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The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park/
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to the west. The area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including
Lenox Hill Lenox Hill () is a neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side—east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s. A significant portion of the neighborhood lies within the Upper East Side Historic Dist ...
, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville. Once known as the Silk Stocking District,The City Review
Upper East Side, the Silk Stocking District
it has long been the most affluent neighborhood in New York City. The Upper East Side is part of Manhattan Community District 8, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, and 10128. It is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.


Geography

Neighborhood boundaries in New York City are not officially set, but according to the '' Encyclopedia of New York City'', the Upper East Side is bounded by 59th Street in the south, 96th Street on the north,
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to the west and the East River to the east.Gronowicz, Anthony. "Upper East Side" in The ''
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'' extends the northern boundary to 106th Street near Fifth Avenue. The area's north–south avenues are Fifth, Madison,
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, Lexington,
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,
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, First, York, and East End Avenues, with the latter running only from East 79th Street to East 90th Street. The major east–west streets are 59th Street, 72nd Street, 79th Street, 86th Street and 96th Street. Some real estate agents use the term "Upper East Side" instead of "
East Harlem East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or and historically known as Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, F ...
" to describe areas that are slightly north of 96th Street and near Fifth Avenue, in order to avoid associating these areas with the negative connotations of the latter, a neighborhood which is generally perceived as less prestigious.


Historic districts

The
Upper East Side Historic District The Upper East Side Historic District is a landmarked historic district on the Upper East Side of New York City's borough of Manhattan, first designated by the city in 1981. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Its b ...
was designated as a city district in 1981 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The city district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue, and up to Third Avenue at some points. It is composed of residential structures built after the American Civil War; mansions and townhouses built at the beginning of the 20th century; and apartment buildings erected later on. The city district was slightly expanded in 2010 with 74 additional buildings. The Metropolitan Museum Historic District was designated a city district in 1977. It consists of properties on Fifth Avenue between 79th and 86th Streets, outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as properties on several side streets. The Park Avenue Historic District was designated a city district in 2014. It encompasses 64 properties on Park Avenue between 79th and 91st Streets. The
Carnegie Hill Historic District Carnegie Hill is a neighborhood within the Upper East Side, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Its boundaries are 86th Street on the south, Fifth Avenue (Central Park) on the west, with a northern boundary at 98th Street that continue ...
was designated a city district in 1974 and expanded in 1993. It covers 400 buildings, primarily along Fifth Avenue from 86th to 98th Street, as well as on side streets extending east to Madison, Park, and Lexington Avenues. There are also two smaller city historic districts. The Henderson Place Historic District, designated in 1969, comprises the town houses on East End Avenue between 86th and 87th Streets, built by John C. Henderson in 1981. The Treadwell Farm Historic District, designated in 1967, includes low-rise apartments on East 61st and 62nd Streets between Second and Third Avenues, on the former farm of Adam Treadwell.


History


Development

Before the arrival of Europeans, the mouths of streams that eroded gullies in the East River bluffs are conjectured to have been the sites of fishing camps used by the
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, whose controlled burns once a generation or so kept the dense canopy of oak–hickory forest open at ground level. In the 19th century the farmland and market garden district of what was to be the Upper East Side was still traversed by the
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and, from 1837, the
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, which brought straggling commercial development around its one station in the neighborhood, at 86th Street, which became the heart of German Yorkville. The area was defined by the attractions of the bluff overlooking the East River, which ran without interruption from James William Beekman's "Mount Pleasant", north of the marshy squalor of Turtle Bay, to Gracie Mansion, north of which the land sloped steeply to the wetlands that separated this area from the suburban village of Harlem. Among the series of villas a Schermerhorn country house overlooked the river at the foot of present-day 73rd Street and another, Peter Schermerhorn's at 66th Street, and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street. By the mid-19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided, with the exception of the of Jones's Wood, stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road ( Third Avenue) to the river and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s, built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm's south-west corner, and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues. At that time, along the Boston Post Road taverns stood at the mile-markers, Five-Mile House at 72nd Street and Six-Mile House at 97th, a New Yorker recalled in 1893. The fashionable future of the narrow strip between Central Park and the railroad cut was established at the outset by the nature of its entrance, in the southwest corner, north of the Vanderbilt family's favored stretch of Fifth Avenue from 50th to 59th Streets. A row of handsome townhouses was built on speculation by Mary Mason Jones, who owned the entire block bounded by 57th and 58th Streets and Fifth and Madison. In 1870 she occupied the prominent corner house at 57th and Fifth, though not in the isolation described by her niece,
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, whose picture has been uncritically accepted as history, as Christopher Gray has pointed out.


