The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. The Upper East Side lies within an area bounded by 59th Street to 96th Street, and the East River to Fifth Avenue-Central Park. The ZIP codes included in this neighborhood are 10021, 10022, 10028, 10075, 10128, 10029 and 10065.

Once known as the 'Silk Stocking District', it retains its position as one of the most affluent neighborhoods of New York City.

History

Before the arrival of Europeans, the mouths of streams 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.

In the 19th century 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. 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, and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street. By the mid-19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided, with the exception of the of Jones's Wood, stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road (Third Avenue) to the river and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s, built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm's south-west corner, and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues. 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 in the 50s. 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:

"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's picture has been uncritically accepted as history, Christopher Gray has pointed out. Before the Park Avenue railroad cut 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.

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

Construction of the 3rd Avenue El, opened from 1878 in sections, followed by the 2nd Avenue El, opened in 1880, 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", 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. From the 1880s Yorkville, as it was known, extended eastwards toward the river and westwards past Lexington Avenue; Yorkville became a suburb of middle-class Germans, many of whom worked in nearby piano factories, stables, and breweries.

Gracie Mansion, the last remaining suburban villa overlooking the East River, became the home of New York's mayor in 1942. The East River Drive, designed by Robert Moses, was extended southwards 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.

Demolishing the els on Third and Second opened the avenues of tenements to the spotty construction of high-rise apartment blocks from the 1950s.

Geography

Generally speaking, the Upper East Side stretches from 59th Street to 96th Street (in the zip codes of 10021, 10022, 10065, 10075, 10028, and 10128).

Many realtors used the term "Upper East Side" instead of "East Harlem" to define areas that are north of 96th street such as on 5th ave or areas close by such as 97th street to avoid the negative connotation since people associate the latter with being a less prestigious neighborhood. However, zip codes 10029 and the elected officials that represent East Harlem never cross 96th street and they do not refer to their neighborhoods as being part of the Upper East Side. On the other hand, according the NY Department of Buildings, Upper East Side actually extends from 97th St. up to 110th St. if you are residing in the areas between Central Park 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue.

Its north-south avenues are Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Third, Second and First Avenues, York Avenue, and East End Avenue (the latter runs only from East 79th Street to East 90th Street).

Demographics

As of the 2000 census, there were 207,543 people residing in the Upper East Side. The population density was 118,184 people per square mile (45,649/km²), making Manhattan Community Board 8, coterminous with the Upper East Side, the densest Community Board in the city. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 88.25% White, 6.14% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.34% African American, 0.09% Native American, 1.39% from other races, and 1.74% from two or more races. 5.62% of the population were Hispanic of any race. 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. The female-male ratio was very high with 125 females for 100 males.

Given its very high population density and per capita income ($85,081 in 2000), the neighborhood is believed to contain the greatest concentration of individual wealth in the world. As of 2000, 75.6% of adults (25+) had attained a bachelor's degree or higher.

Politics

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.

The Upper East Side is also 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.

Economy

Many diplomatic missions are located in former mansions on the Upper East Side. The Consulate-General of France in New York is located at 934 Fifth Avenue between 74th Street and 75th Street. The Consulate-General of Greece in New York is located at 69 East 79th Street (10021), occupying the former George L. Rives residence. The Consulate-General of Italy in New York is located at 690 Park Avenue(10065). The Consulate-General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue. The Consulate-General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street (10065).

Missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include:

Albania

Belarus

Bulgaria

Cameroon

Cape Verde

Côte d'Ivoire

Czech Republic

Iraq

Mali

Mongolia

Myanmar

Poland

Serbia

Cost of living

The Upper East Side maintains one of the highest pricing per square foot in the United States. A 2002 report cited the average cost per square foot as $856; however, that price has noticed a substantial jump, increasing to almost as much as $1,200 per square foot as of 2006.

The only public housing projects for those of low to moderate incomes on the Upper East Side are located just below the neighborhood's northern limit at 96th Street, the Holmes Towers and Isaacs Houses.

