Coty Building

The design of the Coty Building's six-story facade dates to a 1907–1908 renovation from Woodruff Leeming.{{cite web|date=January 29, 1985|title=714 Fifth Avenue|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1534.pdf|access-date=June 9, 2020|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225120819/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1534.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|5}} The facade is a glass wall surrounded by a frame. The first two stories have limestone-faced piers and a cornice supported by corbel brackets; they are treated as a single continuous section of the facade. The third through fifth stories are also treated as a single wall of glass, surrounded by a limestone frame with architrave motif at the top and bellflower pendants motifs on each side. Cast-steel spandrels are above the third and fourth stories.{{Rp|5}}

There are five vertical bays of windows, separated by thin vertical steel mullions. The general articulation remains unchanged from its original construction, although the original casement windows were removed and replaced with windows by René Lalique.{{Rp|6}} These windows comprise the only documented Lalique architectural work in the United States.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbtJAQAAIAAJ&q=Coty+Building|title=Stained Glass:A Journal Devoted to the Craft of Painted and Stained Glass|date=1991|publisher=Stained Glass Association of America|volume=86}} Each bay consists of a multi-paned casement separated by a transom. The central bays contain clear glass, though decorative glass is located in the side bays. There is an arched, scallop-shaped pediment with small brackets above the third floor. Each pane is about {{Convert|0.5|in||abbr=}} thick, surrounded by metal frames; the exterior of each frame is raised.{{Rp|6}} There are 276 panes in total, each measuring {{convert|14|x|14|in|adj=}}.

The third- through fifth-story facade contains intertwining vine and flower designs, which according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission are tulips. The top floor is set off by a modillioned cornice with console brackets supporting a balustrade. The sloping metal-covered roof with its arched dormers allowed the building to harmonize with its neighbors.{{Rp|5–6}}

Originally, 714 Fifth Avenue contained a storefront on its ground story and offices on the other stories. During the development of the skyscraper at 712 Fifth Avenue in the late 1980s, all of the original interiors were removed. A four-story atrium was installed behind the facade of the Coty Building.{{Cite news|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|author-link=David W. Dunlap|date=February 17, 1991|title=Commercial Property: 712 Fifth Avenue; High Hopes, and Vacancy, for a 4-Building Complex|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/realestate/commercial-property-712-fifth-avenue-high-hopes-vacancy-for-4-building-complex.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=February 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216023235/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/realestate/commercial-property-712-fifth-avenue-high-hopes-vacancy-for-4-building-complex.html|url-status=live}}{{cite book|last=Lancaster|first=Patricia J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXjLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA130|title=Construction in Cities: Social, Environmental, Political, and Economic Concerns|publisher=CRC Press|year=2000|isbn=978-1-4200-3701-2|pages=131–133|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721232645/https://books.google.com/books?id=lXjLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA130|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|last=Bussel|first=Abby|date=Jun 1991|title=The New Henri Bendel: Paris in New York|url=https://usmodernist.org/PA/PA-1991-06.pdf|journal=Progressive Architecture|volume=72|pages=30|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614200727/https://usmodernist.org/PA/PA-1991-06.pdf|url-status=live}} A {{Convert|79000|ft2|adj=on}} Henri Bendel store was built on the lower stories of the atrium.{{cite magazine|last=Gaskie|first=Margaret|date=Jun 1992|title=Double Play|url=https://usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1992-06.pdf|journal=Architectural Record|volume=180|page=91|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614200737/https://usmodernist.org/AR/AR-1992-06.pdf|url-status=live}} The store was designed with iron-railed balconies surrounding the atrium, and it was arranged so all stories of the building could have a direct view of the atrium.{{Cite news|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|author-link=David W. Dunlap|date=December 12, 2002|title=Blocks; Public Space, Private Sales, at a Price|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/nyregion/blocks-public-space-private-sales-at-a-price.html|access-date=July 8, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710024717/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/nyregion/blocks-public-space-private-sales-at-a-price.html|url-status=live}}

