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Upper East Side

January 10, 2023

This article is about the neighborhood in New York City. For the neighborhood in Miami, see Upper Eastside.

The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park/Fifth Avenue to the west.[4] The area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville. Once known as the Silk Stocking District,[5] it has long been the most affluent neighborhood in New York City.[6]

Upper East Side
Neighborhood of Manhattan
East 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, in the Upper East Side Historic District
Nickname: 
UES
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°46′08″N 73°57′58″W / 40.769°N 73.966°W / 40.769; -73.966Coordinates: 40°46′08″N 73°57′58″W / 40.769°N 73.966°W / 40.769; -73.966
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughManhattan
Community DistrictManhattan 8[1]
Area
[2]
 • Total4.6 km2 (1.76 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[2]
 • Total183,986
 • Density40,000/km2 (100,000/sq mi)
Ethnicity
[3]
 • White79.0%
 • Asian8.6%
 • Hispanic7.1%
 • Black3.2%
 • Others2.2%
Economics
[2]
 • Median income$131,492
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, 10128
Area code212, 332, 646, and 917

The Upper East Side is part of Manhattan Community District 8, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, and 10128.[1] It is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.

Geography

Neighborhood boundaries in New York City are not officially set, but according to the Encyclopedia of New York City, the Upper East Side is bounded by 59th Street in the south, 96th Street on the north, Fifth Avenue to the west and the East River to the east.[7] The AIA Guide to New York City extends the northern boundary to 106th Street near Fifth Avenue.[8]

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.[9]

Historic districts

The Upper East Side Historic District was designated as a city district in 1981[10] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[11] The city district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue, and up to Third Avenue at some points.[10]: 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.[10][12] The city district was slightly expanded in 2010 with 74 additional buildings.[13]: 4 

 
Metropolitan Museum Historic District

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.[14]: 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.[15]: 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.[16]: 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.[17] 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.[18]

History

Development

Before the arrival of Europeans, the mouths of streams[19] 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.[20]

In the 19th century[21] 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.[22] 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,[23] and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street.[24] By the mid-19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided, with the exception of the 150 acres (61 ha) of Jones's Wood, stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road (Third Avenue) to the river[26] and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s,[27] built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm's south-west corner,[28] and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues.[29] 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.[24]

 
Gracie Mansion, last remaining East River villa

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.[30] 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.[31]

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.[32]

— Edith Wharton

Arrival of famous residents

Before the Park Avenue Tunnel was covered (finished in 1910), fashionable New Yorkers shunned the smoky railroad trench up Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue), to build stylish mansions and townhouses on the large lots along 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.[33]

Most members of New York's upper-class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil-rich Rockefellers,[34] political Roosevelts, political dynastic Kennedys,[35] thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys,[36][37] and tobacco and electric power fortuned Dukes.[38]

Transportation constructed

Construction of the Third Avenue El, opened from 1878 in sections, followed by the Second Avenue El, opened in 1879, linked the Upper East Side's middle class and skilled artisans closely to the heart of the city, and confirmed the modest nature of the area to their east. The ghostly "Hamilton Square", [39]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.[40] From the 1880s the neighborhood of Yorkville became a suburb of middle class Germans.[41]

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.[42] 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.[43]

 
45 East 66th Street, a designated New York City landmark, as seen across Madison Avenue

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. However, it had an adverse effect on transportation, because the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was now the only subway line in the area.[44] 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.[45][46][47] This brought in new local business to the area and had positive impact on real estate prices in the Upper East Side.[48]

Demographics

For census purposes, the New York City government classifies the Upper East Side as part of three neighborhood tabulation areas: Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, Yorkville, and Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, divided by Third Avenue and 77th Street.[49][a] 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 1,291.51 acres (522.66 ha), the neighborhoods had a population density of 170.3 inhabitants per acre (109,000/sq mi; 42,100/km2).[50]

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.[3]

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.[51]

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.[52]: 2, 20  This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[53]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [54] 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.[52]: 2 

As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 8 was $123,894,[55] though the median income in the Upper East Side individually was $131,492.[2] 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, Community District 8 is not considered to be gentrifying: according to the Community Health Profile, the district was not low-income in 1990.[52]: 7 

