Upper East Side - wikipedia Upper East Side This article is about the neighborhood in New York City. For the neighborhood in Miami, see Upper Eastside. Upper East Side Neighborhood of Manhattan Park Avenue in the Upper East Side, lined with apartment buildings, looking north from East 74th Street ( September 2016 ) Upper East Side Upper East Side Upper East Side Show map of Manhattan Show map of New York City Show map of the US Show all Coordinates : 40 ° 46 ′ 09 '' N 73 ° 57 ′ 56 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.76917 ° N 73.96556 ° W ﻿ / 40.76917 ; - 73.96556 Coordinates : 40 ° 46 ′ 09 '' N 73 ° 57 ′ 56 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.76917 ° N 73.96556 ° W ﻿ / 40.76917 ; - 73.96556 Country United States State New York City New York City Borough Manhattan Area Total 1.76 sq mi ( 4.6 km ) Land 1.76 sq mi ( 4.6 km ) Water 0 sq mi ( 0 km ) Population ( 2010 ) Total 229,688 Density 130,504.5 / sq mi ( 50,388.1 / km ) 2010 figures for Manhattan CB 8 Ethnicity White 89.3 % Asian or Pacific Islander 6.2 % Hispanic 5.6 % Black 1.3 % Other 3.3 % ZIP code 10021, 10028, 10065, 10075, 10128 Area code ( s ) 212, 917, 646 The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park / Fifth Avenue, 59th Street, the East River, and 96th Street. The area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville. Once known as the Silk Stocking District, it is now one of the most affluent neighborhoods in New York City. Contents 1 History 1.1 Development 1.2 Famous residents move in 1.3 Transportation constructed 2 Geography 2.1 Historic district 3 Demographics 3.1 Politics 4 Landmarks and cultural institutions 4.1 Museums 4.2 Art galleries 4.3 Hotels 4.4 Houses of worship 4.5 Diplomatic missions 5 Post offices 6 Transportation 7 Education 7.1 Primary and secondary schools 7.1. 1 Public schools 7.1. 2 Private schools 7.2 Colleges and universities 7.3 Public libraries 8 In popular culture 8.1 Films 8.2 Television shows 8.3 Books 8.4 Fictional places and characters 9 Notable people 10 See also 11 References 12 External links History Development Before the arrival of Europeans, the mouths of streams that eroded gullies in the East River bluffs are conjectured to have been the sites of fishing camps used by the Lenape, whose controlled burns once a generation or so kept the dense canopy of oak -- hickory forest open at ground level. In the 19th century the farmland and market garden district of what was to be the Upper East Side was still traversed by the Boston Post Road and, from 1837, the New York and Harlem Railroad, which brought straggling commercial development around its one station in the neighborhood, at 86th Street, which became the heart of German Yorkville. The area was defined by the attractions of the bluff overlooking the East River, which ran without interruption from James William Beekman 's `` Mount Pleasant '', north of the marshy squalor of Turtle Bay, to Gracie Mansion, north of which the land sloped steeply to the wetlands that separated this area from the suburban village of Harlem. Among the series of villas a Schermerhorn country house overlooked the river at the foot of present - day 73rd Street and another, Peter Schermerhorn 's at 66th Street, and the Riker homestead was similarly sited at the foot of 75th Street. By the mid-19th century the farmland had largely been subdivided, with the exception of the 150 acres ( 61 ha ) of Jones 's Wood, stretching from 66th to 76th Streets and from the Old Post Road ( Third Avenue ) to the river and the farmland inherited by James Lenox, who divided it into blocks of houselots in the 1870s, built his Lenox Library on a Fifth Avenue lot at the farm 's south - west corner, and donated a full square block for the Presbyterian Hospital, between 70th and 71st Streets, and Madison and Park Avenues. At that time, along the Boston Post Road taverns stood at the mile - markers, Five - Mile House at 72nd Street and Six - Mile House at 97th, a New Yorker recalled in 1893. East 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, in the Upper East Side Historic District Gracie Mansion, last of the East River villas The fashionable future of the narrow strip between Central Park and the railroad cut was established at the outset by the nature of its entrance, in the southwest corner, north of the Vanderbilt family 's favored stretch of Fifth Avenue from 50th to 59th Streets. A row of handsome townhouses was built on speculation by Mary Mason Jones, who owned the entire block bounded by 57th and 58th Streets and Fifth and Madison. In 1870 she occupied the prominent corner house at 57th and Fifth, though not in the isolation described by her niece, Edith Wharton, whose picture has been uncritically accepted as history, as Christopher Gray has pointed out. It was her habit to sit in a window of her sitting room on the ground floor, as if watching calmly for