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Few streets carry the symbolic weight that Fifth Avenue does in New York. Laid out as the Manhattan grid took shape in the early 1800s and generally dated to 1824, when its lower section reached Washington Square, the avenue first filled with the mansions of Gilded Age families before commerce gradually pushed the wealthy further uptown. What remained was a corridor that doubles as a roll-call of the city's landmarks and a global byword for luxury retail. Walking north, the route passes the Fla...