Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles /

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 dep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Leadon, Fran, 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Guidebooks. New York (N.Y.) > History. New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > Guidebooks. ARCHITECTURE / History. HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

Table of Contents:

Bowling Green to City Hall Park
City Hall Park to Houston Street
Houston Street to Union Square
Union Square to Herald Square
Herald Square to Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle to 79th Street
79th Street to 106th Street
106th Street to 122nd Street
122nd Street to 143rd Street
143rd Street to 165th Street
165th Street to 179th Street
179th Street to Dyckman Street
Dyckman Street to 228th Street.