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View from 96th Street looking south: Lexington Avenue angles up from the lower right corner

One of many historicist buildings in the Upper East Side (45 East 66th Street as seen across Madison Avenue)

The Jewish Museum in New York on 5th Ave at 92nd St. The Museum Mile Festival.

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.^[1] The ZIP codes included in this neighborhood are 10021, 10022, 10028, 10075, 10128, 10029 and 10065.

Once known as the 'Silk Stocking District',^[2] it retains its position as one of the most affluent neighborhoods of New York City.

History[link]

Before the arrival of Europeans, the mouths of streams^[3] 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.^[4]

In the 19th century^[5] 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.^[6] 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,^[7] and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street.^[8] By the mid-19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided, with the exception of the 150 acres (0.61 km²) of Jones's Wood, stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road (Third Avenue) to the river^[9] and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s,^[10] built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm's south-west corner,^[11] and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues.^[12] 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.^[8]

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.^[13] 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."^[14]

Wharton's picture has been uncritically accepted as history, Christopher Gray has pointed out.^[15]

Gracie Mansion, last of the East River villas

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.^[16]

Most members of New York's upper-class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil-rich Rockefellers,^[17] political Roosevelts,^[18] political dynastic Kennedys,^[19][20] thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys,^[21][22] and tobacco and electric power fortuned Dukes.^[23]

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.^[24] 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[link]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (left) at 5th Ave and 82nd St.

Generally speaking, the Upper East Side stretches from 59th Street to 96th Street (in the zip codes of 10021, 10022, 10065, 10075, 10028, 10029 and 10128).^[25]

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.^[26] 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.^[27]

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[link]

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.^[28] 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.^[29]

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.^{[citation needed]} As of 2000, 75.6% of adults (25+) had attained a bachelor's degree or higher.

Politics[link]

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.^[30]

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.^[31]

Musicians Mutual Protective Union, 85th Street

Economy[link]

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.^[32] 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).^[33] The Consulate-General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue.^[34] The Consulate-General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street (10065).^[35]

Missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include:^[36]

Cost of living[link]

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.^[37][38]

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[link]

The United States Postal Service operates post offices at Lenox Hill Station (10021), 221 East 70th Street; Cherokee Station (10075), 1483 York Avenue;^[39] Gracie Station (10028), 229 East 85th Street;^[40] and Yorkville Station (10128), 1617 3rd Avenue.^[41] [1] [2] New Zip codes now include 10065 and 10075

Transportation[link]

The Upper East Side is currently served by one subway line, the four-track IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 5 6 <6> 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[link]

East 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues with its townhouses is a typical example of the many sidestreets of the Upper East Side

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:

Houses of worship[link]

Temple Emanu-El of New York

• 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
• St. Ignatius Loyola, a Roman Catholic church
• 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
• Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Mosque
• St. Nicholas Cathedral, Russian Orthodox (ROCOR) Cathedral

Education[link]

Primary and secondary schools[link]

Private schools[link]

Colleges and universities[link]

JHS 22 Houston St Lower East Side

Public libraries[link]

The New York Public Library operates the 67th Street Branch Library at 328 East 67th Street, near First Avenue,^[43] the Yorkville Branch Library, 222 East 79th Street and the 96th Street Branch Library at 112 East 96th Street, near Lexington Avenue.^[44]

snowed Park Avenue

In popular culture[link]

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.

Notable residents[link]

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^[47]
• 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
• Brooke Astor, philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor.
• 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.^[48]
• Malachi Martin, best-selling author
• Ricky Gervais, comedian
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady
• Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Lynn Pressman Raymond, toy and game innovator who was president of the Pressman Toy Corporation^[49]
• Martin Scorsese, Academy Award-winning film director
• Eliot Spitzer, former governor of NY State
• Ariel Helwani, MMA Journalist for MMAFighting.com.
• Jamie Dimon
• Robert I. Lipp
• Jay S. Fishman
• David Koch
• Star Jones
• Michael Bloomberg
• Massimo & Lella Vignelli^[50]

See also[link]

• East Side (Manhattan)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Upper East Side

Community interest sites[link]

• Uppereast.com
• Wikipages Upper East Side
• UES MUSEUMS

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East Side or Eastside may refer to:

Places[link]

Municipalities[link]

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

Neighborhoods[link]

Canada[link]

• Eastside, Ontario, a neighborhood in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
• Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, British Columbia

United Kingdom[link]

• Eastside, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
• Eastside, Swansea, Wales

United States[link]

• 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[link]

• 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[link]

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

Film, TV and music[link]

• 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[link]

• Eastside High School (disambiguation)

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The Temple of Apollo is located at the end of Side's peninsula.

