Every Building on Fifth

Although the Howard Building at 576 Fifth Avenue is missing its original street-level columns and topmost cornice, it is still a handsome survivor from the district’s Edwardian days.  

575 Fifth Avenue is a graceless PoMo lump.  Recent storefront changes actually improve the façade by somewhat lightening the overall tonnage of puce granite.

Two neighboring buildings, one recently shorn of all exterior detail, the other currently under construction: we’ll be taking a closer look at 572 Fifth Avenue and 574 Fifth Avenue when the netting comes down. 574 Fifth Avenue has a Flemish Renaissance exterior that is rivaled on Fifth Avenue only by 166 Fifth Avenue in the… Continue reading

David V. Griffin, Founder & CEO of Landmark Branding LLC, and Jennifer Wallace, Co-Founder of leading arts advisory firm nAscent Art New York, are pleased to announce an upcoming event in our networking series “Room at the Top,” to be held at the Daily News Building, 220 East 42nd Street. Under the sponsorship of TitleVest,… Continue reading

A wonderful and nearly intact bit of Tudor Revival, 564-568 Fifth Avenue was designed by the author and artist Beverly S. King as “Finchley’s Castle” for the haberdasher Edwin L. Goodman.  Based on Elizabethan-period structures at King’s College, Cambridge, UK, the building was completed in 1924 and is Fifth Avenue’s only (partial) stucco & wood… Continue reading