Luxury Homes and Real Estate - Sotheby’s International Realty

Extending from Fifth Avenue and the border of Central Park to the East River, and from 56th Street to the Carnegie Hill area at 96th Street, Manhattan’s fashionable Upper East Side is an area that features some of the city’s most significant cultural institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Museum Mile, the Whitney Museum of American Art and many others. Visitors staying at the Pierre, the Carlyle and other luxury hotels have easy access to fine restaurants, art galleries, gourmet food shops and excellent shopping destinations on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, and can explore landmarks from the famed Plaza Hotel to the city’s beautiful urban oasis of Central Park. Upper East Side real estate includes some of the most luxurious properties in the world, boasting some of New York City’s most stunning architecture and most elegant historic and prewar homes, with landmarked brownstones lining the prime residential streets between the avenues.