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The Tiffany & Co. flagship store is a ten-story retail building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, within the luxury shopping district on Fifth Avenue between 49th and 60th Streets. The building, at 727 Fifth Avenue, has served as Tiffany & Co. 's sixth flagship store since its completion in 1940. [ 1 ]
Georg Jensen Inc. was a gift and department store known for Scandinavian imports located in midtown Manhattan at 667 Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street from 1935–1968. In 1935, it was founded and managed by Frederik Lunning (1881–1952), re-inventing his original New York store, Georg Jensen Handmade Silver, Inc., founded 1923, at 169 West 57th Street, across from Carnegie Hall. [1]
The Diamond District at 47th Street and Fifth Avenue. The Diamond District is a commercial stretch between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Midtown Manhattan.Until the 1920s, New York's diamond epicenter was Maiden Lane, four blocks north of Wall Street. [4]
A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
This is a list of neighborhoods in the New York City borough of Manhattan arranged geographically from the north of the island to the south. The following approximate definitions are used: Upper Manhattan is the area above 96th Street. Midtown Manhattan is the area between 34th Street and 59th Street. Lower Manhattan is the area below 14th Street.
The Tiffany and Company Building was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White for luxury retail store Tiffany & Co. [5] [13] It is the company's fifth flagship store in New York City. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The facade is an adaptation of the Palazzo Grimani di San Luca in Venice .
The area is served by the New York City Subway's 34th Street–Herald Square station, which is serviced by the B, D, F, <F>, M , N, Q, R, and W trains. [5] Additionally, the 33rd Street station on the PATH 's HOB–33 , JSQ–33 , and JSQ–33 (via HOB) trains serves the southern part of Herald Square.
The HL23 building overhanging the High Line park. West 23rd Street, which runs through the heart of Chelsea, contains many art galleries [10] and several theaters. [11] For much of the late 19th century and early 20th century its western end was the site of the Pavonia Ferry at Pier 63, just north of the current Chelsea Piers.