Bounce
Restaurant and sports bar features wide-screen plasma televisions, full bar, and menu ranging from Philly cheese steaks to grilled salmon.
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Brother Jimmy's BBQ
Opened by Duke and UNC alumni, this barbecue joint and sports bar gives nostalgic college grads a little Southern comfort, especially on game days. Diners seeking ribs, sliced-beef sandwiches, and popcorn shrimp sit at red-and-white-checked tables in the small front area, while drinkers congregate further back amid university paraphernalia and 17 TVs. Loud rock and country make conversation a challenge, but guests stuffing themselves with brisket, burgers, fried pickles, and baked beans hardly seem concerned.
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Cafe d'Alsace
A roaring scene of grownups fills this mustard-colored dining room adorned with a seltzer bottle collection, vintage French beer ads, and distressed mirrors reminiscent of a downtown brasserie. Neighborhood dwellers pack the place, happy that high-caliber dining doesn't require a cab ride.
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Comic Strip Live
Nurturing up-and-coming comics and welcoming back veteran comedians for more than a quarter century.
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Delizia Pizzeria & Restaurant
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Doc Watson's
Neighborhood denizens (think Wall Street brokers) looking to reconnect with their Celtic heritage flock to Doc's for friendly service, inexpensive drinks, and upscale bar eats. Sunday evenings the traditional Irish band Aonach hosts three-hour jam sessions, but most nights revelers play the entire oeuvre of U2 on the jukebox.
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Elaine's
Elaine's has been made famous by its regulars who come for conversation and the homey, old-Italian-neighborhood feel. Sparkling lights set the mood as the crowd dines on mediocre grub. Elaine makes a fuss over faces she recognizes, even if they aren't with Woody's party. If she doesn't recognize you, you'll end up seated somewhere in Siberia.
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Heidelberg Restaurant
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J.G. Melon
J.G. Melon is a dusty old neighborhood tavern with green-and-white checkerboard tablecloths, old men who drink beer in the middle of the day, and Irish waitresses who address regulars by nicknames like "The Commander." The highlight of the pub-food menu is the burger: juicy, loosely packed, and served on a small bun. The menu offers other standards as well: a turkey club sandwich, chicken salad, roast Cornish hen. Bartenders pour Coors Lite and Budweiser.
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Jack Russell's
TVs aren't exactly lacking at this uptown sports bar...they hang from the ceiling, line the wall behind the bar, and appear in every roomy booth. A fireplace and votive-topped tables add a cozy touch to the space otherwise adorned by framed Guinness posters. Video games in front and two pool tables in back allow patrons to be participants rather than spectators, and the after-work rush can become quite a competitive singles scene.
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Luigi's Pizzeria
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Maz Mezcal Mexican Restaurant
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Mustang Grill
Mustang Grill is a Southwestern/Tex-Mex restaurant with one of the largest selections of premium tequilas in the United States. It is also a multi-level dining and entertainment venue. Mustang Grill features indoor and outdoor dining, a bar, a lounge, and party rooms. Mustang Grill has something for everyone, that's what makes it the place to go for a great dinner, a fun night out, or to just kick back and relax with a famous "Mustang Margarita"!
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ONE83
Casually elegant Italian restaurant with full bar and outdoor patio is a neighborhood favorite, good for romance or family outings.
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Our Place Cuisines of China
A neighborhood favorite for 16 years. Widely considered the BEST Chinese restaurant on the Upper East Side.
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Starbucks
We're passionate about the way we roast our coffee. It's more than just a color: it is the cumulative, positive, and dramatic result of roasting each coffee in a unique way, helping each one reach its maximum flavor. The color can be duplicated - but the taste cannot.
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Sushi of Gari
A steady crowd packs this popular sushi spot, which gets so loud that it's often impossible to tune out neighboring conversation. Don't be surprised when regulars start ordering items that don't appear on the menu, such as the spicy scallop rolls or the tofu-topped tuna sushi. Make like a NYC native and scout for recommendations, or else risk an expensive, modestly sized sushi special or the ho-hum menu items.
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Uptown Lounge
Uptown Restaurant & Lounge strives to provide our guests with a bustling bar scene, creative and delicious menu, and an upscale yet casual environment, all at an affordable price. We felt that the neighborhood had a need for a place that would bring great food, cheerful and attentive service, and great atmosphere together.
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Vespa Restaurant
Funky European-style restaurant, lounge and wine bar serves Italian-Mediterranean fare in a cozy, eclectic dining room or coveted outdoor garden patio.
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86th Street Wine & Liquors
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Aldo Shoes
Footwear for men and women in casual, dressy, and rugged styles.
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Ann Taylor Loft
Ann Taylor is a premier specialty apparel retailer offering contemporary American classics, including suits, separates, dresses, shoes, and accessories that reflect a feminine, polished approach to updated classic style.
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Asphalt Green
Built on five acres of city-owned property, Asphalt Green is a not-for-profit sports venue with incredibly varied programming. Where else would you find pregnant teens from Inwood House relaxing in a small water pool (with a hydraulic floor) while nearby geriatric ladies who lunch swim Olympic-length laps under a luminous skylight of fogged glass? Separate dressing rooms are provided for members and guests, but everyone has access to a steam room.
