The Upper East Side is Manhattan’s most exclusive residential neighborhood. It’s the home of Museum Mile, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Lexington, and Second Ave. There are many high-end art galleries, especially of Old Masters.
Latin Culture in the Upper East Side
L’Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration is a Street Fair of French Culture
MADISON AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇫🇷
Jazz in July has the Tyshawn Sorey Quartet featuring Warren Wolf on Vibes Reimagining the American Songbook at the 92nd Street Y
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇲 🇹🇹
Museum Mile Festival is a Fifth Avenue Museum Open House Block Party
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie, Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, Africa Center
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
TEFAF New York 2024, Europe’s Leading Fine Art Antiques Fair Celebrates 10 Years in New York City
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸
The Photography Show by AIPAD Is One of New York’s Premiere Fine Art Photography Fairs
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇽
Cécile McLorin Salvant, One of the Great Jazz Singers of Her Generation, Sings at the 92nd Street Y
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇭🇹 🇫🇷
NYC St Patrick’s Day Parade 2025 in Manhattan Honors the Patron Saint of Ireland
FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown, Midtown East, Central Park, Upper East Side Manhattan 🇮🇪
Ballet Hispánico at the 92nd Street Y Reimagines Flamenco, plus New York’s and Havana’s Latin Club Scenes
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇸
Dancing the 92nd Street Y Brings Modern Dance Companies Limón, Martha Graham, and Ailey II Back Home
92ND STREET Y, Upper East Side, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!, First U.S. Survey of an Argentine Force in Postwar Latin American Art, is at the Jewish Museum
JEWISH MUSEUM, Upper East Side, Manhattan ~ “Everything is Art” 🇦🇷 🇮🇱
Sotheby’s Emily Fisher Landau Collection Auction is this Season’s Star Auction
SOTHEBY’S, Upper East Side ~ One of the collections that defined 20th-century art narratives comes to market. 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
The Art Show Brings America’s Top Galleries to the Park Avenue Armory
PARK AVENUE ARMORY, Upper East Side. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇲🇽
Upper East Side Sponsors
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Upper East Side Venues
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Central Park | Upper East Side | East River
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Museum Mile is Fifth Avenue along Central Park. Madison Avenue is NYC’s most high-end shopping district. Park Avenue is big business. Lexington has a little of everything because of the subway. Second Avenue has lots of bars and now its own subway. Carl Schurz Park has beautiful East River views.
Thank you for sponsoring Latin culture in Manhattan’s Upper East Side:
Latin Upper East Side
Museum Mile
Museum Mile is Fifth Avenue from Africa Center (in East Harlem) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum Mile Festival is a popular street fair.
Museum of the City of New York
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Neue Gallery
Frick Madison
Frick Collection is temporarily closed for reconstruction. The collection is currently at Frick Madison.
Latin Art Galleries
Acquavella Galleries is one of the galleries that brought modern art to New York. 🇮🇹
Americas Society has an art gallery that exhibits some Latin art.
Henrique Faria Fine Art is a Latin American art gallery.
Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary 🇦🇷 🇮🇹
Leon Tovar Gallery is a Colombian art gallery. 🇨🇴
Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art specializes in Mexican art. She created the Latin American department at Sotheby’s, before it became popular. 🇲🇽
Art Fairs
The Park Avenue Armory hosts many art fairs.
The Winter Show is America’s biggest antiques fair.
Master Drawings is an Old Masters art fair in around 20 Upper East Side art galleries.
Art Auctions
Sotheby’s New York May and November art auctions are pillars of the New York art scene. Old Masters and antiques auctions are in January. In season, the building is one big gallery with museum-quality exhibitions.
Latin Books
Albertine is a French bookstore at the French Embassy in the Upper East Side. albertine.com 🇫🇷
The John and Francine Haskell Library at L’Alliance New York, is New York City’s biggest French library. 🇫🇷
Latin Colleges
CentroPR is the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
Latin Consulates
- French Embassy 🇫🇷
- French Consulate 🇫🇷
- Italian Consulate 🇮🇹
Latin Cultural Centers
92nd Street Y, New York is a cultural center where legends are made from a core foundation of Jewish values. 🇺🇸
Americas Society is a forum for education, debate, and dialogue on political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.
L’Alliance New York French cultural center is the rebranded French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), a French language school, cultural center, and library. 🇫🇷
Italian Cultural Institute. 🇮🇹
Latin Dance
92nd Street Y, New York is the home of the Harkness Dance Center. 🇺🇸
Latin Fashion
Bloomingdales is the Upper East Side department store.
Madison Avenue has a lot of high-end Latin fashion boutiques.
Latin Film
AMC Orpheum 7 is a commercial multiplex cinema.
L’Alliance New York French cultural center hosts French film programs. 🇫🇷
Latin Festivals
Many Fifth Avenue parades end at 72nd Street in the Upper East Side.
The L’Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration street fair is one of New York City’s big Bastille Day festivals.
Latin Food
La Esquina is a high-end Mexican fast food restaurant. 🇲🇽
Maya 🇲🇽
Latin Music
92nd Street Y, New York hosts Latin classical and Latin jazz. 🇺🇸
Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y is one of New York’s hot summer jazz festivals.
Visit the Upper East Side
Main Cross Streets
- 96 & 97th St are Central Park crossings.
- 84th & 85th St are Central Park crossings.
- 79th St is a Central Park crossing.
- 72nd St
- 65th and 66th St are Central Park crossings.
- 59th St connects to the Queensboro Bridge
Subway and Tram stations:
- 96th St (4)(6) at Lexington.
- 96th St (N)(Q) at Second Avenue.
- 86th St (4)(5)(6) at Lexington. (Guggenheim, Met Museum)
- 86th St (N)(Q)(R) at Second Avenue.
- 77th St (4)(6) at Lexington.
- 72nd St (N)(Q)(R)
- 68th St – Hunter College (4)(5)(6)
- 63rd St (4)(6) at Lexington.
- Lexington Ave – 63rd St (F)(N)(Q)(R)
- Roosevelt Island Tram Second Ave at 60th St
- Fifth Avenue – 59th St (N)(R)(W)
- Lexington Ave – 59th St (N)(R)(W)
- 59th St (4)(5)(6) at Lexington.