Government and infrastructure

The United States Postal Service operates post offices at Lenox Hill Station (10021), 221 East 70th Street; Cherokee Station (10075), 1483 York Avenue; Gracie Station (10028), 229 East 85th Street; and Yorkville Station (10128), 1617 3rd Avenue. [1] [2] New Zip codes now include 10065 and 10075

Transportation

The Upper East Side is currently served by one subway line, the four-track IRT Lexington Avenue Line ( trains), and local bus routes. Due to severe congestion on the subway and buses, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is currently building a new subway line, the Second Avenue Subway, along Second Avenue. The first phase will run from 96th Street to 63rd Street, where it will physically connect with the BMT Broadway Line; service will be provided by a northern extension of the Q train. In later phases, the line will be extended north to 125th Street/Park Avenue in Harlem and south to Hanover Square in the Financial District, and a new T train will run its entire length.

Landmarks and cultural institutions

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." It was once named "Millionaire's Row." Among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side:

The 92nd Street Y

The Asia Society

Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum

The Frick Collection

Goethe-Institut New York

The Jewish Museum of New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

El Museo Del Barrio

The Museum of the City of New York

The National Academy of Design

Manhattan House, the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed mid-century modernist white brick building at 200 E 66th Street, once home to Grace Kelly and Benny Goodman. Landmarked in 2007

The Neue Galerie

Society of Illustrators

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Whitney Museum of American Art

The Irish Georgian Society

;Political institutions

The Council on Foreign Relations

;Hotels

Plaza Hotel (technically in Midtown)

The Carlyle Hotel

The Pierre

Bentley Hotel

Houses of worship

Church of the Heavenly Rest, an Episcopal Church

Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, a Modern Orthodox synagogue

Congregation Or Zarua, a Conservative synagogue

Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, an Orthodox Sephardic synagogue

Fifth Avenue Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church

Park Avenue Christian Church, a Disciples of Christ church

Park Avenue Synagogue, a Conservative Jewish congregation

Park East Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue

St. John the Martyr's Church, a Roman Catholic church

Temple Emanu-El of New York, a Reform synagogue

Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Private schools

;Girls' schools

The Brearley School

The Chapin School

The Convent of the Sacred Heart

Dominican Academy

The 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

St. Bernard's School

St. David's School

Regis High School

;Coeducational schools

Birch Wathen Lenox School

Dalton School

Loyola School

Lycée Français de New York

La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi

Park East School

Rudolph Steiner School

The Town School

Trevor Day School

Ramaz School

Public schools

New York City Department of Education operates area public schools. ;Public lower and middle schools

PS 183 (Robert Louis Stevenson School)

PS 77 The Lower Lab school

East Side Middle School

PS 6 (Lillie Devereux Blake School)

PS 158 (East Side Middle School)

Senator Robert F. Wagner Middle School (JHS 167)

;Public high schools

Talent Unlimited High School

Eleanor Roosevelt High School

Urban Academy Laboratory High School

;Other Schools

Hunter College High School

Colleges and universities

Cornell University Medical School

Hunter College

Marymount Manhattan College

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Rockefeller University

Metropolitan Hospital (NY Medical College)

New York School of Interior Design

Lenox Hill Hospital

JHS 22 Houston St Lower East Side

Public libraries

The New York Public Library operates the 67th Street Branch Library at 328 East 67th Street, near First Avenue, the Yorkville Branch Library, 222 East 79th Street and the 96th Street Branch Library at 112 East 96th Street, near Lexington Avenue.

In popular culture

The Upper East Side has been a setting for many movies, television shows, and many other media due to its world-class museums, expensive restaurants and boutiques, proximity to Central Park, elite schools, and influential residents.

