Upper East Side
Upper East Side
Upper East Side | |
|---|---|
Neighborhood of Manhattan | |
| Nickname(s): UES | |
 Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates:40°46′08″N 73°57′58″W [331] | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New York |
| City |  New York City |
| Borough |  Manhattan |
| Community District | Manhattan 8[2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.6 km2(1.76 sq mi) |
| Population (2016)[3] | |
| • Total | 124,231 |
| • Density | 27,000/km2(71,000/sq mi) |
| Ethnicity | |
| • White | 79.0% |
| • Asian | 8.6 |
| • Hispanic | 7.1 |
| • Black | 3.2 |
| • Others | 2.2 |
| Economics | |
| • Median income | $131,492 |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| ZIP Codes | 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, 10128, 10029 |
| Area code | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park/Fifth Avenue, 59th Street, the East River, and 96th Street.[5] The area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville. Once known as the Silk Stocking District,[6] it is now one of the most affluent neighborhoods in New York City.[7]
The Upper East Side is part of Manhattan Community District 8 and its primary ZIP Codes are 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, and 10128.[2] It is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
Upper East Side | |
|---|---|
Neighborhood of Manhattan | |
| Nickname(s): UES | |
Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates:40°46′08″N 73°57′58″W [331] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Manhattan |
| Community District | Manhattan 8[2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.6 km2(1.76 sq mi) |
| Population (2016)[3] | |
| • Total | 124,231 |
| • Density | 27,000/km2(71,000/sq mi) |
| Ethnicity | |
| • White | 79.0% |
| • Asian | 8.6 |
| • Hispanic | 7.1 |
| • Black | 3.2 |
| • Others | 2.2 |
| Economics | |
| • Median income | $131,492 |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| ZIP Codes | 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, 10128, 10029 |
| Area code | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
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.[8] The AIA Guide to New York City extends the northern boundary to 106th Street near Fifth Avenue.[9]
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.[10]
Historic district
The Upper East Side Historic District is one of New York City's largest districts, as is the neighborhood. This district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue, and up to 3rd Avenue at some points. In the decades after the Civil War, the once decrepit district transitioned into a thriving middle class residential neighborhood. At the start of the 20th century, the neighborhood transformed again, but this time into a neighborhood of mansions and townhouses. As the century continued, and living environments altered, a lot of these single-family homes were replaced by lavish apartment buildings.[11]
History
Development
East 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, in the Upper East Side Historic District
Gracie Mansion, last remaining East River villa
In the 19th century[14] 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.[15] 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,[16] and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street.[17] 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[19] and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s,[20] built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm's south-west corner,[21] and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues.[22] 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.[17]
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.[23] 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.[24]
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.[25]— 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.[26]
Transportation constructed
45 East 66th Street, a designated New York City landmark, as seen across Madison Avenue
Musical Mutual Protective Union, 85th Street
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", 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.[33] From the 1880s the neighborhood of Yorkville became a suburb of middle class Germans.[34]
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.[35] 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.[36]
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.[37] 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.[38][39][40] This brought in new local business to the area and had positive impact on real estate prices in the Upper East Side.[41]
Demographics
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies the Upper East Side as part of two neighborhood tabulation areas: Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill-Yorkville and Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island.[42][1] 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).[43]
The racial makeup of the neighborhoods were 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 were 7.1% (15,563) of the population.[4]
The entirety of Community District 8, which comprises the Upper East Side, had 225,914 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.9 years.[44] [] This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[45] [] [46] Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (37%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 24% are between 45–64, and 20% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 14% and 5% respectively.[44] []
As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 8 was $123,894,[47] though the median income in the Upper East Side individually was $131,492.[3] In 2018, an estimated 7% of Upper East Side 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 the Upper East Side, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, the Upper East Side is considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.[44] []
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. The female-male ratio was very high with 125 females for 100 males.[48] The Upper East Side contains a large and affluent Jewish population estimated at 56,000.[49] Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families.[50][51][52]
