Heart of the World

Nik Cohn had planned a trip around the world, but when a friend told him that Broadway is ''the world within itself'', he started walking up the Great White Way, from Battery Park to Times Square. Escorted by a drum-playing Russian taxi driver, fuelled by duck soup and whiskey and sleeping in crackhouse hotels, Cohn encountered pickpockets, dancers, old magicians, disgraced politicians, epic stor...