Arrival of famous residents

Before the Park Avenue Tunnel was covered (finished in 1910), fashionable New Yorkers shunned the smoky railroad trench up Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue), to build stylish mansions and townhouses on the large lots along
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, facing Central Park, and on the adjacent side streets. The latest arrivals were the rich Pittsburghers Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. The classic phase of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue as a stretch of private mansions was not long-lasting: the first apartment house to replace a private mansion on upper Fifth Avenue was 907 Fifth Avenue (1916), at 72nd Street, the neighborhood's grand carriage entrance to Central Park. Most members of New York's upper-class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil-rich Rockefellers, political Roosevelts, political dynastic
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, thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys, and tobacco and
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fortuned Dukes.


Transportation constructed

Construction of the Third Avenue El, opened from 1878 in sections, followed by the Second Avenue El, opened in 1879, linked the Upper East Side's middle class and skilled artisans closely to the heart of the city, and confirmed the modest nature of the area to their east. The ghostly "Hamilton Square", which had appeared as one of the few genteel interruptions of the grid plan on city maps since the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, was intended to straddle what had now become the Harlem Railroad right-of-way between 66th and 69th Streets; it never materialized, though during the
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its unleveled ground was the scene of an open-air mass meeting called in July to agitate for the secession of the city and its neighboring counties from New York State, and the city divided its acreage into house lots and sold them. From the 1880s the neighborhood of Yorkville became a suburb of middle class Germans. Gracie Mansion, the last remaining suburban villa overlooking the East River at Carl Schurz Park, became the home of New York's mayor in 1942. The
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, designed by
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, was extended south from the first section, from 125th Street to 92nd Street, which was completed in 1934 as a boulevard, an arterial highway running at street level; reconstruction designs from 1948 to 1966 converted
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, as it was renamed after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, into the full limited-access parkway that is in use today. Demolishing the elevated railways on
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and
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Avenues opened these tenement-lined streets to the construction of high-rise apartment blocks starting in the 1950s. However, it had an adverse effect on transportation, because the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was now the only subway line in the area. The construction of the Second Avenue Subway was originally proposed in 1919. Finally, on January 1, 2017, the first phase of the line was completed with three new stations opened. This brought in new local business to the area and had positive impact on real estate prices in the Upper East Side.


Demographics

For census purposes, the New York City government classifies the Upper East Side as part of three neighborhood tabulation areas: Upper East Side- Carnegie Hill, Yorkville, and
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-
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, divided by Third Avenue and 77th Street. Based on data from the
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, the combined population of these areas was 219,920, an increase of 2,857 (1.3%) from the 217,063 counted in
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. Covering an area of , the neighborhoods had a population density of .Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.
The racial makeup of the neighborhoods was 79% (173,711) White, 3.2% (7,098) African American, 0.1% (126) Native American, 8.6% (18,847) Asian, 0% (98) Pacific Islander, 0.3% (609) from other races, and 1.8% (3,868) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 7.1% (15,563) of the population. While the White population is a dominating majority in all three census tabulation areas, it is more so in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill compared to Yorkville and Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, being close to 90% of the population.Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.
The racial composition of the Upper East Side changed moderately from 2000 to 2010. The most significant changes were the increase in the Asian population by 38% (5,145), the increase in the Hispanic/Latino population by 19% (2,537), and the decrease in the White population by 3% (5,644). The small Black population increased by 3% (191), while the even smaller population of all other races increased by 15% (628). Taking into account the three census tabulation areas, the decrease of the White population was concentrated Yorkville and Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill especially, while the increases of the other racial groups were evenly split across the three areas. The entirety of Manhattan Community District 8, which comprises the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island, had 225,914 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.9 years. This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (37%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 24% are between 45 and 64, and 20% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 14% and 5% respectively. As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 8 was $123,894, though the median income in the Upper East Side individually was $131,492. In 2018, an estimated 7% of Community District 8 residents lived in
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, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twenty-five residents (4%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 41% in Community District 8, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, , Community District 8 is not considered to be
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: according to the Community Health Profile, the district was not low-income in 1990.


Ethnic and socioeconomic trends

As of the 2000 census, twenty-one percent of the population was foreign born; of this, 45.6% came from Europe, 29.5% from Asia, 16.2% from Latin America and 8.7% from other areas. The female-male ratio was very high with 125 females for 100 males. The Upper East Side contains a large and affluent Jewish population estimated at 56,000. Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families. Given its very high population density and per capita income ($85,081 in 2000), the neighborhood contains the greatest concentration of individual wealth in Manhattan. As of 2011, the median household income for the Upper East Side was $131,492. The Upper East Side maintains the highest pricing per square foot in the United States. A 2002 report cited the average cost per square meter as $8,856; however, that price has noticed a substantial jump, increasing to almost as much as $11,200 per square meter as of 2006. There are some buildings which cost about $125 per square foot (~$1345/ m2). The only public housing projects for those of low to moderate incomes on the Upper East Side are located just south of the neighborhood's northern limit at 96th Street, the Holmes Towers and Isaacs Houses. It borders
East Harlem East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or and historically known as Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, F ...
, which has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States.


