Broadway: A Historical past of New York Metropolis in 13 Miles

“Half energetic social historical past, half architectural survey, right here is the story of Broadway—from Seventeenth-century cow path to Nice White Means.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Avenue Journal

From Bowling Inexperienced all the best way to Marble Hill, Fran Leadon takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and sophisticated thoroughfare, by way of the historical past on the coronary heart of Manhattan. Broadway traces the bodily and social transformation of an avenue that has been each the “Path of Progress” and a “avenue of damaged desires,” house to each parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, advanced, and typically troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded lifeless finish to a canyon of metal and glass is the story of American progress.