East Side

or Eastside

noun

1. the eastern section of Manhattan, in New York City, lying to the east of Fifth Avenue.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or located in this section:

   East Side restaurants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of East Side¹

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Example Sentences

The actual Dole banana taped to the wall of Sotheby’s on Wednesday evening was bought earlier in the day from a nearby fruit stand on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for 35 cents.

From New York Times

Jelly Roll, no stranger to the tattooist's art himself, says he wants to give the prince a tattoo on the neck, as the pair are filmed in the East Side Ink tattoo studio.

From BBC

Zuckerberg sings with the help of Autotune on an acoustic reworking of the filthy floor-filler, which was originally a hit for Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz in 2003.

From BBC

“I love the Upper East Side feeling of the slightly boxy shape of it,” says Lawson.

From Los Angeles Times

The east side of West Hollywood has evolved from being a collection of mostly low-rise commercial buildings, Alkire said, to including several multistory mixed-use residential buildings and neighborhood-serving retail properties such as the Movietown Square apartments and the West Hollywood Gateway shopping center.

From Los Angeles Times