Upper East Side Historic District

The Upper East Side Historic District is a landmarked historic district on the Upper East Side of New York City's borough of Manhattan, first designated by the city in 1981.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[3] Its boundaries were expanded in 2010.[1][4]

Upper East Side Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
East 69th Street with its townhouses is a typical example of the sidestreets of the Upper East Side
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Location	Roughly bounded by 3rd and 5th Aves., 59th and 79th Sts., (original) Portion of 17 blocks adjacent to and E of the original district bet. E. 60th and E 75th Sts., (increase) New York, New York
Coordinates	40°46′11″N 73°57′59″W
Built	1862
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	84002803[1] (original) 06000822[1] (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 7, 1984
Boundary increase	September 12, 2006

The district includes all of the Fifth Avenue properties bordering Central Park from 59th to 78th Street; both sides of Madison Avenue from 61st Street to 77th Street; both sides of Park Avenue from just below 62nd Street to 72nd Street; and portions of both sides of Lexington Avenue from 63rd Street to 75th Street.[5]

The district is home to a number of buildings individually listed on the National Register, including the Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion and the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House,[1] as well as edifices that are more recent additions like the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue — a 2003 building designed in an "artful synthesis of the composition, details and material palette of the Beaux-Arts style," to complement the historic buildings that surround it.[6]