Upper East Side #10

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live, and go to school, and play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. We all live in huge apartments with our own bedrooms and bathrooms and phone lines. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, we have designer clothes, and we know how to party.

Thank goodness summer is here, and we’re finally getting down to the hard work of taking it easy. After a busy June in the city, July has arrived with a gentle breeze off the ocean and standing reservations at all of the Hamptons’ best restaurants. Hot and humid Manhattan is close by, but we’d rather stroll around barefoot in our bikinis, or steer our Mercedes convertibles up and down Main Street. We’re the boys with sun-kissed skin, driving back from Montauk with our surfboards strapped to our roof racks. We’re the girls giggling from our beach towels, or partaking in some after-sun pampering at the Aveda Salon in East Hampton. We’re the princes and princesses of the Upper East Side, and now we rule the beach. It seems the season is already in full swing, especially if you're one of us.