Upper East Side#Museums

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, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East River to the east.Gronowicz, Anthony. "Upper East Side" in {{cite enc-nyc2|page=1352}} The AIA Guide to New York City extends the northern boundary to 106th Street near Fifth Avenue.{{cite aia5|page=416}}

The area's north-south avenues are Fifth, Madison, Park, Lexington, Third, Second, 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", 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/31/realestate/is-the-upper-east-side-moving-north.html?pagewanted=1 |title=Is the Upper East Side Moving North? |work=The New York Times |date=January 31, 1988 |access-date=May 12, 2011 |first=Anthony |last=Depalma |archive-date=January 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121062421/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/31/realestate/is-the-upper-east-side-moving-north.html?pagewanted=1 |url-status=live }}

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The Upper East Side Historic District was designated as a city district in 1981 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/UpperEastSide_Vol1.pdf Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report, Vol. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225174746/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/UpperEastSide_Vol1.pdf |date=February 25, 2017 }}, May 19, 1981, Landmarks Preservation Commission The city district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue, and up to Third Avenue at some points.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1051.pdf|title=Upper East Side Historic District|date=May 19, 1981|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921134220/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1051.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|3}} 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.{{Cite journal|url =http://www.citi-habitats.com/media/guides/upper_east_side.pdf|title =The Upper East Side|date =2007|journal =Citi Habitats|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120917041214/http://www.citi-habitats.com/media/guides/upper_east_side.pdf|archive-date =September 17, 2012|df =mdy-all}} The city district was slightly expanded in 2010 with 74 additional buildings.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2373.pdf|title=Upper East Side Historic District Extension|date=March 23, 2010|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921133759/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2373.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|4}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0955.pdf|title=Metropolitan Museum Historic District|date=September 20, 1977|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921131109/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0955.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|2}}

The Park Avenue Historic District was designated a city district in 2014. It encompasses 64 properties on Park Avenue between 79th and 91st Streets.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2547.pdf|title=Park Avenue Historic District|date=April 29, 2014|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-14|archive-date=August 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824220010/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2547.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|4}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1834.pdf|title=Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District|date=December 21, 1993|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921130753/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1834.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|3}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0454.pdf|title=Henderson Place Historic District|date=February 11, 1969|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=October 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017125644/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0454.pdf|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0536.pdf|title=Treadwell Farm Historic District|date=December 13, 1967|publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|access-date=2019-12-06|archive-date=October 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017122122/https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0536.pdf|url-status=live}}

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Before the arrival of Europeans, the mouths of streamsNoted at East 53rd, 62nd, 74th Streets (the Saw Kill, dammed to form the Lake in Central Park) and 80th Street (Eric W. Sanderson, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, 2009, p. 261 "Lenape sites and place-names"). that eroded gullies in the East River bluffs are conjectured to have been the sites of fishing camps used by the Lenape, whose controlled burns once a generation or so kept the dense canopy of oak–hickory forest open at ground level.A reconstructed map of the patchwork ecologies of Manhattan island before Europeanization is presented in Sanderson 2009; map p. 139.

In the 19th century{{Efn|The history of the Upper East Side, in the broader citywide context, is repeatedly noted in {{Cite gotham}}}} the farmland and market garden district of what was to be the Upper East Side was still traversed by the Boston Post Road and, from 1837, the New York and Harlem Railroad, 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.The original ecology of Manhattan Island and its evolution is now thoroughly explored in Eric W. Sanderson, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (New York: Abrams, 2009), based in part on a British army map detailing the island's natural terrain at the time of the American Revolution. 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,In 1818, with a purchase to the south, Peter Schermerhorn enlarged the property given him by his father-in-law, John Jones ("History of the Schermerhorn family", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,, 36 (July 1905:204)), now the site of Rockefeller University ([http://www.rockefeller.edu/about/history/ Rockefeller University: history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516025947/http://www.rockefeller.edu/about/history/ |date=May 16, 2011 }}). and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street.{{cite web |url=http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/new-york-history-20.shtml |title="Early New York History: Old Days In Yorkville And Harlem", 1893 |publisher=Oldandsold.com |access-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-date=June 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619041706/http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/new-york-history-20.shtml |url-status=live }} By the mid-19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided, with the exception of the {{convert|150|acre|ha}} of Jones's Wood, stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road (Third Avenue) to the river{{refn|Jones's Wood, owned by the Joneses and their Schermerhorn cousins and operated as a popular beer-garden resort, was briefly touted as a possible location for a public park before Central Park was established{{cite Central Park history|pages=20–21, map p. 38, et passim}}.}} and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s,[https://www.nytimes.com/1918/12/15/archives/realty-romance-in-old-lenox-farm-fifth-avenue-land-sold-by-city-in.html "Realty Romance in Old Lenox Farm"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726103756/https://www.nytimes.com/1918/12/15/archives/realty-romance-in-old-lenox-farm-fifth-avenue-land-sold-by-city-in.html |date=July 26, 2018 }}. The New York Times. December 15, 1918. The occasion was the auction of the auction sale an 1874 map of the section of Robert Lenox's farm, bought in 1818 that lay between 71st and 74th Streets, from Fifth Avenue to the railroad right-of-way that became Park Avenue. built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm's south-west corner,When the library was consolidated with Astor and Tilden trusts to form the New York Public Library, a unique block-long stretch of Fifth Avenue frontage was liberated for the latecomer Henry Clay Frick to build his grand residence, now the Frick Collection. and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues.[https://www.nytimes.com/1892/07/03/archives/founded-by-james-lenox-this-chief-features-of-the-presbyterian.html "Founded by James Lenox, the chief features of the Presbyterian hospital..."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726134911/https://www.nytimes.com/1892/07/03/archives/founded-by-james-lenox-this-chief-features-of-the-presbyterian.html |date=July 26, 2018 }}. The New York Times. July 3, 1892. 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.Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd, Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt (New York, 1989). 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, Edith Wharton, whose picture has been uncritically accepted as history, as Christopher Gray has pointed out:Gray, Christopher. [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/realestate/streetscapes-edith-wharton-in-the-age-of-innocence-fiction-was-not-truth.html "Streetscapes: Edith Wharton; In The Age of Innocence, Fiction Was Not Truth"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709115809/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/27/realestate/streetscapes-edith-wharton-in-the-age-of-innocence-fiction-was-not-truth.html |date=July 9, 2017 }}, The New York Times, August 27, 1995. Accessed September 3, 2017.