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.[3] 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/㎡).[53][54] 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.[55]
Politics
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
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.[63]
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.[64]
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:
92nd Street Y[65]
Asia Society
Colony Club
Andrew Carnegie Mansion, which houses the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum
Henry Clay Frick House, which houses the Frick Collection
Goethe-Institut, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Irish Georgian Society
Jewish Museum of New York
Manhattan House, the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed mid-century modernist white brick building at 200 E 66th Street, once home to Grace Kelly and Benny Goodman. Landmarked in 2007[66]
El Museo del Barrio
Museum of the City of New York
National Academy of Design
Neue Galerie
Park Avenue Armory
Society of Illustrators
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art galleries
Acquavella Galleries
Kraushaar Galleries
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
Salon 94
Anita Shapolsky Gallery
Hotels
Carlyle Hotel
Courtyard by Marriott
Affinia Gardens NYC
The Mark Hotel
The Pierre
Renaissance New York Hotel 57
Houses of worship
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
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Modern Orthodox synagogue
Congregation Or Zarua, Conservative 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. 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
Diplomatic missions
Many diplomatic missions are located in former mansions on the Upper East Side:
The Consulate General of Austria in New York is located at East 69th Street, between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue.
The Consulate-General of France in New York is located at 934 Fifth Avenue between 74th Street and 75th Street.[67]
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.[68]
The Consulate-General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue.[69]
The Consulate-General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street.[70]
Other missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include:[71]
Albania
Belarus
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Czech Republic
Iraq
Indonesia
Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
Lebanon
Mali
Mongolia
Myanmar (Burma)
Poland
Serbia
Police and crime
The Upper East Side is patrolled by the 19th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 153 East 67th Street.[72] The 19th Precinct ranked 14th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.[73] With a non-fatal assault rate of 15 per 100,000 people, the Upper East Side's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 71 per 100,000 people is the lowest of any area in the city.[44] []
The 19th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 86.0% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct saw 1 murder, 14 rapes, 138 robberies, 147 felony assaults, 227 burglaries, 1,465 grand larcenies, and 71 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[74]
Fire safety
Engine Co. 39/Ladder Co. 16
The Upper East Side is served by multiple New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:[75]
Health
NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Preterm and teenage births 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 teenage births per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[44] [] 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.[44] []
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.[44] [] Eight percent of Upper East Side residents are smokers, which is less than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[44] [] 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.[44] [] In addition, 6% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[44] []
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%.[44] [] For every supermarket in the Upper East Side, there are 5 bodegas.[44] []
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.[79][80]
Post offices and ZIP codes
The Upper East Side is located in five primary ZIP Codes. From north to south, they are 10069 (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.[81] 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. 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.[44] [] 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.[86]
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%.[45] [] [44] [] Additionally, 91% of high school students in the Upper East Side graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.[44] []
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Marymount School of New York
The West Building of Hunter College
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
Private schools
Coeducational schools
Birch Wathen Lenox School
Caedmon School
Dalton School
Loyola School
Lycée Français 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
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
Hunter College[87]
Marymount Manhattan College[88]
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai[89]
New York Medical College
New York School of Interior Design[90]
New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World[91]
New York University Institute of Fine Arts[92]
Rockefeller University
Weill Cornell Medical College
Libraries
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.[93]
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.[94]
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.[95]
The 96th Street branch is located at 112 East 96th Street. The branch, a Carnegie library, opened in 1905 and was restored in 1991.[96]
Transportation
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.[98][99] 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.[100]
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.[101]
In popular culture
The Upper East Side has been a setting for many films, television shows, and other media.