Ethnic and socioeconomic trends

As of the 2000 census, twenty-one percent of the population was foreign born; of this, 45.6% came from Europe, 29.5% from Asia, 16.2% from Latin America and 8.7% from other areas. The female-male ratio was very high with 125 females for 100 males.[56] The Upper East Side contains a large and affluent Jewish population estimated at 56,000.[57] Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families.[58][59][60]

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.[2] 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).[61][62] 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.[63]

Politics

Politically, the Upper East Side is in New York's 12th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D+34[64] and is currently represented by Democrat Carolyn Maloney.[65][66] It is in the New York State Senate's 27th, 28th, and 29th districts,[67][68] the New York State Assembly's 73rd and 76th districts,[69][70] and the New York City Council's 4th and 5th districts.[71]

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.[72] 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.[73]

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.[74]

 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street
 
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at Fifth Avenue and 89th Street
 
The Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue at 92nd St. The Museum Mile Festival

Landmarks and cultural institutions

Museums

The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue fronting Central Park has been dubbed "Museum Mile", running between 82nd and 105th Streets. It was once named "Millionaire's Row". The following are among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side:

Art galleries

Hotels (partial list)

Houses of worship

Diplomatic missions

Many diplomatic missions are located in former mansions on the Upper East Side:

Other missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include:[85]

Historic districts

There are several historic districts in 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.[16]: 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.[14]: 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.[10]: 3 [13]: 4 

Police and crime

The Upper East Side is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 153 East 67th Street.[86] The 19th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 84.5% between 1990 and 2019. The precinct reported 0 murders, 18 rapes, 171 robberies, 138 felony assaults, 223 burglaries, 1,658 grand larcenies, and 65 grand larcenies auto in 2019.[87]

As of 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.[52]: 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.[88][89][90]

In 2019, the highest concentration of felony assaults in the Upper East Side was near the intersection of 93rd Street and First Avenue, where there were 10 felony assaults. The highest concentration of robberies, on the other hand, was near the intersection of 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, where there were 19 robberies.[88]

Fire safety

 
Quarters of FDNY Engine Company 39/Ladder Company 16

The Upper East Side is served by multiple New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:[91]

  • Engine Company 39/Ladder Company 16 – 157 East 67th Street[92]
  • Engine Company 44 – 221 East 75th Street[93]
  • Engine Company 22/Ladder Company 13/Battalion 10 – 159 East 85th Street[94]

Health

As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers in the Upper East Side are lower than the city average. In the Upper East Side, there were 73 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 3.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[52]: 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.[52]: 14 

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in the Upper East Side is 0.0083 milligrams per cubic metre (8.3×10−9 oz/cu ft), more than the city average.[52]: 9  Eight percent of Upper East Side residents are smokers, which is less than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[52]: 13  In 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.[52]: 16  In addition, 6% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[52]: 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%.[52]: 13  For every supermarket in the Upper East Side, there are 5 bodegas.[52]: 10 

 
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Lenox Hill Hospital and NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center are located in the Upper East Side. In addition, Mount Sinai Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital Center are located nearby in East Harlem.[95][96]

Post offices and ZIP Codes

The Upper East Side is located in five primary ZIP Codes. From south to north, they are 10065 (south of 69th Street), 10021 (between 69th and 76th Streets), 10075 (between 76th and 80th Streets), 10028 (between 80th and 86th Streets), and 10128 (north of 86th Street). In addition, 500 East 77th Street in Yorkville has its own ZIP Code, 10162. If the AIA Guide's broader definition of the neighborhood (extending up to Fifth Avenue and 106th Streets) is considered, then the neighborhood has an additional ZIP Code of 10029, along Fifth Avenue between 96th and 105th Streets.[97] The United States Postal Service operates four post offices in the Upper East Side:

Education

The Upper East Side generally has a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. 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.[52]: 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.[102]

The Upper East Side's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In the Upper East Side, 8% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, less than the citywide average of 20%.[53]: 24 (PDF p. 55) [52]: 6  Additionally, 91% of high school students in the Upper East Side graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.[52]: 6 

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

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

Public lower and middle schools

  • PS 6 – Lillie Devereux Blake School
  • PS 77 – The Lower Lab school
  • PS 158 – Bayard Taylor
  • PS 183 – Robert Louis Stevenson School
  • PS 267 – East Side Elementary
  • PS 290 – The New School of Manhattan
  • MS 114 – East Side Middle School
  • JHS 167 – Senator Robert F. Wagner Middle School

Public high schools

Other schools

 
The West Building of Hunter College

Private schools

Coeducational schools

Girls' schools

Boys' schools

Colleges and universities

Libraries

The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates four branches in the Upper East Side.

