People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. So much history of the Upper West Side, resided in the strengths and ideas of its working class citizens. East of Broadway was a tough old neighborhood. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . 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. 226 W 79th St, New York, NY 10024. 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. A least some or all of my family lived on the Upper West Side from the 1930s to the mid 1980s. I dont know what UWS Janet and Denton lived on, but it was dirty, dangerous and scary. Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. It feels sort of like a big, slightly divey rec room, with brick walls, a shuffleboard table, and photos of various people named Bob up on the wall. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. That one of NYC's best sushi restaurants would also be among its most expensive is mostly expected, but it was surprising when . Prohibition has live music every night, so its a good option for all kinds of situations, from first dates when you want to avoid awkward small talk to quick solo drinks when youre killing time. And there were a great deal of elderly poor people many of them the refugees who fled Europe after WW2 who wound up on the streets with shopping wagons filled with stuff after losing their apartments for whatever reasons that happened. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. There are cocktail bars with live music, lots and lots of sports bars, and wine bars with people on first, second, and fiftieth dates. Arts & Entertainment. 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 Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. Please. Some memories: 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. Others would doubtless claim that because the victims were black and Hispanic, there was less interest than there would have been had the victims been white; more likely, there was newsroom concern about stigmatizing thesebeaten-down povertystricken populations. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. 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. Go to George Keeley. Stephen Hanson's uptown "Chinese" fantasy, which he bravely launched on the un-trendy Upper West Side, was the big box that spawned all of the city's pan-Asian giants. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . My children, who are very young, will know, as my sisters and I did, the oddity of being both entirely privileged and yet significantly poorer than most of their classmates and friends. Broadway and West End. Re: I stay away from the South West corner of W. 71st Street as rowdy teenagers hang around in front of MacDonalds and create a nuisance.. May 6, 2009. POWERED BY. Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. Left for dead, he lived, the only surviving victim of a serial killer who prowled the neighborhood for a year. On the positive side, however, W. 71st St is much safer since the church was torn down and replaced by a high rise apartment building, complete with doorman. We were absolutely terrified. Its the only nabe Ive lived in in Manhattan. I think it and she was gone by 1975 or 76. Terrible, just terrible. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. I also take issue with your line that says no one in Manhattan lived above 72nd street if they could avoid it. I was born in 1963 and my parents moved to CPW and 92nd street a couple of years later. 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp I lived on 82 btw Columbus and CPW from 1976-2011. And Silk Road. 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. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. My friends lived in the 90s on Columbus and we used to skateboard and hang out all the time. 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! Once the Jets are down by 24 and you want to focus on something else, start working your way through the huge menu of bar food. Well, Mike Miller, Id like to inform you that starting a sentence with a preposition (as Historian did) and splitting infinitives (as you did when you said to never start) are both accepted by some of the widely used style manuals. Retroclubnyc is New York City and Manhattan's best club to celebrate a birthday party, bachelor party, bachelorette party, anniversary party, or engagement party! The Upper West Side has plenty of drinking options. Its a great spot for a big group hang, and if you live in the area, youll probably wind up knowing at least one bartender by name. The food was all American dishes, and I used to go there for dinner all the time. Does anyone remember a small bakery/kitchen on West 83rd between Columbus and Amsterdam. The free outdoor summer concerts at Lincoln Center were wonderful. My sister and I used to walk down the street and try to remember what was there before. 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!! Over 25 years, we lived in 3 apartments, none more than 4 blocks from Fairway. My second date with him was at The Copper (? "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. 80s Night Clubs in New York City, NY About Search Results Sort: Default All BBB Rated A+/A Coupons View all businesses that are OPEN 24 Hours 1. I live on 72nd and would guess off the top of my head that it contains around 50 small businesses just between Columbus & West End. Learned how to ride my bike down there. Of course we remember Charivari. 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. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. When I go back (my mom still lives in her rent control spot on 72nd and WEA) I have a real cognitive dissonance. I also remember that the Upper West Side was a true neighborhood, and I remember the slow and then really fast gentrification of the neighborhood in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. 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. But on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, my small city, social pathologies began to run rampant half a century ago, long before they broke into the wider culture. 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) I grew up Also, there are many Duane Reades and banks, but the claim that almost every mom-and-pop business has been shuttered is simply false. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. 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. A map was created of all gay bars and gay spaces from 1859 to now. I've always been a pretty good cook, and I could make these very good dinners in this tiny kitchen. Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. Ive lived as far north as 110th street and as south at 80th. Would it be meaningful to a visitor in 2010 to know that Isaac Bashevis Singer lived in the Belnord on 86th and Broadway; that Singers brother Israel Joshua set the final section of his magnificent novel of German Jewry, The Family Carnovsky, at 94th and West End; that the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff spent his final years at 84th and West End? The big open room is filled with tables, and the service is about as friendly as we imagine it would be in a neighborhood pub in Ireland. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Hello. Working there I was held up at gun point at the 85th street location and the 99th street location. And The New Yorker theater. My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. It was 1990 on Manhattan's Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood . 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 . Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. In 1983, a sociologist named Richard Shafer told the New York Times, The West Side is a neighborhood that always seems to embarrass the fashionable. Its most attractive streets were and are no match architecturally or decoratively for the boulevards of the East Side, Fifth and Park Avenues. The Gin Mill is owned by the same people as Jakes Dilemma, which is less than a block away, and it feels very similar. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. I also like to point it out when kvetchers say the area is too fancy now. For me, this building represented a huge part of not only the neighborhood history, but of my own personal history as well. 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. Use this guide to find all the best bars in the neighborhood. Its hard to keep up now, tho! But murder, like cancer, was rarely preventable. Charlie Chop-off was never caught. The Cozy Bar (The Dead Poet) As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. Get a table or some bar seats at Dive Bar, a dimly-lit spot with over 30 beers on tap (most of which are available by the glass, growler, and pitcher). more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. 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. Doubtful. 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. Why? I worked at Sweet Asylum in the early 80s and have tons of memories about the old neighborhood: everything from the charred remains of Santeria rituals on the big rock ACROSS from the 79th st. RSD playground to routinely getting mugged. Not how it was for me, my friends, and their families. UPPER WEST SIDE, NY An Upper West Side joint was just named among the best sports bars in New York City. It is the same one in which I grew up four decades ago, and its buildings and landmarks and topography are almost entirely unchanged. how times change! I think the owner of Trio Dinner lived in my building I thought it was called Joes?. 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. Mostly, it just feels like a relatively calm pub that happens to have a lot of brown liquid in stock. Prohibition is a 20sthemed bar with quality live music every night. 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. 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). I remember Gleasons, and ONealsand the Flower Shop next to ONeals. Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. 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. 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. 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. This is exactly what I am looking for. 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. 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. Thanks! Start your risk free trial with unlimited access. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. Those were the days. It all started at Goddard Riverside and then onto West Side Montessori. I love all the varying opinions and experiences. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . My building is very family oriented. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. I have been unable to confirm the closing date in my research. The Wildwood. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. My father, and then my mother ran the Thalia Theatre from the 1930s to the 1970s, so I guess I would qualify as someone who know what the Upper West Side was like before 1976, when no one would live above 72nd street if they could avoid it. I remember way before Charivari when the drugstore was on the corner of 72nd and Columbus, across the street from Merit Farms. Heres the first paragraph. He struck on 106th between Broadway and Amsterdam, a block from my building. I am currently working on my graduate school thesis and have decided to write about how the Upper West Side has changed in my lifetime. 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. Upper East Side. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. 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. He murdered and castrated four boys. Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. A pair of cops who had been permanently assigned to the block because of previous incidents fired eight shots into the air in an effort to still the melee but were engulfed by the crowd.. Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. They might have called it the airmail theory. I live in my apartment at 102 West 85 since 1986 but I was born on West End Ave in 1947. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. 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. (212) 861-2290. I live in a small city in the midst of a great city. I finally made the right connection when I discovered several glass ampules and hypodermic needles. An article on the front page of the New York Times on July 6, 1961, reported: Street fighting involving 400 Puerto Ricans and Negroes broke out in a West Side trouble block. Two women began arguing over a man, and a brawl erupted. I think this was the second time. You can get food here until 2am, so keep this place in mind for drinks and a bite after a show at the Beacon Theatre a block away. Upper West Side Perfect For: First/Early in the Game Dates $$$$ 424 Amsterdam Avenue, New York Earn 3X Points Caledonia is, above all, a whiskey bar. Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. 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 well remember the Woolworths on Amsterdam, but am at a loss to recall just when it was demolished. An indifferent French restaurant occupies the space that once housed the record store where I bought my first 45 rpm disc of the Cowsills singing the title song from Hair, and standing in front of it I split into two, the 49-year-old in the present and the seven-year-old in the past crossing its portal with a little brown paper bag in hand, excited beyond measure to get its contents home to place the needle on the 45s ridge and watch it slide into the first groove, the sound of the scratches giving way to the opening blast of the Cowsills five-part harmony. . Does anyone remember, like i do, the little grocery store on the corner of 74th and Amsterdam, owned by Dom?wonderful man, full of stories and gossip about the neighborhoodwhen the subway fare went up in 74 or 75, he bought me a bag of tokens so that i wouldnt have to stand in line at the 72nd St. station that Monday morning when it went into effect and everyone had been caught unawareDom always looked out for his customersa real UWS personality. Not everyones experience is like mine. I figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. a retired 31-year veteran NYC high school teacher. They took my empty wallet and the little folder containing the invaluable pass that afforded me free access that month to that bus line. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? Im sure we all remember the coffee shop! 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 . Plus, the long, all-French wine list has over 50 options available by the glass, and you can even try things in flights of three or five glasses. 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. never went in but loved that name was there til the 80s. By Craig Horowitz. You should know to never start a sentence with but. My car was broken into 3 times in my first year here. 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! The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. 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! I walked home alone from Lincoln Center many, many times and still do without being bothered. Imagine such a thing today. The streets of my childhood were dirtier, and the people who lived there were poorer but I played on the street all day unsupervised by adults and we were safe. It is the principal city of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical . . In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. Abandoned West Side Highway, circa 1980. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. Via. We dont mean this as an insult to the land above 59th Street, but The Owls Tail is the sort of place you expect to find downtown. Another location of The Mermaid Inn, another perfect first date spot. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. If you visit Hi-Life Bar and Grill on your birthday, you get the usual complimentary dessert and a t-shirt with "NY" set in a martini glass graphic. Now that the doormen from CPW no longer drink at the bar at Pizzeria Uno on Columbus & 81 (which had a cubby hole in the unfinished end where wed leave each other messages and little presents), thats one thing that Im finding difficult to nail in the neighborhood! The Upper West Side is New York City's definitive neighborhood: a polyglot collection of fine architecture, bustling street life, diverse cultures and strong civic activism. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It was known for its burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes. I was mugged the one time I walked from Broadway and 80th to Columbus and 80th because I crossed Amsterdam Ave. and went east on the block. However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. Big flat-screen TVs behind the bar show lists of what theyre currently pouring - and there are also a few other TVs for watching sports. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. I dont understand the folks who insist the 70s werent terrible. Retro what does it mean? Im trying to write it into a book, and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. 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. Upper West Side march protest, circa 1980. The Continental Baths!!! I miss them! If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. 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. I remember Charivari well. Booked 152 times today. Are the changes to the neighborhood for the better or for the worse? That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. Twice a week I would go out back (after a few beer bottles whizzed past my head I wore my tin hat from World War II) and shovel up three or four days accumulation of chicken bones, pieces of rancid fowl, chop bones, half-empty cans of beans and other vegetables, eggshells, bags full of fat, condoms, and bloody bandages, which I at first mistakenly thought were battle dressings for the victims of fights I had been hearing. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is sandwiched in between Riverside Park to the west & Central Park to the east. Theres also a big stack of board games in one corner, and, with its giant fish tank and mismatched wall decor, the space feels almost exactly like the common area of an off-campus house where six college seniors live. Jimmys penis had been cut off. The SROS were filled with mentally ill people. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. Which makes sense, seeing as the space is decorated like an 18th-century tavern, complete with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. So many more. I remember as a kids being able to walk and take buses alone and feeling very independent. They had delicious burgers. Please enter your email address. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. 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