"Broadway" has become synonymous with the best in the world of commercial theater. It's been that way for a century and it's not going away. In fact, Broadway theaters have been having some of the best years of their lives. Disney's ALADDIN is a joy of a musical for anyone in the family and it's playing at the New Amsterdam Theatre, original home of the Ziegfeld Follies starring, among other people, Fanny Brice. (Anyone see "Funny Girl"?) If you're visiting New York and want to see a Broadway play, you can get discounted seats for SOME of the shows that day at the TKTS booth at Broadway and 47th. The theatre district, also known as Times Square, is where the ball drops on New Year's Eve atop the old (c. 1900) NY Times building. The place was known as Longacre Square before that. But Broadway is so much more. It was originally a Native American path and is the oldest street in Manhattan. Take a stroll down Broadway from 65th Street and you can see Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, The Crossroads of the World (as Times Square used to be called), Macy's flagship at Herald Square, the Flatiron Building at Madison Square, Union Square, Wall Street, and Bowling Green, near the ferries to Staten Island and the Statue of Liberty. Lots of great people watching and some of the best old and new architecture in the city.