  • The 67th Street branch is located at 328 East 67th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1905 and was restored in the 1950s and in 2000. The two-story, 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) structure resembles the Yorkville branch library in design.[109]
  • 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.[110]
  • 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.[111]
  • The 96th Street branch is located at 112 East 96th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1905 and was restored in 1991.[112]

Transportation

The Upper East Side is served by two subway lines, the four-track IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4, ​5, ​6, and <6> trains) under Lexington Avenue and the two-track Second Avenue Subway (N, ​Q, and ​R trains) under Second Avenue.[113]

The Second Avenue Line serves to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line. The first phase of the line opened on January 1, 2017, consisting of three stations in the Upper East Side: 96th Street, 86th Street, and 72nd Street.[114][115] 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.[116]

There are also local and limited MTA Regional Bus Operations routes M1, M2, M3, M4, M15, M15 SBS, M31, M98, M101, M102 and M103 going uptown and downtown, as well as the crosstown M66, M72, M79 SBS, M86 SBS and M96.[117]

Media

News

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

  • Our Town
  • Upper East Site
  • Patch UES

In popular culture

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

Films

Television shows

Books

Fictional places and characters

Notable people

Main article: List of people from the Upper East Side

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

Notable residential buildings

See also

References

Informational notes

  1. ^ Figures for Lenox Hill are tabulated alongside those for Roosevelt Island, and so Lenox Hill's precise population cannot be ascertained on its own.