Side (Greek: Σίδη Side, Turkish: Side) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is now a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in Turkey, near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 75 km from Antalya) in the province of Antalya.^[1]

It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across.

History[link]

Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia. This most likely occurred in the 7th century BC. Possessing a good harbour for small-craft boats, Side's natural geography made it one of the most important places in Pamphylia and one of the most important trade centres in the region. According to Arrian, when settlers from Cyme came to Side, they could not understand the dialect. After a short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek and started using the language of Side. Excavations have revealed several inscriptions written in this language. The inscriptions, dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, remain undeciphered, but testify that the local language was still in use several centuries after colonisation. Another object found in the excavations at Side, a basalt column base from the 7th century BC and attributable to the Neo-Hittites, provides further evidence of the site's early history. The name Side is Anatolian in origin and means pomegranate.

Next to no information exists concerning Side under Lydian and Persian sovereignty.

Alexander the Great[link]

The Great Gate in the middle of Side's main street.

Temple of Apollo detail.

Alexander the Great occupied Side without a struggle in 333 BC. Alexander left only a single garrison behind to occupy the city. This occupation, in turn, introduced the people of Side to Hellenistic culture, which flourished from the 4th to the 1st century BC. After Alexander's death, Side fell under the control of one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy I Soter, who declared himself king of Egypt in 305 BC. The Ptolemaic dynasty controlled Side until it was captured by the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BC. Yet, despite these occupations, Side managed to preserve some autonomy, grew prosperous, and became an important cultural centre.

In 190 BC a fleet from the Greek island city-state of Rhodes, supported by Rome and Pergamum, defeated the Seleucid King Antiochus the Great's fleet, which was under the command of the fugitive Carthaginian general Hannibal. The defeat of Hannibal and Antiochus the Great meant that Side freed itself from the overlord-ship of the Seleucid Empire. The Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) forced Antiochus to abandon all European territories and to cede all of Asia Minor north of the Taurus Mountains to Pergamum. However, the dominion of Pergamum only reached de facto as far as Perga, leaving Eastern Pamphylia in a state of uncertain freedom. This led Attalus II Philadelphus to construct a new harbour in the city of Attalia (the present Antalya), although Side already possessed an important harbour of its own. Between 188 and 36 BC Side minted its own money, tetradrachms showing Nike and a laurel wreath (the sign of victory).

In the 1st century BC, Side reached a peak when the Cilician pirates established their chief naval base and a centre for their slave-trade.

Romans[link]

The consul Servilius Vatia defeated these brigands in 78 BC and later the Roman general Pompey in 67 BC, bringing Side under the control of Rome and beginning its second period of ascendancy, when it established and maintained a good working relationship with the Roman Empire.^[2]

Emperor Augustus reformed the state administration and placed Pamphylia and Side in the Roman province of Galatia in 25 BC, after the short reign of Amyntas of Galatia between 36 and 25 BC. Side began another prosperous period as a commercial centre in Asia Minor through its trade in olive oil. Its population grew to 60,000 inhabitants. This period would last well into the 3rd century AD. Side also established itself as a slave-trading centre in the Mediterranean. Its large commercial fleet engaged in acts of piracy, while wealthy merchants paid for such tributes as public works, monuments, and competitions as well as the games and gladiator fights. Most of the extant ruins at Side date from this period of prosperity.

One of the maps (portolani) of Piri Reis, taken from the Kitab-i Bahriye, which Piri produced in several editions, supplementing in 1520, but integrating it into subsequent editions.

