Upper East Side
 
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Upper East Side has been synonymous with “Gold Coast” since the railroad tracks running along and then under Park Avenue were covered up and planted over, and since Central Park morphed from sinkhole of shanties, swamps, and sites to a pastoral swath originally dubbed “Greensward”. Originally reached by traveling on Boston Post Road, now 2nd Avenue, the hills of the UES were graced with country estates overlooking the East River. By the 1830s the landscape around the villages of Harlem and Yorkville was dotted with shantytowns, stock pens, garbage heaps, quarries, and farms. In 1811 when the Commissioners plan was put into effect, although the streets were laid out they were never developed until public transportation made the area accessible. By the 1870s, the real estate race took off in earnest and block after block of brownstones row houses sprouted on the side streets between 3rd Avenue and Madison. A mostly German population lay east of 3rd Avenue in Yorkville which remained until more recent years. Lenox Hill takes its name form Robert Lenox whose farm occupied 30 acres from 68th to 70th streets west of Park Ave. Carnegie may have failed in his mission to build the “most modest, plainest” house in the city at 91st and 5th, but he did succeed in leaving his name on the hill it occupies.
 
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