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A Two-Hour Walk in the Upper East Side

A promenade along upper Fifth Avenue and its environs will
take you past the best remaining examples of New York’s
turn-of-the-20th century gilded age. A stroll through the old
German district of Yorkville leads to Gracie Mansion, official
residence of the city’s mayor, dating from 1799. For details
on Upper East Side sights, see pages 178–97.
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From the Frick to the Met Third, is a fine row of town
Begin at the Frick mansion 1, houses 5. Back on Fifth R e s e r v o i r p EAST 93 RD STREET
built in 1913–14 for millionaire Avenue, walk to 75th Street, to o EAST 92ND STREET
Henry Clay Frick and see No. 1,
home to an exquisite the former EAST 91ST STREET u
art collec tion (pp196– residence of
7). Many such MA D ISO N AV ENU E A V E N U E
mansions were
built as New York’s
wealthiest families P A R K EAST 90TH ST
outdid each other M I L E )
with miniature 86th Street
4.5.6
Versailles châteaux
and Venetian q ( M U S E U M
LEXINGTON AVE
palazzos. Most of 0 A V E N U E
those still standing EAST 84TH E A S T 8 6 T H y E A S T 8 9 T H S T R E E T
have now become EAST 83RD w E A S T 8 8 T H S T R E E T
either institutions or y Church of the Holy Trinity A V E N U E M A D I S O N STREET e E A S T 8 7 T H S T R E E T
museums. The apartment 9 EAST 82ND S T R E E T
building opposite the Frick is 8 STREET t
typical of those where today’s C E N T R A L P A R K 7 PARK AVENUE STREET
affluent New Yorkers live. F I F T H E A S T A V E N U E EAST 85TH STREET r
East on Madison at the EAST 77TH ST EAST 81ST A V E N U E
corner of 72nd Street, is 6 EAST 80TH F I R S T EAST 83RD J
CARL
the big Polo-Ralph Lauren STREET EAST 82ND SCHURZ
EAST 84TH STREET
store 2, the 1898 French 77th Street 6 A V E N U E STREET Y O R K STREET EAST END AVENUE P ARK
Renaissance home of 4 EAST 75TH STREET EAST 78TH
A V E N U E
Gertrude Rhinelander 3 EAST 74TH STREET LEXINGTON AVENUE 7 9 T H S T R E E T STREET

Waldo. Wander inside STREET
EAST 77TH
to see the elegant 1 EAST 73RD STREET T H I R D STREET
restored interior. 2 EAST 72ND STREET EAST 76TH STREET
Walk back toward 5 S E C O N D
Fifth on the north EAST 71ST STREET EAST 75TH ST
side of 72nd, past two EAST 70TH STREET
limestone beauties that once EAST 69TH STREET EAST 74 TH ST
housed the Lycée Français de EAST 73RD ST
New York 3. Continue along
Fifth Avenue to 73rd Street. 0 meters 500
Turn east to 11, Joseph château is now the New York
Pulitzer’s former home 4. 0 yards 500 University Institute of Fine Arts 7.
A few blocks on, At 79th Street and Fifth, the
between Lexington and Edward S. Harkness, son former home of financier
of a founder of Payne Whitney, is the French
Standard Oil. It Embassy 8, and nearby at
is now the 2 East 79th is the Ukrainian
Common- Institute 9. On the southeast
wealth Fund corner of 82nd Street you’ll
6. At 1 East find Duke-Semans House 0,
78th, the tob- one of the few grand Fifth
acco million- Avenue residences that are
aire James still privately owned. The
B. Duke’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
18th-century q, at 82nd Street, warrants a
9 The facade of the Ukrainian Institute French-style full day’s visit.
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