The Brevoort Hotel

By far the oldest and most fashionable hotel on lower Fifth Avenue, the Brevoort stood here at the northeast corner of 8th Street for a century—from 1854 to 1954.  In the 1920s its French-born owner Raymond Orteig offered a prize of $25,000 to the first pilot to fly non-stop from New York to Paris.  On June 27, 1927 the prize was awarded at the Brevoort to Charles A. Lindbergh.  The present apartment building at 11 Fifth Avenue takes its name from the hotel.  The rock star Buddy Holly lived here in 1958.