life and fashion to flow northward to her solitary door... She was sure that presently the quarries, the wooden greenhouses in ragged gardens, the rocks from which goats surveyed the scene, would vanish before the advance of residences as stately as her own. -- Edith Wharton Famous residents move in Before the Park Avenue Tunnel was covered ( finished in 1910 ), fashionable New Yorkers shunned the smoky railroad trench up Fourth Avenue ( now Park Avenue ), to build stylish mansions and townhouses on the large lots along Fifth Avenue, facing Central Park, and on the adjacent side streets. The latest arrivals were the rich Pittsburghers Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. The classic phase of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue as a stretch of private mansions was not long - lasting : the first apartment house to replace a private mansion on upper Fifth Avenue was 907 Fifth Avenue ( 1916 ), at 72nd Street, the neighborhood 's grand carriage entrance to Central Park. Most members of New York 's upper - class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil - rich Rockefellers, political Roosevelts, political dynastic Kennedys, thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys, and tobacco and electric power fortuned Dukes. Transportation constructed Construction of the Third Avenue El, opened from 1878 in sections, followed by the Second Avenue El, opened in 1879, linked the Upper East Side 's middle class and skilled artisans closely to the heart of the city, and confirmed the modest nature of the area to their east. The ghostly `` Hamilton Square '', which had appeared as one of the few genteel interruptions of the grid plan on city maps since the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811, was intended to straddle what had now become the Harlem Railroad right - of - way between 66th and 69th Streets ; it never materialized, though during the Panic of 1857 its unleveled ground was the scene of an open - air mass meeting called in July to agitate for the secession of the city and its neighboring counties from New York State, and the city divided its acreage into house lots and sold them. From the 1880s the neighborhood of Yorkville became a suburb of middle - class Germans. Gracie Mansion, the last remaining suburban villa overlooking the East River at Carl Schurz Park, became the home of New York 's mayor in 1942. The East River Drive, designed by Robert Moses, was extended south from the first section, from 125th Street to 92nd Street, which was completed in 1934 as a boulevard, an arterial highway running at street level ; reconstruction designs from 1948 to 1966 converted FDR Drive, as it was renamed after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, into the full limited - access parkway that is in use today. 45 East 66th Street, a designated New York City landmark, as seen across Madison Avenue Musical Mutual Protective Union, 85th Street Demolishing the elevated railways on Third and Second Avenues opened these tenement - lined streets to the construction of high - rise apartment blocks starting in the 1950s. However, it had an adverse effect on transportation, because the IRT Lexington Avenue Line was now the only subway line in the area. The construction of the Second Avenue Subway has brought up the price of houses in the Upper East Side somewhat. Geography Neighborhood boundaries in New York City are not officially set, but according to the Encyclopedia of New York City, the Upper East Side is bounded by 59th Street in the south, 96th Street on the north, Fifth Avenue to the west and the East River to the east. The AIA Guide to New York City extends the northern boundary to 106th Street near Fifth Avenue. The area 's north - south avenues are Fifth, Madison, Park, Lexington, Third, Second, First, York, and East End Avenues, with the latter running only from East 79th Street to East 90th Street. The major east - west streets are 59th Street, 72nd Street, 79th Street, 86th Street and 96th Street. Some real estate agents use the term `` Upper East Side '' instead of `` East Harlem '' to describe areas that are slightly north of 96th Street and near Fifth Avenue, in order to avoid associating these areas with the negative connotations of the latter, a neighborhood which is generally perceived as less prestigious. Historic district The Upper East Side Historic District is one of New York City 's largest districts, as is the neighborhood. This district runs from 59th to 78th Streets along Fifth Avenue, and up to 3rd Avenue at some points. In the decades after the Civil War, the once decrepit district transitioned into a thriving middle - class residential neighborhood. At the start of the 20th century, the neighborhood transformed again, but this time into a neighborhood of mansions and townhouses. As the century continued, and living environments altered, a lot of these single - family homes were replaced by lavish apartment buildings. Demographics As of the 2000 census, there were 207,543 people residing in the Upper East Side. The population density was 118,184 people per square mile ( 45,649 / km2 ), making Manhattan Community Board 8, coterminous with the Upper East Side, the densest Community Board in the city. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 89.25 % White, 6.14 % Asian, 0.04 % Pacific Islander, 1.34 % African American, 0.09 % Native American, 1.39 % from other races, and 1.74 % from two or more races. 5.62 % of the population were Hispanic of any race. Twenty - one percent of the population was foreign born ; of this, 45.6 % came from Europe, 29.5 % from Asia, 16.2 % from Latin America and 8.7 % from other. The female - male ratio was very high with 125 females for 100 males. The Upper East Side contains a large and affluent Jewish population estimated at 56,000. Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo - Saxon Protestant families. Given its very high population density and per capita income ( $85,081 in 2000 ), the neighborhood contains the greatest concentration of individual wealth in Manhattan. As of 2011, the median household income for the Upper East Side was $117,903. As of 2011, 60.6 % of adults ( 25 + ) had earned a bachelor 's degree or higher. The Upper East Side maintains the highest pricing per square foot in the United States. A 2002 report cited the average cost per square meter as $8,856 ; however, that price has noticed a substantial jump, increasing to almost as much as $11,200 per square meter as of 2006. There are some buildings which cost about $125 per square foot ( ~ $1345 / m2 ). The only public housing projects for those of low to moderate incomes on the Upper East Side are located just south of the neighborhood 's northern limit at 96th Street, the Holmes Towers and Isaacs Houses. It borders East Harlem, which has the highest concentration of public housing in the United States. Politics The Upper East Side is one of few areas of Manhattan where Republicans constitute more than 20 % of the electorate. In the southwestern part of the neighborhood, Republican voters equal Democratic voters ( the only such area in Manhattan ), whereas in the rest of the neighborhood Republicans make up between 20 and 40 % of registered voters. The Upper East Side is notable as a significant location of political fundraising in the United States. Four of the top five ZIP codes in the nation for political contributions are in Manhattan. The top ZIP Code, 10021, is on the Upper East Side and generated the most money for the 2004 presidential campaigns of both George W. Bush and John Kerry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at Fifth Avenue and 89th Street The Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue at 92nd St. The Museum Mile Festival Landmarks and cultural institutions Museums The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue fronting Central Park has been dubbed `` Museum Mile '', running between 82nd and 105th Streets. It was once named `` Millionaire 's Row ''. The following are among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side : 92nd Street Y Asia Society Colony Club Andrew Carnegie Mansion, which houses the Cooper -- Hewitt, National Design Museum Henry Clay Frick House, which houses the Frick Collection Goethe - Institut, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Irish Georgian Society Jewish Museum of New York Manhattan House, the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - designed mid-century modernist white brick building at 200 E 66th Street, once home to Grace Kelly and Benny Goodman. Landmarked in 2007 Metropolitan Museum of Art El Museo del Barrio Museum of the City of New York Morgan Library & Museum National Academy of Design Neue Galerie Society of Illustrators Whitney Museum of American Art Art galleries Acquavella Galleries Kraushaar Galleries Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery Salon 94 Anita Shapolsky Gallery Hotels Carlyle Hotel Courtyard by Marriott Affinia Gardens NYC The Mark The Pierre Renaissance New York Hotel 57 Houses of worship Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Temple Emanu - El of New York Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Greek Orthodox Church Brick Presbyterian Church ( New York City ) Church of the Epiphany, Episcopal church Church of the Heavenly Rest, Episcopal church Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Modern Orthodox synagogue Congregation Or Zarua, Conservative synagogue Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Orthodox Sephardic synagogue Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Orthodox synagogue Holy Trinity Episcopal Church St. Ignatius Loyola, Catholic Church Jan Hus Presbyterian Church Kingdom Hall of Jehovah 's Witnesses ( 1499 1st Avenue