Movies

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961)

''The Boys in the Band'' (1970)

''Live and Let Die'' (1973)

''The Great Gatsby'' (1974)

''Kramer vs. Kramer'' (1979)

''Manhattan'' (1979)

''The Muppets Take Manhattan'' (1984)

''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)

''Men in Black (1997)

''A Perfect Murder'' (1998)

''Cruel Intentions'' (1999)

''Eyes Wide Shut'' (1999)(Although this film purports to depict the UES, the film's principal photography with all the actors and actresses was done in the UK. Including the scenes, where the Tom Cruise character was seen walking around were in fact all sound stages.)

''Autumn in New York'' (2000)

''American Psycho'' (2000)

''Tart'' (2001)

'' The Princess Diaries'' (2001)

''25th Hour'' (2002)

''Uptown Girls'' (2003)

''The Producers'' Roger De Bris townhouse. (2005)

''The Nanny Diaries'' (2007)

''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002)

''The Bourne Ultimatum'' (2007)

''The Devil Wears Prada'' (2007)

''Sex and the City: The Movie'' (2008)

''Ghost Town'' (2008)

''Made of Honor'' (2008)

''The Wackness'' (2008)

''The Women'' (2008)

''Bride Wars'' (2009)

''Confessions of a Shopaholic'' (2009)

''Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'' (2010)

''The Back-up Plan'' (2010)

''Sex and the City 2'' (2010)

''Twelve'' (2010)

''Remember Me (2010 film)'' (2010)

TV

''Show Me The Manny'' (2010–)

''Kourtney and Kim Take New York'' (2011–)

''Friends'' (1994-2004)

''Gossip Girl'' (2007–)

''Lipgloss'' (2008–)

''Ang Pangarap Kong Jackpot''

''Calel Gosingtian'' (2010–)

''How I Met Your Mother'' (2005–)

''The Jeffersons'' (1975–1985)

''Diff'rent Strokes'' (1978–1986)

''The Nanny'' (1993–1999)

''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004)

''Will & Grace'' (1998–2006)

''Lipstick Jungle'' (2008–2009)

''Dirty Sexy Money'' (2007–2008)

''Daria'' (1997–)

''Ugly Betty'' (2006–2010)

''Road to High School Musical 2'' (2007)

''New York Twinx'' (2010–)

''The Real Housewives of New York City'' (2008–)

''NYC Prep'' (2009–)

''High Society'' (2010–)

''Sesame Street'' (1969–) (Various clues over the years suggest this)

Books

''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' by Truman Capote

''The Princess Diaries'' by Meg Cabot

''The Catcher in the Rye'' by J. D. Salinger

''American Psycho'' by Bret Easton Ellis

''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' by Tom Wolfe

''The Bourne Identity'' by Robert Ludlum

'' Gossip Girl Series'' by Cecily von Ziegesar

''Gossip Girl: The Carlyles'' by Cecily von Ziegesar

''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

''The Nanny Diaries'' by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin

''The Up and Comer'' by Howard Roughan

''The A-List'' by Zoey Dean

''The Au-Pairs'' and ''Blue Blood Novels'' by Melissa de la Cruz

''Harriet the Spy'' by Louise Fitzhugh

''Percy Jackson & the Olympians'' by Rick Riordan

''Chronic City'' by Jonathan Lethem

The Analyst by John Katzenbach

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella

''Blue Bloods'' by Melissa de la Cruz

Fictional places

Treadstone Seventy-One

Constance Billard School for Girls

St. Jude's School for Boys

The Empire Hotel

The Duchesne School

Notable residents

The neighborhood has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals. Some of the notable people who have lived here include:

Woody Allen, film director, screenwriter, and actor

Lady Gaga, Multiple Grammy-Award winning Singer/Songwriter and Performance Artist, grew up on the Upper East Side.

Joan Didion, Award-winning author

Jonathan Franzen, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist

Gerald Garson, former NY Supreme Court Justice convicted of accepting bribes to manipulate outcomes of divorce proceedings

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Award-winning actress

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy

Spike Lee, Emmy Award-winning director

Madonna purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009

Barbara Margolis, prisoners' rights advocate who served as official greeter of New York City.