{{blockquote|It was her habit to sit in a window of her sitting room on the ground floor, as if watching calmly for life and fashion to flow northward to her solitary door... She was sure that presently the quarries, the wooden greenhouses in ragged gardens, the rocks from which goats surveyed the scene, would vanish before the advance of residences as stately as her own.Wharton, The Age of Innocence|Edith Wharton}}

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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 Fifth Avenue, 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif907.htm |title=The Upper East Side Book: 907 Fifth Avenue |publisher=Thecityreview.com |date=July 31, 2010 |access-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922014020/https://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif907.htm |url-status=live }}

Most members of New York's upper-class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil-rich Rockefellers,{{cite web |url=http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif834.htm |title=The Upper East Side Book: Fifth Avenue: 834 Fifth Avenue |publisher=Thecityreview.com |access-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526194733/http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif834.htm |archive-date=May 26, 2011 |url-status=dead }} political Roosevelts, political dynastic Kennedys,{{cite web |url=http://www.closmimi.com/carlylehotel.php |title=Clos Mimi |publisher=Clos Mimi |date=March 22, 2007 |access-date=May 12, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426184633/http://www.closmimi.com/carlylehotel.php |archive-date=April 26, 2011 }} thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys,{{cite web |url=http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif1125.htm |title=The Upper East Side Book: Fifth Avenue: 1125 Fifth Avenue |publisher=Thecityreview.com |access-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-date=May 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526195833/http://www.thecityreview.com/ues/fifave/fif1125.htm |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/26/106708633.pdf |title=Natives of New York Still Own Upper Fifth Avenue – In Spite of the Influx of Outsiders, Knickerbocker Families Easily Remain In the Ascendant. The Majority, Who Are Not Knickerbockers, Hail from New England and the Eastern States | work = The New York Times |date=May 26, 1907 |access-date=May 12, 2011}} and tobacco and electric power fortuned Dukes.{{cite web|url=http://www.divasthesite.com/Society_Divas/doris_duke_a.htm |title=at |publisher=Divasthesite.com |access-date=May 12, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728092720/http://www.divasthesite.com/Society_Divas/doris_duke_a.htm |archive-date=July 28, 2010 }}

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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 unbuilt "Hamilton Square",{{Cite web |date=2015-08-18 |title=The Past Life of CUNY's Hunter College: The Lost Hamilton Square in NYC |url=https://untappedcities.com/2015/08/18/the-past-life-of-cunys-hunter-college-the-lost-hamilton-square-in-nyc/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Untapped New York |language=en-US |archive-date=August 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813101753/https://untappedcities.com/2015/08/18/the-past-life-of-cunys-hunter-college-the-lost-hamilton-square-in-nyc/ |url-status=live }} 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 Panic of 1857 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.Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898, 1999, pp. 421, 840, 849. From the 1880s the neighborhood of Yorkville became a suburb of middle class Germans.{{Cite book | author = Croton-On-Hudson Historical Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1OcxFn5xB0C|title=Images of America Series | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2001 | pages = 41, 128 | isbn = 0738505439}}

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.Barron, james; and Roberts, Sam. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/new-york-mayors-mansion-seeks-a-missing-item-the-mayor.html "New York Mayor's Mansion Seeks a Missing Item (the Mayor)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904112324/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/new-york-mayors-mansion-seeks-a-missing-item-the-mayor.html |date=September 4, 2017 }}, The New York Times, November 2, 2013. Accessed September 3, 2017. "Gracie Mansion, home to the mayors of New York since movers delivered the La Guardias' own furniture in 1942, was never quite right for the billionaire mayor, who shunned it even as he shined it up, donating millions for repairs, renovations and the occasional antique." The East River Drive, designed by Robert Moses, 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 FDR Drive, as it was renamed after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, into the full limited-access parkway that is in use today.[https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=12179 FDR Drive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904111513/https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/historical-signs/listings?id=12179 |date=September 4, 2017 }}, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Accessed September 3, 2017.

