The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the

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. It is bounded approximately by 96th Street to the north, the

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to the east,

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to the south, and

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and

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to the west. The neighborhood area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including

Lenox Hill Lenox Hill () is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower (southern) section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s. A significant portion of the neighborhood lies withi ...

Carnegie Hill 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 contin ...

, and Yorkville. Once known as the Silk Stocking District,The City Review
Upper East Side, the Silk Stocking District it has long been the wealthiest 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

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Geography

Neighborhood boundaries in

are not officially set, but according to the ''

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'', the Upper East Side is bounded by

in the south, 96th Street on the north,

to the west, and the

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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, and

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s, 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 "

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", 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

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was designated as a city district in 1981 and listed on the

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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

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; 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

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, 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 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

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once a generation or so kept the dense canopy of

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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

, which ran without interruption from James William Beekman's "Mount Pleasant", north of the marshy squalor of Turtle Bay, to

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, north of which the land sloped steeply to the wetlands that separated this area from the suburban village of

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. 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 (

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) 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

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'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

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s on the large lots along

, facing Central Park, and on the adjacent side streets. The latest arrivals were the rich Pittsburghers

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and

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. The classic phase of

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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

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, political

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, political dynastic

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racing moneyed Whitneys, and

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and

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fortuned

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Transportation constructed

Construction of the

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, 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 unbuilt "Hamilton Square", which had appeared as one of the few genteel interruptions of the grid plan on

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s since the

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, 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.

, the last remaining suburban villa overlooking the East River at

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, became the home of New York's

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in 1942. The East River Drive, 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

and

Avenues opened these

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-lined streets to the construction of high-rise apartment blocks starting in the 1950s. Among these were Manhattan House at 200 East 66th Street, one of the first apartment buildings in New York City to use white glazed brick on its facade, as well as the Sutton Terrace development on Sutton Place. The demolition of the els had an adverse effect on transportation, because the

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was now the only subway line in the area. The

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of the

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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 on 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-

, Yorkville, and

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, divided by

and 77th Street. Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, 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 –

Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016. The racial makeup of the neighborhoods was 79% (173,711)

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, 3.2% (7,098)

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, 0.1% (126) Native American, 8.6% (18,847) Asian, 0% (98)

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, 0.3% (609) from other races, and 1.8% (3,868) from two or more races.

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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 –

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

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in Community District 8 was $123,894, though the median income on 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

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population estimated at 56,000. Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy

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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

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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

, which has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States.

Politics

Politically, the Upper East Side is in

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, which has a

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of D+34 and is currently represented by

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. 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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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

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. In the southwestern part of the neighborhood, Republican voters equal Democratic 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

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and

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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: *

92nd Street Y 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a cultural and community center located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Founded in 1874 as the You ...

Asia Society The Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle) and around the world (Hong Ko ...

* Colony Club *

Andrew Carnegie Mansion The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is a historic house and a museum building at 2 East 91st Street (Manhattan), 91st Street, along the east side of Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The three-and-a-half story, brick a ...

, which houses the

Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile. It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facil ...

Henry Clay Frick House The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by T ...

, which houses the

Frick Collection The Frick Collection (colloquially known as the Frick) is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection (museum) ...

Frick Madison 945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Built from 1964 to 1966 as the third home of the Whitney Museum of American Art, it subsequently held a branch of ...

* Goethe-Institut, New York *

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Street (Manhattan), 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent coll ...

Irish Georgian Society The Irish Georgian Society is an architectural heritage and preservation organisation which promotes and aims to encourage an interest in the conservation of distinguished examples of architecture and the allied arts of all periods across Ire ...

* Jewish Museum of New York *

El Museo del Barrio El Museo del Barrio, often known simply as El Museo (the museum), is a museum at 1230 Fifth Avenue in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the City ...

Museum of the City of New York The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, in 1923Beard, Rick. "Museum of the City of New York" in to preserve and present the history ...

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Frederick Styles Agate, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, an ...

* Neue Galerie *

Park Avenue Armory The Park Avenue Armory, also known as the 7th Regiment Armory, is a historic armory for the U.S. Army National Guard at 643 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. Designed in the Gothic Revival style ...

Society of Illustrators The Society of Illustrators (SoI) is a professional society based in New York City. It was founded in 1901 to promote the art of illustration and, since 1959, has held an annual exhibition. Since absorbing the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (M ...

