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.
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Researched and Transcribed by Miriam Medina
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