The Upper East Side boasts some of the most sought after real estate in the city of New York. With Central Park, the numerous museums and cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim museum make the Upper East Side even more valuable. The Upper East Side also boasts some of the best high end shopping in the city, excellent schools and a conservative atmosphere. The Upper East Side has buildings from luxury doorman buildings to walk up buildings to luxury high rises to quaint townhouses.

Aside from bordering Central Park, the Upper East Side has Carl Shurz Park, home of Gracie Mansion, the residence of the Mayor of the City of New York. A highly residential area of the city, the Upper East Side has innumerable restaurants and neighborhood places. A quiet area of the city to live, yet closely linked to the rest of the city by subway, the Upper East Side has something to offer anyone from the Mansions of the sixties and seventies to the luxury high rises in the nineties.

Other neighborhoods in Upper East Side: Yorkville, Carnegie Hill and Lenox Hill