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The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-story [1] apartment hotel located at 781 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 59th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Schultze & Weaver with Buchman & Kahn. [4] The building is 560 ft (170.7 m) high and was the tallest apartment-hotel in New York City when it ...
Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter. From 1961 to 2017, the store was located at 781 Fifth Avenue, near the southeast entrance of Central Park. In November 2017, A La Vieille Russie moved to a new showroom at 745 Fifth Avenue, on the fourth floor.
The interior was entered from Fifth Avenue via an entrance vestibule. The vestibule opened onto a 60-foot (18 m) long grand hall, which could be used to access all of the primary first floor rooms. The grand hall was faced in Caen stone, as was much of the interior. It was worked and carved with decorative relief.
In 1926, Coty moved the company's offices to 423 West 55th Street, retaining only the company showroom at 714 Fifth Avenue. The sixth floor was then leased to photographer Jay T. E. Winburn, [18] [19] while the fifth floor was leased to tailor Berkley R. Merwin Inc. [20] [21] The building was owned by Gould until his death in 1926.
[10] [2] The apartment was expanded by purchasing a floor of 812 Fifth Avenue, with the two spaces connected via a flight of six steps. [11] Rockefeller and his second wife used the entrance at 812 Fifth while his first wife entered through 810 Fifth. [12] [8] [13] In 1963, former Vice President Richard Nixon bought an apartment in the building.
The Toy Center's entrance on Fifth Avenue; the clock seen below is in profile on the right The sidewalk clock, manufactured in 1909, outside the Toy Center. The Toy Center, also known as the International Toy Center, is a complex of buildings in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City, that for many years was a hub for toy manufacturers and distributors in the United States.
The western facade on Fifth Avenue is symmetrical and dominated by a curved, projecting pavilion. The interior of the mansion comprises 27 rooms on six floors, for a total floor-space of 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2). Critical reviews of the house's architecture over its history have been largely positive.
785 Fifth Avenue, usually called the Park Cinq (Park-V), is a luxury cooperative apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is located at 785 Fifth Avenue , at the southeast corner with 60th Street , across from Central Park and Grand Army Plaza .