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Banana Republic
Epitomizing office casual wear, Banana Republic started out as a small vendor of safari-inspired clothing before it was purchased by the Gap in 1983. Since then, it has grown into a brand-name behemoth that one-ups the Gap in quality, status, and price - but not necessarily creativity.
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Bank of America
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Barnes & Noble
Established in 1873 and still thriving, this mainstream bookseller boasts almost 600 locations and does brisk online business as well. Ubiquitous and well organized, Barnes & Noble arranges its huge book selection in 22 user-friendly categories, from Art and Architecture to Romance and Travel.
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Best Cellars
While the selection might seem small, that's just because the staff has eliminated all possibility of taking home a dud. Wines are meticulously selected and categorized as "fruity," "big," "juicy," etc. (and combinations thereof) and accompanied by cleverly written shelf notes describing flavor and suggesting ideal food accompaniments. With most wines priced under $13, there's room for avid experimentation.
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Big Drop
A "must stop" destination for women seeking the latest trends, but always focused on timeless style, Big Drop offers its selective clientele a unique assortment of clothing made by contemporary designers from both the US and abroad. All merchandise is hand-selected to preserve Big Drop's fashion-forward attitude.
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Biscuits and Bath
Biscuits and Bath is a full-service pet day care center, dog walking service, and grooming center all rolled into one. At any of its four locations, you can drop Fido off for a day of playing with other purebreds. And with grooming services like hot oil treatments and brush outs, you know the emphasis is on pampering. Classes help pups learn to behave and even teach old dogs new tricks.
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Bloomingdale's
For an institution that's been around since 1872, its fresh merch, as well as its cheerful lighting and colorful, quirky displays are all keenly modern. The music is great, the staff is fairly approachable and the crowds do thin out on the upper levels, where things get pricier and more refined. But, on the down side, the place is a labyrinth of columns, partitions, and levels. Easy to get turned around, even lost.
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Cantaloup
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Chase Bank
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Choux Factory
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C-Town Supermarket
A small neighborhood grocery store.
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CVS Pharmacy
For more than 40 years, this drugstore chain has served communities nationwide with a variety of home, health, and beauty products.
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Duane Reade
Duane Reade's conveniently located drugstores carry an extensive assortment of items, including those from the pharmacy as well as vitamins, nutritional products, cosmetics, greeting cards, and photo processing.
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Eli Zabar
Eli Zabar is the grocery mogul whose lifelong mission is making all corners of Manhattan safe for upscale food nuts. His Upper East Side outpost is stocked with a vast and tummy-rumbling array of intelligently curated cheeses, breads, spreads, coffees, sausages, prepared foods and other edible treasures, many seldom seen outside of specialty stores. You can even try before you buy, as the store supplies weekend brunch for the upstairs cafe and the restaurant across the street.
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Eli's Vinegar Factory
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Elm Health
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Equinox Fitness Club
Upscale, Zen-inspired gym catering to the fit professional.
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Gap
Almost every item you need for a casual wardrobe is available at the Gap. Jeans are available for men and women, as are sweaters, jackets, T-shirts, pajamas, and even underwear.
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GapKids and BabyGap
Clothing and accessories for boys and girls from newborn to toddler, including shoes, outerwear, and gift sets.
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Glaser's Bake Shop
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Gracie Station Post Office
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Ivory Cleaners
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K & M Lucky Drycleaners
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Laytner's Linen & Home
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Mailboxes Etc./The UPS Store
The UPS Store/Mail Boxes Etc. locations offer businesses and consumers a wide range of products and services available in one convenient location.
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Mister Wright Wine & Spirits
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Nellie M Boutique
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New York Sports Club
With expansion into the outer boroughs, Newark and Long Island, NYSC's locations have become so ubiquitous that New Yorkers are likely to have a location near work or home, if not both. This emphasis on convenience extends to its signature circuit training program, the 22-minute Xpressline--not to mention the range of equipment, from Cybex and Icarian machines to Hammer Strength free weights. Other offerings include classes that focus on core-strengthening, flexibility and kickboxing.
151 East 86th Street - Phone: (212) 860-8630
1637 Third Avenue - Phone: (212) 987-7200
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Orva
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Pookie and Sebastian
Opened in 2000, this friendly pink-and-gold boutique boasts a devoted following of style-savvy clients - most of whom who have tried to keep the small, packed store a secret from the masses. Judging by the clamoring weekend crowds and constant influx of new merch, however, it's clear the cat's out of the bag. (Make that dogs: P & S is named after the owners' two Yorkies.)
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Scoop
Where 'It' Girls go to replenish their wardrobes.
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Scott J Salon
Salon-spa combination chain from Aveda offers grooming services including highlights, hair conditioning, express facials, body polishes, and beard trims.
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Steve Madden
Steve Madden, the footwear fashion mogul of the 21st century, has immersed and expanded his company into virtually every aspect of the fashion industry to include handbags, belts, socks, watches, and outerwear as well as shoes.
