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The two square mile (5 km²) neighborhood, once known as the 'Silk Stocking District', has some of the most expensive real estate in the United States, and is believed to be the greatest concentration of individual wealth in the nation. Until the Park Avenue railroad cut was covered (finished in 1910 ), the stylish part of the Upper East Side with mansions and townhouses lay on Fifth Avenue, bordering Central Park, while the area to the east was a blue-collar district that included stables and breweries. A long high bluff fronting the river north of Beekman Place was dotted with fine suburban villas in the nineteenth century, the last remaining one being Gracie Mansion , now home of New York's Mayors . Its north-south avenues are Fifth Avenue , Madison Avenue , Park Avenue , Lexington Avenue , Third, Second and First Avenues, York Avenue, and East End Avenue (the latter runs only from East 79th Street to East 90th Street). The front of the apartment building 1000 5th Avenue in the East 70th's was used in the shooting of the movie " Uptown Girls " The area is host to some of the most famous museums in the world. The string of museums along Fifth Avenue has been dubbed " Museum Mile ." Among the cultural institutions on the Upper East Side:
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