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The Victoria NYC Condominium

(Fifth Avenue and University Place)

Union Square

This enormous, 21-story, white-brick apartment house between Fifth Avenue and University Place has a very central location that is extremely convenient to public transportation, Lower Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Chelsea and the Union Square and Flatiron districts.

When it was built in 1964, 14th Street was in disarray, a mix of declining New York institutions like the S. Klein Department Store, a famous discount emporium, and Luchow's, the famous German restaurant, now both gone, and open storefront clothing and notions shops, and Union Square Park just to the east was a notorious drug haven, and beyond the splendid Con Edison Building at Irving Place, East 14th Street was not glamorous.

The old Academy of Music theater gave way, however, to the spectacular Palladium disco, designed by Arata Isozaki and Klein's was demolished to make way for the huge ...