Upper West Side
Community district in New York City
Borough: Manhattan
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About Manhattan
The island between the Hudson and East rivers: downtown, Midtown, the Upper East and West Sides, Harlem and Upper Manhattan.
Names you’ll hear here
- Lincoln Square
Landmarks:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Lincoln Center
What stands out
- Among the leafiest in Manhattan (22% tree canopy)
Living here
- Housing
- Higher housing cost. Median home $1.4M · renters pay $2,730/moSurvey estimates for 2020–2024, not current prices, for the whole community district. Rent is what renting households pay, utilities included, counting rent-stabilized and subsidized homes, so it sits well below what a new lease costs. Use them to compare districts, not to budget.
- To Penn Station
- Under 30 min. About 24 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly transit, walk or bike. 9% drive · 67% transit · 19% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly renters. 64% rent
- Tree canopy
- 20–30%. 22% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 1% · Attached 1% · 2–19 units 20% · 20+ units 77%
- Built
- 1939 or earlier 56% · 1940–79 27% · 1980–99 9% · 2000 or later 9%
- Ages
- Under 15 13% · 15–24 7% · 25–44 32% · 45–64 25% · 65+ 22%
- Language at home
- English only 71% · Spanish 12%English only, or the language besides English that each person 5 or older speaks at home. For tracts the Census groups some languages: Bengali, Hindi and Urdu are among “other Indo-European”.
- Recent immigrants
- 8% born abroad, came to the US 2010 or laterShare of residents, from the 2020–2024 survey.
American Community Survey 2020–2024 and MTA schedules, Upper West Side. Tiers compare the 59 community districts.