Fifth Avenue

thumb|A view of Fifth Avenue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fifth Avenue is one of Manhattan's major thoroughfares. The avenue runs northward from Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park to Harlem's West 143rd Street. The part of Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is one of the world's most expensive List of shopping streets and districts by city shopping streets. The stretch between 59th Street (Manhattan) 59th Street and 96th Street (Manhattan) 96th Street along Central Park was once known as "Millionaire's Row". Along the avenue are many museums and historic sites. Fifth Avenue is the traditional route for many of New York City's celebratory parades, most notably the annual St. Patrick's Day parade. Quotes James Buchanan Duke James Duke settled in New York not for personal social advancement but to join the capitalist wars along with the industrialists of his day, many of whom also bought or built a trophy house on the so-called Street of Wealth, Fifth Avenue. Unlike those wishing to join society on the established, fashionable stretches of Fifth Avenue, the new captains of industry leaped to the north and built the final mansions on the fabled boulevard. Duke joined Andrew Carnegie, Henry Phipps Jr., Felix M. Warburg and his wife Frieda Schiff Warburg Frieda Schiff, and, later, Otto H. Kahn, and Willard Dickerman Straight Willard Straight and his bride Dorothy Payne Whitney, who occupied the most northern of the houses. Mosette Broderick, Chapter 5. Mr. Duke Builds his Dream House by Mosette Broderick Duke House and the Making of Modern New York: Lives and Afterlives of a Fifth Avenue Mansion Koninklijke Brill Leiden, Netherlands 2022 9789004521124 https://books.google.com/books?id=PPqXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA151 151–182 (386 pages; quote from p. 151; edited by Jean-Louis Cohen, Daniella Berman, & Jonathan Ritter) Our rush season had passed, but we were busy preparing for our removal to new quarters, on Fifth Avenue near 23rd Street (Manhattan) Twenty-third Street. That locality had already become the center of the cloak-and-suit trade, being built-up with new Skyscraper sky-scrapers, full of up-to-date Garment District, Manhattan cloak-factories, dress-factories, and ladies'-waist-factories. The sight of the celebrated Avenue swarming with Jewish mechanics out for their lunch hour or going home after a day's work was already a daily spectacle. Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky BoD – Books on Demand 2026 9783387464177 https://books.google.com/books?id=m871EQAAQBAJ&pg=PA325 325 (396 pages;The Rise of David Levinsky was 1st published in 1917 by Harper (publisher) Harper & Brothers.) In front of them was the Washington Square Park#Creation of Washington Square Square, containing a considerable quantity of inexpensive vegetation, enclosed by a wooden paling, which increased its rural and accessible appearance; and round the corner was the more august precinct of the Fifth Avenue, taking its origin at this point with a spacious and confident air which already marked it for high destinies. Henry James, Washington Square BoD – Books on Demand 2026 9783387465358 https://books.google.com/books/about/Washington_Square.html?id=A871EQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 10 (144 pages; Washington Square (novel) Washington Square was 1st published in 1880 as a serial in The Cornhill Magazine and Harper's Magazine#History Harper's New Monthly Magazine.) Minetta Creek Manetta Water was the English name. The Dutch had called it "Bestavaer's Rivulet." It was a sparkling stream, beloved of trout fisherman, rising in the high ground above List_of_numbered_streets_in_Manhattan#20th to 22nd streets Twenty-first Street, flowing southeasterly to Fifth Avenue at 9th Street (Manhattan) Ninth Street, then on to midway between the present Eighth Street (Manhattan) Eighth Street and Waverly Place, where it swung southwesterly and emptied into the Hudson River near Charlton–King–Vandam Historic District Charlton Street. It ran between sandhills, sometimes rising to the height of a hundred feet, and marked the course of a famous Indian hunting ground.The joy of the Izaak Waltons of the past is occasionally the despair of the Fifth Avenue householders of the present. Flooded cellars and weakened foundations may be traced to the purling waters of the sparkling stream. Arthur Bartlett Maurice, Fifth Avenue Dodd, Mead & Company 1918 9781421962672 https://books.google.com/books?id=SZFuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4 4 (331 pages; drawings by Allan Gilbert Cram Albert G. Cram) It was Monday and all, and pretty near Christmas, and all the stores were open. So it wasn't too bad walking on Fifth Avenue. It was fairly Christmasy. All those scraggy-looking Santa Claus#In popular culture Santa Clauses were standing on corners ringing those bells, and the Salvation Army girls, the ones that don't wear any lipstick or anything, were ringing bells too. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye pbk Bantam Books 1964 9780553250251 197(1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; 214 pages; The Catcher in the Rye was 1st published in 1951 by Little, Brown and Company.) ... at first The Custom of the Country Undine envied Mabel Lipscomb for having made herself a place in such circles; but in time she began to despise her for being content to remain there. For it did not take Undine long to learn that introduction to Mabel's "set" had brought her no nearer to Fifth Avenue. Even in Apex, Undine's tender imagination had been nurtured on the feats and gestures of Fifth Avenue. She knew all of New York's golden aristocracy by name, and the lineaments of its most distinguished scions had been made familiar by passionate poring over the daily press. In Mabel's world she sought in vain for the originals, and only now and then caught a tantalizing glimpse of one of their familiars: as seen Claud Walsingham Popple, engaged on the portrait whom the Lipscombs described as "the wife of a Steel Magnet," felt it his duty to attend one of his client's teas, where it became Mabel's privilege to make his acquaintance and to name to him her friend Miss Spragg. Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin Series Penguin Books reprint Charles Scribner's Sons 1913 9780140181906 https://books.google.com/books?id=qQSHtM_rxZYC&pg=PA28 28 (594 pages) External links Bianca Mendez, June 30, 2023 New York City (nyctourism.com) Spend a Day on Fifth Avenue https://www.nyctourism.com/articles/spend-a-day-on-fifth-avenue/ Category:New York City Category:Streets