Thanks in no small part to the local private schools including Dalton(photo), several new developments on the Upper East side are experience a spike in their sales at this time. As parents begin to find out that their children have been accepted to schools on the UES, they start to make their plans to move to the neighborhood. Many of these parents are trading in their downtown apartments for family sized (2000 sqft or larger) apartments on the UES.
I have heard about this in relation to a spike of sales surrounding Avenues the World school which is located in the Chelsea area. Parents will be willing to commute for work but not for the children’s school according to the NYT article.