The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals.
John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912) – businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, who was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and chose to remain on the ship when it sank[9]
Vincent Astor (1891–1959) – businessman, philanthropist, and member of the prominent Astor family[10]
Willard Dickerman Straight – investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family[133]
^Day, Sherri. "Disappointment for Woody Allen, But Not at Box Office". The New York Times, March 26, 2004. Accessed August 18, 2019. "The state's highest court yesterday dismissed an effort to halt construction of a 10-story building on the Upper East Side, ending a six-year battle that pitted Woody Allen and a group of fellow Upper East Siders against the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission."
^"Elizabeth Arden Is Dead at 81; Made Beauty a Global Business; Elizabeth Arden Dies Here At 81", The New York Times, October 19, 1966. Accessed August 18, 2019. "Mrs. Elizabeth N. Graham, (Elizabeth Arden), who built a multimillion-dollar business in beauty salons, cosmetics and clothes and who was one of the country's leading race-horse, owners, died of a heart attack yesterday morning at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was stricken Monday evening at her 10-room apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue and admitted to the hospital at 7 P.M. by her physician, Dr. George W. Slaughter."
^Zimmer, Amy. "$100M Brooke Astor Estate Settlement Reached"Archived September 4, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, DNAinfo.com, March 28, 2012. Accessed September 3, 2017. "The five-year fight over the estate of Upper East Side doyenne Brooke Astor has been settled, paving the way for $100 million to start flowing to charities, the New York Attorney General's office announced Wednesday."
^Marino, Vivian. "A $14 Million Co-op for Michael R. Bloomberg", The New York Times, April 15, 2016. Accessed September 3, 2017. "Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, apparently looking to someday create a double-wide mansion for himself on the Upper East Side, paid $14,000,000 for a triplex at the co-op townhouse next to his Beaux-Arts limestone house."
^Jacobs, Alexandra. "Joan Didion on the Céline Ad", The New York Times, January 7, 2015. Accessed September 3, 2017. "'I don't have any clue,' said the 80-year-old author of well-thumbed classics such as The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking, reached by telephone on Wednesday at her Upper East Side residence (where the photo, by Juergen Teller, was taken)."
^De La Merced, Michael J. "Protesters Take Aim at Dimon, but Miss His Office", The New York Times, October 12, 2011. Accessed September 3, 2017. "The nearly month-old Occupy Wall Street protest has apparently settled on a favorite target for their ire, Jamie Dimon. On Tuesday, protestors marched to his apartment building in Manhattan's Upper East Side, bearing a giant fake check critiquing the low taxes of America's wealthiest individuals."
^Marino, Vivian. "Penthouse Owned by Joan Rivers Sold for $28 Million", The New York Times, July 17, 2015. Accessed September 3, 2017. "The palatial triplex on the Upper East Side that Joan Rivers called home for more than a quarter of a century until her death last year — where she had honed her caustic comedy routines, entertained celebrities, and, by her own telling, even encountered a belligerent ghost — sold for $28 million and was the most expensive closed sale of the week, according to city records."
^Thurman, Judith. "Tour Martin Scorsese's 1860s Townhouse in New York", Architectural Digest, April 1994. Accessed September 3, 2017. "Scorsese settled that question definitively two years ago, when he moved to an Upper East Side townhouse with a walled garden—not so grand as the mansions of The Age of Innocence, but built in the same period."
^Barbaro, Michael; Chen, David W. "Spitzer Rejoins Politics, Asking for Forgiveness", The New York Times, July 7, 2013. Accessed September 3, 2017. "Mr. Spitzer said he had not conducted any polling before deciding to run based on his gut reading of ordinary New Yorkers. He described an encounter on Sunday afternoon, when he was sitting on a park bench after a run near his Upper East Side home."
^Craven, Wayne (2008). Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. ISBN978-0393067545.
^Kirwin, Liza; McNaught, William; Brown, Robert F.; Karlstrom, Paul J.; Pacini, Marina (1988). "Regional Reports". Archives of American Art Journal. 28 (4): 34–40. ISSN0003-9853.