Films
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
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)
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)
Television shows
Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011–2012)
The City (2008–2010)
Gossip Girl (2007–2012)
Ringer (2011–2012)
The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986)
That Girl (TV series) (1966–1971)
Family Affair (TV series) (1966–1971)
The Nanny (1993–1999)
Sex and the City (1998–2004)
Will & Grace (1998–2006)
Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009)
Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2008)
Gallery Girls (2012)
Ugly Betty (2006–2010)
The Real Housewives of New York City (2008–)
NYC Prep (2009–2010)
High Society (1995–1996)
Yes! PreCure 5 (2007–2008)
Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! (2008–2009)
I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Succession (2018–present)
White Collar (2009–2014)
The Odd Couple (1970–1975)[102]
Odd Mom Out (2015–), based on Jill Kargman's novel Momzillas
Books
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund by Jill Kargman
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J. D. Salinger
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Gossip Girl (novel series) by Cecily von Ziegesar
The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
The A-List (novel series) by Zoey Dean
Blue Bloods (novel series) by Melissa de la Cruz
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
The Manny by Holly Peterson
Momzillas by Jill Kargman
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
Twelve by Nick McDonell
Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin
Death Wish by Brian Garfield
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The 25th Hour by David Benioff
Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
Wolves In Chic Clothing by Jill Kargman
Fictional places and characters
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.[103]
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[104]
The Duchesne School in the vampire novels Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz[105]
Percy Jackson, title character of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy[106]
Sherman McCoy – The Bonfire of the Vanities
Jacqueline White (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Notable people
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:
A
Roman Abramovich (born 1966) – businessman, investor, and politician[107]
Woody Allen (born 1935) – film director, writer, and actor[108]
Herbert Allen Jr. (born 1940) – businessman[109]
George B. Agnew (1868–1941) – politician[110]
Rand Araskog (born 1931) – businessman[111]
Elizabeth Arden (1878–1966) – businesswoman[112]
Brooke Astor (1902–2007) – philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor[113]
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1930–2008) – socialite[114]
John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912) – businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, who was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and chose to remain on the ship when it sank..[115]
Vincent Astor (1891–1959) – businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family[116]
William Acquavella (born 1937/38) – art dealer[117]
B
Louis Bacon – hedge fund manager[118]
Jules Bache – banker[119]
Tallulah Bankhead – actress[120]
Joseph Baratta investor[121]
Amzi L. Barber – asphalt tycoon[122]
Demas Barnes – politician and a United States Representative from New York[123]
Bernard Baruch – financier[124]
Robert Bass – businessman and philanthropist[121]
William Bates – physician[125]
Stephen Vincent Benét – poet[126]
Leonard Bernstein – composer, conductor
Edward Julius Berwind – coal mining magnete[127]
Leon Black – hedge fund manager[128]
Lloyd Blankfein – banker[129]
Len Blavatnik – businessman, investor, and philanthropist[130]
Michael Bloomberg – billionaire philanthropist and former mayor of New York City[131]
René Bouché – artist and fashion illustrator[132]
Charles Bronfman – businessman and philanthropist[133]
Edgar Bronfman Jr. – businessman[134]
Edgar Bronfman Sr. – businessman and philanthropist[135]
Matthew Bronfman – businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist[136]
