They took my empty wallet and the little folder containing the invaluable pass that afforded me free access that month to that bus line. The Continental Baths!!! But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. .) 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) (There have been times when police had to be called around 3:30 PM.) Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint at Broadway and 77th Street. Thanks! Terrible, just terrible. I can remember later that the same group opened another trendy bar call Columbus? 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. As Lyford wrote in 1966, a twenty-block site of a multimillion-dollar urban renewal program laying between Eighty-seventh and Ninety-seventh streets and bounded by Central Park on the eastand Amsterdam Avenue on the west was the fulcrum of this massive slum-clearance plan, involving the loss of 6,344 households. The space is about the size of a studio apartment, so we wouldnt recommend bringing a group, but its a decent place to watch sports alone or with a friend, especially before 7pm when drinks are half off. I lost the gold watch my father gave me for my college graduation. Where else could you get Spanish-Chinese food? In the same way, standing on a Thursday evening in front of the building in which I was born and raised, I am suddenly in the hazy light of an early Sunday morning at the age of six and managing for the first time to right the bicycle from which the training wheels had lately been removed and then wobbling my way down the block and around the corner and around the second corner and then around the thirdand slamming the bike into a toddler who was wobbling his way forward in front of his building. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. It's China Fun now? Finding a place to grab a drink on the Upper West Side is not a difficult task, however, there are some bars worth visiting more than others especially if you're looking for a specific vibe or ambiance. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. I was born in 1965 and moved away in 1977 (returned later). Residents sold their used household goods at White Elephant tables, others grilled hotdogs and popped popcorn. From our award-winning Vine Burger to our Cobb Salad, Roasted Cornish Hen, Seafood and Steaks, Madison & Vine satisfies the cravings of the city's most discerning diners. 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. There was a pastry cafe with tables up in a little loft where the swatch store is now on 72 and Columbus. Email me if you want to answer some. Also if you remember what year the Woolworths on 79th and Broadway closed let me know. I recall the Woolworth on 98th st, with its food counter and spinning stools, their comfy turquoise cushions and steel bases bolted to the checkered tile floor. I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. There were great clothes stores also on Columbus on the same street, Parachute was one. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. Theres solid bar food, you can get a good cocktail, and the space feels kind of like a long clubhouse with booths, darts, and board games. Its a big French wine bar, and even on weeknights it gets pretty full of couples talking about their siblings and where they went to college. The Cherry Restaurant on Columbus Ave. on the corner of 76th St., where the Chase Bank is now, was owned and staffed by Japanese people. I raised two daughters here. Its hard to keep up now, tho! Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. It is an expensive place to live, but then it always was. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. . We would remember it now as we remember the Son of Sam, and the Washington snipers, and the Hillside Strangler. I well remember the Woolworths on Amsterdam, but am at a loss to recall just when it was demolished. If you want to pay college prices for that pitcher of Shock Top, come during Happy Hour (until 8pm every day). They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. I miss the 88 Noodle House, Woolworths, and Sloans. Indeed, the diseases afflicting the underclass surfaced on the Upper West Side perhaps earlier than anywhere else, leading to large-scale social experimentation of a sort that would not be practiced today. It was a rich neighborhood at the turn of the last century and it has gone back to that. and the Pyramid Club (101 Ave. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. Let me correct myself for Sarabeths Kitchen was between 79th and 80th Streets on Amsterdam across from Macs. May 6, 2009. I would love more stories. I am happy that they also identify with being true upper west siders! 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. Theres a bar in the middle of the room, some banquette seating, and a few tables - plus floor-to-ceiling windows looking out on 72nd Street. I loved visiting the pet dept downstairs there and often dreamt of freeing all the fish and parakeets to Central Park down the block. The middle class was split between the professionals of the New York intelligentsiamedia and intellectuals and academics and psychoanalystsand more down-to-earth educated folk, public school teachers and union officials and social workers. They had several boutiques and I spent a lot of dough there over the years, The folded in the early 90s I think. According to a 1966 study, out of 150,000 residents, 105,000 were white (of whom 40,000 were Jews); 26,000 came from Spanish-speaking homes; and 18,000 were black. The Dead Poet is really just a solid neighborhood bar. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. 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. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. Police flooded the area. . Everybody got mugged. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. So many more. Retroclubnyc is New York City and Manhattan's best club to celebrate a birthday party, bachelor party, bachelorette party, anniversary party, or engagement party! There are cocktail bars with live music, lots and lots of sports bars, and wine bars with people on first, second, and fiftieth dates. She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. Bring a date or meet some friends here, and if anyone gets hungry, get a few small plates like meat, cheese, and oysters. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. All the small stores have had to vacate once their leases were up and the rents were jacked up to unaffordable rents. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s. I lived on W 73rd b/ Columbus & CPW from 1974-1987 and saw SO many changes the gentrification got to be too much, so I moved up to 108th Street. You should know to never start a sentence with but. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. This place also does Happy Hour deals every day until 8pm, including half off the whole bar on weekdays and half off beers on weekends. The circle of progress. With a drink in one hand, a cigar in the other, and various critical parts of his body glued to a dark-haired woman with whom he is ostensibly dancing, Michael Barrett looks . I also went to IS 44 and was blessed with being part of the Lab School which was the vision of Mr. John Gatto. Loved growing up there. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . Shakespeare and Co. followed suit a few years later due to the same pressure from Barnes and Noble. I have lived on 111 street since 1975. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. jeannine.j@gmail.com. I worked from 1972-77 at various Cake Masters locations from 72nd Street to 99th Street. 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. St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. The cavalcade included. 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I moved onto W. 71st Street, from W. 113th St. in 1968, so I could walk to the NY State Theatre, where I was a singer with the NYC Opera. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. Some memories: The sidewalks teemed with alcoholic homeless Vietnam Vets haunted by their own nightmares and hopelessness. This article is so one-side. Yes, Jeannine, there have been major changes in the neighborhood mostly for the better but, alas, I truly miss some of the stores that have fallen by the wayside. gallery. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. I never felt unsafe in this neighborhood, however. Learned how to ride my bike down there. It was hardly an area to avoid. Also, bagels at H & H! Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. Very different West Side. The Upper West Side has plenty of drinking options. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Lecters was a tiny linen shop on the west side of Broadway owned my Mel Lecters parents till he inherited it and turned it into a yuppies dream shop! Sounds like Jeannine should take that route. The owner was bought out by the Love Store chain, then the pharmacist went to work at a Duane Reade. @Janet, I agree. 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. I am looking for long-time residents of the Upper West Side to answer some questions about how they think the neighborhood has changed and what they remember. On the spot across the street from a friends building, I freeze with the sensation of having, right there, been jumped nearly 40 years earlier by four kids as I got off the city bus from school. The whole theater got kicked out of Lowes 84th on opening night for Friday The 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan, it was so rowdy, but Id been seeing movies there since it was the Lowes 83rd st, twin. Arts & Entertainment. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Tuesday's - you could get a rack of ribs, big salad with lots of fresh blue cheese, and a baked potato for $9.99. A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. I was mugged four times before I was 14. So much history of the Upper West Side, resided in the strengths and ideas of its working class citizens. 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. Like the other locations of Vin Sur Vingt around the city, this UWS outpost is a good spot for a quiet drink with one other person or a small group. I well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. First founded in Ohio in 1980, the 1950s-style restaurant grew quickly, with about 100 locations at its peak. Attended PS 9 and JHS 44. I remember when the first Starbucks opened on 93rd and Broadway it was around 1996-1997 while I was in collegethats when we knew that the UWS of our time was never going to be the same again. 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. 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. If you dont feel like staring into pint glasses and wondering about fermentation processes, you can play darts or foosball instead. "Ever since I moved out of my parents' house in Astoria to live in the city, I've always lived within the same two or three blocks of the Upper West Side. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles Over the course of the next four years, 20 houses on the block would be demolished and replaced with a high school named for Louis Brandeis and a relocated elementary school. At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. Not all of us move here for a few years. