Reposted from: https://soulofamerica.com/us-cities/new-york-city/black-broadway/ The world-renown theatre district we know as Broadway was first a thriving community of Africans Americans and immigrants in the 1800s. Then around 1850, theatres from downtown began the slow transitional move to midtown for lower real estate prices and enough land required to build new, larger theatres. Before 1895, all Negro … More Black Broadway