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UPPER EAST SIDE
From East 59th up to 96th Street from the East River to Fifth Avenue, the Upper East Side exemplifies status and haute prestige along with a healthy dose of convenience.
You're never more than a short walk from the best that the city offers and when it's time to go out, one can stroll Museum Mile or spend thousands shopping the swanky shops along what is now considered a remarkable homage to the world's best labels and logos - Madison Avenue.
Yet this neighborhood is a far more heterogeneous place than its upscale reputation might suggest. Away from the exclusive enclaves of Carnegie Hill and Fifth Avenue (and the mansions of turn-of-the-century industrialists and philanthropists), a good deal of the Upper East Side's housing consists of luxury high-rises buildings.
The historic and landmarked district of Carnegie Hill, elite private schools like Dalton and Brearley; Sotheby's auction house and Gracie Mansion.
The highest concentration of the city's museums, Bobby Short at Cafe Carlyle on 76th Street, small see-and-be-seen restaurants like Nello and La Goulue along Madison Avenue and best-kept secret breakfast places like Gardenia Café at 67th Street. Industry experts claim it's the best retail quarter in the world that translates to mega stores like Bloomingdale's to specialty icons like Lester's on Second and 80th Street and Gracious Home on Third and 71st Street.
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