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The Fifth Avenue Mile is an annual 1 mile (1.6 km) road race on Fifth Avenue in New York City, United States. The race begins at 80th Street and heads twenty blocks south to 60th Street. First held on September 26, 1981, [1] the race is currently organized by New York Road Runners. The competition regularly attracts world-class runners, who ...
Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores and upscale retailers, including B. Altman, Best & Co., Arnold Constable, Bergdorf Goodman, Gorham Silver, Thurn, W. & J. Sloane, Lord & Taylor, and Tiffany & Co. [8] [2] The Ladies' Mile also boasted upscale restaurants ...
B. Altman's Fifth Avenue store, which is now home to The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, Church Pension Group, and Oxford University Press Altman's store on Sixth Avenue in the Ladies' Mile shopping district. B. Altman and Company was a luxury department store and chain, founded in 1865 in New York City, New York, by ...
The B. Altman and Company Building is a commercial building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, that formerly served as B. Altman and Company's flagship department store. It occupies an entire city block between Fifth Avenue , Madison Avenue , 34th Street , and 35th Street , directly opposite the Empire State Building , with a primary ...
At the company's peak, its flagship "Palace of Trade" in Manhattan – located at 881-887 Broadway at East 19th Street, through to 115 Fifth Avenue – was acknowledged to be the store which took the largest portion of the "carriage trade", in New York, serving the rich and elite of the city, such as the wives of Grover Cleveland, Andrew ...
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches southward from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The section in Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. [3] Fifth Avenue carries two-way traffic between 143rd and ...
1. The Fifth Avenue Arsenal (ca. 1808) was replaced by the (7th) Seventh Regiment / Fifth Avenue / Central Park Arsenal (1848) on the same site. 2. The(8th) Eighth Regiment / Park Avenue Armory (1888–1889) was replaced by the Squadron A / Madison Avenue / Carnegie Hill Armory (1894–1895) on the same site. 3.
The 369th Regiment Armory is a historic National Guard Armory building located at 2366 Fifth Avenue, between West 142nd and 143rd Streets, in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. It was built for the 369th Regiment , also known as the "Harlem Hellfighters", founded in 1913 as the first National Guard unit in New York State composed solely of ...