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Fran Leadon

Biography

Fran Leadon

Fran Leadon is an architect and coauthor of the fifth edition of the AIA GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY. A native of Gainesville, Florida, he teaches at the City College of New York and lives in Brooklyn.

Fran Leadon

Books by Fran Leadon

by Fran Leadon - History, Nonfiction

From Bowling Green all the way to Marble Hill, Fran Leadon takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart of Manhattan. BROADWAY traces the physical and social transformation of an avenue that has been both the “Path of Progress” and a “street of broken dreams,” home to both parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, complex and sometimes troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded dead end to a canyon of steel and glass is the story of American progress.