6/6/2023 0 Comments Broadway by Fran Leadon![]() Is it really necessary to recite practically the entire inventory of the vast Arnold Constable department store, located in 1869 at Broadway and 19th Street? But Leadon is graced with a wry wit. ![]() This is a book best read in several sittings there is a lot of detail to absorb. Cohan, the ever-burdened Edgar Allan Poe, the radical Emma Goldman and the rivalrous cousins of enormous wealth William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor 4th. Enlivening the stories are cameo appearances by the rich and famous, like the showmen David Belasco and George M. ![]() It is a whirl, too, of events like ticker-tape parades, civic battles, financial booms and inevitable busts. Leadon’s tale is a whirl of characters: architects and landlords, capitalists and unionists, reformers and traditionalists, visionaries and charlatans. ![]()
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