Walking Broadway: Thirteen Miles of Architecture and History
An architectural tour of Broadway from Bowling Green to the Harlem River, presented as 14 walks. Block by block, building by building, William Hennessey on what each structure is, why it sits where it sits, and why it looks the way it does. 224 pages. Paperback, The Monacelli Press, 2020.
The book lives in the bag. You walk Broadway with it open in one hand. You take notes in the margins.
A gift for the friend who reads the New York Times Streetscapes column. The architect. The history major who became a real estate broker. A graduation for the kid going to Columbia.
William Hennessey is an art historian. From 1997 to 2014 he was director of the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk. The book is the result of years of his own walks.
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