Art galleries

Acquavella Galleries Acquavella Galleries is an art gallery located at 18 79th Street (Manhattan), East 79th Street between Madison Avenue (Manhattan), Madison and Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), Fifth Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. History ...

* Kraushaar Galleries * Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery *

Salon 94 Salon 94 is a New York-based contemporary art gallery owned by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn. History East 94th Street The gallery opened in 2003 in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on New York City’s Upper East Side as an integral part of Jeanne ...

Anita Shapolsky Gallery The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is an art gallery that was founded in 1982 by Anita Shapolsky. It is currently located at 152 East 65th Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in New York City. The gallery specializes in 1950s and 1960s abstract ...

Hotels (partial list)

Carlyle Hotel The Carlyle Hotel is a luxury apartment hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1930, the Art Deco hotel was designed by Sylvan Bien and Harry M. Prince, with interiors by Dorothy Draper. It was named after the S ...

* Affinia Gardens NYC * The Mark Hotel *

The Pierre The Pierre is a luxury hotel located at 2 61st Street (Manhattan), East 61st Street, at the intersection of that street with Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City, facing Central Park. Designed by Schultze and Weaver, Schultze & Weaver, th ...

* The Lowell Hotel * Plaza Athénée, New York * The Sherry-Netherland

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 of Manhattan in New York City, is a Neo-Byzantine-style Greek Orthodox church. It serves as the national cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Archd ...

Greek Orthodox Church Greek Orthodox Church (, , ) is a term that can refer to any one of three classes of Christian Churches, each associated in some way with Christianity in Greece, Greek Christianity, Antiochian Greek Christians, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christian ...

* Brick Presbyterian Church * Central Presbyterian Church * Christ Church United Methodist * Church of the Epiphany,

Episcopal Episcopal may refer to: *Of or relating to a bishop, an overseer in the Christian church *Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese *Episcopal Church (disambiguation), any church with "Episcopal" in its name ** Episcopal Church (United States ...

church *

Church of the Heavenly Rest The Church of the Heavenly Rest is an Episcopal church located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 90th Street, opposite Central Park and the Carnegie Mansion, on the Upper East Side of New York City. The church is noted for the architecture of ...

, Episcopal church * Church of the Resurrection *

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun (abbreviated as KJ or CKJ) is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue at 126 East 85th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was founded in 1872. The syna ...

Modern Orthodox Modern may refer to: History *Modern history ** Early Modern period ** Late Modern period *** 18th century *** 19th century *** 20th century ** Contemporary history * Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century Philosophy ...

synagogue * Congregation Or Zarua,

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civiliza ...

synagogue * Edmond J. Safra Synagogue,

Orthodox Orthodox, Orthodoxy, or Orthodoxism may refer to: Religion * Orthodoxy, adherence to accepted norms, more specifically adherence to creeds, especially within Christianity and Judaism, but also less commonly in non-Abrahamic religions like Neo-pag ...

Sephardic Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...

synagogue *

Fifth Avenue Synagogue The Fifth Avenue Synagogue (, officially Congregation Ateret Tsvi) is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 5 East 62nd Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Fo ...

, Orthodox synagogue * First Hungarian Reformed Church of New York * Holy Trinity Episcopal Church *

St. Ignatius Loyola Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the So ...

Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church Avenue Church NYC, formerly known as Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, is a Christian congregation on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, associated with the Presbyterian Church USA. It is the oldest historically Czech Republic, Czech ...

* Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (1499 1st Avenue at East 78th Street) *

Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (MAPC) is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is located at East 73rd Street and Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. History The congregation was organized in ...

* Our Lady of Good Counsel Church * Park Avenue Christian Church,

Disciples of Christ The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th ...

church *

Park Avenue Synagogue The Park Avenue Synagogue () is a Conservative Jewish congregation at 50 East 87th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York. Founded in 1882. History The congregation was founded in 1882 as the Reform congregatio ...

synagogue *

Park East Synagogue The Park East Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue for Congregation Zichron Ephraim at 163 East 67th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York (state), New York, United States. Built ...

, Orthodox synagogue * Redeemer Presbyterian Church * St. Ann's Church, Catholic Church * St. James' Episcopal Church * St. Jean Baptiste Church, Catholic Church at 76th & Lex * St. John the Martyr's Church, Catholic Church * St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church * Temple Emanu-El,

Reform Reform refers to the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The modern usage of the word emerged in the late 18th century and is believed to have originated from Christopher Wyvill's Association movement, which ...

synagogue * Temple Israel, Reform synagogue * Temple Shaaray Tefila, Reform synagogue * Third

Church of Christ, Scientist The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of '' Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,'' and founder of Christian Science. The church was founded "to commemorate the word and ...

Islamic Cultural Center of New York The Islamic Cultural Center of New York is a mosque and an Islamic cultural center in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, United States. It is located at 1711 Third Avenue, between East 96th and 97th Streets. The Islamic Cultural Center was ...

, mosque *

Unitarian Church of All Souls The Unitarian Church of All Souls at 1157 Lexington Avenue at 80th Street (Manhattan), East 80th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1932 and was designed by Hobart Upjohn – Richard Upjohn's grandson &n ...

* 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 Park Avenue is a boulevard in New York City that carries north and southbound traffic in the borough (New York City), boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the wes ...

and

Madison Avenue Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Stree ...

. * 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 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 on the Upper East Side include: *

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Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

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Historic districts

There are several historic districts on the Upper East Side, the districts are: * The Carnegie Hill Historic District, 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

, 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 The City of New York Police Department, also referred to as New York City Police Department (NYPD), is the primary law enforcement agency within New York City. Established on May 23, 1845, the NYPD is the largest, and one of the oldest, munic ...

, 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 82.2% between 1990 and 2022. The precinct reported 2 murders, 12 rapes, 229 robberies, 173 felony assaults, 278 burglaries, 1,724 grand larcenies, and 192 grand larcenies auto in 2022. , 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 on 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 (Manhattan), East Side of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue carries southbound one-way traffic from East 131st Street (Manhattan), 131st Street to Gra ...

, where there were 19 robberies.

Fire safety

The Upper East Side is served by multiple

New York City Fire Department The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) is the full-service fire department of New York City, serving all Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs. The FDNY is responsible for providing Fi ...

(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 birth Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the Childbirth, birth of a baby at fewer than 37 weeks Gestational age (obstetrics), gestational age, as opposed to full-term delivery at approximately 40 weeks. Extreme preterm is less than 28 ...

s and births to teenage mothers on the Upper East Side are lower than the city average. On 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 Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...

. 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, the deadliest type of

air pollutant Air pollution is the presence of substances in the air that are harmful to humans, other living beings or the environment. Pollutants can be gases like ozone or nitrogen oxides or small particles like soot and dust. It affects both outdoor ...

, on 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. On the Upper East Side, 11% of residents are

obese Obesity is a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease, in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health. People are classified as obese when ...

, 4% are

diabetic Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or the cells of th ...

, and 15% have

high blood pressure Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, 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 itself. It is, however, a major ri ...

—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 on the Upper East Side, there are 5 bodegas.

Lenox Hill Hospital Lenox Hill Hospital (LHH) is a nationally ranked 450 bed non-profit, Tertiary care, tertiary, research and academic medical center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, servicing the tri-state area. LHH is one of the reg ...

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospit ...

, and

Weill Cornell Medical Center Weill Cornell Medical Center (; previously known as New York Hospital, Old New York Hospital, and City Hospital) is a research hospital in New York City. It is the teaching hospital for Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medicine, medical school ...

are located on the Upper East Side. In addition, Mount Sinai Hospital and

Metropolitan Hospital Center The Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC, also referred to as Metropolitan Hospital) is a hospital in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It has been affiliated with New York Medical College since it was founded in 1875, representing ...

are located nearby in

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 The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the executive branch of the federal governmen ...

operates four post offices on 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. On the Upper East Side, 8% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per

school year An academic year, or school year, is a period that schools, colleges and universities use to measure the duration of studies for a given educational level. Academic years are often divided into academic terms. Students attend classes and do rel ...

, less than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 91% of high school students on 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 The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (more commonly known as New York City Publ ...

operates public schools in the city. Public lower and middle schools * PS 6 – Lillie Devereux Blake School * PS 77 – The Lower Lab school *

PS 158 P.S. 158 (Public School #158), named the Bayard Taylor School, is a public elementary school in New York City. The school is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It first opened in the mid-1890s. The school building occupies the entire ...

– 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 * Eleanor Roosevelt High School * Urban Academy Laboratory High School Other schools *

Hunter College High School Hunter College High School is a public academic magnet secondary school located in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered and funded by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) and no t ...

Private schools

Coeducational schools * Birch Wathen Lenox School * Caedmon School *

Dalton School The Dalton School, originally the Children's University School, is a private, coeducational college preparatory school in New York City and a member of both the Ivy Preparatory School League and the New York Interschool. The school is located in ...

* Loyola School *

Lycée Français de New York The Lycée français de New York (LFNY), commonly called the Lycée (in English, "The French High School of New York"), is an independent bilingual French school based in Manhattan, New York City. The school serves students from Nursery-3 to gr ...

* La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi * Park East School * Rudolf Steiner School (see

Waldorf education Waldorf education, also known as Steiner education, is based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. Its educational style is holistic, intended to develop pupils' intellectual, artistic, and practical sk ...

) * The Town School *

Trevor Day School Trevor Day School is an independent day school in New York City in the borough of Manhattan. History It was founded in 1930 as The Day School for the Church of the Heavenly Rest, an Episcopal church located on Fifth Avenue at 90th street. I ...

Ramaz School The Ramaz School is an American coeducational Jewish Modern Orthodox day school which offers a dual curriculum of general studies taught in English and Judaic studies taught in Hebrew. The school is located on the Upper East Side of Manhatta ...

* Sephardic Academy of Manhattan * Islamic Cultural Center School Girls' schools *

Brearley School The Brearley School is an American all-girls private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It educates approximately 770 girls in grades K–12, with approximately 50 to 65 students per grade. In addition to being a member ...

* Cathedral High School *

Chapin School Chapin School is an single-sex education, all-girls independent day school on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood in New York City. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" ...

* 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. It was founded by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (now Dominican Sisters ...

Hewitt School The Hewitt School is a K-12 independent girls' school located on New York City's Upper East Side. The school teaches girls to become ethical leaders. The school serves girls in three divisions: Lower School (K-4), Middle School (5-8), and Upper S ...

* Manhattan High School for Girls * Marymount School * St. Vincent Ferrer High School *

Nightingale-Bamford School The Nightingale-Bamford School is an independent all-female university-preparatory school founded in 1920 by Frances Nicolau Nightingale and Maya Stevens Bamford. Located in Manhattan on the Upper East Side, Nightingale-Bamford is a member ...

Spence School The Spence School is an American all-girls private school in New York City, founded in 1892 by Clara B. Spence. Spence has about 740 students, with grades K-4 representing the Lower School, 5-8 representing the Middle School, and 9-12 represe ...

St. Jean Baptiste High School St. Jean Baptiste High School is an American all-female, private, Roman Catholic high school, located on the Upper East Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous cit ...

Boys' schools *

Allen-Stevenson School The Allen-Stevenson School is a private boys school for kindergarten through 8th grade in New York City. It opened in 1883 and has been as its present location since 1924. History The Allen School was founded in 1883 by Francis Bellows Allen ...

* The Browning School * The Buckley School * Regis High School * St. Bernard's School * St. David's School

Colleges and universities

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. 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 ...

Marymount Manhattan College Marymount Manhattan College is a private college on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As of 2020, enrollment consisted of 1,571 undergraduate students with women making up 80.1% and men 19.9% of student enrollment. Columbia University Masters ...

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sina ...

New York Medical College New York Medical College (NYMC or New York Med) is a Private university, private medical school in Valhalla, New York. Founded in 1860, it is a member of the Touro University System. NYMC offers advanced degrees through its three schools: the ...

New York School of Interior Design New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) is a private college focused exclusively on interior design and located in New York City. The college offers certificate, three undergraduate, and four master's degree programs. Founded in 1916, it is l ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education at New York University. ISAW's mission is to cultivate comparative, connective investigations of the ancient world from t ...

New York University Institute of Fine Arts New or NEW may refer to: Music * New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz * ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013 ** "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013 * ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995 * "New" (Daya song), 2017 * "New" (No Doubt song), 1 ...

Rockefeller University The Rockefeller University is a Private university, private Medical research, biomedical Research university, research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and pro ...

Weill Cornell Medical College Weill Cornell Medicine (; officially Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University), originally Cornell University Medical College, is the medical school of Cornell University, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in Ne ...

* Zucker School of Medicine

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 a ...

(NYPL) operates four branches on 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 The New York State Register of Historic Places (NYSRHP) is a listing of "properties significant in history, architecture, engineering, landscape design, archeology, and culture" in the U.S. state of New York. The register was created by the New ...

and the

. * 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 lines, the four-track

() under

and the two-track

() 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 on 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

and south to Hanover Square in the

Financial District A financial district is usually a central area in a city where financial services firms such as banks, insurance companies, and other related finance corporations have their headquarters offices. In major cities, financial districts often host ...

. There are also local and limited

MTA Regional Bus Operations MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the Public transport bus service, bus operations division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City. The MTA operates local, limited-stop, express, and Select Bus Service (bus rapid transit ...

routes going uptown and downtown, as well as the crosstown . The Upper East Side is served by

NYC Ferry NYC Ferry is a public network of ferry routes in New York City operated by Hornblower Cruises. , there are six routes, as well as one seasonal route, connecting 25 ferry piers across all five boroughs. NYC Ferry has the largest passenger fleet ...

at the East 90th Street landing; the Soundview Ferry has operated at the stop since August 2018 and the Astoria Ferry began serving the landing in August 2000.

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

* ''

The Lost Weekend ''The Lost Weekend'' is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Aw ...

'' (1945) * '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961) * ''Sunday in New York (film), Sunday in New York'' (1963) * ''The Boys in the Band (1970 film), The Boys in the Band'' (1970) * ''Live and Let Die (film), Live and Let Die'' (1973) * ''The Great Gatsby (1974 film), The Great Gatsby'' (1974) * ''The Prisoner of Second Avenue'' (1975) * ''Kramer vs. Kramer'' (1979) * ''Manhattan (1979 film), Manhattan'' (1979) * ''The Muppets Take Manhattan'' (1984) * ''Ghostbusters II'' (1989) * ''Family Business (1989 film), Family Business'' (1989) * ''The Bonfire of the Vanities (film), The Bonfire of the Vanities'' (1990) * ''Metropolitan (1990 film), Metropolitan'' (1990) * ''Juice (1992 film), Juice'' (1992) * ''Six Degrees of Separation (film), Six Degrees of Separation'' (1993) * ''Manhattan Murder Mystery'' (1993) * ''Harriet the Spy (film), Harriet the Spy'' (1996) * ''Ransom (1996 film), Ransom'' (1996) * ''One Fine Day (1996 film), One Fine Day'' (1996) * ''The Devil's Advocate (1997 film), The Devil's Advocate'' (1997) * ''A Perfect Murder'' (1998) * ''Cruel Intentions'' (1999) * ''The Thomas Crown Affair (1999 film), The Thomas Crown Affair'' (1999) * ''Eyes Wide Shut'' (1999) * ''Autumn in New York (film), Autumn in New York'' (2000) * ''American Psycho (film), American Psycho'' (2000) * ''Cruel Intentions 2'' (2001) * ''Tart (film), Tart'' (2001) * ''25th Hour'' (2002) * ''Uptown Girls'' (2003) * ''Igby Goes Down'' (2002) * ''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002) * ''Eloise at the Plaza'' (2003) * ''The Nanny Diaries (film), The Nanny Diaries'' (2007) * ''The Devil Wears Prada (film), The Devil Wears Prada'' (2007) * ''Sex and the City (film), Sex and the City'' (2008) * ''Ghost Town (2008 film), Ghost Town'' (2008) * ''Made of Honor'' (2008) * ''The Wackness'' (2008) * ''The Women (2008 film), The Women'' (2008) * ''Bride Wars'' (2009) * ''Confessions of a Shopaholic (film), Confessions of a Shopaholic'' (2009) * ''The International (2009 film), The International'' (2009) * ''The Back-up Plan'' (2010) * ''Sex and the City 2'' (2010) * ''Twelve (2010 film), Twelve'' (2010) * ''Remember Me (2010 film), Remember Me'' (2010) * ''Arbitrage (film), Arbitrage'' (2012) * ''Blue Jasmine'' (2013) * ''The Goldfinch (film), The Goldfinch'' (2019) * ''The Scary of Sixty-First'' (2021)

Television shows

* ''I Love Lucy'' (1951–1957) * ''Family Affair'' (TV series) (1966–1971) * ''That Girl'' (TV series) (1966–1971) * ''The Odd Couple (1970 TV series), The Odd Couple'' (1970–1975) * ''The Jeffersons'' (1975–1985) * ''Diff'rent Strokes'' (1978–1986) * ''The Nanny'' (1993–1999) * ''High Society (1995 TV series), 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 (MTV series), The City'' (2008–2010) * ''Yes! PreCure 5'' (2007–2008) * ''The Real Housewives of New York City'' (2008–present) * ''Gossip Girl'' (2007–2012) * ''Lipstick Jungle (TV series), Lipstick Jungle'' (2008–2009) * ''NYC Prep'' (2009–2010) * ''White Collar (TV series), White Collar'' (2009–2014) * ''Ringer (TV series), Ringer'' (2011–2012) * ''Kourtney and Kim Take New York'' (2011–2012) * ''Gallery Girls'' (2012) * ''Odd Mom Out'' (2015–2017), based on Jill Kargman's novel ''Momzillas'' * ''Billions (TV series), Billions'' (2016–present) * ''Succession (TV series), Succession'' (2018–2023) * ''The Undoing (miniseries), The Undoing'' (2020) * ''And Just Like That'' (2021–present) * ''Gossip Girl (2021 TV series), Gossip Girl'' (2021–2022)

Books

* ''American Psycho'' by Bret Easton Ellis * Blue Bloods (novel series), ''Blue Bloods'' series by Melissa de la Cruz * Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella), ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' by Truman Capote * ''Death Wish (novel), Death Wish'' by Brian Garfield * ''Franny and Zooey'' by J. D. Salinger * Gossip Girl (novel series), ''Gossip Girl'' series by Cecily von Ziegesar * ''Harriet the Spy'' by Louise Fitzhugh * ''Heartburn (novel), Heartburn'' by Nora Ephron * ''Lipstick Jungle (novel), Lipstick Jungle'' by Candace Bushnell * ''Momzillas'' by Jill Kargman * ''My Year of Rest and Relaxation'' by Ottessa Moshfegh * ''Primates of Park Avenue'' by Wednesday Martin * ''Sex and the City'' by Candace Bushnell * ''Shopaholic Abroad, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan'' by Sophie Kinsella * ''The 25th Hour'' by David Benioff * The A-List (novel series), ''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 (novel), ''The Devil Wears Prada'' by Lauren Weisberger * ''The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund'' by Jill Kargman * ''The Luxe'' by Anna Godbersen * ''The Manny'' by Holly Peterson * ''The Nanny Diaries'' by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin * ''The Princess Diaries'' by Meg Cabot * Twelve (novel), ''Twelve'' by Nick McDonell * ''Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters'' by J. D. Salinger * ''Wolves In Chic Clothing'' by Jill Kargman

Fictional places and characters

* The X-Men's fictional Hellfire Club (comics), Hellfire Club mansion is said to be four blocks away from the Avengers Mansion, another fictional building at 70th Street and Fifth Avenue * Mad Men, ''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 (novel series), Gossip Girl'' * The Duchesne School in the vampire novels ''Blue Bloods (novel series), 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)

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 *960 Fifth Avenue *1040 Fifth Avenue *502 Park Avenue *520 Park Avenue *550 Park Avenue *740 Park Avenue *778 Park Avenue *225 East 86th Street *The Forum at 343 East 74th Street, 343 East 74th Street *20 East End Avenue *Casa 74 *Raymond C. and Mildred Kramer House *1342 Lexington Avenue, the former residence of Andy Warhol from 1960 to 1972.

References

Informational notes Citations

External links

Wikipages: Upper East Side

Upper East Side Museums
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Geography

Historic districts

History

Development

Arrival of famous residents

Transportation constructed

Demographics

Ethnic and socioeconomic trends

Politics

Landmarks and cultural institutions

Museums

Art galleries

Hotels (partial list)

Houses of worship

Diplomatic missions

Historic districts

Police and crime

Fire safety

Health

Post offices and ZIP Codes

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

Private schools

Colleges and universities

Libraries

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Media

News

In popular culture

Films

Television shows

Books

Fictional places and characters

Notable people

Notable residential buildings

See also

References

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