5th Avenue facts
While investigating facts about 5th Avenue, I found out little known, but curios details like:
666 5th Avenue, that Kushner Properties tried to sell in part at an overinflated price to a Chinese Insurance Group that would wipe out 80% of the Kushner's $1.2B debt that is due in early 2019.
The Saks 5th Avenue store is so big its shoe department has its own zipcode
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 7 of the best facts about 5th Avenue I managed to collect.
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The Diamond District in New York City (47th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue) does an average of $400,000,000 of business every day, and nearly 90% of the diamonds in the US enter through this marketplace.
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As of 2009, just the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York alone made $350 million per year
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The world’s first electric traffic signal is put into place on the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, on 5th-August-1914.
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The cookies we buy from 5 year old girls pay for a New York City 5th Avenue office, and almost half a million salary for the CEO
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Martin Scorsese chose the restaurant on the top floor of 666 5th Avenue for Jordan Belfort's lunch in "The Wolf of Wall Street."
