Upper East Side - Landmarks and Cultural Institutions

Landmarks and Cultural Institutions

The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue fronting Central Park has been dubbed "Museum Mile." It was once named "Millionaire's Row." Among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side:

  • 92nd Street Y
  • The Asia Society
  • Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum
  • The Frick Collection
  • Goethe-Institut New York
  • The Jewish Museum of New York
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Museum of the City of New York
  • The Morgan Library & Museum
  • The National Academy of Design
  • Manhattan House, the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed mid-century modernist white brick building at 200 E 66th Street, once home to Grace Kelly and Benny Goodman. Landmarked in 2007
  • The Neue Galerie
  • Society of Illustrators
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • The Whitney Museum of American Art
  • El Museo Del Barrio
  • The Irish Georgian Society
Political institutions
  • The Council on Foreign Relations
Hotels
  • Plaza Hotel (technically in Midtown)
  • The Carlyle Hotel
  • The Pierre
  • Bentley Hotel

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