Fifth Avenue: The Best Address

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This social history documents 175 years of Americas most glorious main street. Jerry E. Patterson explores the avenue from its beginning journeying uptown from Greenwich Village to Harlem and highlighting such famous landmarks along the way as the Washington Square Arch the Flatiron Building the Empire State Building St. Patricks Cathedral Rockefeller Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pattersons tour of Fifth Avenue is not limited to famous points of interest but explores the avenues colorful history as well. The lore surrounding the lives and achievements of notable Manhattanites - from the descendants of the islands earliest Dutch settlers to such luminous American figures as Stanford White Mark Twain and Edith Wharton - vividly imbues Fifth Avenue: The Best Address.