Fifth Avenue between 42nd Street and Central Park South (59th Street) was relatively undeveloped through the late 19th century.{{Cite book|last=Bridges|first=William|title=Map of the city of New York and island of Manhattan; with explanatory remarks and references|date=1811|publisher=T&J Swords|hdl=2027/nnc2.ark:/13960/t6ww9pp9g|oclc=40023003}} 714 Fifth Avenue was built in 1871 as a brownstone rowhouse, one of several on the western side of Fifth Avenue between 55th and 56th streets.{{Rp|5}} By the early 1900s, that section of Fifth Avenue was becoming a commercial area.{{cite magazine|date=April 6, 1907|title=Mr. Edward Harriman...|url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/pdf_files/ldpd_7031148_039_15.pdf|journal=The Real Estate Record: Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide|volume=79|pages=296|via=columbia.edu|number=2038|access-date=June 9, 2020|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116152948/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/pdf_files/ldpd_7031148_039_15.pdf|url-status=live}} The Coty Building, along with the Gorham, Tiffany, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Demarest buildings, is among the few surviving stores that were erected for smaller retailers on Fifth Avenue during the early 20th century.{{Cite news |last=Gill |first=John Freeman |date=2020-01-17 |title=Fighting to Preserve the Magic of Lower Fifth Avenue |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/realestate/fighting-to-preserve-the-magic-of-lower-fifth-avenue.html |access-date=2022-05-10 |issn=0362-4331}}

By the first decade of the 20th century, owner and real estate investor Charles A. Gould, foreseeing the neighborhood shift from residential to commercial use, wished to replace the facade of the brownstone. Consequently, in 1907, architect Woodruff Leeming was hired to remodel the house.{{Rp|5}}{{cite magazine|date=November 2, 1907|title=Donald M. Mitchell to Alter a Gould Residence|url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_040&page=ldpd_7031148_040_00000738&no=3|journal=The Real Estate Record: Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide|volume=80|pages=700|via=columbia.edu|number=2068|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721232426/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_040&page=ldpd_7031148_040_00000738&no=3|url-status=live}} Donald M. Mitchell received the general contract to remodel the town house, A side extension was to be erected at the rear, one story was to be added over the main building, and the interior would be renovated with electric lighting, an electric passenger elevator, partitions, and plumbing fixtures. The Real Estate Record and Guide wrote in December 1908 that the remodeled building had "a maximum of light and air on each floor, the general composition being good and at the same time securing the effect of proper supports for the upper stories by means of the side piers carried all the way down to the sidewalk level".{{cite magazine|date=December 19, 1908|title=Individual Examples|url=https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_042&page=ldpd_7031148_042_00001238&no=1|journal=The Real Estate Record: Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide|volume=82|pages=1200|via=columbia.edu|number=2127|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721232429/https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/document.php?vol=ldpd_7031148_042&page=ldpd_7031148_042_00001238&no=1|url-status=live}}File:5th_Av_Nov_2020_12.jpgIn 1910, the building was leased to perfumer François Coty, who used it as the U.S. headquarters of Coty. Coty commissioned jeweler and glass maker René Lalique to design a wall of glass windows. Lalique created an Art Nouveau-style composition of panes of glass decorated with flower vines, large enough to go from the third through fifth floors.{{Rp|4}} The renovated building hosted exhibitions such as a 1910 exhibit to spread awareness of tuberculosis,{{Cite news|date=1910-01-02|title=Fleet Off for Cuba in Four More Days; Sailors' Shore Leave Expires at 8 a.m. To-morrow -- 5,000 Land for New Year's.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/02/archives/fleet-off-for-cuba-in-four-more-days-sailors-shore-leave-expires-at.html|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721235911/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/02/archives/fleet-off-for-cuba-in-four-more-days-sailors-shore-leave-expires-at.html|url-status=live}} as well as a 1914 benefit for the Committee of Mercy.{{Cite news|date=1914-11-09|title=Art Notes; Exhibition of Art of the Theatre ;- Sporting Plates on View.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/11/09/archives/art-notes-exhibition-of-art-of-the-theatre-sporting-plates-on-view.html|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721235912/https://www.nytimes.com/1914/11/09/archives/art-notes-exhibition-of-art-of-the-theatre-sporting-plates-on-view.html|url-status=live}} Around 1921, Shoecraft Inc. leased some space in the building, where it remained for twenty years.{{Cite news|date=1941-12-31|title=Building Near Radio City Leased by Shoe Concern|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/31/archives/building-wear-radio-city-leased-by-shoe-concern.html|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721235914/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/31/archives/building-wear-radio-city-leased-by-shoe-concern.html|url-status=live}} In 1926, Coty moved the company's offices to 423 West 55th Street, retaining only the company showroom at 714 Fifth Avenue. The sixth floor was then leased to photographer Jay T. E. Winburn,{{cite news|date=25 Aug 1926|title=$150,000 Rental Will Be Paid for 5th Avenue Floor: Photographer Has Signed 21 Years' Lease for Space at 714 To Be Vacated by Coty, Inc. Perfume Makers|page=29|work=New York Herald Tribune|id={{ProQuest|1112982705}}}}{{cite news|date=25 Aug 1926|title=Fifth Avenue Lease by a Photographer: Jay T. E. Winburn Takes Floor at No. 714 for a Period of Twenty-one Years.|page=35|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|id={{ProQuest|103758833}}}} while the fifth floor was leased to tailor Berkley R. Merwin Inc.{{cite news|date=21 Dec 1926|title=95-Year Tailor Firm Gels New Fifth Avenue Quarters|page=34|work=New York Herald Tribune|id={{ProQuest|1112681343}}}}{{cite news|date=23 Dec 1926|title=58th Street Floor Leased to Universal|page=35|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|id={{ProQuest|103701598}}}}

