Upper East Side Historic District is a historic district

Historic district

A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries, historic districts receive legal protection from development....

 that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1984. Its boundaries were increased in 2006.

It includes a number of buildings individually listed on the National Register, including Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion and Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House

Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House

Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House is a building that was built in 1908 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The house was used by Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt from its completion in 1908 to her death in 1941, and intermittently by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor...

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The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue

Edmond J. Safra Synagogue

The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue is an Orthodox Sephardic synagogue located on East 63rd Street off of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York.The synagogue project was initiated by philanthropist Edmond Safra before his death in 1999, and dedicated in 2003. Safra's goal was to have a Sephardic synagogue...

is a 2003 building designed in an artful synthesis of the composition, details and material palette of the Beaux-Arts style, to complement the historic buildings that surround it.