264 Fifth Avenue
Posted on March 16, 2015 by — One Comment
A once-proud brownstone mansion dating to the 1850s, 264 Fifth Avenue was converted to an apartment residence in the late 1870s. Popular with well-to-do bachelors, the building was dubbed The Knickerbocker Flats and housed a fashionable jeweler on its ground floor. The 20th century was less kind to the structure and little remains of 264 Fifth Avenue’s former grandeur save for the still notable round dormers at the attic level, a nod to Parisian fashion on the part of the original builder.
The building may be replaced in the near future by new development.
You can find a home film from 1911 on YouTube that shows this building on the right side of the street. Search 1911 60 fps. That’s what led me to this sight was doing a bit of research