New York City | Upper East Side

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The largest art museum in the United States and one of the ten largest in the world. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

It is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. 

The building has become a cultural icon and can be seen widely throughout popular culture.

Harry F. Sinclair House/

The Ukrainian Institute of America

          The Ukrainian Institute occupies one of the grandest turn-of-the-century structures that remain in New York City: the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion. It is a nonprofit institution, with its headquarters at the mansion It was founded by Ukrainian industrialist and philanthropist William Dzus on May 3, 1948 to promote Ukrainian culture, history, art, music and literature and started formally in 1955. It often hosts art exhibitions of notable Ukrainian artists living in the states and other events related to Ukrainian heritage.

Benjamin N.Duke House

   The Benjamin N. Duke House is one of the classic Fifth Avenue townhouses. Designed by Alexander M. Welch, the house was built in 1901 in a Beaux-Arts style with French Renaissance interior, decorated mainly with Louis XV furniture. The mansion also has a private staircase on the top floor that leads to a rooftop balcony where you can see all of Manhattan. 

    Carlos Slim, at the time the richest person in the world, bought the mansion four years later in 2010 for $44,000,000. 

   The Benjamin N. Duke House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

                    

P.S. You know what inspired me to this post.... Gossip Girl, which is best shown the beauty of the Upper East Side. Higher you can seen my most favorite places.