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The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, that lies between Central Park and the East River.
It is generally accepted to stretch from East 59th St. north to about 96th St., where the railroad tracks of the former New York Central Railroad (and now of the Metro-North Railroad) emerge from beneath Park Avenue to cross
Spanish Harlem and Harlem on a massive stone viaduct. Embedded within the Upper East Side is the older neighborhood of
Yorkville, centered on 86th St. and Third Avenue.
The two-square mile neighborhood, once known as the 'Silk Stocking District', has some of the most expensive real estate in
the United States. Until the railroad cut was covered, about 1910, the stylish part of the
Upper East Side with mansions and townhouses lay towards the park, generally speaking, while the area east of Lexington Avenue
was a blue-collar district that included stables and breweries. A long high bluff fronting the river north of Beekman Place was
dotted with fine suburban villas in the nineteenth century, the last remaining one being Gracie Mansion, now home of New
York's mayors.
Its north-south avenues are Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Third, Second
and First Avenues, York Avenue, Sutton Place, and East End Avenue.
The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue has been dubbed
"Museum Mile." Among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side:
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