Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare going through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It stretches from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square North at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. It is considered among the most expensive and best shopping streets in the world.
And here is a collection of vintage pictures capturing everyday life of this street through the years.
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| Winter on Fifth Avenue, 1892 |
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| 5th Avenue and 59th Street, New York City, 1897 |
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| 5th Avenue, 1900 |
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| Fifth Avenue, 1900-01 |
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| The Flatiron Building at 175 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1903 |
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| Fifth Avenue, 1905 |
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| 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, 1905 |
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| Fifth Avenue after a snow storm in 1905 |
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| Fifth Avenue, New York, ca. 1900-06 |
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| Fifth Avenue in 1908 |
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| Omnibus on 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, 1910 |
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| The Vanderbilt Mansion and The Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue, 1910 |
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| Fifth Avenue near 42nd Street, 1912 |
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| Fifth Avenue looking north, 1913 |
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| Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913 |
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| Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, 1913 |
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| Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, 1916 |
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| Fifth Avenue, 1918 |
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| 5th Avenue and 57th Street, 1929 |
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| Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, 1946 |
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| 5th Avenue towards 42nd Street, 1949 |
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| Fifth Ave at St. Thomas, New York, 1954 |
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| 5th Avenue and 60th Street, 1958 |
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| Easter Parade at 5th Avenue and 50th Street, 1959 |
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| Fifth Avenue at 50th Street, 1960 |
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| 5th Avenue toward 42nd Street,1961 |
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| Snow on 5th Avenue, February 5, 1961 |
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| 5th Avenue and 50th Street, 1965 |
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| Fifth Avenue in 1965 |
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| 5th Avenue and 58th Street, 1970 |