Broadway, Civic Center

With its neon signs and shimmering streetlights, Broadway embodies a very specific vision of the New York City dream. The nexus of New York's thriving theatre scene, Broadway conjures up images of thespians past - from Orson Welles to Cole Porter - and the thousands of aspiring chorus-girls, Oliviers, and Shakespeares that have crowded every audition room for decades. This is, however, only part of the story. While Broadway's Theatre District still maintains its status as most famous theatre outlet in the city (for better or for worse; appellations such as the American Airlines Theatre are none too charming, and the fare tends to be more innovative, if lower-budget, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway. But most of Broadway has not theatres but chain stores, especially on the Upper West Side, where Broadway's noise and blaring chaos makes up for the sleepiness of the other adjacent avenues. Broadway may be a great place to buy discount clothes or bulk groceries, but sitting lazily in a cafe is for the winding streets of the East Village, not the boulevards of the Great White Way. Broadway has its conveniences - every chain you can imagine, from Claire's to Barnes and Nobles, probably pops up at least twice - but it's a place you want to live near, rather than a place you want to live *in*

If you're a nearby resident like me, then you think of Broadway as the place where you go to the bank to make a routine deposit, or the place where you pop in to Muji to buy some socks or a canvas handbag. You definitely don't think of Broadway as more than a functional street you cross to get somewhere else--namely SoHo or NoLita--where the truly sexy shops can be found. You mostly steer clear of Broadway altogether on weekends, to avoid the infuriating glut of sidewalk traffic, since everybody and their mother comes out to mega-shop. Okay, so if do happen to be everybody and their mother, and you're hoping to do some quality shopping on the weekend, you'll appreciate Victoria's Secret, and Bloomingdale's, and Prada, and a lot of affordable shops like Muji and Mango. I truly love the wacky exotics--plastic eyeballs, woven mats, fuchsia busts of Mao-Tse-Tung--which you can pick up on the lower level of Pearl River Mart, but maybe that's just me. You most certainly can spend an afternoon going in and out of the shops on this bit of Broadway—sigh, so many people do, in fact, exactly this on weekends. Just do yourself a favor and go to one of the side streets for eats, there's nothing you'd want to ingest on Broadway proper.

Broadway in the Soho area of Manhattan (which stands for South of Houston street) is known for as a shopping area stretching all the way to Canal Street & Broadway.

Here one can find stores such as Guess, Victoria's Secret, Express, and Old Navy , just to name a few. There are also boutiques where one can pick up cute clothes for a great buy. There's something for everyone in this area.

The people who hang around the area are also know for being very stylish. Broadway is also a known goto shopping area for people between the ages of 17-to mid 20s who are all about being different and finding the latest trends in urban fashion.

I like to call Soho the fashion capital of the world, because everyone that walks around there looks like they came straight of the runway.

Visit Broadway, in the Soho area by way of the 6 train or the N train. Enjoy shopping

Broadway Newyork is one of my Favourite places in NY. i have visited Broadway only once but it was simply wonderful. Its one the places worth visiting and for living its simply spectacular. There are a lot of attractions around here and u will get a deep cultural touch. Plays and theatres are more in. People ususally dont know of some of the greatest plays which are played at the Broadway street.
Times Square is an amazing place on the Broadway. The crowds on Times Square morning, noon & night was crazy. You have to push your way through, and no one gives you a second. There is lots of interesting places around Times Square. There is a good few Irish Pubs off times square who do excellent pub grub. All shops were packed with people and some shops we had to leave as it was just too much. Worth a trip to without a doubt.