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The Apthorp (2201 Broadway) First Baptist Church in the City of New York (near 2221 Broadway) Bretton Hall (2350 Broadway) The Belnord; Metro Theater (2626 Broadway) Hotel Marseilles (2689–2693 Broadway) Manhasset Apartments (2801–2825 Broadway) Goddard Institute for Space Studies (2880 Broadway) Barnard College (3009 Broadway) Audubon ...
Broadway (/ ˈ b r ɔː d w eɪ /) is a street and major thoroughfare in the U.S. state of New York.The street runs from Battery Place at Bowling Green in the south of Manhattan for 13 mi (20.9 km) through the borough, over the Broadway Bridge, and 2 mi (3.2 km) through the Bronx, exiting north from New York City to run an additional 18 mi (29.0 km) through the Westchester County ...
In 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was founded by a meeting in the building. [12] After a rebuilt in 1752 that added a meeting hall on the upper story, the Royal Exchange building was the location of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New York (later Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York) from 1770 until the Revolutionary War.
September 1776 view of New York City showing at center left the spire of Trinity Church. The church was destroyed in the Great New York City Fire of 1776, which started in the Fighting Cocks Tavern, destroying between 400 and 500 buildings and houses, and leaving thousands of New Yorkers homeless. Six days later, most of the city's volunteer ...
An additional estimate from 2007 by Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute was that the securities industry accounts for 4.7 percent of the jobs in New York City but 20.7 percent of its wages, and he estimated there were 175,000 securities-industries jobs in New York (both Wall Street area and midtown) paying an average of $350,000 annually. [20]
The "Road to Kings Bridge, where the Rebels mean to make a Stand" in a British map of 1776. In southwestern Westchester County, now the Bronx, the Boston Post Road came off the Kings Bridge and quickly turned east, with the Albany Post Road continuing north to Albany, New York.
Just south of the latter is the former Long Distance Building of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, at 32 Avenue of the Americas, also known as 310–322 Church Street, a New York City designated landmark (NYCL). [8] The Cary Building and St. Peter's Church are both New York City landmarks [9] also listed on the NRHP. [7]
Gates Avenue is the oldest station in the subway system to have been built as a rapid transit station; it has been serving BMT trains since 1885. While Far Rockaway–Mott Avenue is the oldest station currently in operation in the New York City Subway system, having originally opened in 1869 as a Long Island Rail Road station, that station had an 8-year disruption in service while being ...