North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

On June 6, 1954, Seventh Avenue became southbound and Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway.

None of Broadway became one-way, but the increased southbound traffic between Columbus Circle ( Eighth Avenue ) and Times Square ( Seventh Avenue ) caused the city to re-stripe that section of Broadway for four southbound and two northbound lanes.

On June 3, 1962, Broadway became one-way south of Canal Street, with Trinity Place and Church Street carrying northbound traffic.

Another change was made on November 10, 1963, when Broadway became one-way southbound from Herald Square to Madison Square ( 23rd Street ) and Union Square ( 14th Street ) to Canal Street, and two routes — Sixth Avenue south of Herald Square and Centre Street, Lafayette Street, and Fourth Avenue south of Union Square — became one-way northbound.

Finally, at the same time as Madison Avenue became one-way northbound and Fifth Avenue became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square ( where Fifth Avenue crosses ) and Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.

The adaptation, One Man, Two Guvnors, became a smash hit, transferring to the West End and in 2012 to Broadway.

In 2010, American Idiot became the first punk rock opera to make it to Broadway where it has garnered two Tony Awards.

Nevertheless, Pirates was a hit both in New York, again spawning numerous imitators, and then in London, and it became one of the most frequently performed, translated and parodied Gilbert and Sullivan works, also enjoying a successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.

The centre of Caerleon ( High Street, Mill Street and Castle Street ) is a one-way traffic system and there are car parks at Broadway and Cold Bath Road.

After a short jog west on Broadway, former SR 160 turns north on the one-way pair of 15th ( southbound ) and 16th ( northbound ) Streets, almost immediately crossing Business 80 and entering downtown Sacramento.

At Broadway Junction in East New York, the street is interrupted by the intersection of Broadway and Jamaica Avenue, but continues on the other side as a one-way residential street through East New York and Cypress Hills until it crosses the border in Woodhaven, Queens, where it becomes 91st Avenue.

Through downtown Sacramento, SR 16 followed U. S. 40 ( Legislative Route 6 ) and U. S. 50 ( Legislative Route 11 ), mostly on Capitol Avenue, while Legislative Route 50 continued south on 5th Street ( later a one-way pair of 3rd and 5th Streets ) and turned east on Broadway, carrying Sign Route 24 most of the way to Freeport Boulevard.

The 9 City Point-Copley Square via Broadway Station runs west from City Point on East Broadway and West Broadway to Broadway station, where it splits into a one-way pair-westbound / northbound via West Fourth Street and Berkeley Street, and eastbound / southbound via the New Broadway Bridge, Albany Street, Herald Street and Arlington Street.

We moved down Broadway from ginmill to ginmill.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

She gave a fine portrayal of Auntie Mame on Broadway in 1958 and has appeared in live television from `` Captain Brassbound's Conversion '' to `` Camille ''.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

* Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

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A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

Though initially unenthusiastic about acting, he returned from service, auditioned for a Broadway play, and was offered a role.

Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, from Bowling Green at the south, to Inwood at the northern tip of the island.

A view up Broadway from Bowling Green, with the Chrysler Building visible in the background

The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.

At Union Square, Broadway crosses 14th Street and continues its diagonal uptown course from the Square's northwest corner.

Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.

* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to Fulton Street ( trains ).

* The BMT Broadway Line runs under it from City Hall to Times Square – 42nd Street ( trains ).

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

* The northern portion of the IND Eighth Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Dyckman Street to Inwood – 207th Street ( train ).

Additionally, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company's ( FACCo ) 4 and 5 used Broadway from 135th Street north to Washington Heights, and their 5 and 6 used Broadway between 57th Street and 72nd Street.

At the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 65th Street, Broadway passes by the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormon or LDS Church ), known as the Manhattan New York Temple.

** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line

North Beach is bounded by the former Barbary Coast, now Jackson Square, the Financial District south of Broadway, Chinatown to the southwest of Columbus below Green Street, Russian Hill to the west, Telegraph Hill to the east and Fisherman's Wharf at Bay Street to the north.

Due to its past legacy as the Barbary Coast, Broadway east of Columbus, grew to be the home of the city's red light district and striptease clubs.

The Condor Club, on the corner of Columbus and Broadway, was opened in 1964 as America's first topless bar which it still is today.

Another poet from this generation, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founded the City Lights Bookstore that still exists today on the corner of Broadway and Columbus as an official historic landmark and serves as one of the main focal points of this generation.

An alleyway between Columbus and Grant Avenues is named for Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, who once lived there and frequented the famous City Lights Bookstore on the corner of Columbus and Broadway as well as the numerous nearby bars and coffee shops.

Broadway east of Columbus Avenue still serves as the city's main red-light and nightclub district as it has many strip clubs, as well as bars, nightclubs, jazz clubs, and the like.

The site was a tiny storefront in the triangular Artigues Building located at 261 Columbus Avenue, near the intersection of Broadway in North Beach.