Broad Street Looking West From Midtown Plaza Broad Street is a main thoroughfare of downtown Rochester. Runs nominally East-West from Court Street to West Main Street, then nominally Northwest-Southeast between West Main Street and Lyell Avenue.
Like most of downtown Rochester, the history of Broad Street is linked closely with the Erie Canal. Until 1923, what is now Broad Street between the Erie Canal bed (roughly the intersection of Brown and Broad, near what today is the Route 490 underpass) and Lyell Avenue was known as Magne Street. The remaining portion of Broad Street essentially was the Canal.
In 1921, with the canal having relocated South some 15 years earlier, it was decided that a light rail system be located in the former canal bed. With this decision came an opportunity to construct a new bridge over the Genesee River to ease the load of the Court and Main Street Bridges. The former Erie Canal Aqueduct was incorporated into the subterranean portion of the new "Subway", and the roof of the new subway bridge became the Broad Street Bridge, and Broad Street was extended from West Main Street to Court Street.
Notable landmarks of Broad Street include:
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former location of Midtown Plaza
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Gannett Publishing Headquarters
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The downtown Nick Tahou's
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The Abandoned Subway
As of July 2012, the intersection with Chestnut Street and Court Street is currently the site of a ![[WWW]](http://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
construction project that includes a new traffic roundabout.
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