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Upper East Side

The Upper East Side of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.
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  • Type: Quarter with 208,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Manhattan
  • Also known as: “UES”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Central Park and American Museum of Natural History.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum on the of in . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from , the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.

Museum
The is an art museum located in , New York City, on 53rd Street between and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New York City and Manhattan.

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New York is a global center for media, entertainment, art, fashion, research, finance, and trade. The bustling, cosmopolitan heart of the 4th largest metropolis in the world and by far the most populous city in the United States, New York has long been a key entry point and a defining city for the nation.

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Wall Street. Madison Avenue. 34th Street. Broadway. Times Square. is so well known that even the names of its streets have become iconic and understood the world over.

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Broadway. Times Square. Madison Square Garden. The name says it all: the is the entertainment hub of the city, and possibly the entire nation.

Upper East Side

Latitude
40.77548° or 40° 46′ 32″ north
Longitude
-73.95502° or 73° 57′ 18″ west
Population
208,000
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q2GV+5X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2642533054
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
6615322
Wiki­data ID
Q455587
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Yiddish—“Upper East Side” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Վերին Իսթ Սայդ”
  • Asturian: “Upper East Side”
  • Basque: “Upper East Side”
  • Belarusian: “Верхні Іст-Сайд”
  • Catalan: “UES”
  • Catalan: “Upper East Side”
  • Chinese: “上东城”
  • Chinese: “上東城”
  • Czech: “Upper East Side”
  • Danish: “Upper East Side”
  • Dutch: “Upper East Side”
  • Esperanto: “Supra Orienta Flanko”
  • Esperanto: “Upper East Side”
  • Estonian: “Upper East Side”
  • Finnish: “Upper East Side”
  • French: “Upper East Side de Manhattan”
  • French: “Upper East Side”
  • Galician: “Upper East Side”
  • Georgian: “აპერ ისტ საიდი”
  • Georgian: “ზემო ისტ-საიდი”
  • German: “Upper East Side”
  • Greek: “Άπερ Ιστ Σάιντ”
  • Hebrew: “אפר איסט סייד”
  • Hebrew: “הצד המזרחי העליון”
  • Indonesian: “Upper East Side of Manhattan”
  • Indonesian: “Upper East Side”
  • Irish: “an Taobh Thoir Uachtarach”
  • Irish: “Upper East Side”
  • Italian: “Upper East Side”
  • Japanese: “アッパー・イースト・サイド”
  • Japanese: “アッパー・イースト”
  • Korean: “어퍼 이스트 사이드”
  • Korean: “어퍼이스트사이드”
  • Korean: “업퍼 이스트 사이드”
  • Latin: “Upper East Side”
  • Latvian: “Augšīstsaida”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Istsaidas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Upper East Side”
  • Norwegian: “Upper East Side”
  • Persian: “آپر ایست ساید”
  • Polish: “Upper East Side”
  • Portuguese: “Upper East Side”
  • Romanian: “Upper East Side”
  • Russian: “Аппер-Ист-Сайд”
  • Russian: “Верхний Ист-Сайд”
  • Serbian: “Aper ist sajd”
  • Serbian: “Апер ист сајд”
  • Slovak: “Upper East Side”
  • Slovenian: “UES”
  • Slovenian: “Upper East Side”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوپر ایست سید”
  • Spanish: “Upper East Side”
  • Swedish: “Upper East Side”
  • Thai: “Upper East Side”
  • Thai: “อัปเปอร์อีสต์ไซด์”
  • Turkish: “Upper East Side”
  • Ukrainian: “Верхній Іст-Сайд”
  • Urdu: “اپر ایسٹ سائڈ”
  • Welsh: “Upper East Side”
  • Yiddish: “אפער איסט סייד”

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