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Upper East Side Information
The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York
City, between Central Park and the East River. It stretches from 59th Street
north to about 96th Street. However, as one approaches Central Park, the Upper
East Side's upper boundary climbs slightly north, nearly reaching 110th Street
on Fifth Avenue. Embedded within the Upper East Side are the neighborhoods of
Yorkville, centered on 86th Street and Third Avenue, and Carnegie Hill, centered
on 91st Street and Park Avenue.
The two square mile (5 km sq.) neighborhood, once known as the 'Silk Stocking
District', has some of the most expensive real estate in the United States, and
is believed to be the greatest concentration of individual wealth in the nation.
Until the Park Avenue railroad cut was covered (finished in 1910), the stylish
part of the Upper East Side with mansions and townhouses lay on Fifth Avenue,
bordering Central Park, while the area to the east was a blue-collar district
that included stables and breweries. A long high bluff fronting the river north
of Beekman Place was dotted with fine suburban villas in the nineteenth century,
the last remaining one being Gracie Mansion, now home of New York's mayors.
Among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
National Academy of Design
Neue Galerie
The Asia Society
Frick Collection
Museum of the City of New York (north of 96th Street)
The Jewish Museum
The 92nd Street Y
Museum of American Illustration
Goethe-Institut New York
The Upper East Side is also notable as the most important source 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 2000 presidential campaigns of both George W. Bush and Al Gore.