A  HISTORICAL  TOUR OF  THE  GREATEST  STREET IN THE WORLD.......BROADWAY

                                    Prior to 1911

                              B R O A D W A Y

1918

A most famous street in the City of New York. The principal thoroughfare of the mercantile, theatrical, social and political activities of the city, and one of the most important business streets in the world. Beginning at Bowling Green, near the southern extremity of Manhattan Island, it runs north to Central Park, and is thence continued by the extension formerly called the Boulevard, now a part of Broadway, to the upper part of the island. Broadway is practically a continuous road to Albany and bears the same name in many of the Hudson River towns through which it passes. The first grant of a lot on Broadway was made in 1643 to Martin Kregier, whose tavern, at the present No. 9, later became Burns's Coffee House, and subsequently the Atlantic Gardens. In the early part of the Nineteenth Century, various portions of Broadway, then only some two miles long, became in turn the fashionable residence section of the city. Now the street below Central Park is given up almost exclusively to business. Below Chambers Street it has many "skyscrapers," housing the offices of great corporations. Then follows the wholesale dry goods district, which at Eighth Street gives way to the shopping district, followed above Twenty-third Street by the great hotels and theatres. From Fiftieth Street north the street is more and more given over to apartment-houses. A part of the rapid-transit subway of New York has been excavated under the surface of Broadway. Source: The New International Encyclopaedia Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company--New York Copyright: 1902-1905 Total of 21 volumes. ________________________________________________ Researched and Transcribed by Miriam Medina Back To BROADWAY Main Back To MANHATTAN Main Back To BROOKLYN Main