Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . 11. Plaza Square Fifth Avenue from tlie Top of a Motor Bus But a few years back, Fifth Avenue, from Wash-ington Square to 59th Street, was known as the most exclu-sive residen-tial districtof New YorkCity. Therewere thehomes of thearistocraticand wealthyclass and thehouses of themost promi-nent amongthem werelandmarks familiar to all. To-day, it is all changed. LowerFifth Avenue, below 23rd Street, is given over, inlarge part, to loft buildings and at noonday thestreets are filledwith piece-work-ers whose homeused to be onThird
Two weeks vacation in New York, the nation's best summer resort . 11. Plaza Square Fifth Avenue from tlie Top of a Motor Bus But a few years back, Fifth Avenue, from Wash-ington Square to 59th Street, was known as the most exclu-sive residen-tial districtof New YorkCity. Therewere thehomes of thearistocraticand wealthyclass and thehouses of themost promi-nent amongthem werelandmarks familiar to all. To-day, it is all changed. LowerFifth Avenue, below 23rd Street, is given over, inlarge part, to loft buildings and at noonday thestreets are filledwith piece-work-ers whose homeused to be onThird Avenue,or the of 23rdStreet, the re-lentless marchof business hascrowded out allthe old Knick-erbocker resi-dences, and, ex-cept for an oc-casional home or palace left there from the lastgeneration, Fifth Avenue is peopled with smartshops and large departmental stores whose nameswere historic in the lower part ofthe town fifty years ago. To review this great thorough-fare in its general aspects, let usmake our starting-point at Wash-ington Square, abou
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