Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Cultural Services of the French Embassy is an office in Manhattan, New York, which is located on 5th Avenue. Cultural Services of the French Embassy is situated near the bookstore Albertine Books, as well as near the manor estate Payne Whitney House.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Central Park and Payne Whitney House.

Central Park

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

Payne Whitney House

Manor estate

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The Payne Whitney House is a historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in the High Italian Renaissance style by architect Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Museum

Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Upper East Side and Lenox Hill.

Upper East Side

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The Upper East Side of Manhattan is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of Central Park, 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.

Lenox Hill

Neighborhood

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Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

Upper West Side

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The Upper West Side covers a large area in upper Manhattan bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and Central Park and Morningside Park on the east.

Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Type: Educational institution
Address: 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10021
Categories: office and education
Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.77661° or 40° 46′ 36″ north

Longitude

-73.96379° or 73° 57′ 50″ west

Open location code

87G8Q2GP+JF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3278932330

OpenStreetMap feature

office=educational_institution

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Albertine Books and Harry F. Sinclair House.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: 5th Avenue & East 79th Street and New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

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Worth a closer look: Central Park and Upper East Side.

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