Went back down to the Upper East Side ("UES") again and did E 73rd St. through E 86th St; about 14 miles.

The composition of this section of the neighborhood was very similar to the streets I covered in my previous UES post, which has some of the historical info on the neighborhood. The one notable difference was that instead of hospitals and related medical facilities, the blocks east of 1st Ave / 2nd Ave. were mostly residential.

Interesting Fact: I'd always assumed that York Ave. (the avenue east of 1st. Ave that corresponds w/Ave. A south of 14th St.) was named either for Old (English) York, like Amsterdam Ave. on the west side, or for the Yorkville neighborhood, which it runs through. Turns out neither is the case. Instead, York Ave. was named for Sgt. Alvin York, a heavily decorated soldier from WWI best known for receiving the Medal of Honor after leading an attack on a German machine gun nest. Well, I thought it was interesting.

The steam drill to my John Henry

Start of walk

E. 73rd @ 5th Ave.

I checked - he actually sells pots

E 73rd St. btw 5th Ave. and Madison Ave.

Old carriage houses

E 73rd St. btw Lexington Ave. & 3rd Ave.

Old row house

E 73rd St. btw Lexington Ave. & 3rd Ave.

Bohemian National Hall / Czech Consulate (b. 1897)

E 73rd St. btw 2nd Ave. & 1st Ave.

Street fair

E 73rd St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

No spellchecker on that Ouija board

E 73rd St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

View of Roosevelt Island

E 73rd St. btw York Ave. & FDR Drive

UES apartment buildings

E 73rd St. btw York Ave. & FDR Drive

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church (b. 1888)

E 74th St. btw 1st Ave. & 2nd Ave.

Rev. Vincent Pisek

E 74th St. btw 1st Ave. & 2nd Ave.

Eleanor Roosevelt's other UES mansion

E 74th St. btw Park Ave. & Madison Ave.

The UN years

E 74th St. btw Park Ave. & Madison Ave.

Historical info

Low-hanging gargoyle

E 75th St. btw Lexington Ave. & 3rd Ave.

Con-Ed tower

E 75th St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

Lebanese consulate

E 76th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

E 78th apartments

E 78th St. btw 2nd Ave. & 3rd Ave.

Mansion

E 78th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

Griffin

E 78th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

NYU Institute of Fine Arts in the James B. Duke House, as in Duke University (b. 1912)

E 78th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

Ukrainian Institute of America in the Harry F. Sinclair House, as in Sinclair Oil (b. 1899)

E 79th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

More amazing mansions

E 79th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

Michael Bloomberg's house

E 79th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

York Avenue Estate, a "model tenement" (b. 1900)

E 79th St. btw York Ave. & East End Ave.

York Avenue Estate

E 79th St. btw York Ave. & East End Ave.

Ship's bow in Roosevelt Island

E 80th St. btw York Ave. & East End Ave.

George & Martha Whitney House

E 80th St. btw Lexington Ave. & Park Ave.

I tried to look him up online, but I think the only notable thing about him was that he had a nice house

E 80th St. btw Lexington Ave. & Park Ave.

Historical info

Expensive apartments

E 81st St. btw 5th Ave. & Madison Ave.

Roosevelt Island lighthouse

E 81st St. @ East End Ave.

Where the 1% goes to get their thetans removed (or to get more thetans, I'm not really sure)

E 82nd St. btw Park Ave. & Madison Ave.

Mansion

E 82nd St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

View of the Met down E. 82nd St.

E 82nd St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

Look on my works ye mighty and despair

E 82nd St. at 5th Ave.

UES auto repair

E 83rd St. btw 3rd Ave. & 2nd Ave.

Roof shadow

E 83rd St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

Horse head

E 83rd St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

Trompe-l'œil

E 83rd St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

Green house

E 84th St. btw 1st Ave. & York Ave.

Marymount School

E 84th St. btw Madison Ave. & 5th Ave.

Creepy face

E 85th St. btw 3rd Ave. & 2nd Ave.

John Finley Walk in Carl Schurz Park

E 86th St. @ East End Ave.