Editing Broadway (Manhattan) (section)

===18th century===
[[File:Somerindyke House, Bloomingdale Road (NYPL b13476048-423233).jpg|thumb|upright=1|A mid-19th century illustration of Somerindyke House on Bloomingdale Road]]
In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of [[Wall Street]]. The part of Broadway in what is now [[Lower Manhattan]] was initially known as '''Great George Street'''.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 6, 1935|title=City Notes of 1774 Up for Redemption|page=N1|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/10/06/archives/city-notes-of-1774-up-for-redemption-five-of-first-water-system.html|access-date=July 11, 2010|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240317180532/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/10/06/archives/city-notes-of-1774-up-for-redemption-five-of-first-water-system.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Traffic continued up the [[East Side (Manhattan)|East Side]] of the island via [[Eastern Post Road]] and the [[West Side (Manhattan)|West Side]] via Bloomingdale Road, which opened in 1703, continued up to 117th Street and contributed to the development of the modern [[Upper West Side]] into an upscale area with mansions. {{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

In her 1832 book ''[[Domestic Manners of the Americans]]'', [[Frances Milton Trollope|Fanny Trollope]] wrote of her impressions of New York City in general and of Broadway in particular:

{{Blockquote|This noble street may vie with any I ever saw, for its length and breadth, its handsome shops, neat awnings, excellent [[Sidewalk|''trottoir'']], and well-dressed pedestrians. It has not the crowded glitter of [[Bond Street]] equipages, nor the gorgeous fronted palaces of [[Regent Street]]; but it is magnificent in its extent, and ornamented by several handsome buildings, some of them surrounded by grass and trees.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10345/pg10345-images.html#id00933|last=Trollope|first=Fanny|author-link=Frances Milton Trollope|title=Domestic Manners of the Americans|chapter=30|via=gutenberg.org|access-date=September 6, 2020|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225210915/http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10345/pg10345-images.html#id00933|url-status=live}}</ref>}}