Citations

  1. ^ a b "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Upper East Side neighborhood in New York" (PDF). Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.
  4. ^ Gronowicz, Anthony. ""Upper East Side in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2. p.1352
  5. ^ The City Review Upper East Side, the Silk Stocking District
  6. ^ Plitt, Amy. "The richest neighborhoods in New York City; Where do the wealthiest New Yorkers live? The answers may surprise you (or not)", Curbed New York, June 27, 2017. Accessed September 3, 2017. "That the Upper East Side is No. 1 should come as no surprise, given the concentration of wealth found along the westernmost border of the neighborhood (i.e., Museum Mile and the Gold Coast)."
  7. ^ Gronowicz, Anthony. "Upper East Side" in Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 1352. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2.
  8. ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7.
  9. ^ Depalma, Anthony (January 31, 1988). "Is the Upper East Side Moving North?". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
  10. ^ a b c d "Upper East Side Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. May 19, 1981. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  11. ^ Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report, Vol. 1, May 19, 1981, Landmarks Preservation Commission
  12. ^ (PDF). Citi Habitats. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 17, 2012.
  13. ^ a b "Upper East Side Historic District Extension" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. March 23, 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  14. ^ a b "Metropolitan Museum Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. September 20, 1977. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  15. ^ "Park Avenue Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. April 29, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. December 21, 1993. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  17. ^ "Henderson Place Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. February 11, 1969. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  18. ^ "Treadwell Farm Historic District" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. December 13, 1967. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
  19. ^ Noted 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").
  20. ^ A reconstructed map of the patchwork ecologies of Manhattan island before Europeanization is presented in Sanderson 2009; map p. 139.
  21. ^ The history of the Upper East Side, in the broader citywide context, is repeatedly noted in Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1999).
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ 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 (Rockefeller University: history).
  24. ^ a b ""Early New York History: Old Days In Yorkville And Harlem", 1893". Oldandsold.com. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
  25. ^ Rosenzweig, Roy & Blackmar, Elizabeth (1992). The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Cornell University Press. pp. 20–21, map p. 38, et passim. ISBN 0-8014-9751-5..
  26. ^ 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[25]
  27. ^ "Realty Romance in Old Lenox Farm". 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.
  28. ^ 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.
  29. ^ "Founded by James Lenox, the chief features of the Presbyterian hospital...". The New York Times. July 3, 1892.
  30. ^ Arthur T. Vanderbilt 2nd, Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt (New York, 1989).
  31. ^ Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: Edith Wharton; In The Age of Innocence, Fiction Was Not Truth", The New York Times, August 27, 1995. Accessed September 3, 2017.
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This article is about the neighborhood in New York City For the neighborhood in Miami see Upper Eastside The Upper East Side sometimes abbreviated UES is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City bounded by 96th Street to the north the East River to the east 59th Street to the south and Central Park Fifth Avenue to the west 4 The area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods including Lenox Hill Carnegie Hill and Yorkville Once known as the Silk Stocking District 5 it has long been the most affluent neighborhood in New York City 6 Upper East SideNeighborhood of ManhattanEast 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues in the Upper East Side Historic DistrictNickname UESLocation in New York CityCoordinates 40 46 08 N 73 57 58 W 40 769 N 73 966 W 40 769 73 966 Coordinates 40 46 08 N 73 57 58 W 40 769 N 73 966 W 40 769 73 966Country United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityBoroughManhattanCommunity DistrictManhattan 8 1 Area 2 Total4 6 km2 1 76 sq mi Population 2020 2 Total183 986 Density40 000 km2 100 000 sq mi Ethnicity 3 White79 0 Asian8 6 Hispanic7 1 Black3 2 Others2 2 Economics 2 Median income 131 492Time zoneUTC 05 00 Eastern Summer DST UTC 04 00 EDT ZIP Codes10021 10028 10065 10075 10128Area code212 332 646 and 917The Upper East Side is part of Manhattan Community District 8 and its primary ZIP Codes are 10021 10028 10065 10075 and 10128 1 It is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the New York City Police Department Contents 1 Geography 1 1 Historic districts 2 History 2 1 Development 2 2 Arrival of famous residents 2 3 Transportation constructed 3 Demographics 3 1 Ethnic and socioeconomic trends 3 2 Politics 4 Landmarks and cultural institutions 4 1 Museums 4 2 Art galleries 4 3 Hotels partial list 4 4 Houses of worship 4 5 Diplomatic missions 4 6 Historic districts 5 Police and crime 6 Fire safety 7 Health 8 Post offices and ZIP Codes 9 Education 9 1 Primary and secondary schools 9 1 1 Public schools 9 1 2 Private schools 9 2 Colleges and universities 9 3 Libraries 10 Transportation 11 Media 11 1 News 11 2 In popular culture 11 3 Films 11 4 Television shows 11 5 Books 11 6 Fictional places and characters 12 Notable people 13 Notable residential buildings 14 See also 15 References 16 External linksGeography EditNeighborhood 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 7 The AIA Guide to New York City extends the northern boundary to 106th Street near Fifth Avenue 8 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 9 Historic districts Edit The Upper East Side Historic District was designated as a city district in 1981 10 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 11 The city district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue and up to Third Avenue at some points 10 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 10 12 The city district was slightly expanded in 2010 with 74 additional buildings 13 4 Metropolitan Museum Historic District 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 