Driving Downtown - Fifth Avenue - New York City NY USA

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Top 10 Favorite Travel Channels on YouTube (4 of 10): Excellent compilations of the sights and sounds of major cities. Check out Globetrotters channel! GlobeTrotterAlpha - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM7rCxp0Hp3qktZKeEtKqcg Driving Downtown Streets - Fifth (5th) Avenue - Manhattan New York City New York USA - Episode 4. Starting Point: Fifth Avenue & 57th Street https://goo.gl/maps/xJjgHdcDs4T2 . 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. Between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious boutiques and flagship stores and is consistently ranked among the most expensive shopping streets in the world.[31] Economy Many luxury goods, fashion, toys, and sport brand boutiques are located on Fifth Avenue, including Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., Gucci, Prada, Bottega Veneta, Armani, Fendi, Versace, Tommy Hilfiger, Cartier, Omega, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Harry Winston, Salvatore Ferragamo, Nike, Escada, Swarovski, Bvlgari, Emilio Pucci, Ermenegildo Zegna, Diesel, Lacoste, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, De Beers, Emanuel Ungaro, FAO Schwarz, Gap , Lindt Chocolate Shop, Henri Bendel, NBA Store, Oxxford Clothes, Sephora, United Colors of Benetton, Zara, H&M; and BCBG Max Azria etc.[32] Luxury department stores include Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman. Fifth Avenue is home to New York's fifth most photographed building, the Apple Store, and the largest Build-A-Bear Workshop in the world. Many airlines at one time had ticketing offices along Fifth Avenue. In the years leading up to 1992, the number of ticketing offices along Fifth Avenue decreased. Pan American World Airways went out of business, while Air France, Finnair, and KLM moved their ticket offices to other areas in Midtown Manhattan. Manhattan Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and the city's historical birthplace.[2] The borough is coterminous with New York County, founded on November 1, 1683 as one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the East, Hudson, and Harlem Rivers, and also includes several small adjacent islands and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood on the U.S. mainland. Many districts and landmarks in Manhattan have become well known, as New York City received a record of nearly 60 million tourists in 2015,[22] and Manhattan hosts three of the world's 10 most-visited tourist attractions in 2013: Times Square, Central Park, and Grand Central Terminal.[23] The borough hosts many world-renowned bridges, such as the Brooklyn Bridge; skyscrapers such as the Empire State Building, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world;[24] and parks, such as Central Park. There are many historically significant places in Manhattan: Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere,[25] and the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village is considered the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement.[26][27] The City of New York was founded at the southern tip of Manhattan,[2] and the borough houses New York City Hall, the seat of the City's Government.[28] Numerous colleges and universities are located in Manhattan,[29] including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, which have been ranked among the top 35 in the world. New York City The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.[9] Located at the southern tip of the State of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.[10][11] A global power city,[12] New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace[13] defining the term New York minute.[14] Home to the headquarters of the United Nations,[15] New York is an important center for international diplomacy[16] and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g60763-Activities-New_York_City_New_York.html http://www.nycgo.com/