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880 Fifth Avenue

Residential skyscraper in Manhattan, New York

Field	Value
name	880 Fifth Avenue
status	Completed
image	File:880 Fifth Avenue - April 2021.jpg
location	Manhattan, New York
location_country	United States
mapframe-wikidata	yes
coordinates
map_type	New York City
completion_date	1948
architect	Emery Roth
floor_count	21
building_type	Residential
architectural_style	Art Deco
developer	Harold Uris, Percy Uris
current_tenants	162 unites

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880 Fifth Avenue is a luxury apartment building on Fifth Avenue at the northeast corner of 69th Street in New York City. The Art-Deco-styled building has 21 floors and features 162 residential units. 880 Fifth Avenue is also one of the few Fifth Avenue buildings to have a garage.

Background

It was the final building by architect Emery Roth. The developers were Harold Uris and Percy Uris. Built in 1948, the design for the building was commissioned during the war as the Uris brothers anticipated the war's end and the lifting of the wartime restrictions on non war-related construction. *80 is "stylistically related" to Roth's 875 Fifth Avenue, on the other side of 69th Street his building The Normandy at 140 Riverside Drive, all in the fashionable art moderne, or Art Deco style. 880 was built on the site of home of Edward H. Harriman, designed by the Herter Brothers in 1881, and the Adolph E. Lewisohn house, designed by C. W. Clinton in 1882.

The limestone facade is mildly Art Deco with classical touches. It is topped by a modest pair of towers, but overall the building is dignified, rather than exciting, designed to sell at a profit to an upscale clientele and to fit in among the classical buildings, including the adjacent Frick Museum.

In 1981, The New York Times remarked of the residential buildings constructed by the Uris brothers, "930 Fifth Avenue, 2 Sutton Place, and 880 Fifth Avenue, are among the city's best residential addresses today."

Famous residents

Notable residents have included Broadway songwriter Mitch Leigh, Alexander Steinberg, Joseph G. Hirsch, and entrepreneur and philanthropist John D. Hertz.

References

"880 Fifth Avenue". cityrealty.com.
"DESCRIPTION FOR 880 FIFTH AVENUE". streeteasy.com.
"880 Fifth Avenue". corcoran.com.
Ruttenbaum, Steven. (1986). "Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth". Balsam Press.
[http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif880.htm 880 Fifth Avenue, Carter B. Horsley]
Ruttenbaum, Steven. (1986). "Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Roth". Balsam Press.
Keil, Braden. (July 27, 2001). "MIZRAHI DESIGNING APTS.". New York Post.
Benjamin, Philip. (September 20, 1957). "HERTZ GIVES FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIPS; Transport Fortune to Train Engineers for Defense of Nation He Adopted Focusing on Those in Need". The New York Times.

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