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Upper East Side
Refined cultural institutions, high-end boutiques, and upscale halal dining options
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New York
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Upper East Side
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3 places
places · Upper East Side
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met Fifth Avenue is an encyclopedic art museum whose galleries range from ancient Egypt and the Islamic world to European painting, arms and armor, and American art.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiraling Guggenheim building pairs a continuous ramp around a skylit rotunda with a major collection of modern and contemporary art.
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The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection displays European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts in Henry Clay Frick's restored Fifth Avenue mansion, reopened in April 2025.
2 hotels
hotels · Upper East Side
New York
The Pierre, a Taj Hotel, New York
The Pierre is a 1930 Fifth Avenue landmark with polished rooms, park-view suites, Taj service, three dining spaces and a Central Park doorstep.
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The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel
The Carlyle is an Upper East Side landmark with residential rooms and suites, Bemelmans Bar, Café Carlyle, Dowling’s restaurant and Valmont spa.
1 shopping spots
shopping spots · Upper East Side
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Madison Avenue Shopping District
Madison Avenue’s Upper East Side shopping district spans roughly 30 blocks of designer fashion, fine jewellery, watches, galleries, hotels and dining.
1 masjids
masjids · Upper East Side
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Islamic Cultural Center of New York
The Islamic Cultural Center of New York is Manhattan’s first purpose-built mosque, a domed modern complex at East 96th Street and Third Avenue.