European sounded weary when picked up on a street here in NY? (4,4)

'here in ny?' is the definition.
(the East Side is a New York neighbourhood)

'european sounded weary when picked up on a street' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'sounded weary' becomes 'sighed' (I've seen this before).
'when picked up' shows a homophone (sound like).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'street' becomes 'st'.
'sighed' sounds like 'side'.
'a'+'st'='ast'
'side' after 'ast' is 'astside'.
'e'+'astside'='EAST SIDE'