Broadway's trees

 

A collage of  images showing Broadway's trees from about 1910 to 1945 taken from various sources.

If you look closely, you will notice that there were FOUR rows of trees during that time. Two ran along the boulevard and one along each sidewalk.

The sidewalk rows were removed in the summer of 1952 to make way for a street widening project.

There was talk of also losing the boulevard trees because their growth was causing them at times to interfere with the streetcar line. that debate ended when streetcar service was discontinued in 1955.