East Side (Manhattan)

The East Side is a part of New York's Borough of Manhattan.

Location

The East Side is located on the side of Manhattan Island which abuts the East River and Brooklyn and Queens is opposite. The Fifth Avenue, Central Park and the southern Broadway separate the East Side of Manhattan's West Side.

Thus, the Central Park divides the middle part of Manhattan to the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side. This separation is also reflected in the street names resist: the " east streets" are east of Fifth Avenue and the " west streets" lie west of Fifth Avenue.

South of Central Park is therefore also the Fifth Avenue of the divider between East and West. She meets in the south to the Washington Square Park. From here, the Broadway is considered dividing road, until finally the division into East and West is disappearing more confused in the road network of the southern tip of Lower Manhattan.

Located on the eastern southern tip of Manhattan, the Lower East Side, which also originally once the bordering north East Village belonged. But there is no equivalent in the sense of " Lower West Side". Instead, the counterpart to the East Village, the West Village.

Quarter

The most important areas on the East Side are ( from north to south ): East Harlem, Yorkville, Upper East Side, Turtle Bay, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, Gramercy, East Village and Lower East Side.

Traffic

The main north - south route on the east side of the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive ( FDR Drive ) and the Harlem River Drive, which are largely separated from the east coast of the island by the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway.

The East Side is provision of public transport by the IRT East Side Line ( subway) and many bus lines.