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UPTOWN

Upper East Side

boundaries: W- Fifth Ave.; E- East River; S- 59th St.; N- 96th St.

 

The UES boundaries are from 59th to 96th Street, and for our purposes, we have gone up to 125th street in order to minimize the number of listings. It is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country and there are more museums and galleries in this neighborhood than in any other.

NYU Institute of the Ancient World

Neighborhoods

(Between 59th Street and 125th Street)

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  • JEFFERSON PARK- 1st Avenue, FDR Drive between E. 111 and 114 Street

    • EL ARBOL DE ESPERANZA- by L. Brower Hatcher

    • TOMORROW’S WIND- by Melvin Edwards

 

  • CARL SCHURZ PARK- East End Ave to East River, E. 84th to 90th Street

    • PETER PAN STATUE- created by Charles Andrew Hafner for the Paramount Theater Street 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Riverside Park

Upper West Side/Lincoln Center

boundaries: S- 59th St.; N- 110th St.; E- Central Park West; W- Hudson River

 

 

A neighborhood which has gone through numerous phases. From displaced squatters of Central Park to

African-Americans settling on 67th Street (which was nicknamed San Juan Hill) to gay communities, Hispanic and Jewish communities.  It is an eclectic community and one of the most desirable to live. 

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Upper West Side

  • RIVERSIDE PARK- Riverside Dr. to Henry Hudson Pkwy; West 153 to 72nd to St. Clair Place

    • ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL- 72nd Street, by Penelope Jencks

    • FIREMEN’S MEMORIAL- 100th Street, by Attilio Piccirilli

    • JOHN MERVEN CARRERE MEMORIAL by Thomas Hastings (architect) 

    • GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL- 106th Street, by Karl Bitter

    • ROBERT RAY HAMILTON FOUNTAIN- (decorative horse troughs), architectural design by Warren & Wetmore

    • HIPPOPOTAMUS FOUNTAIN- 91st Street, by Robert J. Cassilly, Jr.

    • JOAN OF ARC MEMORIAL- around 93rd Street, by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington

    • SAMUEL J. TILDEN- 112th Street, by William Ordway Partridge

    • SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT- 89th Street

    • AMIABLE CHILD MEMORIAL- funeral urn/pedestal marking grave from 1797

    • WARSAW GHETTO MEMORIAL PLAZA- one of the first Holocaust monuments, dedicated 1947

    • WOMAN’S HEALTH PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION DETAIL- 116th Street, by Bruno Louis Zimm

    • INVISIBLE MAN: A MEMORIAL TO RALPH ELLISON- by Elizabeth Catlett

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • DAMROSCH PARK, Amsterdam Avenue and W. 62nd Street

    • ​The Daniel & Florence Guggenheim Bandshell

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Morningside Heights
Morningside Heights

boundaries: S- 110th St.; N- 155th St.; E- St. Nicholas Ave.; W- Hudson River

 

 

A neighborhood where a number of colleges, magnificent churches, seminary schools can be explored.  In 1776 the Battle of Harlem Heights was fought in this area and there is a plaque at 117th Street & Broadway to commemorate it.

Riverside Church

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN WAX- 318 W. 115th Street, 

 

  • MORNINGSIDE PARK- W 110th St to W. 123rd St., Manhattan Ave to Morningside Ave.

    • CARL SCHURZ MEMORIAL- by Karl Bitter

    • ALFRED LINCOLN SELIGNMAN FOUNTAIN- or the Bear & Faun by Edgar Walter

 

  • SAKURA PARK- Riverside Dr., Claremont Ave. to W. 122nd St.

    • GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD- by John Gutzon Borglum

    • JAPANESE STONE LANTERN- or ishi toro

 

Manhattan Valley

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Straus Park

Manhattan Valley/ Bloomingdale

boundaries: S- 96th St.; N- 110th St.; E- Central Park West; W- Broadway

 

 

In the 1800's John Clendening owned a farm covering most of this area and at one time this area was known as Clendening Valley.

 

In the 1870's this area had numerous institutional care facilities for those who were ill to those who were indigent.

 

  • STRAUS PARK- Broadway & W. 106th Street, W. End Ave

    • ISIDOR AND IDA STRAUS- by Augustus Lukeman

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