Fifth avenue

The Fifth avenue is an important artery of the center of Manhattan, in the town of New York. She traverses the center of Midtown and skirts the east coast of Central Park. The Fifth Avenue is with Manhattan what the streets of Oxford Street are with London and the Champs Elysées with Paris, that is to say one of the streets of most famous and famous luxury trades in the world (such as Tiffany & Co, Saks…).

One finds there also the most important museums Metropolitan Museum off Art, the Musée Solomon R. Guggenheim, or the Frick Collection of New York.

The Fifth Avenue was used during all its history of place of demonstrations and parades:

at the beginning of the 20th century, the Suffragettes ravel to obtain the right to vote;
December 4th, 1905: : 100000 Jews express against violences Tsar ists in Russia;
July 28th, 1917: go against the Racisme;
1958: first Porto Rican parade ;

In 1961, the Fifth Avenue passes in one way.

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