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Taroo
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Victoria's Secret
Although the catalog features women's clothing as well as lingerie, the chain store focuses primarily on intimate apparel. Bras of every style and color, including the Miracle Bra and the seamless Body by Victoria collection, line the store's racks and drawers. You'll also find cotton, silk and lace panties, silk gowns, pajamas, fleece robes, and hosiery.
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Wachovia Bank
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Yann Varin Salon
With just seven styling chairs, an uncommonly friendly staff, and a home-like style, the Yann Varin Salon is the perfect oasis of privacy on the Upper East Side. The small, chic salon was designed with its celebrity clientele in mind: Each station is separated from the next by a mirror to make clients feel private and comfortable and its two floors connected by a winding staircase create an intimate atmosphere.
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92nd Street Y
The main attraction of the 92nd Street Y, one of the Upper East Side's premier cultural centers, is the beautiful, small concert hall, perfect for readings and performances of chamber music or art songs. The combination of dark wood, green carpeting and seating, and gold accents makes for a warm, comfortable space. The noted Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Guarneri String Quartet are regulars here.
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Central Park
The most famous park in New York City provides 843 acres of greensward in the center of Manhattan.
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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum boasts one of the largest design collections in the world. Founded in 1897 by Sarah, Amy, and Eleanor Hewitt and transferred to the care of the Smithsonian Institution in 1968, the museum has resided in its present home--the exquisite former Andrew Carnegie mansion--since 1976.
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East River Esplanade
With barely any other cyclists in sight, this paved stretch of walkway is the perfect place to ride. Dog-walkers, rollerbladers, and strolling upper-crust New Yorkers populate the area, but they're a small price to pay for peace and quiet. Without the competition of cars, trucks, or insane bikers, and with no steep hills or mountainous terrain, this route allows beginners and experts alike to ride at their own pace.
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Frick Collection
New Yorkers tend to think of the Frick as their little secret, perhaps because it still looks more like a very grand private residence than an institution open to the public. But don't be put off--inside this French neoclassical building is one of the world's great art collections. For 10 dollars you can spend the day imagining you've been invited to a turn-of-the-century salon.
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Goethe Institut
Once you're informed that 126 institutes in 76 countries comprise this international organization, you can safely conclude that the Goethe Institut takes its mission to exalt the mother tongue very seriously. The New York branch, which is located directly across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the regional hub for the nine institute branches located in the United States and Canada alone.
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Gracie Mansion
The original house was commandeered by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War for its strategic command of Hell Gate (the juncture of the East River, the Harlem River, and the Long Island Sound), but the house and the fortifications Washington constructed were destroyed by the British in 1776. In 1799, Scottish shipping magnate Archibald Gracie built the house that's served as the official mayoral residence of New York City ever since Robert Moses convinced Fiorello LaGuardia to start the tradition in 1942.
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Jewish Museum
A renovation and expansion in 1993 replaced an ugly addition to the magnificent Warburg Mansion with a new wing matching the neo-Gothic design of the original detail for detail.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The finest collection of American art in the world, a selection of ancient Egyptian art that rivals any outside of Cairo, and an amazing array of European painting and sculpture--these are just some of the reasons why the Met remains the cultural touchstone of the arts-dense city. In most every artistic field, these vast collections are good-to-outstanding--and often superlative.
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Neue Galerie New York
Like the Frick, the Neue Galerie is more or less the vision of a private collector--in this case, business mogul Ronald Lauder, along with his art dealer friend the late Serge Sabarsky--and while diversity is not its strong point, the museum melds splendid architecture and intimate exhibits into a singular experience.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture will forever be the star here. The Guggenheim holds an amazing assortment of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and other modernist work. The permanent exhibit devoted to the Justin K. Thannhauser Collection is chock-full of works of late 19th- and 20th-century masters, and the collection of paintings by Kandinsky and Chagall are among the best anywhere.
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Sotheby's
Renowned auctioner of wine collections, antiques, art, furniture, ceramics, manuscripts, books, and more.
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the collection has had several homes over the years but now resides permanently in Marcel Breuer's Brutalist monument, which is either fantastically ugly or sublimely sculptural--opinion remains divided. There is no disputing, however, the quality of the permanent collection itself. Almost every significant 20th-century American artist is here: Hopper, Stella, Glackens, Demuth, de Kooning, Rothko, O'Keeffe - the list goes on and on.
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JFK Airport
JFK is located in the southeastern section of Queens County, New York City, on Jamaica Bay. It is fifteen miles by highway from midtown Manhattan.
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LaGuardia Airport
Located in the Borough of Queens, and bordering Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay, LaGuardia is eight miles from Midtown Manhattan.
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Life Sciences Secondary School (M655)
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Metro Bus
1st & 2nd Avenue Bus line
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MTA - Subway
86th & Lexington Subway Station (4,5 & 6 line)
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P.S. 198 Isador E. Ida Straus (M198)
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P.S. 77 Lower Lab School (M077)
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Richard R. Green High School of Teaching (M580)
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