Roads named Broadway
Andrew M. Saucci, Jr.
Broadway. I looked in the usual places on Internet and had no luck even
finding a guess. Does anyone have any idea about how to go about finding
this useless tidbit of information?
Floyd Rogers
Perhaps there's some way of searching the USPS's database for that...
FloydR
Michael G. Koerner
Well, I know of a 'Broadway' in Milwaukee, WI, as well as one in Green Bay,
WI. There is also a 'Broadway Rd' here in Appleton.
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For what it's worth, Houston's Broadway runs from Airport Boulevard (by
HOU/Hobby) northward across I-45, I-610, and the stub end of Texas 225,
splitting into Harrisburg Boulevard and Navigation Street just west of the
Port of Houston.
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richard
<spam...@anti-grunge.org> wrote:
Well how many zipcodes are there? 1 for every zip code should give you
a good idea. As Broadway and Main streets are probably the most
favored street names in the USA.
Brian Reynolds
"Andrew M. Saucci, Jr."wrote ...
I doubt that there are many rural roads named Broadway that are not
extensions of a street in town by that same name.
The name "Broadway" implies a wider than standard right of way width.
There is a practical purpose for this in town; not so out of town.
It was common in the 18th and 19th centuries for town planners to
provide one or more such streets, intended to be for the more heavily
traveled downtown commercial streets.
In Michigan, the usual width for both city streets and county roads
is 66 feet (one chain, four rods). Of course, there are exceptions, both
narrower and wider.
In my hometown of Hastings, platted in 1835, there are two dedicated
streets that would qualify as "broad ways," both of them platted as
6 rods (99 feet) wide. These two streets intersect to form the main
"four corners" in town. The county courthouse is in the southeast
quadrant of that corner.
Broadway Street is state highway M-43 north from that main corner,
highway M-37 to the south. State Street, also platted at 99 feet, is
duplexed M-43/M-37 to the west, the "Main Street" of the central
business district to the east. Hastings is the only incorporated city
in Barry County.
Elsewhere in the county are four incorporated villages. Two of them
have platted streets named "Broadway." In Middleville, the platted
width is 80 feet; all other streets are the standard 66 feet. In Woodland,
Main Street and "Broadway" are both platted as four rods wide; all
other streets are three rods wide. In this context, "Broadway" is again
a wider than usual right of way width.
As a generality, I think you will find the pattern to be fairly consistent
across the country.
The lyrics of the mid-60s hit single by Wilson Pickett suggest that every
town has a street named "Funky Broadway." Many (maybe most) do.
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Brian Reynolds
Hastings Michigan
Michael Moroney
>The name "Broadway" implies a wider than standard right of way width.
>There is a practical purpose for this in town; not so out of town.
>It was common in the 18th and 19th centuries for town planners to
>provide one or more such streets, intended to be for the more heavily
>traveled downtown commercial streets.
damn. I can't remember which city I noticed had a "Broadway" that
was a narrow, minor street, which I thought odd since I knew the name
"Broadway" normally meant a wide ROW was reserved for the road.
Michael Moroney
>damn. I can't remember which city I noticed had a "Broadway" that
>was a narrow, minor street, which I thought odd since I knew the name
>"Broadway" normally meant a wide ROW was reserved for the road.
All 5 boroughs of NYC have a Broadway. The one on Bronx is the same as
the one in Manhattan (and it keeps the name "Broadway" for a ways north,
mostly along US 9). The one in Staten Island isn't wide, but it's not the
minor street I mentioned.
Bruce F. Englehardt II
wrote:
There is a Broadway (Avenue) in Everett, Washington that was the
Pacific Highway between 1913 and 1923, State Road 1 between 1923 and
1926, U.S. Route 99 / State Road 1 between 1926 and 1937, U.S. Route
99 / Primary State Highway 1 between 1937 and 1964 and U.S. Route 99
between 1964 and 1968. Also, it became State Route 529 between 1971
and 1991.
Paul D. DeRocco
MSS&T lists something like 486 entries if you search with only "broadway" in
the street address field. However, I notice that there are quite a few
duplicates, because a road that goes through multiple zip codes is counted
multiple times. However, if you really care, you could go through the list
laboriously by hand, and pare it down. Unfortunately, I see no feature for
exporting the entire list.
