One Fifth Avenue

1 5th Avenue | also 68 Washington Mews, 2 East 8th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1926

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1. 1926

   Four 1830s row houses at 1-7 Fifth Avenue are demolished to clear the lot for a tower

   Before the apartment hotel, the site held four row houses from the 1830s at 1 to 7 Fifth Avenue. Nos. 5 and 7 began as single-family Greek Revival homes, became boarding houses, and were later joined as an apartment house called The Russell around 1900. No. 1 was a double-wide mansion with Federal-style details that may have started as a boarding school. All four were torn down in 1926 and their lots combined for the new building.

   Source: Village Preservation

2. 1927

   Joseph Siegel opens the 27-story One Fifth Avenue apartment hotel

   Developer Joseph G. Siegel took a lease on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 8th Street from Sailors' Snug Harbor in 1926 and began construction that year. Harvey Wiley Corbett of Helme & Corbett designed the 353-foot tower, which opened in 1927 as an apartment hotel with two- and three-room units. Bricks in several colors on its flat facade give the impression of depth.

   Source: Wikipedia

3. 1976

   One Fifth Avenue converts to a cooperative

   One Fifth Avenue became a co-op in 1976, after nearly half a century as an apartment hotel. It has since been described as one of the Village's most desirable co-ops. Its residents have included directors Tim Burton and Brian De Palma and actors Helena Bonham Carter and Jessica Lange.

   Source: Wikipedia

4. 1978

   The One Fifth restaurant is a filming location for 'An Unmarried Woman'

   The now-closed One Fifth Restaurant was a location for the 1978 Jill Clayburgh film 'An Unmarried Woman.' The restaurant later appeared in Woody Allen's 1989 'Crimes and Misdemeanors.' The building's address sign also turns up in the 1982 film 'Annie.'

   Source: Wikipedia

5. 1982

   Girls in the film Annie spot the building's address sign while hunting for 987 Fifth Avenue

   In the 1982 film Annie, girls from Miss Hannigan's orphanage search for the address 987 Fifth Avenue. Along the way they find the sign marking this building's address.

   Source: Wikipedia

6. 1989

   Woody Allen films scenes of Crimes and Misdemeanors at the building's One Fifth restaurant

   Woody Allen used One Fifth, the restaurant that operated in the building, as a location for his 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors. The restaurant has since closed.

   Source: Wikipedia

7. 2008

   Candace Bushnell publishes a novel named for and set in the building

   Writer Candace Bushnell's 2008 novel 'One Fifth Avenue' takes its title from the building and is set there. By then the tower, a co-op since 1976, was counted among Greenwich Village's most desirable addresses.

   Source: Wikipedia

8. 2014

   Keith Richards and Patti Hansen buy the building's penthouse for $10.5 million

   In 2014 the Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and Patti Hansen bought the penthouse at One Fifth Avenue for $10.5 million. Richards put it on the market in 2016 at $12.23 million, and by June 2018 the asking price had dropped to $9.95 million, when the sale went into contract, likely at a loss.

   Source: 6sqft

9. 2018

   June

   Actress Jessica Lange buys the apartment directly above her own

   Reports in June 2018 said the actress Jessica Lange had paid $3.3 million for the two-bedroom co-op directly above the one she already owned in the building. There was speculation that she meant to combine the two apartments.

   Source: 6sqft

10. 2025

    March

    Singer Gracie Abrams buys a two-apartment penthouse for $5.5 million

    In March 2025 the singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams bought a three-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse at One Fifth Avenue for $5.5 million. The roughly 2,000-square-foot home combines two apartments and is across from Washington Square Park. It last sold for $7 million in 2008.

    Source: 6sqft

Further reading

• One Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)Wikipedia

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