Politics

Politically, the Upper East Side is in New York's 12th congressional district, which has a
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of D+34 and is currently represented by Democrat Carolyn Maloney. It is in the
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's 27th, 28th, and 29th districts, the
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's 73rd and 76th districts, and the
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's
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and 5th districts. The Upper East Side is one of few areas of Manhattan where
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constitute more than 20% of the electorate. In the southwestern part of the neighborhood, Republican voters equal
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voters (the only such area in Manhattan), whereas in the rest of the neighborhood Republicans make up between 20 and 40% of registered voters. Nonetheless, it is still heavily Democratic; in the 2020 presidential election, every single precinct voted for Joe Biden and all but one gave him over 70% of the vote. The Upper East Side is notable as a significant location of political fundraising in the United States. Four of the top five ZIP Codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top ZIP Code, 10021, is on the Upper East Side and generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of both George W. Bush and John Kerry.


Landmarks and cultural institutions


Museums

The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue fronting Central Park has been dubbed " Museum Mile", running between 82nd and 105th Streets. It was once named "Millionaire's Row". The following are among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side: *
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*
Asia Society The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Man ...
*
Colony Club The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar ...
* Andrew Carnegie Mansion, which houses the
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* Henry Clay Frick House, which houses the
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* Frick Madison *
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*
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...
* Irish Georgian Society * Jewish Museum of New York * Manhattan House, the
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-designed mid-century modernist white brick building at 200 E 66th Street, once home to Grace Kelly and
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. Landmarked in 2007 * Metropolitan Museum of Art *
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* Museum of the City of New York * National Academy of Design * Neue Galerie * Park Avenue Armory * Society of Illustrators


Art galleries

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Acquavella Galleries Acquavella Galleries is an art gallery located at 18 East 79th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. History Acquavella Galleries was founded at 598 Madison Avenue in 1921 b ...
*
Kraushaar Galleries Kraushaar Galleries is an art gallery in New York City founded in 1885 by Charles W. Kraushaar, who had previously been with the European art gallery, William Schaus, Sr. The Gallery's first location on Broadway at 33rd Street where it showed ...
* Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery *
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* Anita Shapolsky Gallery


Hotels

* Carlyle Hotel * Courtyard by Marriott * Affinia Gardens NYC *
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* The Pierre *
The Lowell Hotel The Lowell Hotel is a luxury five-star hotel at 28 East 63rd Street, between Madison Avenue, Madison and Park Avenues, in New York City. The 17-story hotel was built in 1927 and is owned by Fouad Chartouni. This Upper East Side hotel is located ...
*
Plaza Athénée, New York The Hotel Plaza Athénée was a 5-star hotel at 37 East 64th Street between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, US. History Built in 1927 as the Hotel Alrae and designed by George F. Pelham, it was ...
* The Sherry-Netherland * Renaissance New York Hotel 57 * voco The Franklin New York IHG Hotels


Houses of worship

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Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, at 319–337 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side in New York City, New York, is a Neo-Byzantine-style Greek Orthodox church. It serves as the national cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese ...
, Greek Orthodox Church * Brick Presbyterian Church * Central Presbyterian Church * Church of the Epiphany,
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church * Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal church * Church of the Resurrection * Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Modern Orthodox synagogue *
Congregation Or Zarua Congregation Or Zarua is a Conservative synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1989 by under two dozen congregants and Rabbi Harlan J. Wechsler, it completed construction of its current building in 2002. Led by rab ...
, Conservative synagogue * Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Orthodox
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synagogue * Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Orthodox synagogue * First Hungarian Reformed Church of New York * Holy Trinity Episcopal Church * St. Ignatius Loyola, Catholic Church *
Jan Hus Presbyterian Church Jan Hus Presbyterian Church is a Christian congregation associated with the Presbyterian Church USA. It is the oldest Czech Presbyterian congregation in the US, having been founded in 1877, and the church building was opened in 1888. The church i ...
*
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses A Kingdom Hall is a place of worship used by Jehovah's Witnesses. The term was first suggested in 1935 by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, then president of the Watch Tower Society, for a building in Hawaii. Rutherford's reasoning was that these bu ...
(1499 1st Avenue at East 78th Street) * Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church * Our Lady of Good Counsel Church * Park Avenue Christian Church,
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church * Park Avenue Synagogue, Conservative Jewish synagogue * Park East Synagogue, Orthodox synagogue *
Redeemer Presbyterian Church Redeemer Presbyterian Church ( PCA), is a church located in New York City, founded in 1989 by Timothy J. Keller, who retired as pastor in July 2017. The family of Redeemer churches includes Redeemer Downtown (Sr. Pastor John Lin), Redeemer West Si ...
* St. Ann's Church, Catholic Church * St. James' Episcopal Church *
St. Jean Baptiste Church St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church, also known as the Église St-Jean-Baptiste, is a parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 76th Street in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of the ...
, Catholic Church at 76th & Lex * St. John the Martyr's Church, Catholic Church * St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church * Temple Emanu-El of New York, Reform synagogue * Temple Israel, Reform synagogue * Temple Shaaray Tefila, Reform synagogue * Third
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* Islamic Cultural Center of New York, mosque * Zion-St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church


