Editing Broadway (Manhattan) (section)

====Midtown Manhattan====
[[File:Bway.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Broadway in 1909]]
[[File:Broadway looking north from 48th Street Manhattan.jpeg|thumb|upright=1|Broadway seen from 48th Street in the [[Broadway theatre|Theater District]]]]
Because Broadway preceded the grid that the [[Commissioners' Plan of 1811]] imposed on the island, Broadway crosses [[midtown Manhattan]] diagonally, intersecting with both the east–west streets and north–south avenues. Broadway's intersections with avenues, marked by "[[town square|squares]]" (some merely triangular slivers of open space), have induced some interesting architecture, such as the [[Flatiron Building]].

At [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]], Broadway crosses [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]], merges with [[Park Avenue|Fourth Avenue]], and continues its diagonal uptown course from the Square's northwest corner; Union Square is the only location wherein the physical section of Broadway is discontinuous in Manhattan (other portions of Broadway in Manhattan are pedestrian-only plazas). At [[Madison Square]], the location of the Flatiron Building, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]], thereby moving from the east side of Manhattan to the west, and is discontinuous to vehicles for a one-block stretch between 24th and 25th Streets. At [[Greeley Square]] (West 32nd Street), Broadway crosses [[Sixth Avenue]] (Avenue of the Americas), and is discontinuous to vehicles until West 35th Street. [[Macy's Herald Square]] department store, one block north of the vehicular discontinuity, is located on the northwest corner of Broadway and West 34th Street and southwest corner of Broadway and West 35th Street; it is one of the largest [[department store]]s in the world.

One famous stretch near [[Times Square]], where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue in [[midtown Manhattan]], is the home of many [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[theatre (structure)|theatres]], housing an ever-changing array of commercial, large-scale plays, particularly [[musical theatre|musicals]]. This area of Manhattan is often called the [[Theater District, Manhattan|Theater District]] or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline "Found on the Great White Way" in the February 3, 1902, edition of the ''[[New York Evening Telegram]]''. The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater [[Marquee (sign)|marquees]] and [[billboard]] advertisements that illuminate the area. After becoming the city's de facto [[red-light district]] in the 1960s and 1970s (as can be seen in the films ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' and ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]''), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]] following the company's purchase and renovation of the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on 42nd Street in 1993.<ref>{{cite news |first=David W. |last=Dunlap |author-link=David W. Dunlap |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/nyregion/after-a-decade-disney-chief-sees-new-flair-on-42nd-st.html |title=After a Decade, Disney Chief Sees New 'Flair' on 42nd St. |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 28, 2004 |access-date=October 10, 2008 |quote=Barely recognized by a crowd that might not have been on the block if he hadn't been there first, the man who Disneyfied Times Square walked across 42nd Street yesterday to take in a decade's worth of change.... He emerged from under the marquee of the New Amsterdam Theater, whose opulent revival in Disney's hands has been credited as a key catalyst in the redevelopment of 42nd Street. |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016230232/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/nyregion/after-a-decade-disney-chief-sees-new-flair-on-42nd-st.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[The New York Times]]'', from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title=Copy! |first=David W. |last=Dunlap |author-link=David W. Dunlap |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/weekinreview/10dunlap.html |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 10, 2007 |access-date=October 10, 2008 |quote=The sound is muffled by wall-to-wall carpet tiles and fabric-lined cubicles. But it's still there, embedded in the concrete and steel sinews of the old factory at 229 West 43rd Street, where ''The New York Times'' was written and edited yesterday for the last time. |archive-date=October 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004035507/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/weekinreview/10dunlap.html |url-status=live }}</ref>