Demolishing the elevated railways on Third and Second Avenues opened these tenement-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,{{Cite news |last=Mooney |first=Jake |date=April 15, 2007 |title=White Bricks and Pale Imitations |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/nyregion/thecity/15stre.html |access-date=February 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223201036/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/nyregion/thecity/15stre.html |url-status=live}} as well as the Sutton Terrace development on Sutton Place.{{Cite news |last=Robbins |first=William |date=January 23, 1966 |title=Apartments Rejuvenate East Side Neighborhood; New Structures With Costly Suites Dot Section From 63d to 65th Street |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/01/23/archives/apartments-rejuvenate-east-side-neighborhood-new-structures-with.html |access-date=February 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223195534/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/01/23/archives/apartments-rejuvenate-east-side-neighborhood-new-structures-with.html |url-status=live}} The demolition of the els had an adverse effect on transportation, because the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was now the only subway line in the area.{{cite web | title=www.nycsubway.org: Second Avenue Subway: The Line That Almost Never Was | website=www.nycsubway.org | date=1972 | publisher=New York City Transit Authority | url=http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway:_The_Line_That_Almost_Never_Was | access-date=September 30, 2015 | archive-date=October 1, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001063238/http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway:_The_Line_That_Almost_Never_Was | url-status=live }} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-opening-upper-east-side-manhattan.html|title=Opening of Second Avenue Subway: Updates|last1=Slotnik|first1=Daniel E.|date=January 1, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=January 1, 2017|last2=Wolfe|first2=Jonathan|issn=0362-4331|last3=Fitzsimmons|first3=Emma G.|last4=Palmer|first4=Emily|last5=Remnick|first5=Noah|archive-date=January 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101195614/http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/nyregion/second-avenue-subway-opening-upper-east-side-manhattan.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-yorkers-ride-ave-subway-making-history-article-1.2930822|title=New Yorkers take historic first ride on Second Ave. subway|last1=Rivoli|first1=Dan|date=January 1, 2017|newspaper=New York Daily News|access-date=January 1, 2017|last2=Sandoval|first2=Edgar|last3=Brown|first3=Stephen Rex|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415194911/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/new-yorkers-ride-ave-subway-making-history-article-1.2930822|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/see-new-years-eve-party-and-2nd-ave-subway|title=See Inside: The 2nd Avenue Subway Opens to All|last=Nessen|first=Stephen|date=January 1, 2017|newspaper=WNYC|access-date=January 1, 2017|archive-date=August 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831013618/https://www.wnyc.org/story/see-new-years-eve-party-and-2nd-ave-subway/|url-status=live}} This brought in new local business to the area and had positive impact on real estate prices on the Upper East Side.{{cite web | last=Hughes | first=C.J. | title=Yorkville Bets on the Second Avenue Subway | website=The New York Times | date=April 8, 2016 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/realestate/real-estate-developers-bet-on-the-second-avenue-subway.html | access-date=April 13, 2016 | archive-date=April 12, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412151146/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/realestate/real-estate-developers-bet-on-the-second-avenue-subway.html | url-status=live }}

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New York - Newark - Jersey City MSA (USA): Census Tracts|url=https://citypopulation.de/en/usa/metronewyork/}}}}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 Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, divided by Third Avenue and 77th Street.[https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/ntas.pdf New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129141839/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/ntas.pdf |date=November 29, 2018 }}, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.{{efn|Figures for Lenox Hill are tabulated alongside those for Roosevelt Island, and so Lenox Hill's precise population cannot be ascertained on its own.}} 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 2000. Covering an area of {{convert|1291.51|acres}}, the neighborhoods had a population density of {{convert|170.3|PD/acre|PD/sqmi PD/sqkm}}.[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610175331/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p5_nta.pdf |date=June 10, 2016 }}, 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.[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610170733/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf |date=June 10, 2016 }}, 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/plurality/files/RaceEthnic%20Change%20by%20Neighborhood%205-23-11.xls | title = Race / Ethnic Change by Neighborhood | publisher = Center for Urban Research, The Graduate Center, CUNY | date = 23 May 2011 | access-date = March 21, 2020 | format = Excel file | archive-date = April 17, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045228/http://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/plurality/files/RaceEthnic%20Change%20by%20Neighborhood%205-23-11.xls | url-status = live }}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-mn8.pdf|title=Upper East Side (Including Carnegie Hill, Lenox Hill, Roosevelt Island, Upper East Side and Yorkville)|date=2018|website=nyc.gov|publisher=NYC Health|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=March 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003717/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-mn8.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|2, 20}} This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|title=2016–2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan: Take Care New York 2020|date=2016|website=nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-date=September 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909004755/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf|url-status=live}}{{Rp|53 (PDF p. 84)}}{{cite web | title=New Yorkers are living longer, happier and healthier lives | website=New York Post | last=Short | first=Aaron | date=June 4, 2017 | url=https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ | access-date=March 1, 2019 | archive-date=March 2, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302024959/https://nypost.com/2017/06/04/new-yorkers-are-living-longer-happier-and-healthier-lives/ | url-status=live }} 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.{{Rp|2}}

