Every Building on Fifth

This puzzling slot in the streetwall is explained by the desire of a developer to claim a Fifth Avenue address for a building actually located on 83rd and 84th Streets. Designed by H. L. Feldman, 1025 Fifth Avenue is accessed through the gap between 1020 Fifth Avenue and the mansions to the north, a solution… Continue reading

Called one of the most “sumptuous” apartment residences in the city by The New York Times, 1020 Fifth Avenue was designed by Warren & Wetmore and completed in 1925.  Containing only 13 apartments, including 6 duplexes, 1020 Fifth Avenue is one of the district’s most exclusive addresses.  An asymmetrical Fifth Avenue façade hints at the… Continue reading

An elegant brick-clad building, 1016 Fifth Avenue was completed in 1926 to designs by John B. Peterkin, whose best-known work in New York, the Art Deco Terminal Building formerly at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, was demolished in 1983 for the Phillip Morris Building. A less dramatic structure, 1016 Fifth Avenue is still among the… Continue reading

The former home of the Goethe Institute (now relocated to Irving Place), 1014 Fifth Avenue was once part of a pair of speculative houses designed by Welch, Smith & Provot. In contrast to their design for the Duke-Semans Mansion, the firm produced a reserved façade for 1014 Fifth Avenue…which more recent arrivals have left looking… Continue reading

1010 Fifth Avenue was designed and developed by Fred F. French, whose spectacular eponymous Art Deco tower stands at 551 Fifth Avenue. French’s other residential projects include the famed Tudor City flanking East 42nd Street and overlooking the United Nations; 1010 Fifth Avenue is less fantastical than either project but is a handsome presence nonetheless…. Continue reading