Arthur William Brown – illustrator[137]
Catherine Wolfe Bruce – Catherine Wolfe Bruce[138]
Patricia Buckley – socialite[139]
William F. Buckley Jr. – author[140]
Claus von Bülow – socialite
Tory Burch – fashion designer[141]
I. Townsend Burden – heir
James A. Burden II – industrialist[142]
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John T. Cahill – lawyer[143]
Hervey C. Calkin – U.S. Representative[144]
Anthony Campagna – real estate developer[145]
Eli Broad – entrepreneur[129]
Isaac Vail Brokaw – clothing merchant[148]
James A. Burden II – industrialist[149]
Mariah Carey – singer
Andrew Carnegie – industrialist[150]
Phoebe Cates – actress
Dick Cavett – comedian and former talk show host
Robert Chambers – the "Preppie Killer" of Jennifer Levin
Walid Chammah – executive[129]
James Chanos – investor[121]
Schuyler Chapin – art patron and general manager of the Metropolitan Opera
Gustavo Cisneros – businessman[151]
Huguette Clark – heiress[152]
James H. Clark – Netscape founder[153]
William A. Clark – politician and entrepreneur[154]
Montgomery Clift – actor[155]
Gifford A. Cochran – entrepreneur and sportsman[156]
George M. Cohan – entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and producer[155]
Charles Cohen – real estate developer[157]
Michael Cohen – attorney for Donald Trump[158]
Roy Cohn – lawyer, mentor to Donald Trump
Chase Coleman III – hedge fund manager[159]
William Coley – bone surgeon and cancer researcher
George Condo – artist[160]
Sean Connery – actor[161]
Mark Consuelos – actor[162]
Barbara Corcoran – businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality[163]
Katie Couric – journalist[164]
Simon Cowell – television judge and producer[165]
Gardner Cowles Jr. – publisher[111]
Jonathan Franzen – National Book Award-winning novelist
Charles Richard Crane – industrialist, heir, and noted Arabist
Joan Crawford – actress[155]
Aimée Crocker (1864–1941) – heiress, princess, author, world traveler
George Crocker – businessman[166]
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Alexandra Daddario – actress[167]
Antonio Damasio – neuroscientist[168]
William Augustus Darling – politician[169]
Norman Davis (diplomat) – diplomat[170]
Edward Coleman Delafield – Colonel and banker[123]
John DeLorean – engineer, inventor and executive in the U.S. automobile industry[171]
Oleg Deripaska – oligarch and philanthropist[172]
Joan Didion – author[173]
C. Douglas Dillon – diplomat and politician[174]
Jamie Dimon – banker[175]
Bob Diamond (banker) – former group chief executive of Barclays plc
James Dinan – hedge fund manager[176]
Julio Mario Santo Domingo – diplomat[111]
Plácido Domingo – tenor, conductor and arts administrator[177]
Marta Domingo – opera soprano, stage director and designer[177]
Glenn Dubin – hedge fund manager[178]
James Buchanan Duke – businessman[179]
Henry J. Duveen – art dealer
Charles Dyson – businessman[180]
James Dyson – inventor, industrial design engineer and founder of the Dyson company
E
Cheryl Eisen – interior designer[181]
Robert H. Ellsworth – art dealer
Israel Englander – hedge fund manager[182]
Jeffrey Epstein – financier and registered sex offender[183]
F
Sherman Fairchild – aviation pioneer[184]
Linda Fairstein (born 1947) – prosecutor and author
Philip Falcone – businessman[121]
José Fanjul – sugar baron[185]
Mia Farrow – actress
Barbara Feldon – actress
Frank Fertitta III – entrepreneur
Jay S. Fishman – insurance executive
Marshall Field – entrepreneur[111]
Stephen Feinberg – investor[186]
Michael Feinstein – singer[187]
Edna Ferber – writer[155]
J. Christopher Flowers – investor[188]
Karen Finerman – hedge fund manager and television personality[189]
Jonathan Franzen – National Book Award-winning novelist
Paul J. Fribourg – businessman[190]
Henry Clay Frick – industrialist, financier, union-buster, and art patron[191]
Richard S. Fuld, Jr. – banker[192]
G
Lady Gaga – singer
Gerald Garson – former NY Supreme Court Justice convicted of accepting bribes
Ina Garten – author[193]
Bruce Gelb – businessman and diplomat[194]
Gordon Getty – businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical music composer[195]
Pia Getty – filmmaker[196]
Sarah Michelle Gellar – actress
James W. Gerard – lawyer and diplomat[197]
