East Side

American  

Or Eastside

noun

1. the eastern section of Manhattan, in New York City, lying to the east of Fifth Avenue.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or located in this section.

   East Side restaurants.

Etymology

Origin of East Side

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

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• West Side vs. East Side

Example Sentences

Stints in modeling and photography helped the heiress to the Coppola filmmaking dynasty forge her own path in the ’90s, one that stretched through New York’s Lower East Side all the way to magazine cut-out collages, plastered onto every artsy teenager’s wall.

From Salon

A 2022 sale of her estate re-created elements of her Upper East Side apartment in New York’s Stair Galleries, where the auction was taking place.

From The Wall Street Journal

Evans’s home is on the east side of the 110 freeway just south of the Manchester Avenue exit facing a soundwall, with a residential street and a strip of dirt separating the neighborhood from the highway.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think for Torrance this is a good thing because you see a lot of murals in the east side of L.A. because there’s a lot of graffiti artists and all that, compared to over here. So it’s something really huge for Torrance, I believe.”

From Los Angeles Times

It built its current home on the Lower East Side in 2007 and it is as sensational today as when it opened.

From The Wall Street Journal