New York
Upper East Side
The Upper East Side is a residential neighborhood on the east side of Central Park in Manhattan. Its Fifth Avenue frontage carries a sequence of major art museums often referred to collectively as Museum Mile.
- Type
- neighborhood
- Status
- A name in common use with no authority defining its extent.
The Upper East Side is a customary neighborhood name, not an administrative unit. It corresponds approximately, but not exactly, to Manhattan Community District 8.
What is recorded here
Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.
- Museums & galleries7
- Cafés1
- Nightlife1
Places in Upper East Side
Museums & galleries
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an encyclopedic art museum on Fifth Avenue at the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan. It was founded in 1870 and its main building has been extended repeatedly since opening on the site in 1880.
Visit info checked Sept 2026
Museums & galleries
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Upper East Side
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's Upper East Side, holding a collection of modern and contemporary art. Its building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1959, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Visit info checked Sept 2026
Museums & galleries
The Frick Collection
Upper East Side
The Frick Collection occupies Henry Clay Frick's 1914 mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and holds his collection of European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts, reopening in 2025 after a major renovation.
Museums & galleries
Neue Galerie New York
Upper East Side
Neue Galerie New York on Fifth Avenue holds German and Austrian art and design of the early twentieth century, in a 1914 mansion by Carrere and Hastings.
Museums & galleries
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Upper East Side
Cooper Hewitt is the Smithsonian's design museum, occupying Andrew Carnegie's 1902 mansion on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan together with its garden.
Museums & galleries
Museum of the City of New York
Upper East Side
The Museum of the City of New York on upper Fifth Avenue documents the city's history and its people, in a Colonial Revival building of 1932.
Visit info checked Sept 2026
Museums & galleries
El Museo del Barrio
Upper East Side
El Museo del Barrio on Fifth Avenue is New York's museum of Latin American and Caribbean art, founded in 1969 by artists and educators in East Harlem.
Cafés
Lexington Candy Shop
Upper East Side
The Lexington Candy Shop is a luncheonette on Lexington Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side, opened in 1925 and retaining its soda fountain and counter fittings.
Visit info checked Sept 2026
Nightlife
Bemelmans Bar
Upper East Side
Bemelmans Bar is a bar in the Carlyle hotel on East 76th Street in Manhattan, its walls painted in 1947 by Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline books, in exchange for accommodation.
Visit info checked Sept 2026
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