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Upper East Side Apartment
From the edge of Central Park at 59th Street to the top of
Museum Mile at
El Museo del Barrio at 105th
Street, this is the city's Gold Coast. The neighborhood air is perfumed
with the scent of old money, conservative values, and glamorous
sophistication, with Champagne corks popping and high society puttin' on
the Ritz.
On the corner of Lexington and 59th Street is
Bloomingdale's - one of the
NYC shopping icons, a beloved sanctuary for stylish consumers. On
Madison Avenue, window shopping can be
intoxicating: so many tempting boutiques, so many famous names to flaunt
on everything from socks to shoes to satin sheets to chocolates.
Searching for unique hard to find gifts for the home?
Gracious Home (1220, 1217, 1201 Third Avenue, showcases a wide array
of luxury items including dazzling French crystal finials and more.
Between Lexington and Madison Avenues, Park Avenue is an oasis of
calm with wide streets meant for strolling, lovely architecture, and a
median strip that sprouts tulips in season and sculptures at other times
of the year. Railroad tracks ran in this median before World War I. This
grand street stretching down to midtown is one of our city's most coveted
residential addresses.
Once Manhattan's Millionaire's Row, the stretch of Fifth Avenue between
72nd and 104th Streets has been renamed
Museum Mile because of its
astonishing number of world-class cultural institutions such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. This
stretch is lined with the former mansions of the Upper East Side's more
illustrious industrialists and philanthropists.
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