Great White Way

English

Etymology

So called from its brilliant illumination at night.

Proper noun

the Great White Way

1. Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
   • 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 28:

     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.

   • 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 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.