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

Compare meaning

How does east-side compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• West Side vs. East Side

Example Sentences

Shortly after Lutnick moved into his property on the Upper East side in 2005, he says Epstein gave Lutnick and his wife a tour of his large residence.

From BBC

From my all-girls school on the Upper East Side, I’d head a few miles north to 115th Street and sit at a miniature table with a young girl.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then those Slack channels started closing down, said Rob Goodwin, who worked at the front desk of a Sonder building in New York’s Lower East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal

Goodwin stayed at his post on the Lower East Side until midnight on Nov. 9, spending about 17 hours working with guests who were desperate to find a place to stay.

From The Wall Street Journal

Afterward, those of us sitting on the east side of the stadium, staring into the setting sun until the fourth quarter, stumble with burned-out retinas to the muddy golf course that they call a parking lot, to wait in our stack-parked cars, until everyone else is out, so we can leave, an hours-long ordeal just to get home.

From Los Angeles Times