Fifth Avenue. View North from the Plaza Hotel. NY

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The Fifth Avenue's Millonaries Row, in May 1924. Since the late 19th Century, this part of the Fifth Avenue, between 60th to 96th Streets, in front of the Central Park, concentrate the great majority of the luxurious mansions of to build by the most greatest american architects for the greatest capitalist men who handled and controlled the destinies of millions of men and women in worldwide. The Rockefeller, Astor, Vanderbilt, Morgan's families lives here. But in 1924, the majority of the great tycoons were changed their home residence to Riverside Drive and many of the old large houses were demolished to be sustituted for high-rise appartments buildings for no more less wealthy people. This picture was taken from the Plaza Hotel.