Diplomatic missions

Many diplomatic missions are located in former mansions on the Upper East Side: * The Consulate-General of Austria in New York is located at 31 East 69th Street, between Park Avenue and
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. * The Consulate-General of France in New York is located at 934 Fifth Avenue between 74th Street and 75th Street. * The Consulate-General of Greece in New York is located at 69 East 79th Street, occupying the former
George L. Rives George Lockhart Rives (May 1, 1849 – August 18, 1917), was an American lawyer, politician, and author who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State from 1887 to 1889. Early life Rives was born in New York City on May 1, 1849, to Fra ...
residence. * The Consulate-General of Italy in New York is located at 690 Park Avenue. * The Consulate-General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. * The Consulate-General of Indonesia in New York is located at 5 East 68th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. * The Consulate-General of Lebanon in New York is located at 9 East 76th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. * The Consulate-General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street. * The Consulate-General of Russia in New York is located at the John Henry Hammond House at 9 East 91st Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. Other missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include: * Albania * Belarus * Bulgaria * Cameroon *
Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...
* Czech Republic * Iraq * Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) * Mali * Mongolia *
Myanmar (Burma) Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
* Poland * Serbia


Historic districts

There are several historic districts in the Upper East Side, the districts are: * The
Carnegie Hill Historic District Carnegie Hill is a neighborhood within the Upper East Side, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Its boundaries are 86th Street on the south, Fifth Avenue (Central Park) on the west, with a northern boundary at 98th Street that continue ...
, a city landmark district, which covers 400 buildings, primarily along Fifth Avenue from 86th to 98th Street, as well as on side streets extending east to Madison, Park, and Lexington Avenues. * The Metropolitan Museum Historic District, a city landmark district, which consists of properties on Fifth Avenue between 79th and 86th Streets, outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as properties on several side streets. * The
Upper East Side Historic District The Upper East Side Historic District is a landmarked historic district on the Upper East Side of New York City's borough of Manhattan, first designated by the city in 1981. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Its b ...
, a city and NRHP district. The city district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue, and up to Third Avenue at some points.


Police and crime

The Upper East Side is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 153 East 67th Street. The 19th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 84.5% between 1990 and 2019. The precinct reported 0 murders, 18 rapes, 171 robberies, 138 felony assaults, 223 burglaries, 1,658 grand larcenies, and 65 grand larcenies auto in 2019. , Manhattan Community District 8 has a non-fatal assault hospitalization rate of 15 per 100,000 people, compared to the boroughwide rate of 49 per 100,000 and the citywide rate of 59 per 100,000. Its incarceration rate is 71 per 100,000 people, the lowest in the city, compared to the boroughwide rate of 407 per 100,000 and the citywide rate of 425 per 100,000. Of the five major violent felonies (murder, rape, felony assault, robbery, and burglary), the 19th Precinct had a rate of 264 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2019, compared to the boroughwide average of 632 crimes per 100,000 and the citywide average of 572 crimes per 100,000. In 2019, the highest concentration of felony assaults in the Upper East Side was near the intersection of 93rd Street and First Avenue, where there were 10 felony assaults. The highest concentration of robberies, on the other hand, was near the intersection of 86th Street and
Lexington Avenue Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along it ...
, where there were 19 robberies.


Fire safety

The Upper East Side is served by multiple New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations: * Engine Company 39/Ladder Company 16 – 157 East 67th Street * Engine Company 44 – 221 East 75th Street * Engine Company 22/Ladder Company 13/Battalion 10 – 159 East 85th Street


Health

, preterm births and births to teenage mothers in the Upper East Side are lower than the city average. In the Upper East Side, there were 73 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 3.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide). The Upper East Side has a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 4%, less than the citywide rate of 12%, though this was based on a small sample size. The concentration of
fine particulate matter Particulates – also known as atmospheric aerosol particles, atmospheric particulate matter, particulate matter (PM) or suspended particulate matter (SPM) – are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air. The ter ...
, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in the Upper East Side is , more than the city average. Eight percent of Upper East Side residents are smokers, which is less than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers. In the Upper East Side, 11% of residents are obese, 4% are diabetic, and 15% have
high blood pressure Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressure usually does not cause symptoms. Long-term high bl ...
—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively. In addition, 6% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%. Ninety-four percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 89% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," more than the city's average of 78%. For every supermarket in the Upper East Side, there are 5 bodegas. Lenox Hill Hospital and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center are located in the Upper East Side. In addition, Mount Sinai Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital Center are located nearby in East Harlem.