Ricky Gervais – comedian, actor
John Giorno – artist
Rudy Giuliani – politician, attorney, businessman, public speaker, former mayor of New York City, and attorney to President Donald Trump[198]
Barbara Goldsmith – author, journalist, and philanthropist
Lawrence E. Golub – entrepreneur, philanthropist, and business executive[189]
Murray H. Goodman – real estate developer[199]
Noam Gottesman – hedge fund manager[200]
Jay Gould – railroad developer[201]
Ulysses S. Grant- 18th President of the United States, Commanding General of the Army, soldier, international statesman, and author[197]
Peter Grauer – Chairman Bloomberg L.P.[185]
Kenneth C. Griffin – hedge fund manager[202]
Bob Guccione – photographer[203]
Daphne Guinness – heiress, socialite, fashion designer, art collector, model, musician, film producer and actor
Meyer Guggenheim – patriarch of the Guggenheim family[204]
Simon Guggenheim – politician[205]
Randolph Guggenheimer – lawyer[206]
Thomas Guinzburg – publisher[139]
John Gutfreund – investment banker[140]
H
J. Hooker Hamersley – heir, lawyer and poet[207]
W. Averell Harriman – governor of New York[156]
Joshua Harris – investor[208]
Kitty Carlisle Hart – singer, advocate for the arts and historic preservation[139]
Henry Osborne Havemeyer – industrialist[209]
Millicent Hearst – wife of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst[195]
Drue Heinz – patron of the literary arts, actress, philanthropist and socialite[210]
Ariel Helwani – mixed martial arts writer
Jim Henson – puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, and filmmaker[134]
Leon Hess – Founder and President of Hess Corporation and one-time owner of the New York Jets
David M. Heyman (1891–1984) –financier, philanthropist, art collector[211]
Tommy Hilfiger – fashion designer[203]
J. Tomilson Hill – investor[212]
Henry Hilton – jurist and businessman[213]
Dennis Hoey – actor[214]
Lena Horne – singer[215]
Vladimir Horowitz – pianist and composer
I & J
K
Harry Kargman – CEO of Kargo[220]
Jill Kargman – author, writer and actress[220]
Herbert Kasper – fashion designer[139]
George S. Kaufman – playwright[221]
Slim Keith – socialite[139]
Caroline Kennedy – author, United States Ambassador (2013–2017) to Japan, and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
James Powell Kernochan – businessman and clubman[222]
Otto Hermann Kahn – investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts[223]
Kevin Kline – actor
Stephen King – author [224]
Richard Kirshenbaum – ad executive[225]
Sante Kimes – criminal[203]
David H. Koch – businessman, philanthropist, conservative political activist
Frederick R. Koch – collector and philanthropist[226]
Doron Kochavi – businessman, lawyer, philanthropist
Pannonica de Koenigswarter – jazz patron and write[221]
Jeff Koons – artist
Jerzy Kosiński – novelist[227]
Bruce Kovner – hedge fund manager[228]
Dennis Kozlowski – former CEO of Tyco International[229]
Nicola Kraus – novelist[230]
Peter S. Kraus – businessman, philanthropist and art collector
Henry Kravis – investor[178]
Jared Kushner – investor, real-estate developer, newspaper publisher, senior advisor to President Donald Trump[231]
L
Thomas W. Lamont – banker[232]
Marc Lasry – hedge fund manager[217]
Aerin Lauder – businesswomen[233]
Jane Lauder – businesswomen[234]
Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector and humanitarian[235]
William Lauder – businessman, and executive chairman of The Estée Lauder Companie
Matt Lauer – news anchor[236]
Charles Lazarus – founder of Toys R Us[185]
Lewis Cass Ledyard – lawyer[227]
Harper Lee – author[237]
Spike Lee – film director and producer
William B. Leeds – businessman[238]
Louise Linton – actress[239]
Robert Bass – businesswoman who is the widow of TLC Beatrice founder and CEO Reginald Lewis
Robert I. Lipp – businessman
John Langeloth Loeb Jr. – businessman, philanthropist, former United States Ambassador to Denmark, and former Delegate to the United Nations[240]
M
John J. Mack – banker[129]
Julie Macklowe – beauty entrepreneur and businesswoman[241]
Stewart and Cyril Marcus – gynecologists[203]
Soong Mei-ling – Former First Lady of the Republic of China, known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland – Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland[242]
