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Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the . COURSE on 89th Street ]]Fifth Avenue extends from the north side of Washington Square Park through Greenwich Village , Midtown , the Upper East Side , Spanish Harlem , Harlem , and into The Bronx . NOTABLE SIGHTS Many landmarks and famous buildings are situated along Fifth Avenue in Midtown and the Upper East Side. In Midtown are the Empire State Building , the New York Public Library , Rockefeller Center , and St. Patrick's Cathedral . The stretch of Fifth Avenue from the 80s through the 90s (i.e., from 82nd Street to 105th Street) has enough museums to have acquired the nickname '' Museum Mile '' and includes such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum Of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum . That area was known in the early 20th century as '' Millionaire's Row '' after the many Mansion s built there as the richest New Yorkers moved their Residence s north to face Central Park . Earlier, several opulent Vanderbilt Houses and other mansions were built in the 50s and in even earlier times further south. Between 60th Street and 34th Street, Fifth Avenue is a popular retail center, with various luxury stores facing that street, most notably F.A.O. Schwarz on 58th Street. PARADE ROUTE Fifth Avenue is the traditional route for many celebratory Parade s in New York City; thus, it is closed to traffic on numerous Sundays in warm weather. These are distinct from the '' Ticker-tape Parade s'' held on the ''" Canyon Of Heroes "'' on lower Broadway . HISTORY Originally a narrower thoroughfare, much of Fifth Avenue south of Central Park was widened in 1908 to accommodate the increasing traffic. The midtown blocks, now famously commercial, were largely a residential district until the turn of the 20th Century . Fifth Avenue is the central scene in Edith Wharton 's Pulitzer Prize winning novel '' The Age Of Innocence '' (1920). The novel describes New York's social elite in the 1870s and provides historical context to Fifth Avenue and New York's aristocratic families. After becoming a naturalized United States citizen, Nikola Tesla established his laboratory at 35 South Fifth Avenue in 1891. SEE ALSO
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