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. He murdered and castrated four boys. Theres a NY Times article published on June 8, 1979 call Discovering the Pleasures of Columbus Avenue Published a couple of months before I moved to Columbus and 74th where I am now. Left for dead, he lived, the only surviving victim of a serial killer who prowled the neighborhood for a year. Apple Upper West Side Opens at 9:00 a.m. Shop by drop-in available Shop by appointment Reserve a shopping session Order pickup in store Learn more Genius Bar by appointment Make a reservation Today at Apple in store Find a session See all in-store and online services Address 1981 Broadway New York, NY 10023 (212) 209-3400 See map and directions We arent quite sure what Dakota Bar is trying to be, but its a useful place to know about if you ever need to get a cocktail with some acquaintances near Lincoln Center. The Nickel Bar all the pre-AIDS era gay bars that made the UWS a gay mecca to rival the Village, and that drew lots of interracial couples to move in and renovate buildings. Broadway has become one huge outdoor mall. This street is the boulevard of the city, which shapes the central area of Rotterdam. Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. They had delicious burgers. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. The neighborhoods smattering of Orthodox residents did little to manifest their observance publicly. And there was also the simple fact that the small city and the larger city had both grown pessimistic about the ability of authorities to do much of anything to prevent these horrors, so it seemed almost churlish to report on them. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). This reminds me that the loan sharks and drug dealers never left the city, only they now dress in corporate suits and lobby for loopholes in D.C. instead of paying off morally corrupt citizens in dilapidated buildings. 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! Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. And the bakery that was on 72nd between Bway and West End. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) A man wearing a placard on Times Square, around 1980. 06/27/16. On the first morning after I arrived I saw a man murdered in broad daylight in the Village. The hill going down to the park on West 91st. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. Our parents let us run around unsupervised from the time we were like, 8 or 9. #20. Which makes sense, seeing as the space is decorated like an 18th-century tavern, complete with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. Im trying to write it into a book, and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. Around 1973. 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. Finally, the kind of restaurant the Upper West Side has long been starved for. On that very block in 1972 (probably two years before my mugging), a 10-year-old boy named Jimmy Wallace was found in the hallway of his apartment house with stab wounds in his back and neck. Dont really remember the scary place others have described on UWS- but Central Park and the Subway were indeed scary parts of New York in those times. they had good sales. 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. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. Life is rough on everyone. 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. I love being able to walk to Central Park and be greeted by many people I have met over the years. For example, claiming that people dont talk with their neighbors seems like little more than an assumption Im actually friends with several people in my building, to say nothing of those I merely talk with now and then. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. Apologies for coming to this conversation rather late but felt compelled to share my experience of the UWS. Lets not forget about the orginal frozen cappuccinos on Columbus Avenue before Starbucks. I remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. I dont know what UWS Janet and Denton lived on, but it was dirty, dangerous and scary. A couple of additions (please forgive any repetitions from other comments I havent read every single one.). First of all, the TV situation here is pretty great - each booth has its own screen, and then there are multiple big screens over the bar. I remember Gleasons, and ONealsand the Flower Shop next to ONeals. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. Mostly, it just feels like a relatively calm pub that happens to have a lot of brown liquid in stock. The citys population shrank by nearly a million people between 1960 and 1980, with 300,000 gone from Manhattan over the course of those 20 years. Booked 152 times today. 2) Endicott Book Store. That mugging was nothing unusual. I came to NYC for the first time in 1979. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. Because The Smith is always there when you need it to be. I was just talking about Winnifred Frocks yesterday! It was a great neighborhoodbut you had to know which blocks you should avoid! at least up until the 90s. They dont linger and they dont talk to their neighbors or bother to know the names of the doormen in the lobby. I take issue with the notion that people tried to avoid living above 72nd street. It no longer does. I dont recognize the neighborhood at all. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Ive lived as far north as 110th street and as south at 80th. 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. Indeed, everything suggested it would be. That was true between broadway and central park west. This big bar on Amsterdam Ave feels like the kind of place you might have gone junior year, complete with foosball, pool tables, and, yes, intense games of beer pong. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. I need a hot tip on a small apartment! Now Im in the 90s. When I moved to West 83rd Street, pushers hid their crack vials in the planters outside the building I lived in. loved chariivari but those prices! 