Talk:Upper East Side

message: The picture of Park Avenue with the view of the MetLife building is in midtown, not the upper east side. The picture was once shown in the Manhattan article under an Upper East Side caption and I removed it. Hypertall (talk) 06:41, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Park Avenue pic 

message: "The Upper East Side is famous for being the resident area of Manhattan's high society, exclusive parties and clubs, five-star hotels, high-end shopping, world-class dining and entertainment, and the nationally ranked single-sex private schools."
This paragraph is a bit misleading. While the Upper East Side is the wealthiest neighborhood in the city, there are plenty of other very wealthy areas (parts of the UWS, the West Village, Grammercy, Tribeca), so calling it "the" resident area of local high society seems a bit much. If it is meant to refer to a specific portion of wealthy society, ie. old-money, Gilded Age types, it should be more explicit, although that's probably a gross overgeneralization and shouldn't be included in the article.
As for the other things mentioned in that list:
exlusive parties and clubs--there are exclusive parties all over Manhattan, no doubt, maybe more fundraisers here, but still. And clubs? Unless this is referring to social clubs like the Metropolitan, it's totally wrong.
five-star hotels--I would say Midtown's got more swank hotels than the UES, but what does five-star mean anyway? Five-star according to who? 
high-end shopping--Madison Avenue is, after Fifth in Midtown, the ritziest shopping in the city, to be sure. But since the most expensive shopping street isn't even in the UES it's hard to call it "the" place for that.
world-class dining--same situation as with hotels; probably a lot more in Midtown, not to mention the rest of the city...
single-sex private schools--no argument here. 
I'm gonna work on fixing these if I get some agreement, or maybe change the sentence to just say that it includes all of those things that were mentioned, rather than being THE place for them. Hope I'm not just picking nits.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.249.45.185 (talk) 06:04, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overdone 

message: I was told that the 10021 zip listed for the East End on Upper East Side has changed, according to the USPS, 10075. 
Steve  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.177.135.190 (talk) 15:21, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper East Side Zip has changed? 

message: This article could really use a map showing the location of this neighbourhood in relation to the rest of the city.  Skomorokh, barbarian  22:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map needed 

message: Jammin566z (talk) 14:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography 

message: That consulate is closed now. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Say Shalom! 08:22, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed Côte d'Ivoire from this page based on the current list of missions from the United Nations.Transpoman (talk) 01:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
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message: I have removed a number of books and films from the list in the popcult section, because they have little or nothing to do with the Upper East Side.  To be included on this list, a book, film or television should should primarily be about this neighborhood, or people who live or work in the neighborhood.  A scene or two set in the UES really isn't sufficient, nor is a book or film about someone whose home is there but then spends the entire story elsewhere in the world.If I've made an error, and removed something that should stay, please let me know here, but I suspect that a fair number of the items I removed were put in the list as a joke, so I'm going to be watching it pretty closely. BMK (talk) 04:28, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popcult culling 

message: Is there some reason we have descriptions for some of the bluelinked people but not for others? And is there a reason to use WP:PEACOCK terms like "award-winning"? Unless there's some valid reason that I'm not seeing for this inconsistency and tone issue, I'd like to suggest just having the bluelinked names. --Tenebrae (talk) 17:21, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest the opposite: all names (and there should only be blue-linked names) should have vital years and a brief description (without "award-winning" & such). While at it, there should only be linked entries in the "schools" sections. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 12:14, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline#Education concurs on only listing notable schools (some might be "notable" by default--high school and college--even if no bluelink/article yet). DMacks (talk) 14:28, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Notables list

message: The source for 110 is www.ny.com. Which seems far from a reliable source. Everything else, including the Geo section of this post mentions 96th st. at the northern boundary of Upper East Side. Also the original New York magazine citation is much more credible than www.ny.com. But here are two much less bias sites to use:
From NYC.com http://maps.nyc.gov/census/ 
From google maps:  https://www.google.com/maps/place/Upper+East+Side,+New+York,+NY
Nextest (talk) 23:48, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Even less biased is , a definitive source which gives 96th Street. BMK (talk) 02:23, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper boundary 

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message: Yes, I see that my edit didn't have the effect I wanted. Thank you for reverting it. 
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To me at least, the default interpretation of "New York" is not the state but the city, which is far better known worldwide. Even though the city is explicitly named right above the supposedly implicit naming of the state, I was trying to make it explicit, but I didn't do it right. In fact, I can't figure out either how to do it, or what, if anything, my edit actually did. Do you know either answer?
--Thnidu (talk) 00:33, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I absolutely agree that the default interpretation of "New York" is the city, and that disambiguation to "New York State" is therefore often necessary, but when "New York" follows "New York City", I think it is abundantly clear what "New York" is referring to, as the city has already been presented as a option beforehand.Aside: Back in the late 60s or early 70s, Norman Mailer ran for mayor of New York City, with Jimmy Breslin as his running mate.  Part of their platform was that New York City should become a separate state -- indeed the local PBS station had a public affairs program around that time called "The 51st State".  Of course, it never happened, but given politics in the state, where the legislature is dominated by upstate elements, I often wish it had.  I was musing the other day about what New York City would be called if it was its own state. "Gotham" is the obvious choice, but that has now been permanently taken over by Batman and Co.  Finally, I decided that if we can have a North Dakota and a South Dakota, a North Carolina and a South Carolina, and a Virginia and a West Virginia, all differentiated by a single word, we could have the states of New York and New York City at the same time.  All fantasy, of course, the state would never let us secede -- they wouldn't even let Staten Island secede from the city (and I was all in favor of giving it to New Jersey, especially now that we don't need their landfill for our garbage). Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:32, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  The  term used on the state's official website is New York State, not simply New York. Labeling it as such would avoid the awkward and potentially ambiguous "Show map of New York City/Show map of New York". Even if most readers can be trusted to figure out the intended meaning of New York from the context, an extra disambiguating term certainly wouldn't hurt anything. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 14:36, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, the official name of the state is the "State of New York", so your suggestion is moot. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:19, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've clarified my wording. The point is that the map legend should be clear to readers. New York State makes the city/state distinction clear. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:11, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, sure, it could say "New York State", but since an earlier choice was "New York City", why would it be necessary?  Certainly there aren't going to be two choices of NYC maps, right?  So the "New York" which follows "New York City" must be the state.  In any case, the question should not be addressed here, but on the talk page for the infobox template, or wherever that listing is generated, which is not locally. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:03, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: When? 100 years ago? This is clearly not the case anymore, so why include this statement in the modern demographics section? It should be in the history section, if anything.Jonathan f1 (talk) 09:37, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Right here and now.  There's a reason it's called the "Silk Stocking District". Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:25, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  " Traditionally, the Upper East Side has been dominated by wealthy White Anglo-Saxon Protestant families" 

message: Why are archived (wayback machine) locations used rather than the actual current locations?  
Example: The New York School of Interior Design references <https://web.archive.org/web/20160523045328/http://www.nysid.edu/student-life/facilities> rather than <https://www.nysid.edu/facilities>?
Gprobins (talk) 13:36, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:SOFIXIT. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:23, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education / Colleges: Use current rather than archived? 

message: I think this section should be split to List of people from the Upper East Side. The section is already pretty long (it makes up 218 of the 327 references) and has more than 83,000 of this page's 156,000 characters of wikicode. epicgenius (talk) 17:57, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable people