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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

Written by Fran Leadon

Narrated by Kevin Pariseau

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Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the seventeenth-century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the twentieth century's Great White Way. We learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness construction of the Ansonia Apartments, Trinity Church, and the Flatiron Building and the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum. Along the way we meet Alexander Hamilton, Edgar Allan Poe, John James Audubon, Emma Goldman, "Bill the Butcher" Poole, "Texas" Guinan, and the assorted real estate speculators, impresarios, and politicians who helped turn Broadway into a living paradigm of American progress, at its best and worst. Broadway tells the vivid story of what is arguably the world's most famous thoroughfare.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 17, 2018
ISBN9781684410637
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

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