at East 78th Street ) Park Avenue Christian Church, Disciples of Christ church Park Avenue Synagogue, Conservative Jewish synagogue Park East Synagogue, Orthodox synagogue Redeemer Presbyterian Church St. Ann 's Church ( East Harlem ), Catholic Church St. John the Martyr 's Church, Catholic Church Temple Emanu - El of New York, Reform synagogue Temple Israel, Reform synagogue Temple Shaaray Tefila, Reform synagogue Third Church of Christ, Scientist Islamic Cultural Center of New York, mosque Cross Church, Southern Baptist Diplomatic missions Many diplomatic missions are located in former mansions on the Upper East Side : The Consulate General of Austria in New York is located at East 69th Street, between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue. The Consulate - General of France in New York is located at 934 Fifth Avenue between 74th Street and 75th Street. The Consulate - General of Greece in New York is located at 69 East 79th Street, occupying the former George L. Rives residence. The Consulate - General of Italy in New York is located at 690 Park Avenue. The Consulate - General of India in New York is located at 3 East 64th Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue. The Consulate - General of Pakistan in New York is located at 12 East 65th Street. Other missions to the United Nations in the Upper East Side include : Albania Belarus Bulgaria Cameroon Cape Verde Czech Republic Iraq Ivory Coast ( Côte d'Ivoire ) Mali Mongolia Myanmar ( Burma ) Poland Serbia Post offices The United States Postal Service operates post offices at Lenox Hill Station ( ZIP code 10021 ), 221 East 70th Street ; Cherokee Station ( 10075 ), 1483 York Avenue ; Gracie Station ( 10028 ), 229 East 85th Street ; and Yorkville Station ( 10128 ), 1617 Third Avenue. New ZIP codes now include 10065, 10029 and 10075. Transportation The Upper East Side is served by two subway lines, the four - track IRT Lexington Avenue Line ( 4 5 6 < 6 > trains ) under Lexington Avenue and the two - track Second Avenue Subway ( N Q trains ) under Second Avenue. There are also local and limited MTA Regional Bus Operations routes M1, M2, M3, M4, M15, M15 SBS, M31, M98, M101, M102, M103 going uptown and downtown, as well as the crosstown M66, M72, M79 SBS, M86 SBS, and M96. The Second Avenue Line serves to relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue Line. The first phase of the line opened on January 1, 2017, consisting of three new stations and a renovated fourth station. The line terminates at 96th Street and connects to the BMT 63rd Street Line at Lexington Avenue -- 63rd Street station before continuing to 57th Street -- Seventh Avenue on the BMT Broadway Line. The planned Second Avenue Line includes three additional phases to be built at a later date, which will extend the line north to 125th Street / Park Avenue in Harlem and south to Hanover Square in the Financial District, and a new T train will run its entire length. Education Primary and secondary schools Urban Academy Laboratory High School is in the Julia Richman Education Complex Public schools The New York City Department of Education operates public schools in the city. Public lower and middle schools PS 183 ( Robert Louis Stevenson School ) PS 77 The Lower Lab school PS 290 The New School of Manhattan East Side Middle School PS 6 ( Lillie Devereux Blake School ) PS 158 ( Bayard Taylor ) Senator Robert F. Wagner Middle School ( JHS 167 ) Public high schools Talent Unlimited High School Eleanor Roosevelt High School Urban Academy Laboratory High School Other schools Hunter College High School Marymount School of New York The West Building of Hunter College Private schools Coeducational schools Birch Wathen Lenox School Caedmon School Dalton School Loyola School Lycée Français de New York La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi Park East School Rudolph Steiner School ( see Waldorf education ) The Town School Trevor Day School Ramaz School Islamic Cultural Center School Girls ' schools Brearley School Cathedral High School Chapin School Convent of the Sacred Heart Dominican Academy Hewitt School Manhattan High School for Girls Marymount School St. Vincent Ferrer High School Nightingale - Bamford School Spence School St. Jean Baptiste High School Boys ' schools Allen - Stevenson School The Browning School The Buckley School Regis High School St. Bernard 's School St. David 's School Colleges and universities Hunter College Marymount Manhattan College Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York Medical College New York School of Interior Design New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University Institute of Fine Arts Rockefeller University Weill Cornell Medical College Public libraries The New York Public Library operates the 67th Street Branch Library at 328 East 67th Street, near First Avenue, the Yorkville Branch Library, 222 East 79th