Post offices and ZIP Codes

The Upper East Side is located in five primary ZIP Codes. From south to north, they are 10065 (south of 69th Street), 10021 (between 69th and 76th Streets), 10075 (between 76th and 80th Streets), 10028 (between 80th and 86th Streets), and 10128 (north of 86th Street). In addition, 500 East 77th Street in Yorkville has its own ZIP Code, 10162. If the ''AIA Guide's'' broader definition of the neighborhood (extending up to Fifth Avenue and 106th Streets) is considered, then the neighborhood has an additional ZIP Code of 10029, along Fifth Avenue between 96th and 105th Streets. The United States Postal Service operates four post offices in the Upper East Side: * Cherokee Station – 1483 York Avenue * Gracie Station – 229 East 85th Street * Lenox Hill Station – 221 East 70th Street * Yorkville Station – 1617 Third Avenue


Education

The Upper East Side generally has a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city . A majority of residents age 25 and older (83%) have a college education or higher, while 3% have less than a high school education and 14% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher. The percentage of the Upper East Side students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period. The Upper East Side's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In the Upper East Side, 8% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, less than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 91% of high school students in the Upper East Side graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.


Primary and secondary schools


Public schools

The New York City Department of Education operates public schools in the city. Public lower and middle schools *
PS 6 P.S. 6, The Lillie Devereaux Blake School, is a public elementary school located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1894, P.S. 6 is regarded as the top elementary school in New York City. Overview P.S. 6 has about 800 ...
– Lillie Devereux Blake School * PS 77 – The Lower Lab school * PS 158 – Bayard Taylor * PS 183 – Robert Louis Stevenson School * PS 267 – East Side Elementary * PS 290 – The New School of Manhattan * MS 114 – East Side Middle School * JHS 167 – Senator Robert F. Wagner Middle School Public high schools *
Talent Unlimited High School Talent Unlimited High School is a public high school of the performing arts located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. History The school started as a pilot program in January 1973. Students took academic courses at their home h ...
* Eleanor Roosevelt High School * Urban Academy Laboratory High School Other schools *
Hunter College High School Hunter College High School is a secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Hunter is publicly funded, and there i ...


Private schools

Coeducational schools * Birch Wathen Lenox School *
Caedmon School The Caedmon School is an independent, coeducational preschool and elementary school located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The school, which employs an "inspired" Montessori curriculum, was the first Montessori school esta ...
* Dalton School * Loyola School * Lycée Français de New York * La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi * Park East School * Rudolph Steiner School (see Waldorf education) *
The Town School The Town School is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational elementary school located at 540 East 76th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Founded in 1913, the school currently has approximately 400 students enrolled ...
* Trevor Day School * Ramaz School * Sephardic Academy of Manhattan * Islamic Cultural Center School Girls' schools * Brearley School * Cathedral High School *
Chapin School Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origin ...
* Convent of the Sacred Heart *
Dominican Academy Dominican Academy is an American Catholic college preparatory school for girls, located on the Upper East Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. It was founded by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now Domin ...
* Hewitt School * Manhattan High School for Girls * Marymount School * St. Vincent Ferrer High School * Nightingale-Bamford School * Spence School * St. Jean Baptiste High School Boys' schools *
Allen-Stevenson School Allen-Stevenson is a private boys school for kindergarten through 8th grade in New York City, New York. It opened in 1883 and moved to its present location at 132 East 78th Street in 1924. History The Allen School was founded in 1883 by Fran ...
*
The Browning School The Browning School is an independent school for boys in New York City. It was founded in 1888 by John A. Browning. It offers instruction in grades kindergarten through 12th grade. The school is a member of the New York Interschool consortium. ...
* The Buckley School * Regis High School *
St. Bernard's School St. Bernard's School, founded in 1904 by John Card Jenkins,www.stbernards.org
- the school's website
* St. David's School


Colleges and universities

*
Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...
* Marymount Manhattan College * Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai * New York Medical College * New York School of Interior Design * New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World * New York University Institute of Fine Arts *
Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. It is classif ...
* Weill Cornell Medical College * Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health


Libraries

The
New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...
(NYPL) operates four branches in the Upper East Side. * The 67th Street branch is located at 328 East 67th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1905 and was restored in the 1950s and in 2000. The two-story, structure resembles the Yorkville branch library in design. * The Yorkville branch is located at 222 East 79th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1902 and was renovated in 1986–1987. The three-story space is listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places. * The Webster branch is located at 1465 York Avenue. The branch was founded in 1893 as the Webster Free Library, and the current Carnegie library structure opened in 1906. * The 96th Street branch is located at 112 East 96th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1905 and was restored in 1991.


