Every Building on Fifth

Like the other buildings on this block, 206 Fifth Avenue has a Broadway as well as a Fifth Avenue address; unlike the others, the two street facades are by different architects. Originally a house constructed in 1856-57, 206 Fifth Avenue gained its first new commercial elevation at 1126 Broadway in 1892, a Queen Anne eclectic… Continue reading

Partially obscured by the scaffolding surrounding its neighbor to the south, 204 Fifth Avenue is a 1913 design by the distinguished architect C.P.H. Gilbert, whose output included many of the townhouses and mansions of New York’s gilded age, including some of the best such buildings in Park Slope and on The Upper East Side some… Continue reading

202 Fifth Avenue was the first commission of the great architect Eli Jacques Kahn, here working as a partner in the firm of Buchman & Kahn and with the Chicago firm of Zimmerman, Saxe & Zimmerman. The building is currently under renovation; we’ll take another look when the scaffolding comes down.  

Located on a rather bald-looking triangle bordered by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, 24th and 25th Streets directly adjacent to Madison Square, the Worth Memorial is the district’s first and oldest monument and the second oldest public monument in the city.  Erected to the memory of Major-General William Jenkins Worth (1794-1857), active in both the Seminole and… Continue reading

As a fitting entry for the countdown to New Year’s Eve, we present Fifth Avenue’s southernmost sidewalk clock, one of New York’s most elaborate! Sharing an address with 200 Fifth Avenue, the clock was designed by Hecla Ironworks and features an example of the Scammozi capital, a variant of the Doric order; it was installed… Continue reading