Most members of New York's upper-class families have made residences on the Upper East Side, including the oil-rich Rockefellers,[REF] political Roosevelts,[REF] political dynastic Kennedys,[REF] thoroughbred racing moneyed Whitneys,[REF][REF] and tobacco and electric power fortuned Dukes [REF].
Gracie Mansion, the last remaining suburban villa overlooking the East River at Carl Schurz Park, became the home of New York's mayor in 1942.