BROADWAY

the chief thoroughfare of New York City, and extending therefrom almost as a continuous highway to Albany. Beginning at Bowling Green, on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, this famous street pierces the heart of the city in a northwesterly direction, and then runs north. It had its beginning in 1643 when a tavern was established at its southern end. Its course through the city is broken by two squares, Union Square at 14th Street,. and Madison Square at 23rd Street. Earlier in its variegated career, as the lingering residential character of these squares show, it ran through an exclusive quarter in this section of the city. Today, except in its more northern reaches, it is almost wholly dominated by busine establishments. From Bowling Green upward as far as Tenth Street it is a canyon enclosed by Vay) Pores extending from ten to fifty stories in height, including the Wool- “worth (55 stories), the Singer (41 stories) and the Equitable (38 stories). Beyond Grace Church comes the wholesale dry goods establishments, through the shopping district, which only gives way to theatres and other amusement éstablishments, as well as hotels around 42nd Street. Next come apartment houses, which are much in evidence beyond Central Park. One of the chief subway routes runs under much of Broadway.