As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 8 was $123,894,{{cite web|url=https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3603805-nyc-manhattan-community-district-8-upper-east-side-puma-ny/|title=NYC-Manhattan Community District 8—Upper East Side PUMA, NY|access-date=July 17, 2018|archive-date=March 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003714/https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3603805-nyc-manhattan-community-district-8-upper-east-side-puma-ny/|url-status=live}} 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 poverty, 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, {{as of|2018|lc=yes}}, Community District 8 is not considered to be gentrifying: according to the Community Health Profile, the district was not low-income in 1990.{{Rp|7}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/map3.aspx?g=0&mapi=SE0012&themei=767694.920954384.6460.988&l=2283243.52287408&r=2291023.93491898&t=5256165.51580534&b=5251538.1864453&rndi=1 |title=Social Explorer 2000 Demography Map: Median Income in Upper East Side |publisher=Socialexplorer.com |access-date=May 12, 2011}} The Upper East Side contains a large and affluent Jewish population estimated at 56,000.{{cite web|url=http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2030659/Jewish-Identity-Grows-On-Manhattans-Upper-East-Side.html|title=Jewish Identity Grows On Manhattan's Upper East Side|author=Baila Olidort|publisher=lubavitch.com|date=February 17, 2014|access-date=June 23, 2014|archive-date=May 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504202108/http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2030659/Jewish-Identity-Grows-On-Manhattans-Upper-East-Side.html|url-status=live}} Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families.{{cite book|author1=Craig J. Calhoun |author2= Donald Light |author3=Suzanne Keller|title=Sociology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvQM-npb2akC|year=1997|page=178|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn= 9780070380691 }}{{cite book|author1=Paul Schlueter|author2=Dorothy Nyren Curley|title=Modern American literature: volume V second supplement to the fourth edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFofAQAAIAAJ&q=Modern+American+literature|year=1998|page=13|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=9780804432658|access-date=November 22, 2020|archive-date=April 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401195003/https://books.google.com/books?id=PFofAQAAIAAJ&q=Modern+American+literature|url-status=live}}{{cite book|author1=Briton Hadden |author2= Henry Robinson Luce|title=Time, Volume 110, Edizioni 1–9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zyw7AQAAIAAJ&q=Time,+Volume+110|year=1998|page=156|publisher= Time Incorporated}}

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).{{cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=May 17, 2002 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E6DF1F39F934A25756C0A9649C8B63 |title=Residential Real Estate; TriBeCa Is Priciest Neighborhood |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017220131/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E6DF1F39F934A25756C0A9649C8B63 |archive-date=October 17, 2007 |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 7, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://www.millersamuel.com/charts/gallery-view.php?ViewNode=1155055479AKfgw&Record=33 |title=Charts |publisher=Miller Samuel |date=February 14, 2011 |access-date=May 12, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714094629/http://www.millersamuel.com/charts/gallery-view.php?ViewNode=1155055479AKfgw&Record=33 |archive-date=July 14, 2011 }} 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, which has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States.{{cite web|last=Mays|first=Jeff|date=April 14, 2011|title=Low-Income Parents Worry Cuts to Childcare Will Force Them Out of Work|url=http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110414/harlem/lowincome-parents-worry-cuts-childcare-will-force-them-out-of-work|website=DNAinfo New York|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008003622/http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110414/harlem/lowincome-parents-worry-cuts-childcare-will-force-them-out-of-work|archive-date=October 8, 2012}}

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Politically, the Upper East Side is in New York's 12th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D+34{{Cite web|last=Wasserman|first=David|last2=Flinn|first2=Ally|date=April 15, 2021|title=Introducing the 2021 Cook Political Report Partisan Voter Index|url=https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/pvi/introducing-2021-cook-political-report-partisan-voter-index|access-date=2021-04-25|website=The Cook Political Report|language=en|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415113658/https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/pvi/introducing-2021-cook-political-report-partisan-voter-index|url-status=live}} and is currently represented by Democrat Jerry Nadler.[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_map_rep_10.pdf Congressional District 10] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303015419/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_map_rep_10.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_nyc.pdf New York City Congressional Districts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224164245/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_nyc.pdf |date=February 24, 2021 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017. It is in the New York State Senate's 27th, 28th, and 29th districts,[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_27.pdf Senate District 27] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804211028/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_27.pdf |date=August 4, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.

• [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_28.pdf Senate District 28] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322012006/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_28.pdf |date=March 22, 2019 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
• [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_29.pdf Senate District 29] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303015955/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_29.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_nyc.pdf 2012 Senate District Maps: New York City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224202014/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_nyc.pdf |date=February 24, 2021 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed November 17, 2018. the New York State Assembly's 73rd and 76th districts,[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_073.pdf Assembly District 73] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020654/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_073.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
• [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_076.pdf Assembly District 76] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020714/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_076.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_nyc.pdf 2012 Assembly District Maps: New York City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225181526/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_nyc.pdf |date=February 25, 2021 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed November 17, 2018. and the New York City Council's 4th and 5th districts.[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dc/downloads/pdf/manhattan.pdf Current City Council Districts for New York County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203170907/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dc/downloads/pdf/manhattan.pdf |date=December 3, 2020 }}, New York City. Accessed May 5, 2017.

The Upper East Side is one of few areas of Manhattan where Republicans constitute more than 20% of the electorate. 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.{{cite web|last=Beveridge|first=Andy A.|date=January 26, 2004|title=Who Are NYC's Republicans?|url=http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20040126/5/853|access-date=May 12, 2011|website=Gotham Gazette|publisher=|archive-date=June 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616073729/http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20040126/5/853|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite news|last=Park|first=Alice|last2=Smart|first2=Charlie|last3=Taylor|first3=Rumsey|last4=Watkins|first4=Miles|date=2021-02-02|title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html|access-date=2021-04-25|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=February 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202111549/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.htmle|url-status=live}}

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.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173612/http://www.publicampaign.org/pressroom/2004/10/29/big-donors-still-rule-the-roost "Big Donors Still Rule The Roost"]}}. Retrieved July 18, 2006.

