Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) Broadway, New York City, also attrib.

1850		P.T. Barnum letter in Saxon Sel. Letters (1983) 16 Aug. 45: Not Mercer St., as the entrance is in B-way.
1915		Norwich Bulletin (CT) 25 Feb. 4: [advert] Colonial Theater. ‘Two Women,’ 3 reels, Vitagraph, B’way Star Feature.
1924		Winnipeg Trib. (Manitoba) 29 Mar. Movies 1/2: [headline] B’way Hit at Gillis Strand.
1930		Eve. Standard (Uniontown, PA) 16 June 6/1: [headline] B’way Star who won fame abroad in ‘Be Yourself’.
1942		Nashville Graphic (NC) 22 Jan. 6/4: One of B’way’s hits, ‘In Time to Come,’ honors President Wilson.
1963		Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) 3 Jan. 23/3: Lee Remick may do her first B’way show.
1975		Courier-Post (Camden, NJ) 13 Jan. 21/5: Producer Adela Holzer’s next B’way show, ‘Knock Knock,’ will probably co-star Herschel Bernardi.
1986		C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 243: My Mauris? Blue lizard, Eddie. Got them at Leighton’s up on the B’way.
1996		N.Y. Daily News 12 Feb. [headline] Rock Knockin’ On B’way’s Door Stars like Paul Simon and Billy Joel are hoping to score – even Andrew Lloyd Webber’s getting in on the act.
2002		N.Y. Post 15 Apr. [headline] B’way Never Forgets.