Middle and Upper East Side

Gashouse District—Stuyvesant Square
District—Gramercy Park District—
Union Square District—Madison
Square District—Kip's Bay and Turtle
Bay—Murray Hill—Fifth Avenue
Shopping District—Grand Central Dis-
trict—Beekman Place and Sutton
Place—Central Park South, The
Plaza, and Fifty-seventh Street—Upper
Fifth, Madison, and Park Avenues—
Yorkville

Area: 14th St. on the south to 96th St. on the north; from 6th Ave. (14th to 42c!
St.) and 5th Ave. (42d to 96th St.) east to East River. Maps on pages 54-55, 193,
and 237.

Principal north-south streets: 5th, Madison, 4th, Park, Lexington, 3d, 2d, and
1 st Aves.

Principal cross streets: 14th, 23d, 34th, 42d, 57th, 59th, 72d, 86th, and 96th Sts.
Transportation: IRT Lexington Avenue subway (local), 14th to 96th St. stations;
2d or 3d Ave. el, 14th to 96th St. stations; BMT Broadway subway (local),
Union Square to 34th St. stations; bus lines on all principal north-south and cross
streets.

In the Middle and Upper East Side, virtually every facet of cosmopoli-
tan life is represented in famous hotels, churches, clubs, department stores,
shops, skyscrapers, apartment houses, and amusement centers.