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Draw on this Map Where the UES Ends and East Harlem Begins

By Shaye Weaver | August 18, 2015 3:46pm
 Those who have already drawn their borders don't agree where the Upper East Side ends and East Harlem begins.
Those who have already drawn their borders don't agree where the Upper East Side ends and East Harlem begins.
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UPPER EAST SIDE — Where does the Upper East Side end and East Harlem begin? It's the age-old question and yet no one seems to have a definitive answer.

Dozens of locals have tried their hand at drawing where they believe their neighborhood's borders on DNAinfo's interactive neighborhood map, and it seems no one can agree if the Upper East Side ends at East 96th Street or East 97th Street. Some even say it ends as far north as 110th Street.

The line seems to have been blurring over the last several years.

Most agree that the neighborhood stretches from Fifth Avenue to the FDR, but one adventurous reader went so far as to include the east side of Central Park by drawing their eastern border up the park's East Drive.

Many also didn't include Roosevelt Island in their drawings of the neighborhood, but those who outlined the island had a very easy job.

Those who circled Yorkville were pretty sure its borders lay from East 79th Street to East 90th, but insisted its western border begins at Lexington, Third or Second avenues.

Even less consensus was found for the Carnegie Hill and Lenox Hill neighborhoods.

Show us where you think the Upper East Side begins and ends on the map below.