Transportation

The Upper East Side is served by two
subway Subway, Subways, The Subway, or The Subways may refer to: Transportation * Subway, a term for underground rapid transit rail systems * Subway (underpass), a type of walkway that passes underneath an obstacle * Subway (George Bush Interconti ...
lines, the four-track IRT Lexington Avenue Line () under
Lexington Avenue Lexington Avenue, often colloquially abbreviated as "Lex", is an avenue on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street to Gramercy Park at East 21st Street. Along it ...
and the two-track Second Avenue Subway () under Second Avenue. The Second Avenue Line serves to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line. The first phase of the line opened on January 1, 2017, consisting of three stations in the Upper East Side: 96th Street, 86th Street, and 72nd Street. The planned Second Avenue Line includes three additional phases to be built at a later date, which will extend the line north to 125th Street/Park Avenue in Harlem and south to Hanover Square in the Financial District. There are also local and limited MTA Regional Bus Operations routes going uptown and downtown, as well as the crosstown .


Media


News

The Upper East Side is served by several news organizations that focus on the neighborhood.
Our Town

Upper East Site
* Patch UES


In popular culture

The Upper East Side has been a setting for many films, television shows, and other media.


Films

* '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961) * '' Sunday in New York'' (1963) * '' The Boys in the Band'' (1970) * '' Live and Let Die'' (1973) * '' The Great Gatsby'' (1974) * '' The Prisoner of Second Avenue'' (1975) * ''
Kramer vs. Kramer ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' is a 1979 American legal drama film written and directed by Robert Benton, based on Avery Corman's 1977 novel of the same name. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry. It tells the stor ...
'' (1979) * '' Manhattan'' (1979) * '' The Muppets Take Manhattan'' (1984) * ''
Ghostbusters II ''GhostbustersII'' is a 1989 American Supernatural fiction, supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ramis, Rick Moranis ...
'' (1989) * '' Family Business'' (1989) * '' The Bonfire of the Vanities'' (1990) * ''
Metropolitan Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a typ ...
'' (1990) * '' Juice'' (1992) * '' Six Degrees of Separation'' (1993) * '' Manhattan Murder Mystery'' (1993) * '' Harriet the Spy'' (1996) * ''
Ransom Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or the sum of money involved in such a practice. When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French ''rançon'' from Latin ''red ...
'' (1996) * '' One Fine Day'' (1996) * '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997) * '' A Perfect Murder'' (1998) * '' Cruel Intentions'' (1999) * '' The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1999) * '' Eyes Wide Shut'' (1999) * '' Autumn in New York'' (2000) * ''
American Psycho ''American Psycho'' is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of ''The Observer'' notes that while "some countr ...
'' (2000) * '' Cruel Intentions 2'' (2001) * '' Tart'' (2001) * ''
25th Hour ''25th Hour'' is a 2002 American drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Edward Norton. Adapted by David Benioff from his own 2001 debut novel ''The 25th Hour'', it tells the story of a man's last 24 hours of freedom as he prepares to go t ...
'' (2002) * '' Uptown Girls'' (2003) * '' Igby Goes Down'' (2002) * '' Two Weeks Notice'' (2002) * ''
Eloise at the Plaza ''Eloise at the Plaza'' is a 2003 American made-for-television comedy film based on the Eloise series of children's books drawn and written by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight. It stars young Sofia Vassilieva as Eloise, an irrepressible six-year-ol ...
'' (2003) * '' The Nanny Diaries'' (2007) * '' The Devil Wears Prada'' (2007) * '' Sex and the City'' (2008) * '' Ghost Town'' (2008) * '' Made of Honor'' (2008) * '' The Wackness'' (2008) * '' The Women'' (2008) * '' Bride Wars'' (2009) * '' Confessions of a Shopaholic'' (2009) * '' The International'' (2009) * '' The Back-up Plan'' (2010) * '' Sex and the City 2'' (2010) * '' Twelve'' (2010) * ''
Remember Me Remember Me may refer to: Film and television Film * Remember Me (1979 film), ''Remember Me'' (1979 film), an American documentary short by Dick Young * Remember Me (1985 film), ''Remember Me'' (1985 film), an Australian TV movie * Remember Me? (f ...
'' (2010) * ''
Arbitrage In economics and finance, arbitrage (, ) is the practice of taking advantage of a difference in prices in two or more markets; striking a combination of matching deals to capitalise on the difference, the profit being the difference between the ...
'' (2012) * '' Blue Jasmine'' (2013) * '' The Goldfinch'' (2019) * '' The Scary of Sixty-First'' (2021)


