But the Upper East Side social scene is cooler and more enjoyable.
“Brooklyn is more segregated than the Upper East Side,” he says.
“Moneywise, what you get on the Upper East Side is far superior to what you get downtown,” he says.
Time will tell whether the Upper East Side achieves lasting social cachet to go with the cash awash in the neighborhood.
Some Upper East Side natives are getting restless about outside perceptions.
Yet a younger, starrier crowd, while not exactly moving to the Upper East Side, is socializing in the area in greater numbers.
The Upper East Side is the only real authentic New York neighborhood left in the city.
On the Upper East Side, a higher proportion of people watch soccer.
Since we opened there have been 15 or 18 places open on the Upper East Side.
At 56th St. the tracks begin to rise from the long tunnel and pass through the tenement district of the Upper East Side.
