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Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles

From muddy cowpath in a backwater Dutch settlement to the 20th century’s Great White Way, architect and author Fran Leadon takes us on a cultural history of the world’s famous thoroughfare: Broadway.

Along the way we meet Alexander Hamilton, Edgar Allan Poe, John James Audubon, Emma Goldman, “Bill the Butcher” Poole, “Texas” Guinan and the assorted real estate speculators, impresarios and politicians who helped turn Broadway into a living paradigm of American progress, at its best and worst.











When: Wed., Apr. 18, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $29
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From muddy cowpath in a backwater Dutch settlement to the 20th century’s Great White Way, architect and author Fran Leadon takes us on a cultural history of the world’s famous thoroughfare: Broadway.

Along the way we meet Alexander Hamilton, Edgar Allan Poe, John James Audubon, Emma Goldman, “Bill the Butcher” Poole, “Texas” Guinan and the assorted real estate speculators, impresarios and politicians who helped turn Broadway into a living paradigm of American progress, at its best and worst.

Buy tickets/get more info now