927 Fifth Avenue
927 5th Avenue | also 927N 5th Avenue, 927S 5th Avenue, 2 East 74th Street | Upper East Side | built 1917
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- 1917
Warren & Wetmore finish 927 Fifth Avenue, a limestone apartment house facing Central Park
The firm Warren & Wetmore, better known for Grand Central Terminal, designed this Renaissance Revival apartment house at Fifth Avenue and East 74th Street, finished in 1917. Its limestone front looks across the avenue to the Conservatory Water in Central Park. The building is a housing cooperative with twelve apartments spread over twelve floors.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
The red-tailed hawk Pale Male and his new mate Lola build a nest above a top-floor window
Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk named by birdwatcher Marie Winn for his unusually light head, was first seen with a new mate called Lola in early 2002. The pair built their nest on ornamental stonework over a top-story window of this co-op and raised seven young there between 2002 and 2004. Pale Male ranks among the earliest red-tailed hawks recorded nesting on a building instead of in a tree.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
Co-op workers remove the hawks' famous nest from 927 Fifth Avenue
In December 2004, workers at the cooperative took down the nest of Pale Male and Lola, which sat atop a decorative window pediment and could be seen from Central Park. The site had made the pair famous. Pale Male had first been seen in Central Park in the summer of 1991, as a first-year bird.
Source: nycbirdalliance.org
- 2004
Hawkwatchers, Mary Tyler Moore and the parks commissioner rally to save the nest
Neighboring hawkwatcher Jane Koryn raised the alarm right away, and a loose coalition formed around the birds. It brought together hawkwatchers Marie Winn and Lincoln Karim, the actress Mary Tyler Moore, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and New York City Audubon, which ran a public advocacy campaign. Supporters wrote letters, made calls and stood on Fifth Avenue in the cold, and in the end they prevailed.
Source: nycbirdalliance.org
- 2004
The co-op, city agencies and Audubon agree to put up new spikes and a nest cradle
The co-op board had taken the nest down earlier that month over worries about debris falling to the street. By December 12, 2004, the co-op, city agencies and the Audubon Society had settled on a fix: new anti-pigeon spikes plus a cradle to hold the nest. By December 28 the scaffolding was gone and the hawks were carrying twigs back to the spot.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2005
Audubon honors Mary Tyler Moore and Adrian Benepe for defending the hawks' nest
At its 2005 Fall Roost, New York City Audubon, now the NYC Bird Alliance, honored the actress Mary Tyler Moore, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe and its own executive director, E. J. McAdams. It recognized what they had done for Pale Male and Lola. It followed the campaign that ended with the building installing a new nesting cradle, designed by the architect Dan Ionescu, at 927 Fifth Avenue.
Source: nycbirdalliance.org
- 2026
Facade work at 927 Fifth Avenue pauses as hawks return to the quiet nest
After the nest sat dormant through 2025, the co-op's management told the NYC Bird Alliance in early 2026 about planned facade work. In late March, Octavia, Pale Male's last known mate, was seen rebuilding the nest with a new partner, and the group asked the building to halt the work for the season, which it did. The first egg hatched on May 7, and from May 15 a chick was in view from the Model Boat Pond.
Source: nycbirdalliance.org
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