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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• 92nd Street Y[https://www.92y.org/mission-history Mission & History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904110139/https://www.92y.org/mission-history |date=September 4, 2017 }}, 92nd Street Y. Accessed September 3, 2017.
• Asia Society
• Colony Club
• Andrew Carnegie Mansion, which houses the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Henry Clay Frick House, which houses the Frick Collection
• Frick Madison
• Goethe-Institut, New York
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Irish Georgian Society
• Jewish Museum of New York
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• El Museo del Barrio
• Museum of the City of New York
• National Academy of Design
• Neue Galerie
• Park Avenue Armory
• Society of Illustrators

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• Acquavella Galleries
• Kraushaar Galleries
• Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
• Salon 94
• Anita Shapolsky Gallery

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• Carlyle Hotel
• Affinia Gardens NYC
• The Mark Hotel
• The Pierre
• The Lowell Hotel
• Plaza Athénée, New York
• The Sherry-Netherland

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• Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Greek Orthodox Church
• Brick Presbyterian Church
• Central Presbyterian Church
• Christ Church United Methodist
• Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal church
• Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal church
• Church of the Resurrection
• Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Modern Orthodox synagogue
• Congregation Or Zarua, Conservative synagogue
• Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Orthodox Sephardic 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
• Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (1499 1st Avenue at East 78th Street)
• Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
• Our Lady of Good Counsel Church
• Park Avenue Christian Church, Disciples of Christ church
• Park Avenue Synagogue, Conservative Jewish synagogue
• Park East Synagogue, 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 synagogue
• Temple Israel, Reform synagogue
• Temple Shaaray Tefila, Reform synagogue
• Third Church of Christ, Scientist
• Islamic Cultural Center of New York, mosque
• Unitarian Church of All Souls
• Zion-St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church

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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 Madison Avenue."[https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-consulate-general-new-york/about-us/the-consul-general/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416042237/https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-consulate-general-new-york/about-us/the-consul-general/|date=April 16, 2021}}." Consulate-General of Austria in New York. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
• The Consulate-General of France in New York is located at 934 Fifth Avenue between 74th Street and 75th Street."[http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/spip.php?article337 Contact & hours of operation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621055241/http://www.consulfrance-newyork.org/spip.php?article337 |date=June 21, 2009 }}." Consulate-General of France in New York. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
• The Consulate-General of Greece in New York is located at 69 East 79th Street, occupying the former George L. Rives residence.{{Cite web |last=Κοντοβουνήσιου |first=Άννα-Λουϊζα |title=General Information - About the Consulate General |url=https://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/consulate-general-in-new-york/about-us/general-information.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241211114449/https://www.mfa.gr/usa/en/consulate-general-in-new-york/about-us/general-information.html |archive-date=2024-12-11 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=www.mfa.gr |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=2001-04-29 |title=Streetscapes/Greek Consulate, 69 East 79th Street; 1909 Carrère & Hastings House, and a '62 Extension |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/realestate/streetscapes-greek-consulate-69-east-79th-street-1909-carrere-hastings-house-62.html |access-date=2025-05-07 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
• The Consulate-General of Italy in New York is located at 690 Park Avenue."[http://www.consnewyork.esteri.it/Consolato_NewYork Welcome to the website of the Consulate General of Italy in New York] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110702011137/http://www.consnewyork.esteri.it/Consolato_NewYork |date=July 2, 2011 }}." Consulate-General of Italy in New York. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
• The Consulate-General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue."[http://www.indiacgny.org/php/showContact.php?linkid=196&parentid=0 Contact Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805174058/http://indiacgny.org/php/showContact.php?linkid=196&parentid=0 |date=August 5, 2013 }}." Consulate-General of India in New York. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
• The Consulate-General of Indonesia in New York is located at 5 East 68th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue."[https://kemlu.go.id/newyork/en/pages/peta_lokasi/1079/etc-menu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416041230/https://kemlu.go.id/newyork/en/pages/peta_lokasi/1079/etc-menu|date=April 16, 2021}}." Consulate-General of Indonesia in New York. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
• The Consulate-General of Lebanon in New York is located at 9 East 76th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue."[https://nylebcons.org/about-the-consulate/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416041718/https://nylebcons.org/about-the-consulate/|date=April 16, 2021}}." Consulate-General of Lebanon in New York. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
• The Consulate-General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street.[http://www.pakistanconsulateny.org/ Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415074209/http://www.pakistanconsulateny.org/ |date=April 15, 2009 }}. Consulate-General of Pakistan in New York. Retrieved January 26, 2009.
• 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.[https://newyork.mid.ru/web/newyork_en/general-information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416042552/https://newyork.mid.ru/web/newyork_en/general-information|date=April 16, 2021}}. Consulate-General of Russia in New York. Retrieved April 16, 2021.

Other missions to the United Nations on the Upper East Side include:{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/dgacm/sites/www.un.org.dgacm/files/Documents_Protocol/labels.pdf |title=Address Labels of Heads of Missions |website=United Nations |access-date=March 26, 2023 |archive-date=April 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411193751/https://www.un.org/dgacm/sites/www.un.org.dgacm/files/Documents_Protocol/labels.pdf |url-status=live }}

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• Albania
• Belarus
• Bulgaria
• Cameroon
• Cape Verde
• Iraq
• Mali
• Mongolia
• Myanmar (Burma)
• Pakistan
• Russia
• Somalia

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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.{{Rp|3}}
• 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.{{Rp|2}}
• The Upper East Side Historic District, 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.{{Rp|3}}{{Rp|4}}

