Upper East Side

Upper East Side is a district in the North-East of the island of Manhattan to New York, located between Central Park and the East River. One also finds there the old district of Yorkville, around the 86e street and of the Third Avenue.

Upper East Side was sometimes called the “District of the silk stockings”, he is inhabited by a rich population, and the price of the real estate is in the highest level of the the United States. Until the railway line which crosses it north to the south is covered, towards 1910, the part more cossue was located side of Central Park, while in the east of Lexington Avenue a residential zone much more popular was. On a headland face the East To rivet, one built with the XIXe century of beautiful villas of suburbs. The last to remain of this time is Gracie Mansion , the residence of the mayors of New York.

The district shelters a strong concentration of museums. It are mainly located along the Fifth Avenue, whose this portion was called “Museum Mile”:

Metropolitan Museum off Art (wedged in Central Park)
Museum Guggenheim
Whitney Museum off American Art
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
National Academy off Design
Neue Gallery
The Asia Society
Frick Collection
Museum off the City off New York
The Jewish Museum
Museum off American Illustration

External bonds

chart of Upper East Side
air Visit of “Upper East Side” in photographs

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