Broadway
Subtitle: a history of New York City in thirteen miles
By: Fran Leadon
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780393240108
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Guidebooks; History
Other titles: History of New York City in thirteen miles; History of New York City in 13 miles
Description: "In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became New York, and farmlands gradually gave way to department stores, theaters, hotels, and, finally, the perpetual traffic of the twentieth century's Great White Way. From Bowling Green all the way up to Marble Hill, Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America's most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart of Manhattan." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-487) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bowling Green to City Hall Park; title: City Hall Park to Houston Street; title: Houston Street to Union Square; title: Union Square to Herald Square; title: Herald Square to Columbus Circle; title: Columbus Circle to 79th Street; title: 79th Street to 106th Street; title: 106th Street to 122nd Street; title: 122nd Street to 143rd Street; title: 143rd Street to 165th Street; title: 165th Street to 179th Street; title: 179th Street to Dyckman Street; title: Dyckman Street to 228th Street.