Broadway - the longest street in New York and one of the most famous in the world. It stretches for 29 kilometers across Manhattan and the Bronx, going further north, but it brought worldwide fame is part of Manhattan.

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

Walking down Broadway - it is interesting, but not an easy. It may take up to ten hours (including stops for rest and meals). Knowledgeable people are recommended to wear comfortable shoes, water and stock up early in the morning to begin the journey from north to south of 225th Street.

Pedestrian passes Harlem River on the Broadway Bridge. Next - Isham Park, Fort Tryon Park with its museum "Cloister" ... It does not look like any Broadway great nor famous. Otshagav many kilometers, the tourist passes Trinity graveyard and a huge Gothic Church of the Intercession, and goes on the Upper West Side. But the main part of the Broadway ahead. Past Columbia University, past the Metropolitan Opera directed to the tourist area of ​​Columbus Circle, where stands a monument to Columbus. You can relax in Central Park to the new forces to go further - to the Theater District.

"Great White Way" - as in New York, called the area between 42nd and 53rd streets, including the Theater District and Times Square. Nickname appeared at the junction of the XIX and XX centuries due to the fact that Broadway was flooded with advertising lights (in 1880 he became one of the first streets in the United States, lighted with electricity). Around the famous Times Square and now all the skyscrapers in the billboards and Broadway theaters, as before, are invited to the premiere of the musical. Where the Broadway looks the way a tourist and it represented: a vivid and disturbing.

Then the traveler celebrates other world famous attractions - that 5th Avenue, this skyscraper "Iron" near Madison Square, this SoHo with its cobbled streets, cast-iron facades, galleries and boutiques, that's Woolworth Building, Wall Street and the famous bronze bull around which everything is always photographed. This lower section of Broadway, from Bowling Green to City Hall Park, called the "Canyon of Heroes", is famous tickertape parades. The first such spontaneously passed in 1886, during the opening of the Statue of Liberty: employees thrown into the air Tickertapes quotes stock market - like streamers. Later parades (since these streamers and confetti) carried out more than once - for example, in 1927 in honor of Charles Lindbergh made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. One of the last parade was held in 2012 in honor of the football team, "New York Giants".

Tourist, which went through many hours of walking, the path terminates at Broadway at number one (once on the site of the neoclassical building was the headquarters of George Washington). Tourist tired, but is rightfully proud of him: he had seen Broadway.