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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 ...
Named after Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, it was based on 17th Street near Union Square. At the start of 1968, it included about 150 groups. [2] A rally and march it organized with the Spring Mobilization against the War in Vietnam in 1967 featured Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Benjamin Spock, and Dave Dellinger in Central Park. [3]
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]
Protesters in dozens of American cities demonstrated against the war. In New York 20,000 marched down New York City's Fifth Avenue after a rally in Central Park, while a crowd of 2,000 paraded down State Street in Chicago. [44] Marches also took place in Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Denver, Atlanta, Oklahoma City and Hartford. [45]
The May Offensive was considered much bloodier than the initial phase of the Tet Offensive. U.S. casualties across South Vietnam were 2,169 killed for the entire month of May, making it the deadliest month of the entire Vietnam War for U.S. forces, while South Vietnamese losses were 2,054 killed. PAVN/VC losses exceeded 24,000 killed and over ...
Fifth Avenue High School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, an anti-war parade coordinator during the mid-1960s; 5th Avenue, an album by Christina Aguilar; 5th Avenue Cinema, a projection theater in Portland, Oregon; 5th Avenue Theatre, a landmark theatre building located in Seattle, Washington
Museum Mile may refer to: Museum Mile, a mile long stretch of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City where major museums are located Museum Mile, London , collective name for museums in the area between King's Cross and the River Thames
0–9. 3 East 57th Street; 91-93 Fifth Avenue; 126 Madison Avenue; 262 Fifth Avenue; 277 Fifth Avenue; 369th Regiment Armory; 390 Fifth Avenue; 425 Fifth Avenue