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Fifth Avenue
Midtown Fifth Avenue is New York's best-known boulevard and home
to three of its most famous buildings. In the late 1800s, it was lined
with mansions belonging to prominent families, but as retailers
moved north in the 1900s, society fled uptown. One of the former man-
sions that remains is the Cartier building, reputedly acquired from
banker Morton F. Plant in 1917 in exchange for a string of pearls. Al-
though commercial enterprises now share the avenue, it has remained
a Mecca for luxury goods. Fifth Avenue is at its best on Easter Sunday
when traffic is barred and the street is filled with New Yorkers in elab-
orate hats.
Top 10 Exhibits
Grand Army Plaza
This ornamented plaza is presided over by the
1907 Plaza Hotel and Augustus Saint-Gaudens'
statue of General William T. Sherman. Hansom
cab rides through Central Park can be boarded
here.