14 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 15 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 16 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 17 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 18 History EditDevelopment Edit Before the arrival of Europeans the mouths of streams 19 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 20 In the 19th century 21 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 22 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 23 and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street 24 By the mid 19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided with the exception of the 150 acres 61 ha of Jones s Wood stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road Third Avenue to the river 26 and the farmland inherited by James Lenox who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s 27 built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm s south west corner 28 and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital between 70th and 71st Streets and Madison and Park Avenues 29 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 24 Gracie Mansion last remaining East River villa 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 30 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 31 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 32 Edith Wharton Arrival of famous residents Edit 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 33 Most members of New York s upper class families have made residences on the Upper East Side including the oil rich Rockefellers 34 political Roosevelts political dynastic Kennedys 35 thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys 36 37 and tobacco and electric power fortuned Dukes 38 Transportation constructed Edit Construction of the Third Avenue El opened from 1878 in sections followed by the Second Avenue El opened in 1879 linked the Upper East Side s middle class and skilled artisans closely to the heart of the city and confirmed the modest nature of the area to their east The ghostly Hamilton Square 39 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 40 From the 1880s the neighborhood of Yorkville became a suburb of middle class Germans 41 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 42 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 43 45 East 66th Street a designated New York City landmark as seen across Madison Avenue Musical Mutual Protective Union 85th Street 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 However it had an adverse effect on transportation because the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was now the only subway line in the area 44 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 45 46 47 This brought in new local business to the area and had positive impact on real estate prices in the Upper East Side 48 Demographics EditFor 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 49 a 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 1 291 51 acres 522 66 ha the neighborhoods had a population density of 170 3 inhabitants per acre 109 000 sq mi 42 100 km2 50 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 3 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 51 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 52 2 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 53 53 PDF p 84 54 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 52 2 As of 2017 the median household income in Community District 8 was 123 894 55 though the median income in the Upper East Side individually was 131 492 2 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 update Community District 8 is not considered to be gentrifying according to the Community Health Profile the district was not low income in 1990 52 7 Ethnic and socioeconomic trends Edit 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 56 The Upper East Side contains a large and affluent Jewish population estimated at 56 000 57 Traditionally the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo Saxon Protestant families 58 59 60 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 2 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 61 62 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 63 Politics Edit Politically the Upper East Side is in New York s 12th congressional district which has a Cook PVI of D 34 64 and is currently represented by Democrat Carolyn Maloney 65 66 It is in the New York State Senate s 27th 28th and 29th districts 67 68 the New York State Assembly s 73rd and 76th districts 69 70 and the New York City Council s 4th and 5th districts 71 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 72 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 73 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 74 The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum at Fifth Avenue and 89th Street The Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue at 92nd St The Museum Mile FestivalLandmarks and cultural institutions EditMuseums Edit The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world The string of museums along Fifth Avenue fronting Central Park has been dubbed Museum Mile running between 82nd and 105th Streets It was once named Millionaire s Row The following are among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side 92nd Street Y 75 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 Manhattan House the Skidmore Owings amp Merrill designed mid century modernist white brick building at 200 E 66th Street once home to Grace Kelly and Benny Goodman Landmarked in 2007 76 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 Art galleries Edit Acquavella Galleries Kraushaar Galleries Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery Salon 94 Anita Shapolsky GalleryHotels partial list Edit Carlyle Hotel Affinia Gardens NYC The Mark Hotel The Pierre The Lowell Hotel Plaza Athenee New York The Sherry Netherland Houses of worship Edit Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Temple Emanu El of New York Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Brick Presbyterian Church Central Presbyterian Church 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 amp Lex St John the Martyr s Church Catholic Church St Thomas More Roman Catholic Church Temple Emanu El of New York Reform synagogue Temple Israel Reform synagogue Temple Shaaray Tefila Reform synagogue Third Church of Christ Scientist Islamic Cultural Center of New York mosque Zion St Mark s Evangelical Lutheran Church Diplomatic missions Edit 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 77 The Consulate General of France in New York is located at 934 Fifth Avenue between 74th Street and 75th Street 78 The Consulate General of Greece in New York is located at 69 East 79th Street occupying the former George L Rives residence The Consulate General of Italy in New York is located