Street and the 96th Street Branch Library at 112 East 96th Street, near Lexington Avenue. In popular culture The Upper East Side has been a setting for many films, television shows, and other media. Films Breakfast at Tiffany 's ( 1961 ) The Boys in the Band ( 1970 ) Live and Let Die ( 1973 ) The Great Gatsby ( 1974 ) The Prisoner of Second Avenue ( 1975 ) Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 ) Manhattan ( 1979 ) The Muppets Take Manhattan ( 1984 ) Family Business ( 1989 ) The Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1990 ) Metropolitan ( 1990 ) Juice ( 1992 ) Six Degrees of Separation ( 1993 ) Manhattan Murder Mystery ( 1993 ) Harriet the Spy ( 1996 ) Ransom ( 1996 ) One Fine Day ( 1996 ) The Devil 's Advocate ( 1997 ) A Perfect Murder ( 1998 ) Cruel Intentions ( 1999 ) The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1999 ) Eyes Wide Shut ( 1999 ) Autumn in New York ( 2000 ) American Psycho ( 2000 ) Cruel Intentions 2 ( 2001 ) Tart ( 2001 ) 25th Hour ( 2002 ) Uptown Girls ( 2003 ) Igby Goes Down ( 2002 ) Two Weeks Notice ( 2002 ) Eloise at the Plaza ( 2003 ) The Nanny Diaries ( 2007 ) The Devil Wears Prada ( 2007 ) Sex and the City ( 2008 ) Ghost Town ( 2008 ) Made of Honor ( 2008 ) The Wackness ( 2008 ) The Women ( 2008 ) Bride Wars ( 2009 ) Confessions of a Shopaholic ( 2009 ) The International ( 2009 ) The Back - up Plan ( 2010 ) Sex and the City 2 ( 2010 ) Twelve ( 2010 ) Remember Me ( 2010 ) Arbitrage ( 2012 ) Television shows Kourtney and Kim Take New York ( 2011 -- ) The City ( 2008 -- 2010 ) Gossip Girl ( 2007 -- 2012 ) Ringer ( 2011 - 2012 ) The Jeffersons ( 1975 -- 1985 ) Diff'rent Strokes ( 1978 -- 1986 ) That Girl ( TV series ) ( 1966 -- 1971 ) Family Affair ( TV series ) ( 1966 -- 1971 ) The Nanny ( 1993 -- 1999 ) Sex and the City ( 1998 -- 2004 ) Will & Grace ( 1998 -- 2006 ) Lipstick Jungle ( 2008 -- 2009 ) Dirty Sexy Money ( 2007 -- 2008 ) Gallery Girls ( 2012 ) Ugly Betty ( 2006 -- 2010 ) The Real Housewives of New York City ( 2008 -- ) NYC Prep ( 2009 -- 2010 ) High Society ( 1995 -- 1996 ) Yes ! PreCure 5 ( 2007 -- 2008 ) Yes ! Precure 5 GoGo ! ( 2008 -- 2009 ) I Love Lucy ( 1951 -- 1957 ) White Collar ( 2009 -- 2014 ) The Odd Couple ( 1970 -- 1975 ) Odd Mom Out ( 2015 -- ), based on Jill Kargman 's novel Momzillas Books Breakfast at Tiffany 's by Truman Capote The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Gossip Girl ( novel series ) by Cecily von Ziegesar The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin The A-List ( novel series ) by Zoey Dean Blue Bloods ( novel series ) by Melissa de la Cruz Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh The Luxe by Anna Godbersen Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella Twelve by Nick McDonell Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger Death Wish by Brian Garfield Heartburn by Nora Ephron American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The 25th Hour by David Benioff Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell Fictional places and characters Constance Billard School for Girls and St. Jude 's School for Boys in Gossip Girl The Duchesne School in the vampire novels Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz Percy Jackson, title character of Rick Riordan 's Percy Jackson & the Olympians pentalogy Notable people This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2014 ) The neighborhood has a long tradition of being home to some of the world 's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals. Some of the notable people who have lived here include : Woody Allen -- film director, writer, and actor Brooke Astor -- philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor Michael Bloomberg -- billionaire philanthropist and former mayor of New York City Mariah Carey -- singer Phoebe Cates -- actress Aimée Crocker ( 1864 -- 1941 ) -- heiress, princess, author, world traveler Alexandra Daddario -- actress Joan Didion -- author Jamie Dimon -- banker Mia Farrow -- actress Barbara Feldon -- actress Jay S. Fishman -- insurance executive Jonathan Franzen -- National Book Award - winning novelist Gerald Garson -- former NY Supreme Court Justice convicted of accepting bribes Sarah Michelle Gellar -- actress Ricky Gervais -- comedian, actor Ariel Helwani -- mixed martial arts writer Vladimir Horowitz -- pianist and composer Star Jones -- lawyer, television personality Caroline Kennedy -- author, United States Ambassador ( 2013 -- 2017 ) to Japan, and daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy Kevin Kline -- actor David H. Koch -- businessman, philanthropist, conservative political activist Jeff Koons -- artist Lady Gaga -- singer Soong Mei - ling -- Former First Lady of the Republic of China, known as Madame Chiang Kai - shek or Madame Chiang Spike Lee -- film director and producer Robert I. Lipp -- businessman Madonna -- entertainer ; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009 Barbara Margolis -- prisoners ' rights advocate, official greeter of New York City Malachi Martin -- author Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis -- former First Lady of the United States Generoso Pope -- Italian - American businessman and newspaper publisher, lived at 1040 Fifth Avenue Lee Radziwill -- princess, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lynn Pressman Raymond -- toy and game innovator, president of the Pressman Toy Corporation Joan Rivers -- comedian Martin Scorsese -- film director and producer Eliot Spitzer -- former Governor of New York Chloe Temtchine -- singer - songwriter Leila and Massimo Vignelli -- designers Elie Wiesel -- Holocaust survivor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 See also New York City portal East Side ( Manhattan ) Upper West Side Upper Manhattan Yorkville, Manhattan Carnegie Hill Lenox Hill References Jump up ^ `` Fiscal Year 2013 : Manhattan Community Board 8 Needs Statement '' ( PDF ). 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Retrieved August 19, 2012. `` The state 's highest court yesterday dismissed an effort to halt construction of a 10 - story building on the Upper East Side, ending a six - year battle that pitted Woody Allen and a group of fellow Upper East Siders against the city 's Landmarks Preservation Commission. '' Jump up ^ Zimmer, Amy. `` $100 M Brooke Astor Estate Settlement Reached '', DNAinfo.com, March 28, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2017. `` The five - year fight over the estate of Upper East Side doyenne Brooke Astor has been settled, paving the way for $100 million to start flowing to charities, the New York Attorney General 's office announced Wednesday. '' Jump up ^ Marino, Vivian. `` A $14 Million Co-op for Michael R. Bloomberg '', The New York Times, April 15, 2016. Accessed September 3, 2017. `` Former Mayor Michael R. 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Accessed September 3, 2017. `` The nearly month - old Occupy Wall Street protest has apparently settled on a favorite target for their ire, Jamie Dimon. On Tuesday, protestors marched to his apartment building in Manhattan 's Upper East Side, bearing a giant fake check critiquing the low taxes of America 's wealthiest individuals. '' Jump up ^ ( registration required ) `` Barbara Margolis, Prisoners ' Advocate, Dies at 79 ''. The New York Times. July 12, 2009. Retrieved July 21, 2009. Jump up ^ ( registration required ) Grimes, William. `` Lynn Pressman Raymond, Toy Executive, Dies at 97 '', The New York Times, August 1, 2009. Accessed August 2, 2009. `` Lynn Pressman Raymond died July 22 at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She was 97. '' Jump up ^ Marino, Vivian. `` Penthouse Owned by Joan Rivers Sold for $28 Million '', The New York Times, July 17, 2015. Accessed September 3, 2017. `` The palatial triplex on the Upper East Side that Joan Rivers called home for more than a quarter of a century until her death last year -- where she had honed her caustic comedy routines, entertained celebrities, and, by her own telling, even encountered a belligerent ghost -- sold for $28 million and was the most expensive closed sale of the week, according to city records. '' Jump up ^ Thurman, Judith. `` Tour Martin Scorsese 's 1860s Townhouse in New York '', Architectural Digest, April 1994. Accessed September 3, 2017. `` Scorsese settled that question definitively two years ago, when he moved to an Upper East Side townhouse with a walled garden -- not so grand as the mansions of The Age of Innocence, but built in the same period. '' Jump up ^ Barbaro, Michael ; Chen, David W. `` Spitzer Rejoins Politics, Asking for Forgiveness '', The New York Times, July 7, 2013. Accessed September 3, 2017. `` Mr. Spitzer said he had not conducted any polling before deciding to run based on his gut reading of ordinary New Yorkers. He described an encounter on Sunday afternoon, when he was sitting on a park bench after a run near his Upper East Side home. '' Jump up ^ Phull, Hardeep ( July 26, 2016 ). `` She 's tethered to an oxygen tank, but her singing career is soaring ''. New York Post. Jump up ^ Lovine, Julie V. ( October 21, 2007 ). `` The Vignellis -- In an Instant, Their Pared - Down Designs -- For the Subway, Bloomingdale 's, American Airlines -- Conjure a Particular Moment in the City 's History ''. New York. Retrieved August 19, 2012. In the living room of their Upper East Side apartment... Jump up ^ Berger, Josef ( July 2, 2016 ) `` Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87 '' The New York Times External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Upper East Side. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Upper East Side. 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Question: where does the rich live in new york
Answer: Upper East Side