A few years ago the stretch was sometimes called the Paternoster Row of New York on account of the number of publishing houses that lined it.

Also it was long the home of many of the churches that were erected in the middle of the last century, among them the South Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1850, at the southwest corner of Twenty-first Street, and the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church at Nineteenth Street.

In Nineteenth Street, just east of the Avenue, was the former home of Horace Greeley, and in Twentieth Street (No.

28) Theodore Roosevelt was born.
"Worth noting," says "Fifth Avenue," the publication issued by the Fifth Avenue Bank, "are the names of prominent New Yorkers who, during the fifties, lived on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and Twenty-first Street.

Among them were Lispenard Stewart, Thomas Eggleson, Silas Wood, Henry C.De Rham, Thomas F.Woodruff, Francis Cottinet, David S.Kennedy, James Donaldson, Dr.J.Kearney Rodgers, C.N.