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 ).

* John Gielgud played Charles Surface in a legendary season at the Queens Theatre in 1937 and repeated the role under his own direction in a 1963 Broadway production.

Early street railways on Broadway included the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad's Broadway and University Place Line ( 1864?

) between Union Square ( 14th Street ) and Times Square ( 42nd Street ), the Ninth Avenue Railroad's Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line ( 1884 ) between 65th Street and 71st Street, the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway's Broadway Branch Line ( 1885?

Lima had also been served by the world-famous Pennsylvania Railroad's " Broadway Limited ," a high speed New York to Chicago service, the " Capital Limited ," Chicago to Washington D. C. service, via Pittsburgh, the Nickel Plate Road's " City of St. Louis ," and " Wabash Cannonball ," and the Erie Lackawanna's " Lake Cites ," which serviced New York, Cleveland, and Chicago with direct service both ways.

It ran over the same route as the B & O's train east of Pittsburgh, but west of Pittsburgh it ran combined with the Chicago-New York Broadway Limited over the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway.

Amtrak did not include service over the New York Central's Water Level Route in its original route plan ; Chicago – New York traffic would be handled by the Broadway Limited which operated over the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line via Pittsburgh.

The Erie Railroad operated a number of named passenger trains, although none were as well known or successful as others like the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited or New York Central's 20th Century Limited.

The Broadway Limited was the Pennsylvania Railroad's ( PRR ) premier named passenger train, operating daily in each direction between New York City and Chicago, via North Philadelphia.

The name referred not to Broadway in Manhattan, but rather to the " broad way " of the Pennsylvania Railroad's four-track right of way along a large portion of the route.

The Santa Fe Super Chief was one of the last passenger trains in the United States to carry an all-Pullman consist ; only the Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited and the Illinois Central's Panama Limited survived longer.

* December 29-“ Twentieth Century ” a play by Hecht and MacArthur about the New York Central Railroad's 20th Century Limited opens on Broadway.

* Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited is completely re-equipped based on an industrial design by Raymond Loewy.

* June 12-Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger train Pennsylvania Special ( which would later become the Broadway Limited ) sets a speed record between Chicago, Illinois, and New York City, travelling at 127. 2 mph ( 204. 7 km / h ).

From south to north, Broadway at one point or another runs over or under the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line:

* 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 ).

White designed the second Madison Square Garden ( 1890 ; demolished in 1925 ), The Cable Building — the Broadway cable car power station ( 611 Broadway, 1892 ), Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the New York Herald Building ( 1894 ; demolished ), the First Bowery Savings Bank, at the Bowery and Grand Street, 1894, Washington Square Arch ( 1889 ), Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square, and the Century Club, all in New York City.

During this same period, he also starred with Danny Aiello and undertook the lead role of Francis Geminiani in the special HBO cable TV presentation of " Gemini ", an adaptation of the Broadway comedy-drama " Happy Birthday, Gemini " by the award-winning playwright Alberto Innauranto.

For his first New York solo show, in 1973, Buren suspended a set of nineteen black and white striped squares of canvas on a cable that ran from one end of the John Weber Gallery to the other, out the window to a building on the other side of West Broadway and back.

* The Cable Building ( New York City ) Broadway Cable car line.

As a struggling young actress, Martin endured humorous and sometimes frightful luck trying to make it in the world, from car crashes leading to vocal instruction, unknowingly singing in front of Oscar Hammerstein II, to her final break on Broadway granted by the very prominent producer, Lawrence Schwab.

1950s-The first car dealerships open on Broadway Avenue, creating the first Bedford Automile.

The Bedford Automile began as a collection of car dealerships on Broadway Avenue.

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.

Eileen McKenney, the inspiration for the title character, and her husband, novelist and screenwriter Nathanael West, were killed in a car accident four days before the Broadway opening, as they traveled to New York to attend the play's premiere.

Amtrak restored the Broadway Limiteds numbers ( 40 / 41 ), but because of equipment shortages could not restore sleeper service nor a full dining car.

In 1924, he made his Broadway debut and worked off and on in the theatre for several years while supplementing his income with sales jobs, selling car accessories, tea, insurance, real estate, books, etc.

Canarsie-bound L train of R143 ( New York City Subway car ) | R143 s at Broadway Junction ( BMT Canarsie Line ) | Broadway Junction

In the heavyweight era, the PRR normally operated the Broadway Limited as an extra-fare, eight-car all sleeper ( no coach service ) train with an open-platform observation car at the end, such as Continental Hall and Washington Hall.

The February 1956 Official Guide listed the westbound Broadway Limited ( train # 29 ) consist as having fourteen cars normally assigned: nine sleeping cars between New York and Chicago, one additional sleeping car from New York continuing through to Los Angeles on the Santa Fe's Super Chief, the twin-unit dining car, lounge car, and observation car.

In the 2001 film, Bandits, Joe Blake ( played by Bruce Willis ) and Terry Collins ( played by Billy Bob Thornton ) are driving across the Broadway Bridge when their stolen car runs out of gas.

Perhaps the most notable is the Hedley-Doyle Stepless car introduced in 1912 for use on Broadway in Manhattan.

By 1929 the Council had a plan to build their offices above the Broadway frontage, subsidised by shops below, but the lack of car parking made it unworkable.

The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called " one of the worst I ever made ... it was deadly.

In 1869, the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company of New York secretly constructed a 95 m long, 2. 7 m diameter pneumatic subway line under Broadway, to demonstrate the possibilities of the new transport mode.

The only subway line running between Midtown and Lower Manhattan was the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, which was overcrowded before the attacks and at crush density until the BMT Broadway Line reopened.

Shubert put her in the chorus line for his 1924 show, Innocent Eyes, at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in New York City.

The Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway Society aims to re-open the closed railway line from Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne, with a later extension to Broadway, Worcestershire.

; 1920: In the west, a short connecting link was made from Wood Lane station to join the Great Western Railway ( GWR )- operated line, the Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway, allowing trains to run to Ealing Broadway.

In 1995, Shooter founded Broadway Comics, which was an offshoot of Broadway Video, the production company that produces Saturday Night Live, but this line folded after its parent sold the properties to Golden Books.

A railroad called the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio line was chartered in 1851 and would eventually run through Union County with station points at Richwood, Woodland, Claibourne, Pottersburg, Broadway, and Peoria.

Between 1 March 1883 and 30 September 1885 the line also served stations from Ealing Broadway to Windsor, running on the Great Western Main Line.

There was also a proposal, though not included in the Bill, for a subsequent extension from Victoria to Fulham Broadway station on the District line.

* Ealing Broadway tube station ( Central line, District Line )

Many government and commerce buildings line the sides of Broadway Ave.

* 22px New York State Route 130 ( Broadway ), East-West roadway through the village from the Cheektowaga town line at the west to NY 130's end at Transit Rd.

Broadway Pond is near the Morgan line.

Large homes line Broadway, Ridgeway Blvd., Morris, Fulton, Franklin, Cass, Front, and Wisconsin Streets near the Fox River.

The Piccadilly line operates at North Ealing, Ealing Common and South Ealing ; the Central line at Ealing Broadway ; and the District line at Ealing Broadway and Ealing Common.