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Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.〔There are four other streets named "Broadway" in New York City's remaining three boroughs: one each in Brooklyn (see main article) and Staten Island, and two in Queens (one running from Astoria to Elmhurst, and the other in Hamilton Beach). Each borough therefore has a street named "Broadway". See also from Forgotten NY: * (Broadway in the Bronx, Page 1 ) and (Page 2 ) * (Broadway in Queens, Page 1 ) and (Page 2 ) * (Broadway in Staten Island ) 〕 It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. The name ''Broadway'' is the English literal translation of the Dutch name, ''Breede weg''. Broadway is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry.〔 ==History== Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail soon became the main road through the island from ''Nieuw Amsterdam'' at the southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David Pietersz. de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 ("the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily"). The Dutch named the road "''Heerestraat''". Although current street signs are simply labeled as "Broadway", in a 1776 map of New York City, Broadway is explicitly labeled "Broadway Street".〔See the map inset. ("Manhattan’s Sandy Evacuation Zones Match Up With the Island’s Original Coastline" ) ''gizmodo.com''〕 In the mid-eighteenth century, part of Broadway in what is now lower Manhattan was known as ''Great George Street''. In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road and the West Side via Bloomingdale Road. The western Bloomingdale Road would be widened and paved during the 19th century, and called "Western Boulevard"〔(Traffic regulations for the Western Boulevard ) General Ordinances of the City of New York〕 or "The Boulevard" north of the Grand Circle, now called Columbus Circle. On February 14, 1899, the name "Broadway" was extended to the entire Broadway/Bloomingdale/Boulevard road.〔(February 14th in NYC History: 1899 ), referred to as "the 'Western' Boulevard"; called "the 'Grand' Boulevard" in ''The New York Times'', February 1869, quoted in Michael V. Susi, ''The Upper West Side'' "Introduction", 2009:7.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broadway (Manhattan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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