Malachi Martin, best-selling author

Ricky Gervais, comedian

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady

Lynn Pressman Raymond, toy and game innovator who was president of the Pressman Toy Corporation

Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning film director

Eliot Spitzer, former governor of NY State

Massimo & Lella Vignelli

See also

East Side (Manhattan)

References

External links

Community interest sites

Uppereast.com

Wikipages Upper East Side

UES MUSEUMS

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Railway platforms at railway stations on double lines can be either side platforms or island platforms. With side platforms, track centres remain the same, and no space is lost for slewing the track to wider centres, as would be needed for an island platform. Side platforms usually have access to neighbouring streets. While most stations on double-track routes have two side platforms on opposite sides of the track, some stations have a single side platform (notably Cambridge in the U.K., although this will no longer be the case by 2012), split into two by a scissors crossing mid-way along its length. Platforms can also be staggered.

The distance between the track centres (track centerlines midway between rails) is typically about , while each side platform might be wide. The use of side platforms in new train and subway stations may be severely limited if space is at a premium due to regulations regarding the minimum width of platforms.

Most stations with two side platforms have an 'Up' platform which is used by trains heading towards the primary destination of the line, with the other platform being the 'Down' platform which takes trains heading the opposite way. Normally, the main facilities of the station are located on the 'Up' platform with the other platform accessed from a footbridge, subway or a track crossing. However, in many cases the station's main buildings are located on whichever side faces the town or village the station serves.

Larger stations may have two side platforms with several island platforms in between.

At grade crossings

Side platforms often appear exactly opposite each other, on either side of the tracks. However, at grade crossings, side platforms may appear on opposite sides of the grade crossing. When this is done, there are two common configurations:

Near-side platforms. In this configuration, each platform appears ''before'' the intersection. So for a north-south line, the northbound platform will appear south of the crossing, and the southbound platform will appear north of the crossing.

Far-side platforms. In this configuration, each platform appears ''after'' the intersection. So for a north-south line, the northbound platform will appear north of the crossing, and the southbound platform will appear south of the crossing.

Some platforms, such as the Skytrain in Vancouver have platforms which are yellow with rough and bumpy texture. This colour and texture helps the blind to sense that they are too close to the platform edge. This platform type is usually used for subways.

References

Railway Technical Web Pages

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East Side or Eastside may refer to:

Places

Municipalities

East Side Township, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, United States

East Side, Pennsylvania, United States

Neighborhoods

Canada

Eastside, Ontario, a neighborhood in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, British Columbia

United Kingdom

Eastside, Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Eastside, Swansea, Wales

United States

Eastside, Binghamton, a neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York State city of Binghamton

East Side, Buffalo, New York

East Side, Chicago, Illinois

Eastside, Flint, Michigan

Eastside, California

East Side, Kansas City

Eastside, Lexington, a neighborhood in southeastern Lexington, Kentucky, United States

Eastside, Long Beach, California

East Los Angeles, California

East Los Angeles (region)

East Side (Melrose), a Melrose, Massachusetts neighborhood

East Side (Manhattan), New York

Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York

Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York

East Side, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Eastside, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Eastside, Paterson, New Jersey

East Side, Phoenix, Arizona

East Side, Providence, Rhode Island, a collection of neighborhoods in Providence, Rhode Island

East Side, St. Paul, Minnesota

East San Jose, California

East Side of Stamford, Connecticut

Other regions

Eastside (King County, Washington), the eastern suburbs of Seattle, Washington.

The East Coast of the United States, the easternmost coastal states in the United States

Eastern Washington, the portion of the U.S. state of Washington east of the Cascade Range

Shopping Arcade

Eastside, Cardiff, part of St. David's Centre, Cardiff, Wales.

Film, TV and music

''Eastside'' (film), a 1999 film by Lorena David starring Mario Lopez

''East Side/West Side'', a 1963 TV show

''The East Side Boyz'', rap music producer Lil Jon's group

''East Side'', a 2000 song by Canadian pop group Smoother

See also

Eastside High School (disambiguation)

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