The Upper East Side is Manhattan’s most exclusive residential neighborhood.
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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.
There are many high-end art galleries, especially of Old Masters.
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Upper East Side Venues
About the 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 🇦🇷 🇮🇹
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 is a forum for education, debate, and dialogue on political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.
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.
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:
- 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.