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15 unusual facts about Upper East Side


Bethenny Ever After

A furniture shopping trip for her new apartment sends her into a tailspin when she realizes that every time her Upper East Side interior decorator opens her mouth, thousands of Bethenny's hard earned dollars fall out.

Daniel Boulud

Boulud set out on his own and opened his restaurant Daniel, in 1993, in Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Frédéric Fekkai

Fekkai currently operates seven salons in the United States in key markets—three in New York City, in SoHo, the Upper East Side and Fifth Avenue as well as Los Angeles, Dallas, Greenwich, and Palm Beach—and services approximately 1,500 clients per day.

George Jefferson

When the spin-off series The Jeffersons began in January 1975, George and his family had moved "to a deluxe apartment in the sky" on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

John Spano

Spano was originally from the Upper East Side (Manhattan, in New York City), but spent most of his life in Madison, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.

K-per Lucem

(born June 1, 1988) better known by his stage name K-per Lucem, is an American producer, song-writer and performer from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York.

Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar

A 44-year-old maid at the Pierre Hotel on New York City's Upper East Side told authorities that on May 29, 2011, Omar called for room service, asking for a box of tissues to be delivered to his $900-a-night room.

Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital

Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital (or Institute) (MEETH or MEETI) is a specialty hospital in New York City that was founded in 1869 and is currently located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 210 East 64th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues).

Richard Kirshenbaum

Kirshenbaum is also a columnist for the New York Observer, his column "Isn't That Rich", is published monthly and depicts the life on Manhattan's Upper East Side with a humorous point of view

Sarah Saltzberg

For the past ten years, Saltzberg has been teaching improvisation to students in grades K-5 at P.S. 6 on the Upper East Side.

Silk Stocking District

Upper East Side, New York City, also known as the Silk Stocking District

The Nanny Diaries

Both had worked as nannies for about 30 different wealthy families on the Upper East Side, where the book is set.

Tim George, Jr.

Born on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1980 as the son of an investment banker, Tim George, Jr. began his racing career in 2005.

Tom Allon

Allon helped create two public high schools, Eleanor Roosevelt High School on the Upper East Side and Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Yumi Kim

A second Yumi Kim flagship stored opened in 2011 in New York's Upper East Side at 1331 3rd Ave at 76th St. Compared to the Stanton Street flagship, the uptown shop has a more elegant uptown feel.


Bill Berkson

Born in New York city on August 30, 1939, Bill Berkson grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the only child of Seymour Berkson, general manager of International News Service and later publisher of the New York Journal American, and the fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert.

Dangerfield's

Dangerfield's is a comedy club located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, United States, and named after comedian Rodney Dangerfield.

Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto

Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto is an Italian restaurant located at 903 Madison Avenue (between East 72nd Street and East 73rd Street), a block north of the Ralph Lauren store on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, in New York City.