Broadway is the longest street in new York and one of the most famous in the world. It stretches for 29 miles through Manhattan and the Bronx, going further North, but the world fame was brought to her it is part of Manhattan.

Once Broadway was the Indian trail that ran along the island, meandering between the rocks and swamps. For the Dutch settlers, it soon became the main road. Broadway and now the main artery of the city, crossing whimsical strict grid street and Avenue.

Walking down Broadway – it is interesting, but difficult. It can take up to ten hours (including stops for rest and food). Knowledgeable people recommend to wear comfortable shoes, stock up on water and early in the morning to begin the journey from North to South from 225 th street.

A pedestrian crosses the Harlem river on the Broadway bridge. On Park Ishem, Fort Tryon Park with its Museum "the Cloister"... Broadway Here doesn't look nor brilliant, nor famous. Usagov many kilometers, the tourist passes by Trinity cemetery and the huge Gothic Church of the Intercession and is on the Upper West side. But the main part Broadway found. By Columbia University, by the building of the Metropolitan Opera camper is directed to the area of Columbus circle, where a statue of Columbus. You can relax in Central Park, with new forces to go further – to Theatre district.

The "great White Way" in new York called the area between 42nd and 53rd streets, including the Theater district and times square. The nickname appeared at the junction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the fact that Broadway was flooded with advertising lights (in 1880 he became one of the first streets in the US, lit by electricity). Around the famous times square and now all the skyscrapers in billboards, Broadway theaters, as before, are invited to the premiere musicals. Here Broadway looks the way its tourist and represented: vivid and disturbing.

Further notes traveler other world-famous sights – here 5th Avenue, here is the Flatiron building near Madison square, SOHO here with its cobblestone streets, cast-iron facades, galleries and boutiques, here's Woolworth building, wall street and the famous bronze bull, nearly all of which is always photographed. This lower segment of Broadway from Bowling green to city Hall Park, called the "Canyon of heroes", a famous parades Telegraph tapes. The first such spontaneously passed in 1886, during the opening of the statue of Liberty: officers threw into the air of Ticker tape with stock market quotes – like serpentine. Later parades (already with these streamers and confetti) were conducted more than once – for example, in 1927 in honor of Charles Lindbergh, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight. One of the last parades took place in 2012 in honor of the football team "new York giants".

Tourist, endured a multi-hour walk ends at Broadway house number one (once in place, this neoclassical building was the headquarters of George Washington). Tourist tired, but proud of himself: he had seen the Broadway.