Top 10 Seattle pg 18-19, 71

This is the main drag that slices across Capitol Hill, one of Seattle’s edgier communities just up the hill from downtown. Block after block of hip stores and a wide variety of cafes and restaurants attract a thriving gay culture and gritty youth population. On warm nights, Broadway is about as urban as Seattle gets as it surges with pedestrians. If you can buy it, you can find it on Broadway. From East Pike to East Roy Streets, storefronts beckon consumers on the hunt for food, vintage and new clothing, music CDs, and lots of coffee. On summer evenings especially, the sheer density of pedestrian traffic along Broadway matches that of midtown Manhattan.

Sculptor Jack Mackie created an amusing series of inlaid bronze dance steps along the sidewalks of Broadway in 1982. You may find locals dancing to a much more indescribable beat than the tango or foxtrot.