The building was owned by Gould until his death in 1926. His estate auctioned off its properties in January 1927, during which the building was purchased by Robert E. Dowling for $710,000.{{cite news|date=January 25, 1927|title=$6,714,000 Buildings Sell In Two Hours: Charles A. Gould Estate, Including New Aeolian Structure and 11 Others, Goes in Record Auction Auctioneer Makes $300 Minute Fees Detectives Guard Bidders, Who Have Purchasing Power of $300,000,000|page=1|work=New York Herald Tribune|id={{ProQuest|1113509137}}}}{{Cite news|date=January 25, 1927|title=12 Gould Buildings Go for $6,714,000: Auction Sets New High Realty Values at Speedy Sale of Properties Here.|language=en-US|page=1|work=The New York Times|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/01/25/118498665.pdf|access-date=May 16, 2021|issn=0362-4331}} Coty's original lease extended until 1931 and was renewed until 1951. However, Coty Inc. remained at 714 Fifth Avenue only until 1941, when it moved the showroom to 423 West 55th Street.{{Rp|5}} Also in 1941, Fareco Inc. bought the building from Dowling's City Investing Company for $675,000.{{Cite news|date=1941-02-04|title=5th Ave. Property Figures in Trade; 5-story Structure at No. 714 Brings Indicated Price of $675,000|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/04/archives/5th-ave-property-figures-in-trade-5story-structure-at-no-714-brings.html|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721232425/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/02/04/archives/5th-ave-property-figures-in-trade-5story-structure-at-no-714-brings.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|date=5 Feb 1942|title=Real Estate Transactions in the City and Suburban Fields: Coty Interests Buy Property On 5th Avenue; Dowling Receives $220,000 More Than Assessment for Parcel Held Since '27|page=33|work=New York Herald Tribune|id={{ProQuest|1320041696}}}} The sale was made on behalf of the Coty interests. Women's apparel firm Kargere Inc. took the ground-floor storefront and the basement space in 1942.{{cite news|date=23 Dec 1926|title=Port Warehouses Lease More Space: Company Takes 50,000 Sq. Ft. At 60 Laight St., Making Total of 150,000 Sq. Ft.|page=35|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|id={{ProQuest|106361382}}}}

