That number was once the home of "Boss" Tweed.

Arrested for robbing the city, Tweed asked permission to return to his house for clothes.

While policemen were guarding the Fifth Avenue entrance he escaped through a rear alley, made his way to his yacht in the East River, and sailed to Spain.

Today unsightly advertising signs, thorns in the flesh of the Fifth Avenue Association, disfigure the north-west corner of Forty-second Street.

Behind the signs there is an office building.