Broadway

Wickquasgeck trail, Heeren Straat

Description

Broadway was originally called the Wickquasgeck trail by the First people's of Manhattan, the Lenape Indians. It ran north-south 14 miles, the entire length of Manhattan, following an original ridge of land, snaking through brush, swamps, and rocks.

Found, 1614

Mentioned, 1642

It became one of the two main streets formed during the settlement of the Dutch West India Company. 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"). Known at the time as de Heere Straat, or “Gentlemen`s Street,” (The original Dutch name) Broadway originated at Fort Amsterdam and followed a natural ridge of land that led northwards through the fields and farms of New Amsterdam. De Heere Straat extended to the wall that protected the Dutch colonists from English encroachment along present-day Wall Street. There were only two entry gates, with one situated on de Heere Straat opposite Trinity Church.

It was renamed "Broadway" after the British took over the city, because of its unusual width. Although currently the name of the street is simply "Broadway", in a 1776 map of New York City, it is labeled as "Broadway Street".

Modified, 1658

In 1658 Broadway was widened and paved by Stuyvesant to improve the wagon road linking New Haarlem to New Amsterdam, between Vesey and Murray.

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Broadway, 1860

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Instantaneous Broadway view, 1860

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Traffic, pedestrians and American and Japanese flags displayed on buildings welcoming Japanese embassy officials during their June 1860 visit to New York City

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Broadway Tabernacle, Congregational churches, 1860

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Buildings, traffic, National Bank Note Company building on the right of Broadway. Bank of the Republic Building appears to be draped in mourning bands, likely after the death of President Abraham Lincoln, 1865

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Business establishments on Broadway, including the New York Hotel building and "Gurney's Gallery", Jeremiah Gurney's photographic studio (left side of image), 1869

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Broadway from Liberty Street, 1896

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Broadway with the Trinity spire in the background, between 1860 and 1870

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Broadway & Trinity Church, 1890

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Beggar Peddler - Woman holding a small child and a box of Wrigley's Spearmint gum, in front of a building on Broadway in New York City; pedestrians on sidewalk in background, 1909

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New York City Aqueduct excavation site on Broadway, 1910-1915

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New York City Aqueduct excavation site on Broadway, 1910-1915

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New York City Aqueduct excavation site on Broadway, 1910-1915

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Corner of Broadway Street with many people walking about, October 1952

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Sign for Broadway Central Hotel and advertisement for Gotham Equipment Corp, December 1952_LOC

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Sign for Commercial State Bank and "Hot Knishes" food cart at intersection of Spring Street and Broadway. Looking South on Broadway, November 1953

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Broadway fashions. For spring and summer 1866, published by E. Butterick, 192 Broadway, NY

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Policeman escorting two women across Broadway, 1870

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