Harry Winston then owned the building until 1964, when the Transportation Corporation of America acquired it.{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|132931111}} |title=Transportation Corp. Buys 7-Story New York Building |date=16 June 1964 |page=8 |work=The Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660}} Hooks & Wax was hired to remodel the building for the Transportation Corporation's subsidiaries, which included Trans Caribbean Airways, DC Transit System, International Railways of Central America, and Spanish-language newspaper El Diario La Prensa.{{Cite news|date=1964-06-24|title=7‐story Building on Fifth Ave. Sold; Transportation Corp. Buys Parcel From Winston|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/24/archives/7story-building-on-fifth-ave-sold-transportation-corp-buys-parcel.html|access-date=2021-07-21|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721232424/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/24/archives/7story-building-on-fifth-ave-sold-transportation-corp-buys-parcel.html|url-status=live}} The Transportation Corporation was owned by O. Roy Chalk, who sold Trans Caribbean Airways to American Airlines in 1971 but continued to maintain his offices at 714 Fifth Avenue.{{cite news|last=Eisen|first=Jack|date=11 July 1971|title=Chalk's Holdings: Alive, Well: His Salary Up 79% in Two Years|page=H1|newspaper=The Washington Post|issn=0190-8286|id={{ProQuest|148006714}}}} Chalk sold the building in 1978 to Juschi Realty for $2.6 million. Chalk retained his third-floor offices while Juschi International opened a luxury women's sportswear and accessories shop on the basement and first, second, and fourth stories.{{cite news|date=29 Jan 1978|title=Realty News--: Fifth Avenue Sales West Side Lease|page=R4|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|id={{ProQuest|123840871}}}} By the early 1980s, a doctor living in Germany owned 714 Fifth Avenue, and an electronics store occupied the ground story.{{Cite news|last=Blumstein|first=Michael|date=1985-02-15|title=Dollars Vs. History on a Fifth Ave. Block|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/15/nyregion/dollars-vs-history-on-a-fifth-ave-block.html|url-access=limited|access-date=2021-06-14|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195145/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/15/nyregion/dollars-vs-history-on-a-fifth-ave-block.html|url-status=live}}

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In 1983, developer David S. Solomon began planning a 44-story office skyscraper at the southwest corner of 56th Street and Fifth Avenue. Since neither the Coty Building nor the adjacent Rizzoli Building at 712 Fifth Avenue were designated as official landmarks, he intended to replace them.{{Cite news|date=February 28, 1991|title=A Belle of Fifth Avenue Returns, Freshened Up|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/nyregion/a-belle-of-fifth-avenue-returns-freshened-up.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=December 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210122009/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/28/nyregion/a-belle-of-fifth-avenue-returns-freshened-up.html|url-status=live}} The owners of Steadsol Fifth Associates, a consortium of which Solomon was part, bought both buildings in 1984 with the intent of demolishing them.{{Cite news|last=Rangel|first=Jesus|date=May 29, 1985|title=Panel Approves Tower Plan Using Facades of 2 Landmarks|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/29/nyregion/panel-approves-tower-plan-using-facades-of-2-landmarks.html|url-access=limited|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609224732/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/29/nyregion/panel-approves-tower-plan-using-facades-of-2-landmarks.html|url-status=live}} 714 Fifth Avenue's owner agreed to sell his structure in return for a stake in the new skyscraper. The grimy windows caught the attention of architectural historian Andrew Dolkart, who found that the Coty Building's windows were the only documented architectural work by René Lalique in the United States.{{Cite news|last1=Anderson|first1=Susan Heller|last2=Dunlap|first2=David W.|date=December 3, 1984|title=New York Day By Day; Glass Master's Windows|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/03/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-glass-master-s-windows.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609224558/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/03/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-glass-master-s-windows.html|url-status=live}} The Municipal Art Society advocated for the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to give the building official-landmark status, and both were designated in early 1985.{{Cite nycland|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwYcSFtdE_AC&pg=PA117 117]}}{{Cite news|last=Prial|first=Frank J.|date=January 31, 1985|title=5th Ave. Tower Blocked by Vote for Landmarks|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/31/nyregion/5th-ave-tower-blocked-by-vote-for-landmarks.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609224600/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/31/nyregion/5th-ave-tower-blocked-by-vote-for-landmarks.html|url-status=live}}