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. You can walk down the street . Ive lived on the UWS for twenty five years now, and when we moved into our current place a few years back, it was the long-term residents who were the most unfriendly, and one who was just downright hostile!! Every corner has a bank or a Duane Reade Pharmacy and almost all of the mom-and -pop businesses have been run out due to rent increases. While any such demolition of livable housing stock would be greeted with cries of horror today from poverty advocates and landmarking experts, the policy was stronglyadvocated by neighborhood clergy, who had high hopes that the struggling poor could make a better life in public housing. So no matter what type of place youre looking for, use this guide the next time you go out on the Upper West Side. I moved up here in 1977. Despite an off-and-on economy, the 1980s was a decade in which Americans ate out more often than ever before. never went in but loved that name was there til the 80s. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. A fine and forgotten 1975 book by Barbara Gelb called On the Track of Murderit reads like a nonfiction version of Ed McBains glorious 49-year series of police procedurals about the 87thPrecinct, a lightly disguised version of the real-life 24th Precinct on the Upper West Sidetells the story of the homicide squad formed to catch Charlie Chop-off. We came to wonder if New York was a place that stunted human possibility instead of expanding it.. 4) Someone else mentioned it, but Ill second a nod to Teachers and Teachers, Too. Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. I bought an expensive ($90) hoodie, which lasted about 20 years. Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. Photo of storefronts on Columbus Avenue between 82d and 83rd streets in 1982 by Daniel Weeks. Also, there are many Duane Reades and banks, but the claim that almost every mom-and-pop business has been shuttered is simply false. Lost your password? But in 1972 and 1973, Charlie Chop-off had so little resonance beyond the blocks near me that when I made mention of it in a short story I read to my eighth-grade classin a school on the Upper West Sidemy classmates hadnt heard of it. Amsterdam Ale House plays sports on a few TVs, but it feels less like a sports bar and more like a casual neighborhood spot than any other place on this stretch of Amsterdam Ave. I've always been a pretty good cook, and I could make these very good dinners in this tiny kitchen. UPPER WEST SIDE Upper West Siders have long known that if they want a good drink and a hopping nightlife scene free of college students and sports bars, they'd have to head below 59th. The Upper West Side of my youth was in no way a fabled or especially notable area. Eventually the projects were built, but by this point the displaced residents of West 84th and others like them had been moved like chess pieces around the New York City board to other neighborhoods, worsening them. A mural on 8th St. at 1st Ave., along the side of what was once the St. Mark's Bar & Grill. Kyle: When I moved here, the hotspot was 8 th Avenue between 14 th and 23rd. (Photo by Steven Siegel) Demolition began later that decade, which displaced the homeless who had by that point found shelter on the elevated roadway. Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. I was even blessed to attend LaGuardia high school on 135th & Convent Avenue in its glorious Gothic, castle-like home before it moved to its prison-like building at Lincoln Center. Upper West Side march protest, circa 1980. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. And The New Yorker theater. The destruction and construction took years, leaving behind rubble that became at-hand weaponry for kids and gangsters and boarded-up tenements that became crime sites and drug dens. Working there I was held up at gun point at the 85th street location and the 99th street location. Correction: Not the Endicott Hotel but the EXCELSIOR! Neil Simon movie and yes a movie, but does show the charm and grit of the 70s. Always had a good meal there. About fifty of us stood across the street and watched, as though we were attending a wake. Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. The free outdoor summer concerts at Lincoln Center were wonderful. Retroclubnyc is NYC's top dance club and nightclub playing the best dance music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s thru today including classic disco, freestyle and house music. So pleaseif youre going to write something about this neighborhood that means so much to so many of us, please dont generalize and please check your facts! Coolsingel Street Cam, Rotterdam. For me, this building represented a huge part of not only the neighborhood history, but of my own personal history as well. Great projecthope it went well or is going well. Upper West Side Geography. At 254 West 54th Street, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager converted a former opera house into the most notorious nightclub of the disco era. Go to George Keeley. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. But Malachy's a fixture on West 72nd Street off Columbus Ave. since the late '80s is the kind of place people like "because it's old and ugly," insisted Mike Mishkin, owner of . My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. There were prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. Heres the first paragraph. I remember Fowad with its racks on the corner of 96th st and a Mexican restaurant across the street with Spanish tile decorating its exterior. 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. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. 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. 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