In 1998, for example, a 48-inch water-main break closed several blocks of Fifth Avenue.

On these blocks of Fifth Avenue -unlike many sections of midtown Manhattan where skyscrapers loom like steel-and-granite cliffs - few buildings rise more than 15 stories.

It calls for the construction of the multiuse building on the block of Fifth Avenue that stretches from 109th to 110th streets.

Michael Tadross convinced authorities to close busy areas such as the Grand Central Terminal viaduct, several blocks of Fifth Avenue and Washington Square Park.

Some parts of it functioned as open-air drug markets; one block of Fifth Avenue might accommodate eight or nine sellers, each hawking a different type of heroin.

Three blocks of Fifth Avenue were shut down, as well as 67th Street between Fifth and Madison.

The longest bookshelf in town, maybe in the world, will be installed along nine blocks of Fifth Avenue on Sunday.

The same is largely true of the south side of 34th Street, he added, as well as the block of 33rd Street west of Fifth Avenue, where only one new apartment building has gone up.

Walk a block east of Fifth Avenue at 100th Street, and you're in the Spanish-speaking barrio.

The distance between Eighth Avenue and Madison Avenue (one block east of Fifth Avenue) is 1011 metres.