To the commentersemail me if you would like to answer a few questions for the thesis. I well remember the Woolworths on Amsterdam, but am at a loss to recall just when it was demolished. That room and the first-come first-served bar area both have lots of TVs playing games at high volume, but what really sets Blondies apart from other sports bars is the food. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. It is the principal city of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical . I too went to PS 166 and JHS 44 and remember John Gatto, despite graduating in the 60s Just wanted to drop some UWS names from then: Pick & Pay 87th and Bway- TipToe Inn Davega Sports Hermans Toys- and Sam Graham Hardware Mitchells Wines & Spirits Lichtman Pastries or Cake Masters were the places surrounding the Belnord Apts. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. Secondly, the food is more exciting than what youll find at other spots nearby (the fries come with chimichurri and manchego cheese, and the fried calamari is glazed with Dominican honey). Apologies for coming to this conversation rather late but felt compelled to share my experience of the UWS. I live on W 71 myself. The Upper West Side is a great place to live: beautiful prewar buildings, Central Park to one side and Riverside Park to the other, Zabar's.It's one of the most popular residential areas of Manhattan and it's also a hotbed for celebrities. Im trying to remember the name of the bar/restaurant that opened in the late 70s/1980 on the corner of 79th and Columbus with the funeral parlor next door (in the space where Laura Ashley once was located) and in the old building before the skyscraper apartment building went up. Around 1973. I would recommend the author talk to some parents at the local schools to get a sense for the community now. Does anyone remember a small bakery/kitchen on West 83rd between Columbus and Amsterdam. That said, its equally good for a drink with a few coworkers, or a catch-up with a friend. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). .) But west end was great, and also 86th was great all the way over to the park. I bet your cute daughter will look back at this decade as the magical Upper West Side, like you remember. The neighborhoods smattering of Orthodox residents did little to manifest their observance publicly. loved chariivari but those prices! They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. I have lived on 111 street since 1975. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. It might have been the most integrated area in the United States. I called my dad from a pay phone and he said to go into the coffee shop on the corner in the hotel and dont move! I remember The Red Baron and Food City and Victors Cafe Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. It's interesting to watch the shifts in neighborhoods. I lived at 219 W 81st (corner of Broadway) from 1962 to 1967, when we moved to Queens because the neighborhood was becoming too dangerous! There is a scene played for laughs where Marsha Mason gets mugged in broad daylight on a tawdry looking Columbus Avenue yes a a movie, but it was absolutely blamable at the time. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. The next time youre feeling nostalgic about your college days, you could build your own beer pong table and throw out your couch to make room for it - or you could go to Jakes Dilemma. Come here when you want to watch college or NFL football, and bet pitchers of light beer on the outcomes of beer pong games with friends. And The New Yorker theater. We also went to the park alone which kids nowadays hardly ever do. Theres also a stretch of Amsterdam Avenue full of college bars, where youll find things like beer pong and people tapping on multiple car windows asking if this is their Uber. Lyford then dumped the refuse over his fence onto the concrete apron outside the offending tenements so that their superintendent could collect it, bag it, and leave it for the garbage men. This is a consistently crowded restaurant on the Upper East Side that works for everything from date nights to fun group dinners, but the separate bar area up front is also useful when you're just looking for drinks. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. Are the changes to the neighborhood for the better or for the worse? What they will not have to learn, as my sisters and I and our wealthier friends did, is how to accommodate and make normal an ever-present sense of everyday menace. Was the place called Amsterdam. Go on Mondays for live jazz. The whole space is about the size of a subway car, though, so dont bring a big group. and the Pyramid Club (101 Ave. