Broadway
the great business street of New York. Starting from Bowling Green, at the lower extremity of the island, it runs northward in a somewhat diagonal direction, separating the city into substantially equal eastern and western parts. Its continuous course is interrupted by two public squares, Union Square, at 14th street, and Madison Square, at 23d street. Below Union Square, at 23d street.
Square it is devoted mainly to office buildings and wholesale establishments. Above Madison Square (where it intersects Fifth avenue and 23d street) are chiefly retail establishments and office buildings.
The section from 42d to 59th street forms the chief hotel and theater section of the city. The same thoroughfare extends to Albany, N. Y., following the course of the old post-road. Its length below 59th street is about 5 miles, es, and it is traversed throughout by an electric railway. BROCA Two subway systems run underneath Broadway for a considerable portion of its length.