I’ve lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for over a year now, and while it’s not exciting the same way the downtown neighborhoods are, it’s a neighborhood that has lots of old New York history, plenty of museums, and easy access to Central Park and the East River. I love that I can take a stroll to Central Park in just a few minutes, check out the Met or the Guggenheim in a short walk, and stroll along streets full of lush trees and flowers down my block. And you really know you have lived in New York for a while when some weekends, you don’t even leave your neighborhood. That is sometimes even me now.