at 690 Park Avenue 79 The Consulate General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue 80 The Consulate General of Indonesia in New York is located at 5 East 68th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue 81 The Consulate General of Lebanon in New York is located at 9 East 76th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue 82 The Consulate General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street 83 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 84 Other missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include 85 Albania Belarus Bulgaria Cameroon Cape Verde Czech Republic Iraq Ivory Coast Cote d Ivoire Mali Mongolia Myanmar Burma Poland Serbia Historic districts Edit There are several historic districts in 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 16 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 14 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 10 3 13 4 Police and crime EditThe Upper East Side is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the NYPD located at 153 East 67th Street 86 The 19th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 84 5 between 1990 and 2019 The precinct reported 0 murders 18 rapes 171 robberies 138 felony assaults 223 burglaries 1 658 grand larcenies and 65 grand larcenies auto in 2019 87 As of 2018 update 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 52 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 88 89 90 In 2019 the highest concentration of felony assaults in the Upper East Side was near the intersection of 93rd Street and First Avenue where there were 10 felony assaults The highest concentration of robberies on the other hand was near the intersection of 86th Street and Lexington Avenue where there were 19 robberies 88 Fire safety Edit Quarters of FDNY Engine Company 39 Ladder Company 16 The Upper East Side is served by multiple New York City Fire Department FDNY fire stations 91 Engine Company 39 Ladder Company 16 157 East 67th Street 92 Engine Company 44 221 East 75th Street 93 Engine Company 22 Ladder Company 13 Battalion 10 159 East 85th Street 94 Health EditAs of 2018 update preterm births and births to teenage mothers in the Upper East Side are lower than the city average In the Upper East Side there were 73 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 3 4 births to teenage mothers per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 52 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 52 14 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in the Upper East Side is 0 0083 milligrams per cubic metre 8 3 10 9 oz cu ft more than the city average 52 9 Eight percent of Upper East Side residents are smokers which is less than the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 52 13 In 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 52 16 In addition 6 of children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 52 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 52 13 For every supermarket in the Upper East Side there are 5 bodegas 52 10 NewYork Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center Lenox Hill Hospital and NewYork Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center are located in the Upper East Side In addition Mount Sinai Hospital and Metropolitan Hospital Center are located nearby in East Harlem 95 96 Post offices and ZIP Codes EditThe 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 97 The United States Postal Service operates four post offices in the Upper East Side Cherokee Station 1483 York Avenue 98 Gracie Station 229 East 85th Street 99 Lenox Hill Station 221 East 70th Street 100 Yorkville Station 1617 Third Avenue 101 Education EditThe Upper East Side generally has a higher rate of college educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 update 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 52 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 102 The Upper East Side s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City In the Upper East Side 8 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year less than the citywide average of 20 53 24 PDF p 55 52 6 Additionally 91 of high school students in the Upper East Side graduate on time more than the citywide average of 75 52 6 Primary and secondary schools Edit Urban Academy Laboratory High School is in the Julia Richman Education Complex Public schools Edit The New York City Department of Education operates public schools in the city Public lower and middle schools PS 6 Lillie Devereux Blake School PS 77 The Lower Lab school PS 158 Bayard Taylor PS 183 Robert Louis Stevenson School PS 267 East Side Elementary PS 290 The New School of Manhattan MS 114 East Side Middle School JHS 167 Senator Robert F Wagner Middle School Public high schools Talent Unlimited High School Eleanor Roosevelt High School Urban Academy Laboratory High School Other schools Hunter College High School Marymount School of New York The West Building of Hunter College Private schools Edit Coeducational schools Birch Wathen Lenox School Caedmon School Dalton School Loyola School Lycee Francais de New York La Scuola d Italia Guglielmo Marconi Park East School Rudolph Steiner School see Waldorf education The Town School Trevor Day School Ramaz School Sephardic Academy of Manhattan Islamic Cultural Center School Girls schools 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 Boys schools Allen Stevenson School The Browning School The Buckley School Regis High School St Bernard s School St David s School Colleges and universities Edit Hunter College 103 Marymount Manhattan College 104 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 105 New York Medical College New York School of Interior Design 106 New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 107 New York University Institute of Fine Arts 108 Rockefeller University Weill Cornell Medical College Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell HealthLibraries Edit New York Public Library Yorkville branch The New York Public Library NYPL operates four branches in the Upper East Side The 67th Street branch is located at 328 East 67th Street The branch a Carnegie library opened in 1905 and was restored in the 1950s and in 2000 The two story 14 000 square foot 1 300 m2 structure resembles the Yorkville branch library in design 109 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 110 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 111 The 96th Street branch is located at 112 East 96th Street The branch a Carnegie library opened in 1905 and was restored in 1991 112 Transportation EditThe Upper East Side is served by two subway lines the four track IRT Lexington Avenue Line 4 5 6 and lt 6 gt trains under Lexington Avenue and the two track Second Avenue Subway N Q and R trains under Second Avenue 113 The Second Avenue Line serves to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line