The Upper East Side Historic District is a historic district on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. First designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1981,UES Historic District Designation Report, 1981, http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1051.pdf it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report, Vol. 1 , May 19, 1981, Landmarks Preservation Commission Its boundaries were expanded in 2010.Upper East Side Historic District Extension Designation Report, March 23, 2010, http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2373.pdf () ()
The district includes all of the Fifth Avenue properties bordering Central Park from 59th to 78th Street; both sides of Madison Avenue from 61st Street to 77th Street; both sides of Park Avenue from just below 62nd Street to 72nd Street; and portions of both sides of Lexington Avenue from 63rd Street to 75th Street.
The district is home to a number of buildings individually listed on the National Register, including the Barbara Rutherford Hatch House, Barbizon Hotel for Women, Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion, and Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House, as well as edifices that are more recent additions like the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue — a 2003 building designed in an "artful synthesis of the composition, details and material palette of the Beaux-Arts style," to complement the historic buildings that surround it.In Synagogue Design, Many Paths, By DAVID W. DUNLAP, December 8, 2002, New York Times, https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980CE7DC123BF93BA35751C1A9649C8B63&pagewanted=all
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