单词 | upper east side |
释义 | > as lemmasUpper East Side 2. North American. Frequently with capital initials. The eastern part of a city; esp. the eastern part of Manhattan. Also in Upper East Side, Lower East Side.The East Side of Manhattan is associated with the wealthy elite living esp. in the Upper East Side, and formerly also with immigration and poverty, esp. in the Lower East Side. ΚΠ 1757 W. Smith Hist. N.Y. 187 The Ships lie off in the Roads, on the East Side of the Town. 1761 E. Stiles Extracts from Itineraries (1916) 136 The dividing Line between Windsor & Hartford East side. 1854 N.-Y. Daily Times 12 Jan. 4/3 Take any omnibus that goes as far as Sixty-second street on the East side of town. 1861 A. C. Wheeler Chron. Milwaukee xvii. 146 They of the East side claimed the right to do as they pleased in regard to their locality. 1883 J. Fiske Let. 25 Mar. (1940) 505 Her great ambition was to establish a small hospital in the heart of the East Side. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 21 Aug. The Health Commissioner to-day made a tour of the East Side. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) v. ii. 93 The appearance of a newly arrived immigrant was still a novel spectacle on the East Side. 1936 N.Y. Woman 23 Sept. 48/1 I was met by a man with a frock-coat manner. ‘Certainly, Madam, there's no question about our work. We do the cleaning for the Elite of the East Side.’ 1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 203 A seven-piece New Orleans band led by Johnson opened at the Stuyvesant Casino, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 1991 J. Barman West beyond West xiii. 319 [His] short stories drew respectively on a central interior childhood and long residence in East Side Vancouver. 1999 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 12 Aug. (Tempo section) 9 A room in a beautiful old building on the posh, luxurious Upper East Side overlooking Fifth Avenue. 2009 New Yorker 4 May 75/1 A katzenjammer scene of..all-around youthful effrontery on the Lower East Side. < as lemmas |
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