1020 Fifth Avenue is a luxury housing cooperative on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.

[1] The building's exterior has neo-Italian Renaissance style ornamentation with a three-story high rusticated base.

The main entrance to the building faces East 83rd Street rather than Fifth Avenue.

[9] The building's floors are designed in a staggered manner as to allow six of the apartments to have large salons that are 20' 9" by 40' 2" in floor area with extra high ceilings ranging from fourteen to eighteen feet (see layout diagram).

[9] Notable current and former residents at 1020 Fifth Avenue have included socialite Georgette Mosbacher,[4][6] Russian Nobility,[10] business tycoon Ward Melville,[11] hedge fund manager and Council on Foreign Relations board member Stephen Cyrus Freidheim,[5] hotel developer Richard Born,[12] and business tycoon Samuel Henry Kress.