“Fifth Avenue” is set in NYC's Hell's Kitchen in 1928.

Max and Willy are long-time business partners and friends. They keep chasing the "American Dream," but getting caught up in other people's schemes.  Not any more! Now they're  "going legit."  How?  By opening a nightclub in the west 40's so classy patrons will think they've come to the east 50's.  Tommy Grace, who puts up the money, has other ideas.  What could go wrong?  Plenty. By intermission the club has been opened and shut for violating Prohibition.

Meanwhile the younger generation of characters are also chasing their own versions of the "American Dream."  Is it singing on a stage?  Writing poetry in a garret, or muckraking for a newspaper?  Or turning every street into “Fifth Avenue?”