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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue
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About Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue runs south from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The section in Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world.

On the show โ€” 6 mentions total

He paid for them to walk down Fifth Avenue with cigarettes. It's a very famous picture.

from No Such Thing As A Fishman, 2018-11-23 at 00:23:48 ยท read transcript

Other times Fifth Avenue came up

  1. I say they pay in kind and it's like 10 hot dogs a year. With mustard. So there was one guy who was parked on 15,000. Fifth Avenue, East 62 Second Street, very near Central Park, 289,500 for his annual, yeah. That's, that is, he's got to get that to break even, obviously, because he's got to push, and then everything is proper from there. They all managed to do it, yeah.

    No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot, 2020-01-17 ยท listen

  2. I'd say they pay in kind, and it's like $10 hot dogs a year. With mustard. So there was one guy who was parked on Fifth Avenue, E-62 Second Street, very near Central Park, $289,500 for his annual, yeah. That is, he's got to get that to break even, obviously, because he's got to push and then everything is proper from there. They all managed to do it, yeah.

    304: No Such Thing As A Phantasmic Foot, 2020-01-17 ยท listen

  3. Lowell Bender writes, if you haven't already covered this, I'd like you to know that some US banks have their own zip code. Oh, nice. That's cool, isn't it? Lots of buildings actually have their own. own zip codes in America and in fact the shoe floor of Saks on Fifth Avenue has its own zip code. The one floor of a building. One floor that sells shoes. Ironic because shoes are one item of clothing that rarely has lips.

    No Such Thing As Radioactive Jenga, 2024-09-12 ยท listen

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