Upper East Side

“This rollout has been nothing short of disastrous,” Julie Menin, a council member from the Upper East Side, said at a hearing this week.

Today, Zheng is the mastermind behind the newly opened Sushi Akira, an intimate 12-seat, 18-course omakase experience on the Upper East Side.

At the Grolier Club on the Upper East Side is an object never before displayed in public: an edition of one of Hemingway’s first novels, which was stolen when his first wife left a bag unattended on a train in 1922.

Late at night on a recent Tuesday, an older man and woman sat together on a low brick wall on the Upper East Side, quietly chatting in Spanish.

It brought Ian McKellen to Brooklyn as King Lear, built a replica of its main theater in an Upper East Side drill hall and sent a stream of shows to Broadway.