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Creation Date
1905
Description
Broadway is a major thoroughfare for New York City, stretching thirty-three miles from Manhattan through several city districts and municipalities before continuing under a different road name. Some of the districts Broadway passes through include the Bronx, Sleepy Hollow, Yonkers, Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown. Broadway originally began as a Wickquasgeck Native American trail that was taken over by the Dutch when they founded New Amsterdam. The street was named Broadway after the British took over the colonial city, renaming it after a translation of the Dutch name of “High Street.” Over the centuries, Broadway would be continuously expanded, growing from a short main road in the New Amsterdam colony to stretching through a large swath of modern New York City. The image in the lantern slide shows a view of Broadway from the Empire State Building, showing a small portion of the old historic street.
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