Due to a lack of communication between the New York City Department of Buildings and the Landmarks Preservation Commission, alteration permits for the Coty and Rizzoli Buildings were initially approved in spite of the designations.{{cite news|last=Shepard|first=Joan|date=March 15, 1985|title=Landmark Designation for B. Altman|page=1272|work=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64536359/|access-date=December 3, 2020|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}}} The Coty and Rizzoli Buildings were given 24-hour police protection because of fears they could be demolished.{{Cite news|last=Shepard|first=Joan|date=February 13, 1985|title=Developers' lust decried|pages=119|work=New York Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79056117/developers-lust-decried/|access-date=June 6, 2021|via=newspapers.com {{open access}}|archive-date=June 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606171341/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79056117/developers-lust-decried/|url-status=live}} Steadsol Fifth Associates later had its alteration permits for the Coty Building revoked.{{Cite news|date=February 22, 1985|title=Coty Building's Owner Loses Permits to Alter|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/22/nyregion/coty-building-s-owner-loses-permits-to-alter.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609224602/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/22/nyregion/coty-building-s-owner-loses-permits-to-alter.html|url-status=live}} The Landmarks Preservation Commission also approved a Certificate of Appropriateness that allowed the new skyscraper, 712 Fifth Avenue, to be erected behind the existing buildings. The skyscraper thus had to be built with the Coty Building at its base, incorporating the old facades in the design.{{Cite news|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=February 17, 1991|title=Commercial Property: 712 Fifth Avenue; High Hopes, and Vacancy, for a 4-Building Complex|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/realestate/commercial-property-712-fifth-avenue-high-hopes-vacancy-for-4-building-complex.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=February 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216023235/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/17/realestate/commercial-property-712-fifth-avenue-high-hopes-vacancy-for-4-building-complex.html|url-status=live}} Steadsol Fifth Associates, which was developing the skyscraper, had its alteration permits for the Coty Building revoked following the landmark designations.