The first phase of the line opened on January 1 2017 consisting of three stations in the Upper East Side 96th Street 86th Street and 72nd Street 114 115 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 116 There are also local and limited MTA Regional Bus Operations routes M1 M2 M3 M4 M15 M15 SBS M31 M98 M101 M102 and M103 going uptown and downtown as well as the crosstown M66 M72 M79 SBS M86 SBS and M96 117 Media EditNews Edit The Upper East Side is served by several news organizations that focus on the neighborhood Our Town Upper East Site Patch UESIn popular culture Edit The Upper East Side has been a setting for many films television shows and other media Films Edit 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 Television shows Edit I Love Lucy 1951 1957 Family Affair TV series 1966 1971 That Girl TV series 1966 1971 The Odd Couple 1970 1975 The Jeffersons 1975 1985 Diff rent Strokes 1978 1986 The Nanny 1993 1999 High Society 1995 1996 Will amp 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 present The Undoing 2020 118 And Just Like That 2021 present Gossip Girl 2021 present Books Edit 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 Fictional places and characters Edit The X Men s fictional Hellfire Club mansion is said to be four blocks away from the Avengers Mansion another fictional building at 70th Street and Fifth Avenue Both locations would be in the Upper East Side if they were real 119 Mad Men s Don Draper owned an apartment in a fictional building at 73rd Street and Park Avenue Constance Billard School for Girls and St Jude s School for Boys in Gossip Girl 120 The Duchesne School in the vampire novels Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz 121 Percy Jackson title character of Rick Riordan s Percy Jackson amp the Olympians pentalogy 122 Sherman McCoy The Bonfire of the Vanities Samantha Delmonico and John Surling in Friends from College 123 Jacqueline White Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Notable people EditMain article List of people from the Upper East Side The neighborhood has a long tradition of being home to some of the world s most wealthy powerful and influential families and individuals Notable residential buildings Edit834 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 124 See also Edit New York City portalEast Side Manhattan Upper West Side Upper Manhattan Yorkville Manhattan Carnegie Hill Lenox HillReferences EditInformational notes Figures for Lenox Hill are tabulated alongside those for Roosevelt Island and so Lenox Hill s precise population cannot be ascertained on its own Citations a b NYC Planning Community Profiles communityprofiles planning nyc gov New York City Department of City Planning Retrieved March 18 2019 a b c d e Upper East Side neighborhood in New York PDF Retrieved September 18 2022 a b Table PL P3A NTA Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas 2010 Population Division New York City Department of City Planning March 29 2011 Accessed June 14 2016 Gronowicz Anthony Upper East Side in Jackson Kenneth T ed 2010 The Encyclopedia of New York City 2nd ed New Haven Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 11465 2 p 1352 The City Review Upper East Side the Silk Stocking District Plitt Amy The richest neighborhoods in New York City Where do the wealthiest New Yorkers live The answers may surprise you or not Curbed New York June 27 2017 Accessed September 3 2017 That the Upper East Side is No 1 should come as no surprise given the concentration of wealth found along the westernmost border of the neighborhood i e Museum Mile and the Gold Coast Gronowicz Anthony Upper East Side in Jackson Kenneth T ed 2010 The Encyclopedia of New York City 2nd ed New Haven Yale University Press p 1352 ISBN 978 0 300 11465 2 White Norval Willensky Elliot Leadon Fran 2010 AIA Guide to New York City 5th ed New York Oxford University Press p 416 ISBN 978 0 19538 386 7 Depalma Anthony January 31 1988 Is the Upper East Side Moving North The New York Times Retrieved May 12 2011 a b c d Upper East Side Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission May 19 1981 Retrieved December 6 2019 Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report Vol 1 May 19 1981 Landmarks Preservation Commission The Upper East Side PDF Citi Habitats 2007 Archived from the original PDF on September 17 2012 a b Upper East Side Historic District Extension PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission March 23 2010 Retrieved December 6 2019 a b Metropolitan Museum Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission September 20 1977 Retrieved December 6 2019 Park Avenue Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission April 29 2014 Retrieved December 14 2019 a b Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission December 21 1993 Retrieved December 6 2019 Henderson Place Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission February 11 1969 Retrieved December 6 2019 Treadwell Farm Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission December 13 1967 Retrieved December 6 2019 Noted 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 A reconstructed map of the patchwork ecologies of Manhattan island before Europeanization is presented in Sanderson 2009 map p 139 The history of the Upper East Side in the broader citywide context is repeatedly noted in Edwin G Burrows and Mike Wallace Gotham A History of New York City to 1898 1999 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 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 Rockefeller University history a b Early New York History Old Days In Yorkville And Harlem 1893 Oldandsold com Retrieved May 12 2011 Rosenzweig Roy amp Blackmar Elizabeth 1992 The Park and the People A History of Central Park Cornell University Press pp 20 21 map p 38 et passim ISBN 0 8014 9751 5 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 25 Realty Romance in Old Lenox Farm 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 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 Founded by James Lenox the chief features of the Presbyterian hospital The New York Times July 3 1892 Arthur T Vanderbilt 2nd Fortune s Children The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt New York 1989 Gray Christopher Streetscapes Edith Wharton In The Age of Innocence Fiction Was Not Truth The New York Times August 27 1995 Accessed September 3 2017 Wharton The Age of Innocence The Upper East Side Book 907 Fifth Avenue Thecityreview com July 31 2010 Retrieved May 12 2011 The Upper East Side Book Fifth Avenue 834 Fifth Avenue Thecityreview com Archived from the original on May 26 2011 Retrieved May 12 2011 Clos Mimi Clos Mimi March 22 2007 Archived from the original on April 26 2011 Retrieved May 12 2011 The Upper East Side Book Fifth Avenue 1125 Fifth Avenue Thecityreview com Retrieved May 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