Welcome to Upper East Side
An upscale neighborhood famous for its affluent roots, and once home to America’s wealthiest families, such as the Carnegie’s, the Rockefeller’s, the Kennedy’s, the Roosevelt’s, the Vanderbilt’s, the Whitney’s, and other New York City’s elites that transformed the Upper East Side from a farmland and market garden in the mid-1800’s to the beautiful, quiet, and lush neighborhood it is today.
Bounded by 96th Street and 59th Street, from north to south, and East River and Central Park/Fifth Avenue, from east to west, this expansive neighborhood comprises three smaller sub-neighborhoods: Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill. For lovers of outdoors, Central Park becomes a garden and playground for walking, jogging, running, or to enjoy a picnic with friends on a sunny day. The Museum Mile is home to a row of some of the most famous art museums in the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Upper East Side moves at a slower, relaxed pace than other neighborhoods, but their storied reputation, along its main avenues—Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, and Fifth Avenue—are lined with luxury condominiums, coupled with Renaissance-style townhouses, brownstones, and classic mansions dating back to the 19th century, but also offers a diverse set of fine dining and casual restaurants, high-end designer shops and boutiques, all of which, makes this neighborhood a perfect residential area to live in.