Bernard Madoff – ex-hedge fund manager convicted of running a Ponzi scheme[243]
Madonna – entertainer; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009
Anne Windfohr Marion –[244] rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector
Barbara Margolis – prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter of New York City[245]
Howard Marks – investor[246]
Paul Marks (scientist) – medical doctor, researcher and administrator
Malachi Martin – – author
Wednesday Martin – author[247]
J. Ezra Merkin – hedge fund manager[248]
Rachel Lambert Mellon – horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector[249]
Charles E. Merrill – philanthropist, stockbroker, and co-founder of Merrill Lynch[250]
Howard Michaels – founder of the real estate investment advisory firm the Carlton Group[251]
Bette Midler – singer[252]
George W. Miller (politician) – politician[253]
Robert Mnuchin - banker[254]
Steven Mnuchin - investment banker, film producer, hedge fund manager, and Secretary of the US Treasury [255]
Mary Tyler Moore – actress[229]
Sonja Morgan[256]
Robert Moses – city planner, public official, referred to as the "master builder" of New York
Levi P. Morton – 22nd Vice President of the United States, ambassador, and former governor of New York[257]
Charles Murphy (hedge fund manager) – hedge fund manager[258]
James Murdoch – businessman[259]
Rupert Murdoch – media mogul
Wendi Deng Murdoch – businesswoman, and movie producer[260]
Arthur Murray – dancer[261]
N & O
Spyros Niarchos – shipping magenete[111]
Peggy Noonan – speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, political commentator and author
Deborah Norville – television anchor and businesswoman
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady of the United States[203]
Stanley O'Neal – banker[129]
Chris Noth – actor[262]
Frederick Osborn – philanthropist, military leader, and eugenicist[253]
Katharina Otto-Bernstein filmmaker[263]
P
Ashraf Pahlavi – Twin sister of the deposed Shah
William S. Paley – executive[195]
Vikram Pandit – banker[129]
Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor – businessman[151]
Joan Whitney Payson – heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector, and a member of the prominent Whitney family.
Sister Parish – interior decorator and socialite
Antenor Patiño – Tycoon[264]
Pope Francis – ex officio leader of the Roman Catholic Church[265]
Generoso Pope – Italian-American businessman and newspaper publisher, lived at 1040 Fifth Avenue
Zac Posen – fashion designer[266]
John Paulson – hedge fund manager[267]
Nelson Peltz – investor[268]
Holly Peterson – producer, journalist and novelist[269]
Peter George Peterson – investment banker and United States Secretary of Commerce[267]
Milton Petrie – retail investor[139]
Ronald Perelman – investor[270]
Peter O. Price – Media proprietor[140]
Harold Prince – theatrical producer and director
Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher[271]
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Lee Radziwill – princess, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Lynn Pressman Raymond – toy and game innovator, president of the Pressman Toy Corporation[272]
Stewart Rahr – pharmaceuticals magenta[273]
Steven M. Rales – businessman[274]
Robert Redford – actor[275]
Ira Rennert – investor and businessman
Kelly Ripa – talk show host[162]
Joan Rivers – comedian[276]
David Rockefeller – banker[277]
John D. Rockefeller Jr. – financier and philanthropist[270]
Laurance Rockefeller – philanthropist, businessman, financier, and major conservationist[139]
Felix Rohatyn – investment banker
Julia Restoin Roitfeld – art director and model[278]
Eleanor Roosevelt – political figure, diplomat and activist[221]
Elihu Root – Former Secretary of State[279]
Steve Ross – CEO of Time Warner[270]
James Rorimer – museum director[280]
Aby Rosen – real estate developer[281]
Alexander Rovt – real estate investor[282]
Marc Rowan- investor[283]
Helena Rubinstein – businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist
Serge Rubinstein – stock and currency manipulator and murder victim[155]
Jacob Ruppert – brewer[203]
Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – Saudi royal
S
Lily Safra – philanthropist and socialite[284]
