West Side

American  

noun

1. the western part of Manhattan Island, New York City: conventionally W of Fifth Avenue.

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• West Side vs. East Side

Example Sentences

There’s a variety of price points here: new construction on the west side sells for millions, but manufactured homes on leased lots are listed for less than $200,000.

From Los Angeles Times

However, it appears that the comedian had already laid down new roots in the city several weeks before listing her Brooklyn home, with records showing that she snapped up a stunning Upper West Side apartment for $6.25 million two months before the townhouse was put on the market.

From MarketWatch

The line out the door and all the way down the street at Breads Bakery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Friday told one story of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

The cupcake fervor hit its peak when Crumbs, which had started as a single bakery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 2003, went public in a reverse merger worth $66 million in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times

“It doesn’t have to be. We could cross over to the west side and then go down...”

From Literature