35 Fifth Avenue

35 Fifth Avenue, the former Hotel Grosvenor, is now the Samuel Rubin Residence Hall of New York University.  Built in 1925 in the Neo-Federal style it is the second of two such buildings by Schwartz & Gross on the avenue, standing diagonally to its sister design at 30 Fifth.  Novelist Willa Cather lived at the… Continue reading

No. 1 Washington Mews

Directly behind 7 – 13 Washington Square North this small Regency-flavored cube is the first building on the street with a visible Fifth Avenue entrance.