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Travel Guide

New York’s Upper East Side

This story certainly puts this area in a new light and changes the meaning of ‘Taking Manhattan’ completely!

If you live in this area or move here, never get a nanny. Certainly one from England if this book is to be believed. But then that’s the fun factor – this nanny is no Mary Poppins – her eyes would quite literally pop out at the antics that go on here!

This is the Upper East Side we are told where people care about personal presentation and that you’ve brushed your hair. But when the New York weather is changeable in February – from sunny and snappy to the heavens having opened, Upper East Side chic gets hard to maintain.

Upper East Side

The Wilder Binghams don’t just live on the twelfth floor. They are the twelfth floor”

The house is full of pannelled walls, “flowery curtainage”, a, large windows but and a strange quietness which seems to suggest the apartment is even hermetically sealed.

What goes on behind these wood panelled walls however….the neighbours would be very shocked indeed.

This is a posh upperclass area with parks and gardens and the lovely Guggenheim museum to visit, a few steps from the Central Park and the iconic home where John Lennon lived. Culturally fascinating.