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Broadway follows the Wickquasgeck Trail, a path the Lenape used long before Europeans arrived. That's why it cuts diagonally across Manhattan's 1811 street grid, creating the odd bowtie intersections at Times Square and Herald Square. Broadway follows the Wickquasgeck Trail, a path the Lenape used long before Europeans arrived. That's why it cuts diagonally across Manhattan's 1811 street grid, creating the odd bowtie intersections at Times Square and Herald Square.