Broadway
New York's oldest north–south road started as the Wickquasgeck trail, walked by Native Americans through swamp and rock before Europeans arrived.
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It runs 13 miles down Manhattan and keeps going through the Bronx and Westchester. In Midtown it's the heart of American commercial theater; in Lower Manhattan its "Canyon of Heroes" is the route for ticker-tape parades.
What to look for
- The pedestrian-only plazas at Times Square, Herald Square, and Union Square, where the street closes to cars
- The Lower Manhattan stretch called the Canyon of Heroes, path of the ticker-tape parades
- The Midtown theater district that lends its name to off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway
South of Columbus Circle (59th Street), Broadway runs one-way southbound.
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More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.