Broadway (Manhattan)
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Broadway （/ˈbrɔːdweɪ/） is a road in the U.S. state of New York.
Broadway runs from State Street at Bowling Green for 13 mi （21 km） through the borough of Manhattan and 2 mi （3.2 km） through the Bronx,
exiting north from New York City to run an additional 18 mi （29 km） through the Westchester County municipalities of Yonkers,
Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow.
It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, with much of the current street beginning as the Wickquasgeck trail before the arrival of Europeans.
This formed the basis for one of the primary thoroughfares of the Dutch New Amsterdam colony, which continued under British rule, although most of it did not bear its current name until the late 19th century.
Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the American commercial theatrical industry, and is used as a metonym for it, as well as in the names of alternative theatrical ventures such as Off-Broadway and Off-off-Broadway.
Broadway in 1834 Broadway in 1860 Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.
This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island.
Upon the arrival of the Dutch, 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 Stre...