Great White Way

English Etymology So called from its brilliant illumination at night. Proper noun Great White Way 1 en archaic or literary Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters. en 2004 Steven Adler On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way SIU Press 9780809388714 28 https://books.google.com/books?id=KE0GhBwd7sgC&lpg=PA221&dq=%22straight%20play%22&hl=&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America. en 2021 w:Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle Fleet 136 The Great White Way was full of theater mavens and gamblers, goons and drunks—and also crooks, crooks aplenty in service to the next big score. en New York City Nicknames