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Learn how your comment data is processed. The bakery was Royale, there were others as well, Eclair, and Blooms. UPPER WEST SIDE, NY An Upper West Side joint was just named among the best sports bars in New York City. Home to such venerable New York landmarks as Lincoln Center, Columbia University, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Dakota Apartments, and Zabar's food emporium, the Upper West Side stretches from 59th Street to 125th Street, including Morningside Heights. The sidewalks teemed with alcoholic homeless Vietnam Vets haunted by their own nightmares and hopelessness. In their place, smaller clubs like Tunnel opened in Chelsea, and that's when Glam said the "club kids"young, outlandishly dressed people who partied several times a week . Monday's are all you can eat wings . I dont know what UWS Janet and Denton lived on, but it was dirty, dangerous and scary. i graduated college in 1988 and came back to NYC, and i couldnt believe that my friends that went to work in investment banking all lived in a new building (the westmont) at 96th and columbus. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110th Street to the north. The SROS were filled with mentally ill people. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. He struck on 104th and 103rd. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. The neighborhood has lost many small businesses such as delis, bodegas, pizzerias, barber shops, candy & stationery stores. Wish my kids could have a similar space to grow up, warts and all. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. November 24, 2013 | 1:16 PM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:30 PM, Womens History: Augusta Stetson and the Church at 96th Street and Central Park West, WEST-PARK CHURCH LEADERS WIN VOTE, PLEDGE TO REVITALIZE BUILDING, WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN: COLD SHADOWS, ANCIENT OBELISKS, A MASSIVE MENORAH, & CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, A TRIO OF JUILLIARD PERFORMANCES ON MONDAY (SPONSORED). Back in the days prostitues freely roamed Broadway, drug addicts shot up in our basement, wed look out our living room window And see prostitues making their deals. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. 7388 reviews. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! Its a good spot to eat some bangers and mash, and its perfect for when you want to sit on a barstool and watch sports with a Guinness. Email me if you want to answer some. They dont linger and they dont talk to their neighbors or bother to know the names of the doormen in the lobby. Now no reason was needed at all. That was true between broadway and central park west. Meanwhile, the working poor found themselves menaced and increasingly overwhelmed by the burgeoning welfare underclass. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. What sets it apart is the fact that there are so many hard-to-find beers on tap. The Upper . And within those classes there was division as well. So a volleyball net was erected. Probably the first high-end shop on Amsterdam Ave. Upper West Sider here. Those rowdy kids are just young high school students who have just finished a full day of behaving properly in a boring, tedious, and often frustrating environment where their every move is monitored by unsmiling adults at least 10 or 20 years older (if not more) and most often NOT people of color like themselves. You make it sound like the wild west which it was not. Go to George Keeley. Mostly, its just a nice little bar with brick walls and a short menu of snacks, and its a good spot for a date or a low-key cocktail after work. Prohibition is an upscale bar and lounge with some of the best bar food in the Upper West Side. This live HD webcam overlooks the cityscape and Coolsingel, a major street in the city centre of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, as shown on the map further down the page. It was 1990 on Manhattan's Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood . As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. 3) Back in the 80s, H & H Bagels (well known demise some years ago) had lines out the door, and nicer prices for their delicious bagels. Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. On the other hand, nowadays, I stay away from the South West corner of W. 71st Street in the late afternoon, as rowdy teenagers hang around the corner in front of MacDonalds and create a nuisance. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. For me, this building represented a huge part of not only the neighborhood history, but of my own personal history as well. 226 W 79th St, New York, NY 10024. Always had a good meal there. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. Particularly the buffalo wings, which are some of the best in the city. Several times a year the 79th Block Association shut down the street and organized a street fair. This street is the boulevard of the city, which shapes the central area of Rotterdam. He lived on 75th Bet. I have been thinking about this since it was originally posted a couple of years ago. I love that my beloved UWS is a desirable place to live but NOT at the expense of those who came before, struggled, survived and created this complicated, beautiful neighborhood. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. I do remember cake masters on 99 street, party cake on 110, teachers, the gold rail, the American restaurant on 85 & Broadway. 