Television shows

* ''
I Love Lucy ''I Love Lucy'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning six seasons. The show starred Lucille Ball, her husband, Desi Arnaz, along with ...
'' (1951–1957) * '' Family Affair'' (TV series) (1966–1971) * '' That Girl'' (TV series) (1966–1971) * '' The Odd Couple'' (1970–1975) * '' The Jeffersons'' (1975–1985) * '' Diff'rent Strokes'' (1978–1986) * '' The Nanny'' (1993–1999) * '' High Society'' (1995–1996) * '' Will & Grace'' (1998–2006) * '' Sex and the City'' (1998–2004) * '' Ugly Betty'' (2006–2010) * '' Dirty Sexy Money'' (2007–2008) * '' The City'' (2008–2010) * '' Yes! PreCure 5'' (2007–2008) * '' The Real Housewives of New York City'' (2008–present) * '' Gossip Girl'' (2007–2012) * '' Lipstick Jungle'' (2008–2009) * ''
NYC Prep ''NYC Prep'' is an American reality television series on Bravo. The series debuted on June 23, 2009. The series follows six Manhattan teenagers in their daily lives as they attended events such as weekend parties, fashion shows, shopping sprees ...
'' (2009–2010) * ''
White Collar White collar may refer to: * White-collar worker, a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales-coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor ...
'' (2009–2014) * ''
Ringer Ringer(s) may refer to: Sports and games * Ringer, in sports idiom, an impostor, especially one whose pretense is intended to gain an advantage in a competition * Road course ringer, a non-NASCAR driver hired to race at a road course * A game p ...
'' (2011–2012) * '' Kourtney and Kim Take New York'' (2011–2012) * '' Gallery Girls'' (2012) * ''
Odd Mom Out ''Odd Mom Out'' is an American sitcom that was created by and starring Jill Kargman. A 10-episode first season was ordered by the American cable television network Bravo. The series focuses on Jill Kargman playing a fictionalized version of he ...
'' (2015–2017), based on
Jill Kargman Jill Kargman is an American author, writer and actress, based in New York City's Upper East Side. A common theme in her works is critical examination of the lives of wealthy women in her city. Her 2007 ''Momzillas'' was adapted into the Bravo (U.S ...
's novel ''Momzillas'' * '' Billions'' (2016–present) * ''
Succession Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence. Governance and politics *Order of succession, in politics, the ascension to power by one ruler, official, or monarch after the death, resignation, or removal from office of ...
'' (2018–present) * '' The Undoing'' (2020) * '' And Just Like That'' (2021–present) * '' Gossip Girl'' (2021–present)


Books

* ''
American Psycho ''American Psycho'' is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of ''The Observer'' notes that while "some countr ...
'' by Bret Easton Ellis * ''Blue Bloods'' series by Melissa de la Cruz * ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' by Truman Capote * ''
Death Wish Death Wish or Deathwish may refer to: Common meanings *Suicidal ideation, term for thoughts about killing oneself *Death drive, term in Freudian psychiatry Arts and entertainment Radio *"Death Wish", a 1957 episode of the radio series ''X Minus ...
'' by
Brian Garfield Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (January 26, 1939 – December 29, 2018) was an Edgar Award-winning American novelist, historian and screenwriter. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, he wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen. Garfield went on ...
* '' Franny and Zooey'' by J. D. Salinger * ''Gossip Girl'' series by Cecily von Ziegesar * '' Harriet the Spy'' by Louise Fitzhugh * '' Heartburn'' by Nora Ephron * '' Lipstick Jungle'' by Candace Bushnell * ''Momzillas'' by
Jill Kargman Jill Kargman is an American author, writer and actress, based in New York City's Upper East Side. A common theme in her works is critical examination of the lives of wealthy women in her city. Her 2007 ''Momzillas'' was adapted into the Bravo (U.S ...
* '' My Year of Rest and Relaxation'' by Ottessa Moshfegh * ''Primates of Park Avenue'' by Wednesday Martin * '' Sex and the City'' by Candace Bushnell * '' Shopaholic Takes Manhattan'' by
Sophie Kinsella Madeleine Sophie Wickham, known by her pen name Sophie Kinsella, is an English author. The first two novels in her best-selling Shopaholic series, ''The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic'' and ''Shopaholic Abroad'', were adapted into the film ...
* '' The 25th Hour'' by David Benioff * ''The A-List'' series by Zoey Dean * '' The Bonfire of the Vanities'' by Tom Wolfe * '' The Catcher in the Rye'' by J. D. Salinger * ''The Devil Wears Prada'' by Lauren Weisberger * ''The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund'' by
Jill Kargman Jill Kargman is an American author, writer and actress, based in New York City's Upper East Side. A common theme in her works is critical examination of the lives of wealthy women in her city. Her 2007 ''Momzillas'' was adapted into the Bravo (U.S ...
* ''
The Luxe ''The Luxe'' is a 2007 young adult fiction, young adult novel by author Anna Godbersen. It follows the lives of two upper class sisters in Manhattan during 1899. There are four books in the Luxe series including ''Luxe'', Rumors: A Luxe Novel, ''Ru ...
'' by Anna Godbersen * ''The Manny'' by
Holly Peterson Holly Peterson (born 1964) is an American producer, journalist, and novelist. The daughter of Peter George Peterson, she was a contributing editor for ''Newsweek'' magazine, an editor-at-large for ''Talk'' magazine, and a producer for ABC News, ...
* '' The Nanny Diaries'' by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin * '' The Princess Diaries'' by Meg Cabot * ''Twelve'' by
Nick McDonell Robert Nicholas McDonell (born February 18, 1984) is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher. Personal life McDonell was born in 1984 in New York City and raised there. McDonell attende ...
* ''
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters ''Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction'' is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in ''The New Yorker'': ''Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters'' (1955) and ''Seym ...
'' by J. D. Salinger * ''Wolves In Chic Clothing'' by
Jill Kargman Jill Kargman is an American author, writer and actress, based in New York City's Upper East Side. A common theme in her works is critical examination of the lives of wealthy women in her city. Her 2007 ''Momzillas'' was adapted into the Bravo (U.S ...


