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Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New York City. It runs through the heart of Midtown and along the eastern side of Central Park and is a symbol of ritzy New York.Fifth Avenue extends from the north side of Washington Square Park through Greenwich Village, Midtown, the Upper East Side, Spanish Harlem, Harlem, and into The Bronx. It is the zero-numbering point of the east-west streets in Manhattan and the Bronx; numbers increase in both directions as one moves away from Fifth Avenue. Fifth Avenue is a one-way street and carries southbound traffic.
Many landmarks and famous buildings are situated along Fifth Avenue in Midtown and the Upper East Side. In Midtown are the Empire State Building, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, and St. Patrick's Cathedral. The stretch of Fifth Avenue in the 60s through the 90s has enough museums to have acquired the nickname Museum Mile and includes such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumThis article refers to the Guggenheim Museum in the upper east side of Manhattan ( New York). There are a number of other Guggenheim Museums. Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New Yo. That area was known in the early 20th century as Millionaire's Row after the many mansions built there as the richest New Yorkers moved their residences north to face Central Park. Earlier, several opulent Vanderbilt housesFrom the late 1870s to the 1920s the Vanderbilt clan employed America's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States. Many of the Vanderbilt houses are now Natio and other mansions were built in the 50s and in even earlier times further south.
Between 60th Street and 34th Street Fifth Avenue is a popular retail epicenter, with various luxury stores facing that street, most notably FAO Schwartz on 58th Avenue.
Fifth Avenue is the traditional route for many celebratory paradeA parade is an organized procession of people along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by decorated vehicles called "floats" or sometimes large lighter-than-air balloons with complex shapes. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, buts in New York City; thus, it is closed to traffic on numerous Sundays in warm weather. These are distinct from the ticker-tape paradeApollo 11 astronauts, August 1969 A ticker-tape parade is a parade event, held in a downtown urban setting, allowing the jettison of large amounts of shredded paper products from nearby office buildings onto the parade route, creating a triumphal effect bs held on the " Canyon of HeroesThe Canyon of Heroes is a colloquialism used in New York City to refer to a section of lower Broadway that is the historic location of the city's ticker-tape parades. The traditional route of the parade is northward from Bowling Green to City Hall Park." on lower BroadwayThis article is about the street in New York City. For other articles with the name Broadway, see: Broadway (disambiguation). Broadway as the name implies, is a big, wide avenue in New York City, New York, and is one of the main north-south thoroughfares.
See also
- Madison AvenueMadison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to the Madison Avenue Bridge at 138th Street. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie
- Park Avenue
Streets in Manhattan
