), ''42nd Street'' (film), a 1933 American Warner Bros. musical film with lyri ...
), the Ninth Avenue Railroad's
Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line
The Ninth and Tenth Avenues Line or Ninth Avenue Line is a surface transit line in the New York City borough of Manhattan, running mostly along Ninth Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue from Lower Manhattan to Manhattanville. Originally a streetcar l ...
(1884) between 65th Street and 71st Street, the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway's
Broadway Branch Line (1885?) between Times Square and
125th Street, and the Kingsbridge Railway's Kingsbridge Line north of 169th Street. The Broadway Surface Railroad's
Broadway Line, a
cable car Cable car most commonly refers to the following cable transportation systems:
* Aerial lift, such as aerial tramways and gondola lifts, in which the vehicle is suspended in the air from a cable
** Aerial tramway
** Chairlift
** Gondola lift
*** ...
line, opened on lower Broadway (below Times Square) in 1893, and soon became the core of the
Metropolitan Street Railway
The New York Railways Company operated street railways in Manhattan, New York City, between 1911 and 1925. The company went into receivership in 1919 and control was passed to the New York Railways Corporation in 1925 after which all of its rem ...
, with two cable branches: the
Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and
Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.
These streetcar lines were replaced with
bus route
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a motor vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but fewer than the average rail transport. It is most commonly used i ...
s in the 1930s and 1940s. Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's (NYCO) 6 (NYCO), 6 (Broadway below Times Square), 7 (NYCO), 7 (Broadway and Columbus Avenue), and 11 (NYCO), 11 (Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 (New York City bus), M100 (Kingsbridge) and M104 (New York City bus), M104 (Broadway Branch). Additionally, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company's (FACCo) 4 (FACCo), 4 and 5 used Broadway from 135th Street (Manhattan), 135th Street north to Washington Heights, and their 5 and 6 used Broadway between 57th Street (Manhattan), 57th Street and
72nd Street. With the implementation of one-way traffic, the northbound 6 and 7 were moved to
Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue, also known as Avenue of the Americas, is a major thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The avenue is commercial for much of its length, and traffic runs northbound, or uptown.
Sixth Avenue begins four blocks b ...
.
, Broadway is served by:
* The M4 (New York City bus), M4 (ex-FACCo 4) between Cathedral Parkway and West 165th Street uptown or Fort Washington Avenue downtown.
* The M7 (New York City bus), M7 (ex-NYCO 7) between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Circle.
* The downtown M55 (New York City bus), M55 south of East 8th Street.
* The M100 (New York City bus), M100 between Dyckman Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue, and uptown from 10th to 9th Avenues.
* The M104 (New York City bus), M104 between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Columbus Circle, with uptown service absent from Amsterdam Avenue to West 73rd Street.
Other routes that use part of Broadway include:
* The downtown from East 8th to Grand Streets when running the full route.
* The M5 (New York City bus), M5 (ex-FACCo 5) between West 72nd Street and Columbus Circle and between West 135th and West 178th uptown or West 179th Streets downtown.
* The between Park Row and Barclay Street downtown or Warren Street uptown.
* The downtown M10 (New York City bus), M10 from West 63rd to West 57th Streets, where it terminates.
* The downtown from West 58th to West 57th Streets.
* The M20 (New York City bus), M20 from West 66th Street to Columbus Circle, while out of service from West 64th to West 63rd Streets.
* The eastbound from Chambers Street to Park Row.
* The looping around at West 72nd Street.
* The M60 (New York City bus), M60 Select Bus Service#M60 route, Select Bus Service between West 120th Street and West End Avenue downtown or West 106th Street uptown.
* The westbound from West 86th to West 87th Streets.
* The westbound from West 96th to West 97th Streets.
* The looping around at West 116th Street.
* The eastbound from West 178th to West 181st Streets, joining the at West 179th Street.
* The between West 155th & West 157th Streets uptown or Edward M. Morgan Place downtown.
* The Bx7 (New York City bus), Bx7 from Saint Nicholas Avenue to West 231st Street uptown, and from West 230th to West 166th Streets downtown.
* The Bx9 (New York City bus), Bx9 between West 225th and West 262nd Streets, where it terminates.
* The from West 207th to Isham Streets, going out of service between stops.
* The Bx20 (New York City bus), Bx20 between West 207th and West 231st uptown or West 230th Streets downtown, with said direction continuing out of service to West 204th Street.
Express service is provided by the between Dyckman Street in Manhattan and West 230th Street in the Bronx, and the between Van Cortlandt Park South in the Bronx and Main Street in Yonkers, using South Broadway to terminate.
Bee-Line Bus System, Bee-Line buses also serve Broadway within
Riverdale and Westchester County. Routes List of bus routes in Westchester County, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, and several others run on a portion of Broadway.
Notable buildings

Broadway is lined with many famous and otherwise noted and historic buildings, such as:
* 2 Broadway
* 280 Broadway (also known as the Marble Palace, the A.T. Stewart Company Store, or The Sun Building)
* Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House (1 Bowling Green, between the two legs of the southern end of Broadway)
* American Surety Building (100 Broadway)
* Ansonia Hotel (2109 Broadway)
*
Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep ...
Fence and Park (between 25 and 26 Broadway)
* Bowling Green Offices Building (11 Broadway)
* Brill Building (1619 Broadway)
* Corbin Building (196 Broadway)
* Cunard Building (New York City), Cunard Building (25 Broadway)
* Dyckman House (4881 Broadway)
* Equitable Building (Manhattan), Equitable Building (120 Broadway)
*
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a 22-story, steel-framed triangular building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinke ...
(
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue runs south from 143rd Street (Manhattan), West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The se ...
and Broadway at
23rd Street)
* Gilsey House (1200 Broadway)
* Gorham Manufacturing Company Building (889-91 Broadway)
* Home Life Building (253, 256 Broadway)
* International Mercantile Marine Company Building (1 Broadway)
* Morgan Stanley Building (1585 Broadway)
* One Times Square (1475 Broadway)
* Paramount Building (1501 Broadway)
* Standard Oil Building (New York City), Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway)
* Trinity Church (Manhattan), Trinity Church (79 Broadway)
* Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Union Theological Seminary (3041 Broadway)
* United Palace (4140 Broadway)
* United States Lines-Panama Pacific Lines Building (1 Broadway)
* Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway)
* Woolworth Building (233 Broadway)
Historic buildings on Broadway that are now demolished include:
* Appleton Building
* Alexander Macomb House
* Barnum's American Museum
* Equitable Life Building (Manhattan), Equitable Life Building
* Grand Central Hotel (673 Broadway)
* Mechanics' Hall (New York City), Mechanics' Hall
* Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street), Metropolitan Opera House, from 1883 to 1966, between 39th and 40th Streets
* Singer Tower (Liberty Street (Manhattan), Liberty Street and Broadway)
* St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City), St. Nicholas Hotel
References
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
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External links
Great White Way historical citations from etymologist Barry Popik
New York Songlines: Broadway a virtual walking tour of the street
Green Light for Midtown New York City Department of Transportation pilot program for Broadway traffic
Walking the length of Broadway
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