Don't have anything to add other than I've eaten at Sfoglia and enjoyed it a LOT--can't remember which night of the week but it wasn't tough to get a table. I then recommended it to friends who keep an apartment in the city, and they walked in one evening and were seated without much of a wait. We all may have simply lucked out, but based on my admittedly limited experience it's not impossible to get a reservation. Not saying you should just try to walk in, but I wouldn't discount the possibility of getting a table if you call to reserve. It would be worth it if you like Italian food. Very comfortable, low-key atmosphere as well.

I live downtown so any thing above 23rd Street is the Upper East Side. The same for the defintion of upstate. To most people from NYC it is everything above Yonkers, many say the Bronx.

Most geographical locations are created by real estate people any way:

East Village (It was all the Lower East Side until the 1960's)
Soho (South of Houston)
Noho (North of Houston)
Clinton (Hell's Kitchen)
Tribeca (Triangle Below Canal)
Flatiron District
World Financial Center (landfill that lay dormant for years)


Now they are starting to chop up Brooklyn beyond Dumbo and other stupid names

So in the future I know that the St. Regis or Peninsula would be a good recommendation for a hotel on the Upper East Side. I just never thought of it that way before.

Aduchamp1 - it's all perception, I guess. This is only my view, but since I live on the UES, anything below 57th St is midtown to me. I would not have thought of Aquavit as UES; in fact, fwiw, Zagat calls it midtown. But never forget we're all here by way of Brooklyn!!!

Correction - make that anything south of Bloomingdale's - LOL

This morning Vladimir Putin sent troops to punish the breakaway section of Manhattan that was called for two days the Almost UES.

His intention is to place Aquavit in an DMZ between the ladies who lunch and the suits and skirts who work in midtown.

He has decreed that in the future every establishment recommended must be measured step by step if necessary to determine its exact location.

Putin was quoted as saying, "My intention to eradicate artifical and imaginary boundaries everywhere."

Mr. Putin did try to a put a smiley face at the end of his comments but there is no semi-colon in Russian.

You are too funny! I guess the last remaining Eastern Europeans in Yorkville (UES) are going into hiding!

Centralparkgirl, funny you mention Bloomingdales. I was once told by a friend in lived in the East 80's that Bloomingdale's is the boundary marker. South of it is Midtown and North of it is Upper East Side. That's why I thought Aquavit must have moved.

Which reminds me I must go to my Polish butcher this morning, which is in the East Village but used to be called the Lower East Side.

Neo, since Verrazzano (you can look up the spelling) died they are looking for a new cartographer for Manhattan, you seem to be the Man.

In my opinion, and I grew up on the UES because my grandparents lived in Park Ave/75 St. area most of their lives, the boundry for the UES is 5th Ave and Central Park (59th Street).

Thin

Isn't Bloomingdales on 59th? At least we're consistent.

NP Yes on Lex (and 3rd) betw 59th and 60th - I've spent a little time there.

And then there's Midtown East and Midtown West.

I think if I polled all my local friends on neighborhood boundaries, especially the UES, I would get many different responses. One thing for sure, not everything north of 23rd St is the UES....not even close. And then within the UES, there are designations that include Yorkville, Carnegie Hill, Museum Mile, Hospital Row, Lenox Hill, etc.