Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles

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Label

Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles

Title remainder

a history of New York City in thirteen miles

Statement of responsibility

Fran Leadon

Title variation

• History of New York City in thirteen miles
• History of New York City in 13 miles

Creator

• Leadon, Fran, 1966-

Author

• Leadon, Fran, 1966-

Subject

• Local histories
• New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Guidebooks
• Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Guidebooks
• New York (N.Y.) -- History
• Broadway (New York, N.Y.) -- History

Genre

• Local histories
• Guidebooks

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

974.7/1

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

F128.67.B7

LC item number

L43 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography