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  upper east side > nyc neighborhood profiles | manhattan apartments
The Upper East Side is home to some of the city's most exclusive shops, boutiques, and salons, located on upper Madison Avenue, and gourmet restaurants are tucked into its tree-lined side streets.
At East End Avenue and 86th Street is Carl Schurz Park, which overlooks the East River and houses Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City.
Upper Fifth Avenue from East 70th Street to East 104th Street is known as the Museum Mile, home to some of the most famous cultural institutions in the world.
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  Upper East Side - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River.
Until the Park Avenue railroad cut was covered (finished in 1910), the stylish part of the Upper East Side with mansions and townhouses lay on Fifth Avenue, bordering Central Park, while the area to the east was a blue-collar district that included stables and breweries.
Embedded within the Upper East Side are the neighborhoods of Yorkville, centered on 86th Street and Third Avenue, and Carnegie Hill, centered on 91st Street and Park Avenue.
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 Upper West Side - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Upper West Side is bounded on the south by 59th Street, Central Park to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.
From west to east, the avenues of the Upper West Side are Riverside Drive (12th Avenue), West End Avenue (11th Avenue), Amsterdam Avenue (10th Avenue), Columbus Avenue (9th Avenue), and Central Park West (8th Avenue).
In the early part of the 1900s, the Upper West Side area south of 67th St. was heavily populated by African-Americans and supposedly gained its nickname of "San Juan Hill" in commemoration of African-American soldiers who were a major part of the assault on Cuba's San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.
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 New York - Upper East Side | Footprint Guides
The opulent Upper East Side stretches between 59th Street and 96th Street and is dominated by the decidedly upper-crust reaches of Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, with pricey designer shops and fancy brasseries lining Madison Avenue in the 70s and up.
The Upper East Side is also home to its a fair share of rowdy bars and post-college crowds, perfect if you’re craving a bit of fraternity-style drinking after all that culture.
Upper West Siders are known for their elitist yet laidback attitude, which may have something to do with the fact that they have green space on both sides of them.
www.footprintguides.com /New-York/Upper-East-Side.php   (4036 words)

  
 Upper East Side Historic District Awards - February 10, 2006 - The New York Sun
Upper East Side Historic District Awards - February 10, 2006 - The New York Sun
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic District president Anne Millard welcomed guests on Wednesday to the 23rd annual meeting and awards ceremony at the New York School of Interior Design.
Dolkart said that 22 years ago he received a call from the president of the East 79th Street Neighborhood Association, Betty Cooper Wallerstein, asking him to research the buildings' historic importance because they were the object of proposed demolition.
www.nysun.com /article/27383   (579 words)

  
 New York (city)/Upper East Side - Wikitravel
The Upper East Side (UES) of Manhattan ranges from 59th Street to 96th Street and from 5th Avenue to the East River.
From the Upper West Side, a walk or bike ride to the Upper East Side through Central Park is very pleasant in good weather.
The stretch of Fifth Avenue alongside Central Park in the Upper East Side (between 82nd and 104th Streets) is commonly referred to as "Museum Mile", though museums and galleries are also to be found off this particular beaten track:
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 Upper East Side - New York City Neighborhood - UES - NYC
East of Lexington Avenue, young professionals and budding families live in prewar and postwar co-ops, condos, and mid-block townhouses, which run smaller than those on the Gold Coast.
This place is as Upper East Side as a jitney ride to Wainscott.
An extensive ad-based directory of resources for Upper East Side residents — from shopping to fitness to art.
nymag.com /realestate/articles/neighborhoods/uppereast.htm   (1373 words)

  
 Upper East Side Apartments for Sale - Elika - Upper East Side Real Estate Sales
Located on the Upper East, bordered by 57th Street on the south and 110th Street on the north; bounded by the East River and Fifth Avenue on the west.
Upper East Side is home to world-famous museums, exclusive schools and luxury boutiques, not to mention its proximity to the most well-known park in the world – Central Park.
The total number of households living in Upper East Side is an estimated 26,519 while the total number of family household is 9,173 with an average family size of 2.97.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River.
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.
Embedded within the Upper East Side are the neighborhoods of Yorkville, centered on 86th Street and Third Avenue, and Carnegie Hill, centered on 91st Street and Park Avenue and Lenox Hill centered on 69th Street and 1st Avenue.
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 Upper East Side
The Upper East Side includes the area east of 5th Avenue from 60th Street north to 86th Street.
The Upper East Side is a very residential area, with both co-ops, condos and rentals from walk ups to luxury buildings.
The most expensive part of the Upper East Side is from the 60s to the 90s from 5th Avenue to Park Avenue.
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 Upper East Side   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While other neighborhoods are affected by incursions of immigrant groups, artistic trends, and the like, this remains primarily an enclave of the well-off, with tony shops, clean and relatively safe streets, well-preserved buildings and landmarks.
($4, $3 for seniors; tel 212/570-4751), one block east of York at East End Avenue and 88th Street, was built in 1799 as a country manor house.
It is one of the best-preserved colonial buildings in the city, and has been the official residence of the mayor of New York City since 1942, though "mansion" is a bit overblown for what is really a rather cramped clapboard cottage.
www.paradisepath.com /upper_east_side.htm   (1952 words)

  
 Upper East Side One Bedroom Apartments
This Upper East Side apartment is located in a luxury hi-rise elevator doorman building on a very high floor.
East 81st Street and immediate neighborhood is colorful, bustling, and interesting.
The apartment is comfortable and attractive with high ceilings, overlooks the kitchen to the right of the doorway hidden by louver doors and across the hallway is a living room and a bedroom.
www.manhattanlodgings.com /ue/ue_1bed.shtml   (2062 words)

  
 Upper East Side, NYC: Neighborhood Profile -- NY Bits
The Upper East Side covers a large area - from 59th to 96th street, east of Fifth Avenue.
Upper East Side apartments are generally either gorgeous pre-war homes or doorman guarded apartment buildings.
The Upper East Side is somewhat sparse in terms of subways- the 4,5,6 runs up Lexington, There are also cross town busses.
www.nybits.com /manhattan/upper_east_side   (578 words)

  
 Upper East Side - Gawker
Upper East Side children's store Bonpoint held a children's fashion show for their reopening.
Upper East Side dealer Lawrence Salander and his gallery Salander O'Reilly are getting sued every which way but loose by angry clients and dealers and lenders, and so a State Supreme Court judge has shut the shit-blizzard down entirely.
Elena Glatt, a Manhattan lawyer, is suing Posy Florists on East 72nd Street for substituting pastel pink and green hydrangeas for the rust and green ones she'd requested for her 22 wedding reception centerpieces.
gawker.com /tag/upper-east-side   (2048 words)

  
 The Upper East Side Book: Introduction
The Upper East Side has been New York City's most prestigious residential district for almost all of the 20th Century, but that reputation is misleading.
Some of the Upper East Side's most charming houses, however, are not the marble and limestone townhouses, but plain old wooden houses such as the one, shown below, on 93d Street between Lexington and Park Avenues, which has a tall wooden tower at its rear that is visible from 92nd Street.
The "El," of course, was a great spur to the residential development of the area with non-luxury housing, a mix of tenements and utilitarian apartment houses that filled most of the rest of the Upper East Side, which is bounded by Fifth Avenue and the East River and 59th and 96th Streets.
www.thecityreview.com /uesintro.html   (2103 words)

  
 AHMADABAD ENG
On the south side of the road, Jama Masjid, his tomb and his empress's tomb were built next to each other on the axis to the west as the centre of the new town.
The entrance is on the south side and the stairs continue to the north.
By a historical inscription held at the upper part of the central mihrab in the mosque, it is understood that these buildings were built by Rani Sipari, the mother of Abu Bakr Khan, who was the child of Sultan Mahmud Begarah, in 920 AH (1514) under the reign of sultan Muzaftar the 2nd.
www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp /~islamarc/WebPage1/htm_eng/ahmadaba-eng.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Lifestyles of the Elite in Upper East Side
Christie's and Sotheby's are both in the Upper East Side, as are many custom boutiques who will devote their entire staff solely to the shopping pleasure of one client one day or hour at a time.
The Upper East Side is considered to run from 59th street to 96th street, between Central Park and the East River.
Two townhouses side by side on East 64th, numbers 20 and 22 are each worth $5 million according to the New York City Department of Finance.
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In contrast to the other side of Central Park, the Upper East of New York offers a lifestyle, represented by beauty and a historical background that dates back to the old money of families such as the Carnegies.
The Upper East Side is one of the cleanest, wealthiest and quietest areas of Manhattan.
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 Most drivers to be affected by Bloomberg's plan are from upper East Side, Queens - News - NY Daily News
The upper East Side commuters, including Arik Lifshitz, 26, drive to their jobs in Manhattan to avoid commuting by subway or bus.
And unlike the upper East Side, where several residents described their cars as more of a convenience than a necessity, many workers in the outer boroughs feel they have no choice but to drive.
The upper East Side outpaced them because it is so densely populated and because most of the residents there work in Manhattan, experts said.
www.nydailynews.com /news/2007/04/29/2007-04-29_meet_the_cloggers.html   (748 words)

  
 The Upper East Side Informer
Tucked away in a carriage house dating back to 1875 on the quiet block of East 63rd Street between Lexington and Park Avenues is the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators.
In this installment of the Upper East Side Informer, I wanted to focus on four places, two on the south end of the UES and two on the north end; Queensboro Oval, The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, Ruppert Park and Asphalt Green.
With one of the upper east side's premier pools, Asphalt Green also maintains a beautiful track and field area, where it runs its sports programs as well as its playground in front of its main building.
uppereastsideinformer.blogspot.com   (1104 words)

  
 Eating In Translation: Upper East Side
It's still "coming soon," and that same sign remains stuck to the window, but when I stopped by on Tuesday, the interior was reasonably well-furnished and free of construction debris, and several folks were chatting off to one side.
The wild mushrooms in my vol-au-vent ($12.50) sent forth a savory twang, though the pastry that cradled them was stiff; roasted lamb with rosemary ($26.50), was tenderly done, the chop more so than the leg; chocolate cake ($8) was light but satisfyingly sized.
Phil's schweinebraten ($21.95), roast pork with boiled potato and sauerkraut, was a little dry under all that sauce, but it made for a meal and a half.
www.eatingintranslation.com /upper_east_side/index.html   (2196 words)

  
 The New York Observer Real Estate: Upper East Side Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One of the Upper East Side's priciest townhouses, located at10 East 67th Street, is now under contract.
Tempers are flaring on the Upper East Side over plans to convert the Seventh Regiment Armory, which occupies the block between Lexington and Park avenues between 66th and 67th streets, into a cultural-arts center.
Apparently Jacqui Safra’s East 75th Street townhouse is once again on the market for $55 million (but with the added prestige of being this year’s Kips Bay designer showhouse).
therealestate.observer.com /upper_east_side   (5854 words)

  
 Eater: Manhattan: Upper East Side Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Right now the right side and left side are seperated by a wall, with the left side used to store the bread before it’s loaded onto the delivery trucks to make it’s way around the city.
East Village pan-Asian stalwart O.G. has a special call list for 20 or so folks obsessed with its lobster crepe special.
The rest of East 4th should take their head out of their a#* and be thankful someone is opening something with taste.
eater.curbed.com /archives/manhattan_uptown/manhattan_upper_east_side   (1680 words)

  
 The Affluent Of Manhattan (Gotham Gazette. June, 2003)
Twelve of those 15 tracts were on the Upper East Side, most bordering Fifth Avenue.
The Upper East Side zip code 10021 generated the most donations for the presidential campaigns of 2000 of any zip code for both Bush and for Gore.
Though the affluent are concentrated in the Upper East Side, they also dot many other neighborhoods throughout the city, especially newer neighborhoods in Manhattan (e.g.
www.gothamgazette.com /article/demographics/20030611/5/421   (1182 words)

  
 Upper East Side New York corporate housing Tempapts.com extended stay apartments furnished NYC NY
The gourmet kitchens are luxuriously appointed with European design cabinets, GE appliances, side by side refrigerator with through door water and ice service and pot-scrubber dishwashers.
Located in Manhattan's Silk Stocking district on the Upper East Side, Wellington Tower is conveniently located near dozens of restaurants, shops and grocery stores.
Carl Shurz park is a family park with playground, sandbox, sprinkler pool, basketball courts, hockey rink and a Promenade by the East River and Gracie Mansion.
www.tempapts.com /NewYork/upper_east.html   (236 words)

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