1) Frusen Gldj. But in 1961, 84th Street was a nightmare, and something had to be done. In the early '80s, Mimi Sheraton rhapsodized over the apps: " [The] possibilities are extraordinary, whether you choose the puffy, crisp-crusted Alsatian onion tart, the fine juniper-perfumed duck. Im so please that Calle Ocho (once around the corner on Columbus) has become attached to the hotel; that Zingones , the terrific and friendly mom & pop grocery store on Columbus btw 82 & 83 is still in business and doing better than ever; that Rose Liquor still is thriving one block down with the flower shop next door now run by the daughter of the man I used to buy my flowers from, and that the newsstand at the corner of Columbus and 81 is till run by my friend from Pakistan, who used to call his family to find out when my eccentric English husband used to ask him Whats the weather today in Karachi? I still run into my neighbors on the street, and sure, a lot has changed, but the heart of the neighborhood and many of the characters are still there! Sadly, the older residents are slowly dying off and being replaced by younger couples who only stay two or three years. Carmine's - 91st Street - NYC. McGlades, a tavern across from ABC, it's a Starbucks now. One thing I have noticed of the UWS, which I find disturbing, is the influx of banks, financial storefront businesses and chain pharmacies on every street corner. But not to know when a store closed? We also went on amazing trips with him, including the Rocky Horror Picture show on Broadway. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) A man wearing a placard on Times Square, around 1980. (The 20th, in which West 84th Street sits, has become somewhat more, as they say in the census, Caucasian.) My sister and I used to walk down the street and try to remember what was there before. In part that was because the then-senescent New York Post hadnt brought new life to tabloid journalism and forced the fat and happy and rich New York Daily News to follow it, which is what happened in the summer of 1977, when the Son of Sam went on his rampage. Not all of us move here for a few years. Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint at Broadway and 77th Street. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. I miss them! Local artists sold their wares and the kids tried not to kill themselves in the slightly deflated Moon Bounce. I shopped at Red Apple Market on 100 st, which then became C Town and now is yet another bank. My grandparents used to call the UWS a slum and would never sleep over instead theyd sleep in a room at the Greystone on 91st and Bwayha! I grew up So many more. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? I always saw it as culturally vital and architecturally beautiful. The UWS was terrible then. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. We were giving up so much of our city, Myron Magnet has written in a beautiful essay on Saul Bellows great 1970 novel of Upper West Side (and Western civilizational) decline, Mr. Sammlers Planet, and how it spoke to his experience as a neighborhood resident. If you're heading to the Upper West Side to see a Humperdinck fairy tale opera at Lincoln Center, you might just need a drink beforehand. Today is tomorrow's yesterday . The great surprise, perhaps, is that while it is no longer the home of the Jewish intelligentsiain part because the Jewish intelligentsia doesnt exist as it once didit is, if anything, even more distinctively and vibrantly Jewish. Today the Upper West Side is cleaner with higher rents and upwardly mobile folk who seem to rent for a couple of years before buying big houses in Montclair or Maplewood. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. Where else could you get Spanish-Chinese food? We came to wonder if New York was a place that stunted human possibility instead of expanding it.. This is genuine urban renewal, which rose from once-rank soil after the soil was, finally, properly tended and tilled and brought once again to life. i would love to hear some more stories. Things change. They are socializing, flirting, establishing their creds in a nice middle-class neighborhood BEFORE they have to get on that subway once again and go home to a neighborhood which may or may not be as sparkly-shiny as the UWS and, for anyone between 12 and 25, very possibly gang-ridden and dangerous. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. Its about equal parts bar, restaurant, and lounge - and it looks sort of like a place where lawyers would hang out on a Friday night in a 90s sitcom. Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. You should know to never start a sentence with but. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. Jimmys penis had been cut off. West Side Story restaurant on 95th But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. To read a similar account of growing up in the 30s and 40s, click here. Restaurants. Conservatives sometimes invoke the Upper West Side in their lists of petri-dish-like leftist enclaves along with Cambridge and Berkeley, but despite its homogeneous radicalism, it didnt then and doesnt now offer much in the way of interesting, unexpected, or comical ideological excess. Zabars was open until midnight. I so miss living there and am trying to now come back from CT where I moved to be closer to Yale for medical purposes. Long gone is the divine Eclair Bakery on W. 72nd St. and the Royale. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. I figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. And Big Nicks. That is the ambiguous power of nostalgia, as the jagged recollection of hitting a tiny child with a bicycle still has the power to catch like a rusted nail four decades later and open a fresh wound. There are so many more as I have lived here since the early 70s. Yellow Rose of Texas. The Times described it as a block of decaying tenements packed with poor Puerto Rican and Negro families and the gathering place of drunks, narcotics addicts and sexual perverts. It soon became known as the worst block in the city. Mayor Robert Wagner announced a shock attack, an all-out war on the forces of crime, slum blight and poverty on the West Side. However, the Upper West Side has a higher percentage of housing that falls between $500 and $6000 per month, while the Upper East Side has more housing above $9000. Some of that was due to the destruction of housing not only by the citys own slum-clearance policies but also by the ravages of rent controls that led to the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of apartments. A mural on 8th St. at 1st Ave., along the side of what was once the St. Mark's Bar & Grill. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. In Lyfords celebrated 1966 account of the Upper West Sides decline, The Airtight Cage, he writes of the airmail that landed in the backyard of his brownstone on 92nd between Columbus and Central Park West from the windows of the row of tenements on 93rd street: My first introduction to airmail was a bag of rotten food that landed in my back yard a week after I bought the house.. . Last Spring, a year ago this month, I watched as a staple of the neighborhood closed, Food City. The entrance to this Upper West Side speakeasy is right inside Burke & Wills go to the back and open the green leather door. Since I live only a mile from where I was born and raised, with only slight changes to the visual landscape, I find myself constantly under nostalgias threat. DSNY 'Snow Alert' Runs From Monday at 4PM to Tuesday at 9AM; Here's What it Means Dog Slips From Collar and Runs 34 Blocks in Traffic; Wait Till You See Where She Ends Up That said, it isnt the sort of place where you have to whisper and swirl your glass before you take a drink. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. He murdered and castrated four boys. By Carter B. Horsley. Booked 152 times today. There was a very nice gelato place in the late 1980s, but its name eludes me. There are cocktail bars with live music, lots and lots of sports bars, and wine bars with people on first, second, and fiftieth dates. Jacobs Pickles is great if you need an Upper West Side brunch spot or dinner meetup with someone you know will embrace the heavy bar food. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. Upper East Side. Best Bars & Pubs in Upper West Side (New York City): See 120 Tripadvisor traveler reviews of Bars & Pubs in Upper West Side New York City. We were absolutely terrified. No one rememers Charevari, they had a couple of stores, Al buen gusto, Merit Farms, Columbia Savings bank, El Farro, Columbia Savings, the lending library and card shop that is now Giacommos, Gristedies, Bartons Candy Store, the movie theater on Bway between 72-73. People were afraid to ride the graffiti-streaked, crime soaked subways. Although the Upper East Side is generally considered the more expensive side, when it comes to renting in 2022, the Upper West Side takes the cake. But this is the case in most major cities going through development and change. If youre with a few friends near the northern end of the Upper West Side, and youre looking for a very normal bar where you can hang out for any length of time while you have some inexpensive drinks, go to Bobs Your Uncle. And The House of Games. This map of the Upper West Side shows its location relative to the rest of Manhattan. Broadway has become one huge outdoor mall. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s. Before wine bars, bank branches, and sushi restaurants took over the East Village, there were hole-in-the-wall clubs like 8BC, a gallery and performance space on Eighth Street between Avenues B and C. Opened in 1983, the place was over by the end of 1985. The Dakota Bar - Upper West Side Romance is definitely in the air at the trendy Dakota Bar which is located on Manhattans' chic Upper West Side. Featuring live music nightly, the jazz age is still present in this dimly lit bar, which is a great swanky alternative without the gouging prices. It's just happening. Also The Golden Pan restaurant, Levy Bros Stationers, Universal Health Center, the New Yorker Theater and, upstairs, the New Yorker Bookshop. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. 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