Visitors find easy access to Central Park as well as the fabled “Museum Mile” section of 5th Avenue, home to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Museum of the City of New York and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design.

If the luxury life is appealing to you, this is where to be. This is a great neighborhood for dream-shopping and people-watching. The high end shops on Madison Avenue are really expensive but Bloomingdale's may be more affordable.

At night, the neighborhood is safe and quiet with the exception of restaurants; but from Third Avenue over, the Upper East Side turns into one big frat party, rife with bars packed with preppie post-collegiate types.