Over the years, the building's Lalique windows had gradually become covered by grime. In 1986, the Greenland Studio in Manhattan removed all 276 panels from the facade for renovation.{{Cite news|last1=Anderson|first1=Susan Heller|last2=Dunlap|first2=David W.|date=April 21, 1986|title=New York Day By Day; Lalique Windows Are Going But Just for Restoration|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/21/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-lalique-windows-are-going-but-just-for-restoration.html|access-date=June 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609224606/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/21/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-lalique-windows-are-going-but-just-for-restoration.html|url-status=live}} Of these, 46 panels were replaced with replicas made by Jon Smiley Glass Studios in Philadelphia. In 1990, Beyer Blinder Belle restored the facade for the opening of Henri Bendel's flagship store in New York City. Inside, the former Coty offices were removed and the atrium was added. Further restoration occurred in 2000, after water erosion had caused some of the steel frames to expand, cracking ten panes.{{Cite web|date=October 31, 2016|first=Tracy A.|last=Marciano|title=René Lalique's windows saved this Fifth Avenue building from destruction in the 1980s|url=https://www.6sqft.com/rene-laliques-windows-saved-this-fifth-avenue-building-from-destruction-in-the-1980s/|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=6sqft|language=en-US|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609141635/https://www.6sqft.com/rene-laliques-windows-saved-this-fifth-avenue-building-from-destruction-in-the-1980s/|url-status=live}} One author wrote, "This type of hybrid preservation [...] with a balance between development and preservation is politically and economically essential in modern cities."{{cite book|author1=Jerold S. Kayden|author2=The New York City Department of Planning|author3=The Municipal Art Society of New York|title=Privately Owned Public Spaces: The New York City Experience|publisher=John Wiley & Sons Inc.|date=2000|page=169|isbn=9780471362579|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpeNSAfYASoC|access-date=June 9, 2020|archive-date=August 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801234559/https://books.google.com/books?id=OpeNSAfYASoC|url-status=live}} The Henri Bendel store behind the Coty Building's facade closed at the end of 2018,{{cite news|last=Rizzi|first=Nicholas|date=September 14, 2018|title=Henri Bendel, Including Fifth Avenue Flagship, Closing|work=Commercial Observer|url-access=subscription|url=https://commercialobserver.com/2018/09/henri-bendel-including-fifth-avenue-flagship-closing|access-date=July 21, 2021|archive-date=December 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230223607/https://commercialobserver.com/2018/09/henri-bendel-including-fifth-avenue-flagship-closing/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=September 14, 2018|title=After 123 years, Henri Bendel is closing. And it's leaving a lot of retail space behind|url-access=limited|url=https://therealdeal.com/2018/09/14/after-123-years-henri-bendel-is-closing-its-doors-and-its-leaving-a-lot-of-retail-space-behind/|access-date=June 9, 2020|website=The Real Deal New York|language=en-US|archive-date=June 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609224728/https://therealdeal.com/2018/09/14/after-123-years-henri-bendel-is-closing-its-doors-and-its-leaving-a-lot-of-retail-space-behind/|url-status=live}} and jeweler Harry Winston leased the space in 2020.{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Orion|date=October 29, 2020|title=Paramount Group Third Quarter Earnings 2020|url=https://therealdeal.com/2020/10/29/paramount-group-back-at-work-but-tenants-waiting-until-2021/|access-date=July 9, 2021|website=The Real Deal New York|language=en-US|archive-date=July 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711133941/https://therealdeal.com/2020/10/29/paramount-group-back-at-work-but-tenants-waiting-until-2021/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|last=Geiger|first=Daniel|date=February 25, 2021|title=The world's priciest shopping street is in shambles, and one hint is Ralph Lauren's $27 million feud with its NYC landlord|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ralph-lauren-fifth-avenue-mango-sublease-arbitration-2021-1|access-date=July 9, 2021|website=Business Insider|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190843/https://www.businessinsider.com/ralph-lauren-fifth-avenue-mango-sublease-arbitration-2021-1|url-status=live}}

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• {{cite book|first=Andrew Scott |last=Dolkart|title=The Coty Building (714 Fifth Avenue) and the Windows of René Lalique|publisher=Municipal Art Society|date= 1984|ref=none}}
• {{cite book|first=John J. |last=Costonis|title=Icons and Aliens: Law, Aesthetics, and Environmental Change|publisher=University of Illinois Press|date=1989|page=73|isbn=9780252015533|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XryGyzFgCMAC&q=Coty+Building&pg=PA73| ref=none}}
• {{cite book|author=The New Yorker| title=Coty building|volume=67| issue =11–18|publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation|date= 1991|page=101|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4JseAQAAMAAJ&q=Coty+Building|ref=none}}

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• [https://collections.mcny.org/Collection/Fifth-Avenue-Presbyterian-Church,-Rizzoli-Building-and-Coty-Building.-24UAKVG283E.html Image of the block circa 1980, Collections of the Museum of the City of New York by Edmund Vincent Gillon]

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