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Upper East Side NYC

The Upper East Side NYC is Manhattan’s most exclusive residential neighborhood. It is between Central Park and the East River from 59th St to 96th St.

Museum Mile is Fifth Avenue along Central Park. Madison Avenue is a high-end shopping district. Park Avenue is has 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.

There are many high-end art galleries, especially of Old Masters.

Upper East Side News

Isabel Allende Reads From and Discusses Her New Book “The Wind Knows My Name” with Alicia Menendez

One of the world’s most influential Latinas, and widely-read Spanish-language authors, discusses her new book about children in migration, “The Wind Knows My Name,” with MSNBC anchor and “Latina to Latina” podcast host Alicia Menendez.

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Things To Do in the Upper East Side

First let’s thank our Upper East Side sponsors.

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 and dialog on social, economic, and cultural issues of Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. It produces excellent music and arts programs.

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.

Africa Center

El Museo del Barrio

Museum of the City of New York

The Jewish Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Guggenheim Museum

Neue Gallery

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Henrique Faria Fine Art is a Latin American art gallery.

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary  🇦🇷 🇮🇹

ISLAA, Institute for Studies on Latin American Art

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 FIAF, the French Institute Alliance Française, is New York’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

FIAF French Institute Alliance Française is 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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Latin Film

AMC Orpheum 7 is a commercial multiplex cinema.

FIAF French Institute Alliance Française. 🇫🇷

Latin Festivals

Many Fifth Avenue parades end at 72nd Street in the Upper East Side.

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. 🇺🇸

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 are:

  • 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.