NYC’s Upper East Side Explored & Explained | Walking Tour | Architectural Digest 

USA in 4 every single time

The Upper East Side is the highest population density neighborhood in the USA, so it truly exemplifies what you said.

"most American cities are overrated compared to European cities" Who in the world is rating American cities over European cities?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@colors6692 their is plenty of us

Only proper city in the US. The rest look like strip malls.

Yes!

i would like to see 43rd street where tony randall use to live eastside manhatten

Exactly, he explained everything greatly and with poise too. The other architects are all by like "the demarque walling is really neet.........are next building is-"

Yes, I loved the soft but crisp contrast of the photographs with no doubt a more lit up sky on that day.

same!! there are so many great buildings here. as a lifelong uws resident, that would be a dream come true 😌

New York has an incredible wealth of great architecture which is indeed overlooked by many due to the city's density of structures. The buildings are not neatly arrayed on uniform blocks set on an endless grid, like Chicago. The blocks in Manhattan, especially north of 14th and west of 5th, are longer, hence they are packed with numerous structures of varying height and composition. One can easily trace and see the history of modern skyscraper construction in Chicago's Loop because the the historic buildings are contained within a small area comprised of a few square blocks, which is easily walkable, and they are not compressed, nor overwhelmed by neighboring structures. One can stand on the north end of the Michigan Ave. Bridge and be rewarded with a beatiful sweeping view of the Loop, the Chicago River, Lake Michigan, and North Michigan Ave. Panoramic urban views of this nature are difficult to come by in Manhattan, unless one views it from another state, like NJ, or another borough. NYC presents a much complex situation due to its topographical setting, and it's historic development. Chicago presents a neater, tidier urban appearance then NYC, but cannot match the the fantastic richness and variety of architectural styles and treatments one encounters in the Big Apple.

Paris next please

Whenever you do get to New York please know it's the perfect walking city with an almost unending amount of architectural treasures to see. Fortunately there are so many books available you can easily give yourself a university-level education on the history and development of the city's myriad of architectural styles!

@@johnscanlan9335 Hello John thank u so much for telling me i really appreciate it. I am just wondering are u a New Yorker?.

@@noorimeldaelle3403 I was born and lived much of my life there. But now I live out west in Las Vegas, Nevada. I like the weather out here much better. New York winters can be extremely cold!

@@johnscanlan9335 Hello John ok good to know that 👍 is another important piece of information. Thank u for telling me i really appreciate it. U are so kind.

I live here and it's kind of boring...

welcome to NYC! Same could be said of downtown Brooklyn areas like Willamsburg, Park Slope next to Flatbush and Bed-Sty

96th St is generally considered the border between the Upper East Side and East Harlem, but luxury development has crept north of 96th. I was lucky enough to live for a year in a new upscale apartment building a couple of blocks north of 96th. There was a housing project directly across the street from us (never had any problems and it was kind of cool to have such a mix of income levels).

@@ThreeRunHomer So its just a normal street? Below 96th there was luxury and north of 96th there was poverty? And none of it crept over the boundary?

@@christianwestling2019 There was never a hard dividing line between rich and poor. In the video he explained how Park Avenue is rich now but was poor before Park Avenue was built over top of the railroad tracks.

@@ThreeRunHomer Yes, but this was well before the area was built up?

No, "brutal, " aptly fits the look. Live in Manhattan, and as often as I have walked by the former Whitney on Madison, Ave, the structure cannot be more then what it is; a bunker-like fortification with the subtlety of clenched concrete fist. To believe this thudding expression was designed with democracy in mind is pure rubbish. To insert this in a stately neighborhood merely smacks of egoism and is hardly heroic.

@@LUIS-ox1bv Define democracy because you seem to have a Disney-esque version of it in mind. Architecture like brutalism which lacks ornamentation certainly seems more egalitarian on the surface and is something that could be replicated more easily as it doesn't require specially sourced components. Not that I think the style is ideal, it's good for a novelty.