The Manhattan Community Board 8 is a
New York City community board encompassing the
Upper East Side
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/Fifth Avenue to the wes ...
, including the
neighborhoods
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of
Lenox Hill,
Yorkville, and
Roosevelt Island in the borough of
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
. It is delimited by the
East River
The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Quee ...
on the east, 59th Street on the south,
Central Park
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on the west and 96th Street on the north.
Its current Chair is Russell Squire and its District Manager is Will Brightbill.
Demographics
As of 2000, the Community Board had a population of 217,063, up from 210,880 in 1990 and 204,305 in 1980. Of them (as of 2000), 179,355 (82.6%) were White non-Hispanic, 6,907 (3.2%) were
African-American
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, 13,778 (6.3%)
Asian
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* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
or Pacific Islander, 126 (0.1%) American Indian or Native Alaskan, 618 (0.3%) of some other race, 3,952 (1.5%) of two or more races, 3,253 (6.0%) of Hispanic origins. 4.8% of the population benefitted from public assistance as of 2009, up from 2.8% in 2000.
The land area is 1,267 acres, or .
References
External links
Community Board 8 - Official Website
Community boards of Manhattan
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