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Upper East Side, Manhattan

The Upper East Side is Manhattan’s most exclusive residential neighborhood. It’s the home of Museum Mile, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Lexington, and Second Ave. There are many high-end art galleries, especially of Old Masters.

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Upper East Side Sponsors

Thank you for sponsoring Latin culture in the Upper East Side:

Upper East Side Venues

92nd Street Y, New York is a World-Class Cultural and Community Center That Serves All Communities From the Upper East Side

Boca Tuya: Puerto Rican contemporary dance 🇵🇷
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio South African jazz 🇿🇦
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Urban Bush Women: Black women’s contemporary dance 🇺🇸
Amber Iman tributes Nina Simone 🇺🇸
Nut/Cracked, The Bang Group’s tap, ballet, contemporary, disco Nutcracker 🇺🇸

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MET FIFTH AVENUE, Upper East Side, Manhattan:
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard 🇲🇽
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson 🇺🇸
Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin 🇫🇷
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 🇮🇹
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1875-Now 🇪🇬

MET CLOISTERS, Fort Tryon Park, Hudson Heights, Upper Manhattan

96th St
Central Park | Upper East Side | East River
59th St

Museum Mile is Fifth Avenue along Central Park. Madison Avenue is NYC’s most high-end shopping district. Park Avenue is big business. Lexington has a little of everything because of the subway. Second Avenue has lots of bars and now its own subway. Carl Schurz Park has beautiful East River views.

Thank you for sponsoring Latin culture in Manhattan’s Upper East Side:

Latin Upper East Side

Museum Mile

Museum Mile is Fifth Avenue from Africa Center (in East Harlem) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Museum Mile Festival is a popular street fair.

Africa Center

El Museo del Barrio

Museum of the City of New York

The Jewish Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Guggenheim Museum

Neue Gallery

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Frick Madison

Frick Collection is temporarily closed for reconstruction. The collection is currently at Frick Madison.

Latin Art Galleries

Acquavella Galleries is one of the galleries that brought modern art to New York. 🇮🇹

Americas Society has an art gallery that exhibits some Latin art.

Henrique Faria Fine Art is a Latin American art gallery.

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary  🇦🇷 🇮🇹

Leon Tovar Gallery is a Colombian art gallery. 🇨🇴

Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art specializes in Mexican art. She created the Latin American department at Sotheby’s, before it became popular. 🇲🇽

Art Fairs

The Park Avenue Armory hosts many art fairs.

The Winter Show is America’s biggest antiques fair.

Master Drawings New York is an art fair of Upper East Side galleries showing Old Masters and New Masters, in January.

Art Auctions

Sotheby’s New York May and November art auctions are pillars of the New York art scene. Old Masters and antiques auctions are at the end of January. In season, the building is one big gallery with museum-quality exhibitions.

Latin Books

Albertine is a French bookstore at the French Embassy in the Upper East Side. albertine.com 🇫🇷

The John and Francine Haskell Library at L’Alliance New York, is New York City’s biggest French library. 🇫🇷

Latin Colleges

CentroPR is the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. centropr.hunter.cuny.edu

Latin Consulates

  • French Embassy 🇫🇷
  • French Consulate 🇫🇷
  • Italian Consulate 🇮🇹

Latin Cultural Centers

92nd Street Y, New York is a cultural center where legends are made from a core foundation of Jewish values. 🇺🇸

Americas Society is a forum for education, debate, and dialogue on political, social, economic, and cultural issues of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada.

L’Alliance New York French cultural center is the rebranded French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), a French language school, cultural center, and library. 🇫🇷

Italian Cultural Institute. 🇮🇹

Latin Dance

92nd Street Y, New York is the home of the Harkness Dance Center. 🇺🇸

Latin Fashion

Bloomingdales is the Upper East Side department store.

Madison Avenue has a lot of high-end Latin fashion boutiques.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Latin Film

AMC Orpheum 7 is a commercial multiplex cinema.

L’Alliance New York French cultural center hosts French film programs. 🇫🇷

Latin Festivals

Many Fifth Avenue parades end at 72nd Street in the Upper East Side.

The L’Alliance New York Bastille Day Celebration street fair is one of New York City’s big Bastille Day festivals.

Latin Food

La Esquina is a high-end Mexican fast food restaurant. 🇲🇽

Maya 🇲🇽

Latin Music

92nd Street Y, New York hosts Latin classical and Latin jazz. 🇺🇸

Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y is one of New York’s hot summer jazz festivals.

Visit the Upper East Side

Main Cross Streets

  • 96 & 97th St are Central Park crossings.
  • 84th & 85th St are Central Park crossings.
  • 79th St is a Central Park crossing.
  • 72nd St
  • 65th and 66th St are Central Park crossings.
  • 59th St connects to the Queensboro Bridge

Subway and Tram stations:

  • 96th St (4)(6) at Lexington.
  • 96th St (N)(Q) at Second Avenue.
  • 86th St (4)(5)(6) at Lexington. (Guggenheim, Met Museum)
  • 86th St (N)(Q)(R) at Second Avenue.
  • 77th St (4)(6) at Lexington.
  • 72nd St (N)(Q)(R)
  • 68th St – Hunter College (4)(5)(6)
  • 63rd St (4)(6) at Lexington.
  • Lexington Ave – 63rd St (F)(N)(Q)(R)
  • Roosevelt Island Tram Second Ave at 60th St
  • Fifth Avenue – 59th St (N)(R)(W)
  • Lexington Ave – 59th St (N)(R)(W)
  • 59th St (4)(5)(6) at Lexington.