754 Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman

Designed to echo the now-vanished Marble Row erected some 60 years earlier by the powerful society widow Mary Mason Jones, what is now known as Bergdorf Goodman at 754 Fifth Avenue was in fact erected as a row of single shops merged into one architectural statement by Kahn & Jacobs. Finish in 1928 the building… Continue reading

489 Fifth Avenue

A striking black and white sliver building, 489 Fifth Avenue was designed in 1970 by the firm of Kahn & Jacobs.  A rather alarming Fifth Avenue façade is augmented by a south-facing wall that suggests Russian Constructivism.