The Upper East Side is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 153 East 67th Street.{{Cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/19th-precinct.page|title=NYPD – 19th Precinct|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Police Department|access-date=October 3, 2016|archive-date=June 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170605034846/http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/19th-precinct.page|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-019pct.pdf|title=19th Precinct CompStat Report|website=www.nyc.gov|publisher=New York City Police Department|access-date=March 14, 2020|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103064412/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-019pct.pdf|url-status=live}}

{{asof|2018}}, 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.{{Rp|8}} 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.{{cite web | url = https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2019.pdf | title = Citywide Seven Major Felony Offenses 2000–2019 | publisher = New York Police Department | access-date = March 23, 2020 | website = www.nyc.gov | archive-date = February 17, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200217164041/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2019.pdf | url-status = live }}{{cite web | url = https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-by-precinct-2000-2019.pdf | title = Citywide Seven Major Felony Offenses by Precinct 2000–2019 | publisher = New York Police Department | access-date = March 23, 2020 | website = www.nyc.gov | archive-date = March 19, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200319015709/https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-by-precinct-2000-2019.pdf | url-status = live }}

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, where there were 19 robberies.{{cite web | url = https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/ | access-date = March 23, 2020 | title = NYC Crime Map | website = www.nyc.gov | publisher = New York City Police Department | archive-date = February 19, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200219132509/https://maps.nyc.gov/crime/ | url-status = live }}

File:Firehouse Engine Company 39 IMG 9233.JPG Engine Company 39 and Ladder Company 16 on East 67th Street]]

The Upper East Side is served by multiple New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:{{Cite FDNY locations}}

• Engine Company 39/Ladder Company 16 – 157 East 67th Street{{cite web | title=Engine Company 39/Ladder Company 16 | website=FDNYtrucks.com | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e39.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019 | archive-date=October 19, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019032757/http://fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e39.htm | url-status=live }}
• Engine Company 44 – 221 East 75th Street{{cite web | title=Engine Company 44 | website=FDNYtrucks.com | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e44.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019 | archive-date=October 22, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022142714/http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e44.htm | url-status=live }}
• Engine Company 22/Ladder Company 13/Battalion 10 – 159 East 85th Street{{cite web | title=Engine Company 22/Ladder Company 13/Battalion 10 | website=FDNYtrucks.com | url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e22.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019 | archive-date=October 24, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024001144/http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e22.htm | url-status=live }}

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{{As of|2018}}, preterm births 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).{{Rp|11}} 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.{{Rp|14}}

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, on the Upper East Side is {{convert|0.0083|mg/m3|oz/ft3}}, more than the city average.{{Rp|9}} Eight percent of Upper East Side residents are smokers, which is less than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.{{Rp|13}} On the Upper East Side, 11% of residents are obese, 4% are diabetic, and 15% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.{{Rp|16}} In addition, 6% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.{{Rp|12}}

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%.{{Rp|13}} For every supermarket on the Upper East Side, there are 5 bodegas.{{Rp|10}}

Lenox Hill Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Weill Cornell Medical Center are located on the Upper East Side. In addition, Mount Sinai Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital Center are located nearby in East Harlem.{{cite web | title=Manhattan Hospital Listings | website=New York Hospitals | url=http://www.allny.com/health/hosp-manhattan.html | access-date=March 20, 2019 | archive-date=November 15, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115151717/http://www.allny.com/health/hosp-manhattan.html | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=Best Hospitals in New York, N.Y. | website=U.S. News & World Report | date=July 26, 2011 | url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/new-york-ny | access-date=March 20, 2019 | archive-date=May 29, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529091928/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/new-york-ny | url-status=live }}

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.{{cite web | title=Upper East Side, New York City-Manhattan, New York Zip Code Boundary Map (NY) | website=United States Zip Code Boundary Map (USA) | url=https://www.zipmap.net/New_York/New_York_County/Z_Upper_East_Side.htm | access-date=March 24, 2019 | archive-date=March 25, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003717/https://www.zipmap.net/New_York/New_York_County/Z_Upper_East_Side.htm | url-status=live }} The United States Postal Service operates four post offices on the Upper East Side:

• Cherokee Station – 1483 York Avenue{{cite web | title=Location Details: Cherokee | website=USPS.com | url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10024&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1357803&locationName=CHEROKEE&address2=&address1=1483+YORK+AVE+FRNT+1 | access-date=March 7, 2019}}
• Gracie Station – 229 East 85th Street{{cite web | title=Location Details: Gracie | website=USPS.com | url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10024&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1365244&locationName=GRACIE&address2=&address1=229+E+85TH+ST | access-date=March 7, 2019}}
• Lenox Hill Station – 221 East 70th Street{{cite web | title=Location Details: Lenox Hill | website=USPS.com | url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10024&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1353142&locationName=ANSONIA&address2=&address1=178+COLUMBUS+AVE | access-date=March 7, 2019 | archive-date=March 31, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210331185012/https://tools.usps.com/find-location.htm | url-status=live }}
• Yorkville Station – 1617 Third Avenue{{cite web | title=Location Details: Yorkville | website=USPS.com | url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10024&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1370220&locationName=LENOX+HILL&address2=&address1=217+E+70TH+ST | access-date=March 7, 2019}}

The Upper East Side generally has a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. 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.{{Rp|6}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/MN_08_11.pdf|title=Upper East Side – MN 08|date=2011|publisher=Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy|access-date=October 5, 2016|archive-date=September 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130918132004/http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/MN_08_11.pdf|url-status=live}}

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, less than the citywide average of 20%.{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}}{{Rp|6}} Additionally, 91% of high school students on the Upper East Side graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.{{Rp|6}}

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The New York City Department of Education operates public schools in the city.