Fictional places and characters

* The X-Men's fictional Hellfire Club mansion is said to be four blocks away from the Avengers Mansion, another fictional building at 70th Street and Fifth Avenue. Both locations would be in the Upper East Side if they were real. * ''Mad Men''s Don Draper owned an apartment in a fictional building at 73rd Street and Park Avenue. * Constance Billard School for Girls and St. Jude's School for Boys in '' Gossip Girl'' * The Duchesne School in the vampire novels '' Blue Bloods'' by Melissa de la Cruz * Percy Jackson, title character of Rick Riordan's '' Percy Jackson & the Olympians'' pentalogy * Sherman McCoy – The Bonfire of the Vanities * Samantha Delmonico and John Surling in Friends from College *
Jacqueline White (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) Jackie Lynn "Jacqueline" White (formerly Voorhees) is a fictional character on the Netflix original sitcom ''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt''. Portrayed by Jane Krakowski, she is a wealthy and insecure socialite. Krakowski was nominated for a Primeti ...


Notable people

The neighborhood has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful, and influential families and individuals.


Notable residential buildings

* 834 Fifth Avenue * 927 Fifth Avenue *
930 Fifth Avenue 930 Fifth Avenue is a luxury apartment building on Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of East 74th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The eighteen-story structure and penthouse was designed by noted architect Emery Roth ...
* 960 Fifth Avenue *
1040 Fifth Avenue 1040 Fifth Avenue (informally known as the 10 40) is a luxury residential housing cooperative in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Overview 1040 is one of the tallest of the limestone-clad apartment houses on Fifth Avenue. The pr ...
* 502 Park Avenue *
520 Park Avenue 520 Park Avenue is a skyscraper on East 60th Street near Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and completed in 2018. The building was funded through a US$450 million const ...
*
550 Park Avenue 550 Park Avenue is a luxury apartment building on Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Design 550 Park Avenue was designed by J.E.R. Carpenter. The 17-floor building was completed on December 11, 1917 and ...
* 740 Park Avenue *
778 Park Avenue 778 Park Avenue is a luxury residential building located in the Upper East Side Historic District on the north east corner of 73rd Street and Park Avenue. The 18-story English Renaissance apartment house, was designed by Rosario Candela who is w ...
*
225 East 86th Street 225 East 86th Street is a luxury condominium on 86th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue in the Yorkville neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is a 15-story building that was built in 1981 and converte ...
* 343 East 74th Street *
20 East End Avenue 20 East End Avenue is a condominium apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in a New Classical style by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The building consists of 43 apartments, including two duplex to ...
* Casa 74 * Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House *1342 Lexington Avenue, the former residence of Andy Warhol from 1960 to 1972.


See also

* East Side (Manhattan) * Upper West Side * Upper Manhattan * Yorkville, Manhattan * Carnegie Hill *
Lenox Hill Lenox Hill () is a neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side—east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s. A significant portion of the neighborhood lies within the Upper East Side Historic Dist ...


References

Informational notes Citations


External links


Wikipages: Upper East Side

Upper East Side Museums
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