Decline[link]

Side began a steady decline from the 4th century on. Even defensive walls could not stop successive invasions of highlanders from the Taurus Mountains. During the 5th and 6th centuries, Side experienced a revival, and became the seat of the Bishopric of Eastern Pamphylia. Arab fleets, nevertheless, raided and burned Side during the 7th century, contributing to its decline. The combination of earthquakes, Christian zealots and Arab raids, left the site abandoned by the 10th century, its citizens having emigrated to nearby Antalya.^[2]

In the 12th century, Side temporarily established itself once more as a large city. An inscription found on the site of the former ancient city shows a considerable Jewish population in early Byzantine times. However, Side was abandoned again after being sacked. Its population moved to Antalya, and Side became known as Eski Adalia ("Old Antalya") and was buried.

A hospital dating back to the 6th century.

This portion of the main street in Side is lined with the ruins of homes or shops, many of which feature their original mosaic tile flooring.

Ruins[link]

The great ruins are among the most notable in Asia Minor. They cover a large promontory where a wall and a moat separate it from the mainland. During medieval times, the wall and moat were repaired and the promontory houses a wealth of structures.

There are colossal ruins of a theatre complex, the largest of Pamphylia, built much like a Roman amphitheatre that relies on arches to support the sheer verticals. The Roman style was adopted because Side lacked a convenient hillside that could be hollowed out in the usual Greek fashion more typical of Asia Minor. The theatre is less preserved than the theatre at Aspendos, but it is almost as large, seating 15,000 - 20,000 people. With time and the shifting of the earth, the scena wall has collapsed over the stage and the proscenium is in a cataract of loose blocks. It was converted into an open-air sanctuary with two chapels during Byzantine times (5th-6th c.)

The well-preserved city walls provide an entrance to the site through the Hellenistic main gate (Megale Pyle) of the ancient city, although this gate from the 2nd century BC is badly damaged. Next comes the colonnaded street, whose marble columns are no longer extant; all that remains are a few broken stubs near the old Roman baths. The street leads to the a public bath, restored as a museum displaying statues and sarcophagi from the Roman period. Next is the square agora with the remains of the round Tyche and Fortuna temple (2nd c. BC), a periptery with twelve columns, in the middle. In later times it was used as a trading centre where pirates sold slaves. The remains of the theatre, which was used for gladiator fights and later as a church, and the monumental gate date back to the 2nd century. The early Roman Temple of Dionysus is near the theatre. The fountain gracing the entrance is restored. At the left side are the remains of a Byzantine Basilica. A public bath has also been restored.^[2]

The remaining ruins of Side include three temples, an aqueduct, and a nymphaeum. Side's nymphaeum – a grotto with a natural water supply dedicated to the nymphs – was an artificial grotto or fountain building of elaborate design.

There is also a virtually unknown, but expansive site, up in the Taurus foothills, several miles inland, known locally as Selacleure. Virtually unknown to the outside world and not represented on the internet at all, it is the Roman garrison, built by Mark Anthony, to support the city of Side. It covers at least a couple of square miles and is almost completely unexcavated, apart from two weeks in 1975, when the Turkish government funded two weeks of excavations. The site was, apparently, finally abandoned in the seventh century, when an earthquake caused the spring which fed the site with water to dry up completely. Many of the buildings are in remarkably good shape, particularly since, due to the lack of available stone, a significant quantity of the sites stonework contains egg and gravel based concrete blocks.

Turkish archaeologists have been excavating Side since 1947 and intermittently continue to do so.^[3]

Today[link]

In 1895 Turkish Muslim^[4][5][6] refugees from Crete moved to the ruined town and called it Selimiye. Today, Side has become a popular holiday destination and experiences a new revival.

It was a popular spot for watching the solar eclipse of March 29, 2006.

Having been the Bishopric of Eastern Pamphylia, it is still a titular see of the Roman Catholic church.

See also[link]

• Coinage of Side
• Manavgat Waterfall
• Oymapinar Dam
• Philip of Side
• Saint Probus of Side
• Sidetic language

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Side (Turkey)

• About Side and Manavgat
• Excellent Pictures - Pictures Of Side and Manavgat
• Side photos with explanations
• Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Side"
• Acceptable pictures of the museum, 105 of them
• Not bad pictures of the town, 230 of them
• Side Turkey Guide for UK Travellers

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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