Public lower and middle schools

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• PS 6 – 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

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Public high schools

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• Talent Unlimited High School
• Eleanor Roosevelt High School
• Urban Academy Laboratory High School

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Other schools

• Hunter College High School

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Coeducational schools

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• Birch Wathen Lenox School
• Caedmon School
• Dalton School
• Loyola School
• Lycée Français de New York
• La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi
• Park East School
• Rudolf Steiner School (see Waldorf education)
• The Town School
• Trevor Day School
• Ramaz School
• Sephardic Academy of Manhattan
• Islamic Cultural Center School

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Girls' schools

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• Brearley School
• Cathedral High School
• Chapin School
• Convent of the Sacred Heart
• Dominican Academy
• Hewitt School
• Manhattan High School for Girls
• Marymount School
• St. Vincent Ferrer High School
• Nightingale-Bamford School
• Spence School
• St. Jean Baptiste High School

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Boys' schools

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• Allen-Stevenson School
• The Browning School
• The Buckley School
• Regis High School
• St. Bernard's School
• St. David's School

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• Hunter College[http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/visitorscenter/68th-street-campus-map 68th Street Campus Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915105545/http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/visitorscenter/68th-street-campus-map |date=September 15, 2016 }}, Hunter College. Accessed May 15, 2016.
• Marymount Manhattan College[http://www.mmm.edu/about-us/facts-and-figures.php Facts and Figures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511203440/http://www.mmm.edu/about-us/facts-and-figures.php |date=May 11, 2016 }}, Marymount Manhattan College. Accessed May 15, 2016.
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[https://icahn.mssm.edu/static_files/MSSM/Files/Education/2012%20Med%20Campus%20MAP.pdf Campus Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404074036/http://icahn.mssm.edu/static_files/MSSM/Files/Education/2012%20Med%20Campus%20MAP.pdf |date=April 4, 2015 }}, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Accessed May 15, 2016.
• New York Medical College
• New York School of Interior Design[http://www.nysid.edu/student-life/facilities Our Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523045328/http://www.nysid.edu/student-life/facilities |date=May 23, 2016 }}, New York School of Interior Design. Accessed May 15, 2016.
• New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World[http://isaw.nyu.edu/about/facilities Building Overview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605124415/http://isaw.nyu.edu/about/facilities |date=June 5, 2016 }}, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Accessed May 15, 2016.
• New York University Institute of Fine Arts[https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/about/index.htm Welcome] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527063910/http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/about/index.htm |date=May 27, 2016 }}, New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Accessed May 15, 2016.
• Rockefeller University{{Cite web |title=The Rockefeller University - Campus Map |url=https://www2.rockefeller.edu/campusmap/ |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=www2.rockefeller.edu}}
• Weill Cornell Medical College
• Zucker School of Medicine

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The New York Public Library (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, {{convert|14000|ft2|m2|adj=on}} structure resembles the Yorkville branch library in design.{{cite web | title=About the 67th Street Library | website=The New York Public Library | date=May 10, 1907 | url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/67th-street | access-date=March 23, 2019 | archive-date=March 25, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003713/https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/67th-street | url-status=live }}
• 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.{{cite web | title=About the Yorkville Library | website=The New York Public Library | date=May 10, 1907 | url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/yorkville | access-date=March 23, 2019 | archive-date=March 25, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003712/https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/yorkville | url-status=live }}
• 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.{{cite web | title=About the Webster Library | website=The New York Public Library | date=May 10, 1907 | url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/webster | access-date=March 23, 2019 | archive-date=May 4, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504211947/https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/webster | url-status=live }}
• The 96th Street branch is located at 112 East 96th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1905 and was restored in 1991.{{cite web | title=About the 96th Street Library | website=The New York Public Library | date=May 10, 1907 | url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/96th-street | access-date=March 23, 2019 | archive-date=March 25, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003724/https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/96th-street | url-status=live }}

The Upper East Side is served by two subway lines, the four-track IRT Lexington Avenue Line ({{NYCS trains|Lexington}}) under Lexington Avenue and the two-track Second Avenue Subway ({{NYCS trains|Second}}) under Second Avenue.{{NYCS const|map}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Second-Avenue-Subway-Service-Begins-January-Gov-Cuomo-Says-407383455.html|title=2nd Avenue Subway Service to Begin New Year's Day: Gov. Cuomo|last=Siff|first=Andrew|date=December 19, 2016|website=NBC New York|publisher=NBC Universal Media|access-date=December 19, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220191510/http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Second-Avenue-Subway-Service-Begins-January-Gov-Cuomo-Says-407383455.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuomo-promises-ave-subway-open-jan-1-article-1.2915501|title=Cuomo promises Second Ave. subway will open Jan. 1|last1=Rivoli|first1=Dan|last2=Sandoval|first2=Edgar|date=December 18, 2016|website=NY Daily News|last3=Greene|first3=Leonard|access-date=December 19, 2016|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309150524/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cuomo-promises-ave-subway-open-jan-1-article-1.2915501|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|title=MTA Capital Construction – Second Avenue Subway Project Description|url=http://web.mta.info/capital/sas_alt.html|work=mta.info|publisher=MTA|access-date=October 5, 2013|archive-date=April 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408214933/http://web.mta.info/capconstr/sas/description.html|url-status=live}}.

