Where it all starts

Fifth Ave Hotel, our home for the last nine months in Manhattan. The hotel was converted into a condominium in the 1970s, and is now home to thousands of weirdos. The hotel was apparently built around 1922 by Emery Roth, who was born in Slovakia and moved to the U.S. when he was 13. He became an architect, built many famous buildings in several U.S. cities, including ours, whcih was built on the site of the Brevoort House, which had been "the finest house on 5th Avenue when it was built in 1834." The bar downstairs used to be Rose Cafe & Bar, featured in As Good as It Gets.