Walter J. Salmon Sr. – real estate developer[285]
Nassef Sawiris – CEO[185]
Jacob Schiff – banker[286]
Martin Scorsese – film director and producer[287]
Stephen Schwarzman – businessman[288]
Arthur Hawley Scribner – president of Charles Scribner's Sons.[289]
Charles R. Schwab – investor, financial executive, and philanthropist
Ryan Seacrest – radio personality, television host, and producer[290]
Terry Semel – Yahoo! CEO[195]
Leonard Sillman – broadway producer[132]
David Simon – CEO of Simon Malls
Ramona Singer – TV personality[291]
William Douglas Sloane- businessman, sportsman, philanthropist[292]
Al Smith – former governor of New York[293]
George Soros – hedge fund manager[294]
Andy Spade – fashion designer[295]
Kate Spade – fashion designer[295]
Jerry Speyer – real estate developer[296]
Carl Spielvogel – ambassador to the Slovak Republic
Eliot Spitzer – former Governor of New York[297]
John Steinbeck – author[298]
Saul Steinberg – businessman[111]
Benjamin Steinbruch – CEO[185]
Gloria Steinem – journalist[299]
Michael Steinhardt – financier[300]
George Stephanopoulos – journalist, political commentator and former Democratic adviso[301]
Danielle Steel – writer
Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes – architect
Willard Dickerman Straight – Investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family[228]
Jesse I. Straus – ambassador to France
Roger Williams Straus Jr. – entrepreneur[142]
Igor Stravinsky – composer[155]
Margaret Rockefeller Strong – activist[302]
Robert L. Stuart – industrialist[303]
Sy Syms – Founder and owner of Syms Corporation discount clothing retailer and benefactor of Yeshiva University's Syms School of Business
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Elie Tahari – fashion designer[304]
A. Alfred Taubman – businessman, investor, and philanthropist
Margaretta Taylor – media heiress[128]
John Thain – banker[305]
Chloe Temtchine – singer-songwriter[306]
Jonathan Tisch – Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels & Co.[307]
Wilma Tisch- socialite[308]
Ronn Torossian – public relations executive
Donald Trump Jr. – businessman and former reality television personality[309]
Ivana Trump – former model and businesswoman, who was the first wife of Donald Trump[310]
Ivanka Trump – American businesswoman, fashion designer, author, reality television personality, daughter of Donald Trump[231]
Vanessa Trump – socialite, actress and former model[177]
U – V
James Ramsey Ullman – writer and mountaineer[161]
Roberto Mangabeira Unger – philosopher and politician
Louis Untermeyer – Author, anthologist, editor, poet[174]
Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt – wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II
Anne Harriman Vanderbilt – heiress[311]
Gloria Vanderbilt – artist, author, actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite[312]
William Kissam Vanderbilt II – motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman
Gary Vaynerchuk – entrepreneur, author, speaker and Internet personality[313]
Leila and Massimo Vignelli – designers[314]
Vincent Viola businessman[315]
W
Mike Wallace – journalist[139]
Andy Warhol – artist
Sigourney Weaver – actress
Elie Wiesel – Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986[316]
Vera Wang – fashion designer[182]
Felix M. Warburg – banker
James Warburg – banker[317]
Paul Warburg – banker[156]
Bruce Wasserstein – investment banker[318]
Claude Wasserstein – investor, producer and philanthropist[319]
Franz Waxman – composer[320]
Susan Weber (historian)[144]
Michel David-Weill – banker[195]
Les Wexner – businessman
Boaz Weinstein – hedge fund manager[121]
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney – sculptor, art patron, collector, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art[122]
Lawrence Grant White – architect[321]
Mary Jo White – Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission[177]
William Collins Whitney – political leader and financier[122]
Alec N. Wildenstein – businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder.[322]
Jocelyn Wildenstein – socialite[322]
P. G. Wodehouse – author[325]
Jayne Wrightsman – philanthropist[274]
Y – Z
See also
East Side (Manhattan)
Upper West Side
Upper Manhattan
Yorkville, Manhattan
Carnegie Hill
Lenox Hill