There are also local and limited MTA Regional Bus Operations routes {{NYC bus link|M1|M2|M3|M4|M15|M15 SBS|M31|M98|M101|M102|M103|prose=y}} going uptown and downtown, as well as the crosstown {{NYC bus link|M66|M72|M79 SBS|M86 SBS|M96|prose=y}}.{{Cite NYC bus map|M}}

The Upper East Side is served by NYC Ferry 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.{{cite news |last=Creag |first=Katherine |date=August 15, 2018 |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-ferry-soundview-route-bronx/1824098/ |title=NYC Ferry's Soundview Route Sets Sail, Provides New Yorkers New Way to Get Around |work=NBC New York |access-date=November 19, 2024}}{{cite press release |date=August 20, 2020 |url=https://edc.nyc/press-release/nyc-ferry-extend-astoria-route-serve-east-90th-street-upper-manhattan |title=NYC Ferry to Extend Astoria Route to Serve East 90th Street in Upper Manhattan |publisher=New York City Economic Development Corporation |access-date=November 19, 2024}}

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

• [https://www.ourtownny.com Our Town]
• [https://www.uppereastsite.com Upper East Site]
• Patch UES

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

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• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• 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 (1979)
• Manhattan (1979)
• The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Family Business (1989)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• Metropolitan (1990)
• Juice (1992)
• Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
• Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
• Harriet the Spy (1996)
• Ransom (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 (2000)
• Cruel Intentions 2 (2001)
• Tart (2001)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• Uptown Girls (2003)
• Igby Goes Down (2002)
• Two Weeks Notice (2002)
• Eloise at the Plaza (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 (2010)
• Arbitrage (2012)
• Blue Jasmine (2013)
• The Goldfinch (2019)
• The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

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• I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
• Family Affair (TV series) (1966–1971)
• That Girl (TV series) (1966–1971)
• The Odd Couple (1970–1975)Nir, Sarah Maslin.[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/nyregion/tvs-odd-couple-lived-oddly-in-luxury-in-ny.html?_r=0 "Nowadays, 'Odd Couple' Would Have to Be Rich Couple, Too"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701094955/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/nyregion/tvs-odd-couple-lived-oddly-in-luxury-in-ny.html?_r=0 |date=July 1, 2017 }} The New York Times (December 25, 2012). Quote: "[Their] the apartment seemed to bounce between locations. At various times it was on the Upper West Side, where some episodes seemed to indicate that the pair drove each other crazy amid the twin spires of the exclusive San Remo on Central Park West between 74th and 75th Streets. But exterior shots of their home often were across Central Park, at 1049 Park Avenue..."
• 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 (2009–2010)
• White Collar (2009–2014)
• 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 (2016–present)
• Succession (2018–2023)
• The Undoing (2020)
• And Just Like That (2021–present)
• Gossip Girl (2021–2022)

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• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
• Death Wish by Brian Garfield
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 by Nick McDonell
• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J. D. Salinger
• Wolves In Chic Clothing by Jill Kargman

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• 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{{cite book | last=Sanderson | first=P. | title=The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City | publisher=Gallery Books | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-4165-3141-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4PMIT0Rv7cC&pg=PA130 | access-date=August 28, 2019 | page=130}}
• Mad Men{{'}}s Don Draper owned an apartment in a fictional building at 73rd Street and Park Avenue{{Cite web |last=Hojnicki |first=Carrie |date=2015-03-31 |title=Don Draper’s New York City Apartment Is Architectural Digest–worthy |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/mad-men-architectural-digest |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en-US}}
• Constance Billard School for Girls and St. Jude's School for Boys in Gossip Girl[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/nyregion/01gossip.html?_r=0 Upper East Side Journal: "Awaiting a Glimpse of Their 'Gossip Girl' Kin"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701100954/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/nyregion/01gossip.html?_r=0 |date=July 1, 2017 }} by Eric Konigsberg, The New York Times, December 1, 2007
• The Duchesne School in the vampire novels Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz{{Cite book|first=Melissa|last=de la Cruz|author-link=Melissa de la Cruz|title=Blue Bloods|page=23|publisher=Hachette|isbn=9780748115501|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vF9YxbFGZ9UC&pg=PT23|date=March 4, 2010}}
• Percy Jackson, title character of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy[http://www.rickriordan.com/my-books/percy-jackson/resources/rationale.aspx "A Rationale] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018120410/http://rickriordan.com/my-books/percy-jackson/resources/rationale.aspx |date=October 18, 2014 }} for Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief, rickriordan.com
• Sherman McCoy – The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Samantha Delmonico and John Surling in Friends from College{{cite web |last1=Kreth |first1=Kelly |title=The real estate is nicer than the people in 'Friends From College' |url=https://www.brickunderground.com/live/Friends-from-College-apartments |website=Brick Underground |access-date=13 October 2021 |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028170217/https://www.brickunderground.com/live/Friends-from-College-apartments |url-status=live }}
• Jacqueline White (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

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

• 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
• 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.{{Cite web|title=Andy Warhol Residence|url=https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/andy-warhol-residence/|access-date=2021-07-12|website=NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project|language=en-US|archive-date=July 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712032111/https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/andy-warhol-residence/|url-status=live}}

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• East Side (Manhattan)
• Upper West Side
• Upper Manhattan
• Yorkville, Manhattan
• Carnegie Hill
• Lenox Hill

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Citations

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150815222819/http://wikipages.com/index.php/Category%3AUpper_East_Side Wikipages: Upper East Side]
• [http://ues-museums-in-new-york-city.10021-ny-socialites.info/ Upper East Side Museums]

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