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Upper West Side

The Upper West Side covers a large area in upper bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and and Morningside Park on the east.
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  • Type: Quarter with 227,000 residents
  • Description: neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
  • Also known as: “Upper West Side, Manhattan”, “Upper West Side, New York City”, and “Upper West Side, New York City, New York”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Central Park and American Museum of Natural History.

Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side 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.

Public building
Photo: Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0.
is a folly in in , . It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Upper East Side and Manhattan Valley.

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The 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.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in the northern part of the Upper West Side of in . It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.

Town
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is a town in the northern part of , in the U.S. state of . In the 2020 Census, it was the most densely populated incorporated municipality in the United States, as well as one of the most densely populated municipalities…

Upper West Side

Latitude
40.78705° or 40° 47′ 13″ north
Longitude
-73.97542° or 73° 58′ 32″ west
Population
227,000
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q2PF+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158839157
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
5142036
Wiki­data ID
Q429687
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Upper West Side” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجانب الغربي الشمالي لمنهاتن”
  • Armenian: “Վերին Վեսթ Սայդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Vest-Sayd”
  • Basque: “Upper West Side”
  • Belarusian: “Верхні Уэст-Сайд”
  • Catalan: “Upper West Side”
  • Chinese: “上西城”
  • Czech: “Upper West Side”
  • Danish: “Upper West Side”
  • Dutch: “Upper West Side”
  • Esperanto: “Supra Okcidenta Flanko”
  • Estonian: “Upper West Side”
  • Finnish: “Upper West Side”
  • French: “Upper West Side de Manhattan”
  • French: “Upper West Side”
  • Georgian: “ზემო ვესტ-საიდი”
  • German: “Upper West Side”
  • Greek: “Άπερ Γουέστ Σάιντ”
  • Hebrew: “אפר וסט סייד”
  • Icelandic: “Upper West Side”
  • Indonesian: “Upper West Side”
  • Italian: “Upper West Side”
  • Japanese: “アッパー・イースト・サイド”
  • Japanese: “アッパー・ウェスト・サイド”
  • Japanese: “アッパー・ウエスト・サイド”
  • Korean: “어퍼웨스트사이드”
  • Latin: “Upper West Side”
  • Latvian: “Augšvestsaida”
  • Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Vestsaidas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Upper West Side”
  • Maltese: “Upper West Side”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Upper West Side”
  • Persian: “آپر وست ساید”
  • Polish: “Upper West Side”
  • Portuguese: “Upper West Side”
  • Romanian: “Upper West Side”
  • Russian: “Аппер-Вест-Сайд”
  • Russian: “Верхний Вест-Сайд”
  • Russian: “Верхний Вестсайд”
  • Serbian: “Aper vest sajd”
  • Serbian: “Апер вест сајд”
  • Slovak: “Upper West Side”
  • Slovenian: “Upper West Side”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوپر وزت سید”
  • Spanish: “Upper West Side (Manhattan)”
  • Spanish: “Upper West Side”
  • Swedish: “Upper West Side”
  • Thai: “อัปเปอร์เวสต์ไซด์”
  • Turkish: “Upper West Side”
  • Ukrainian: “Верхній Вест-Сайд”
  • Ukrainian: “Верхній Вестсайд”
  • Vietnamese: “Upper West Side”
  • Welsh: “Upper West Side”
  • Yiddish: “אפער וועסט סייד”

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