Manhattan isn’t freaking out because the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side aren’t “upper” at all. There’s a whole lot of Manhattan above them. But they’re still “upper” because, as my Big Apple colleague Geraldine Baum says, they were christened when the rest of “upper Manhattan” was farmland.
Source: LA Times
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Posted on February 19, 2009 by D. Bell