East Side (Manhattan)
The East Side is part of the New York borough of Manhattan .
location
The East Side is located on the side of the island of Manhattan, which at the East River abuts and Brooklyn and Queens opposite. The Fifth Avenue , Central Park and the southern Broadway separate the East Side of the West Side of Manhattan.
Central Park divides the middle part of Manhattan into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side . This separation is also reflected in the street names: the "east streets" are east of Fifth Avenue and the "west streets" are west of Fifth Avenue.
South of Central Park, Fifth Avenue is therefore also the divider between east and west. It meets Washington Square Park in the south . From here on, Broadway is considered a dividing street, until finally the division into east and west disappears more and more in the more confused street network of the southern tip of Lower Manhattan .
On the eastern southern tip of Manhattan is the Lower East Side, which originally included the East Village to the north . But there is no counterpart in the sense of a "Lower West Side". Instead, the opposite of the East Village is the West Village .
quarter
The main neighborhoods on the East Side are (from north to south): East Harlem , Yorkville , Upper East Side , Turtle Bay , Murray Hill , Kips Bay , Gramercy , East Village and Lower East Side .
traffic
The main north-south connection on the East Side of Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive (FDR Drive) and Harlem River Drive, which are largely separated from the east coast of the island by the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway .
In terms of transport, the East Side is also opened up by the IRT East Side Line (subway) and many bus routes.