Description of the attraction
Fifth Avenue is an important urban artery of New York, one of the most famous and expensive streets in the world. It begins at Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan and crosses the island from south to north, ending at the Harlem River at 142nd Street. Fifth Avenue divides Manhattan into two parts - West and East. This circumstance was used for convenient numbering of houses: on "horizontal" streets, it starts from Fifth Avenue in both directions, east and west. Thus, on any "horizontal" street there are two houses # 1 - West (on the map to the left of the Fifth) and East (to the right). The numbers increase in the direction from the Fifth.
In any case, a tourist exploring Manhattan cannot avoid Fifth Avenue. Like Broadway, it is everywhere, and everything is on it. It features the white Gothic spiers of St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral, the famous Atlanta statue opposite the Rockefeller Center, and the monumental building of the New York Public Library. There are also world famous skyscrapers - Empire State Building, Flatiron Building ("Iron"), "Fifth Avenue, 500", and historical buildings - Elizabeth Arden Building, Goram Building, Rizzoli Building, the former residence of George Vanderbilt, the Plaza Hotel …
But here, on Fifth Avenue, there is Central Park, this oasis of peace and quiet in the middle of the "stone jungle" of New York. You can hide in its greenery, relax by the lake or look at the animals in the zoo and return to the Fifth again. Here, near the Central Park, the museum mile just begins - the segment of the Fifth between 82nd and 105th streets, densely "studded" with museums. There are ten of them, including the famous Metropolitan, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Jewish, New Gallery.
If a tourist comes for expensive purchases, Fifth Avenue won't let you down. On this street are concentrated boutiques with goods of the most famous brands - Armani, Gucci, De Beers, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, Prada, Versace, Swarovski, as well as the very popular Apple computer store and the huge Schwartz toy department store (both are located in the General -Motors Building). For the craving spectacle, parades are held here several times a year (the oldest of them is the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, during which the street is filled with hundreds of thousands of people in green).
Whatever the tourist wants, whatever he is interested in - here, on the amazing Fifth Avenue, he will definitely find it.