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MLOM
> On Aug 3, 6:57 pm, "Andrew M. Saucci, Jr." <spam-o...@anti-grunge.org>
> wrote:
>
> where you could easily find the answer to this question.
>
> Incidentally, I now know there are 30-some odd streets in the US named
> "Manlove."
That bit of info might come in handy for a new .sig. Thanks.
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Marc Fannin
Probably, but it doesn't look to be online.
The "U.S. Census Bureau Newsletter: Census and You" in February 1993
(Vol. 28, No. 2) had an article street name frequency, but the Census
website only has files of it back through 1996.
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/cen-you.html
This document mentions the newsletter article and lists the top 20:
http://www.nlc.org/about_cities/cities_101/184.aspx (the old URL is
listed in FAQ Question 8.3.1, linkrotted as with most of the FAQ,
along with highlights)
...but "Broadway" is not among them. So the closest answer right now,
I guess, is "less than 4,877".
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Roscoe Yamamoto
> All 5 boroughs of NYC have a Broadway. The one on Bronx is the same as
> the one in Manhattan (and it keeps the name "Broadway" for a ways north,
> mostly along US 9). The one in Staten Island isn't wide, but it's not
> the minor street I mentioned.
Brooklyn's Broadway spends most of it's run under the J and Z Subway
lines.
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Michael Moroney <mor...@world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>damn. I can't remember which city I noticed had a "Broadway" that
>was a narrow, minor street, which I thought odd since I knew the name
>"Broadway" normally meant a wide ROW was reserved for the road.
The Broadway in Westfield MA certainly fits that description.
Paul D. DeRocco
>
> The "U.S. Census Bureau Newsletter: Census and You" in February 1993
> (Vol. 28, No. 2) had an article street name frequency, but the Census
> website only has files of it back through 1996.
> http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/cen-you.html
>
> This document mentions the newsletter article and lists the top 20:
>
> http://www.nlc.org/about_cities/cities_101/184.aspx (the old URL is
> listed in FAQ Question 8.3.1, linkrotted as with most of the FAQ,
> along with highlights)
>
> ...but "Broadway" is not among them. So the closest answer right now,
> I guess, is "less than 4,877".
Well, it's not surprising that names like "Second" and "Third" would top the
list. But they're not really "names" in the important sense. So we're left
with a bunch of trees, geographic names like "Park", "Lake" and "Hill", and
of course the ubiquitous "Washington". Not surprising.
Tree names are popular in the East, I guess because they have a lot of
trees. I grew up in a town that had Ash, Birch, Cedar, Cherry, Elm, Laurel,
Locust, Maple, Oak, Pine, Spruce and Walnut. Also common are Pleasant,
Center, High, compass directions, seasons, and state names. Out west,
Baseline and Division are of obvious significance.
But interest in the name "Broadway" is understandable because it usually
labels a major urban street. Tree names are common, but often identify dinky
little side streets, or rural streets that only the local use.
Nathan Perry
mor...@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) wrote:
> damn. I can't remember which city I noticed had a "Broadway" that
> was a narrow, minor street, which I thought odd since I knew the name
> "Broadway" normally meant a wide ROW was reserved for the road.
Sounds like Rochester. Broadway there is now in two pieces, due to the
Inner Loop and urban renewal projects. The north piece, within the CBD,
is wide enough but very short, basically a two-block southward extension
of Scio Street.
The southern piece is much longer: part of it serves in essence as a
one-way service road on the north side of I-490 between Goodman and
Union Streets, whereupon it branches off from itself and becomes a
standard with (66-foot ROW) residential street.
Gordon
news:3fydnTdcTq0FWeTX...@earthlink.com:
> Out west,
> Baseline and Division are of obvious significance.
But not Meridian.
txsta...@hotmail.com
runs down the middle of downtown and is also one of the primary north-
south streets further south. Also, US 69's path includes Broadway
there. The one in Amarillo isn't one of the primary streets there but
is a fair parallel alternate to part of US 87-287 north of downtown.
Garland's Broadway can be found partially co-signed with Belt Line
Road, an arterial that rings around Dallas.
GK
any paved roads nearby there is a place with a road sign reading
Broadway and 42nd St.
GK
The Chief Instigator
You might find one at Broadway and NE 42nd Street in Oklahoma City (even
though Broadway is a freeway on the north side of downtown).