I figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. UPPER WEST SIDE, NY An Upper West Side joint was just named among the best sports bars in New York City. 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. I was born (1976) and raised on 92nd St. Btwn Broadway and West End and lived in the same apartment until I was 23 years old. 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 menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. I shopped at Red Apple Market on 100 st, which then became C Town and now is yet another bank. My building was surrounded by SROs; one on 92nd btwn Riverside and West End, one directly across the street from us and one on 92nd btwn Broadway and Amsterdam. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. Citerellas always had their fun fish display in the window. What sets it apart is the fact that there are so many hard-to-find beers on tap. The cavalcade included. Not how it was for me, my friends, and their families. I remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. . An asphalt crew came to repave. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. 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. 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. So my small city is the same and yet it is not the same, because it is today, in almost every way, better. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. 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. 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.. 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. To the commentersemail me if you would like to answer a few questions for the thesis. So no matter what type of place youre looking for, use this guide the next time you go out on the Upper West Side. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. I lost the gold watch my father gave me for my college graduation. 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. Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. I love all the varying opinions and experiences. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. Use this guide to find all the best bars in the neighborhood. Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! I also went to IS 44 and was blessed with being part of the Lab School which was the vision of Mr. John Gatto. Tuesday Trivia. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. The Arthouse Hotel is a bit of a hidden gem in the Upper West Side but not for long. 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.. . A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. 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. Life is rough on everyone. My second date with him was at The Copper (? 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 . To hell with nostalgia. 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. Living in the precincts of ones own past means that its fears and terrors are immediately accessible as well. (1982) Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. They might have called it the airmail theory. 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. -CALL it what you wishneighborhood rebirth, urban renaissance, the latest emergence of city chicbut whatever you call it be sure to label it Columbus Avenue, the new Columbus Avenue. Are the changes to the neighborhood for the better or for the worse? It no longer does. 1470 First Ave. (between 76th & 77th St.) North East Bank. Prohibition is a 20sthemed bar with quality live music every night. Neighborhood volunteers took turns watching out their windows, reporting any crimes to the well-meaning, over-worked and understaffed local police precinct. 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. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 You should know to never start a sentence with but. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. Sometimes for the bathroom. First founded in Ohio in 1980, the 1950s-style restaurant grew quickly, with about 100 locations at its peak. They have over 30 beers on tap, many of which are unusual options from relatively small domestic and international breweries, and the space tends to fill up with big groups drinking and sharing bar food. I can just smell the place writing about it. I do remember cake masters on 99 street, party cake on 110, teachers, the gold rail, the American restaurant on 85 & Broadway. Either way, it's there, and it's good. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Neighbors watched out for each other, and most of the people who lived there stayed for generations, and most of the stores were family-owned businesses. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. 4. Restaurants. I remember The Jaunting Car Inn next to the Ritzs deli between 71 and 70th on Columbus. 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. I know Im not imagining it existed. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. Have a romantic date at the Arthouse Bar. Don't Miss A Drop. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s. One doesnt walk a block without seeing a yarmulke; the three conservative synagogues are alive and buzzing with congregants; the neighborhoods gans, day schools, and yeshivas are educating some 4,000 children; a dozen kosher restaurants and two kosher supermarkets profitably serve an increasingly observant community. Living outside the neighborhood & city in recent years, I admit, has allowed me a greater perspective on the losses the UWS has undergone. (I hope this continues . Raised on 104th. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. I remember Zabars being a nice little store to buy deli and grocery items. I now live on the upper east side, but will always remain true to my rootsthe West side is the best side! Yes there was plenty of crime in the 80s, and the neighborhood has gone through change (for the better). I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. Arts & Entertainment. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. I well remember the Woolworths on Amsterdam, but am at a loss to recall just when it was demolished. so i guess we are 3 black kettles since i am being pretty snarky, too. That mugging was nothing unusual. 1) Frusen Gldj. 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. It's interesting to watch the shifts in neighborhoods. 226 W 79th St, New York, NY 10024. Via. 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. Now its a zoo. 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. the bar next to them. 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 Residents sold their used household goods at White Elephant tables, others grilled hotdogs and popped popcorn. She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. And the new projects that rose up on the Upper West Side became breeding grounds of concentrated disorder, causing thousands of disintegrating and disintegrated families to fall under the sway of an even more destructive lawlessness easier to ignore, perhaps, precisely because it was so concentrated and because so much of what was awful went on indoors. If their children were found playing on the street unsupervised that would warrant a call to 311 or Child Protective Services. (There have been times when police had to be called around 3:30 PM.) 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. 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. 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! But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. You can drink one at the L-shaped bar in the corner, or you can grab a little table along the wall. I live on 80th and Columbus, and 79th and Amsterdam was the most dangerous corner in the precinct. For an interesting look at our neighborhood,check out the Goodbye Girl on netflix. East of Broadway was a tough old neighborhood. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. Several times a year the 79th Block Association shut down the street and organized a street fair. 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. Neil Simon movie and yes a movie, but does show the charm and grit of the 70s. Although, I usually shopped at the one on 109 street, I do remember the one on 79 street. jeannine.j@gmail.com. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. I dont recognize the neighborhood at all. There are a few things that differentiate Bodega 88 from the other sports bars in the neighborhood. This seasonal (May-October) outdoor bar has a bunch of umbrella-covered tables that might make you think youre in Madison Square Park, except for the fact that you can see the Hudson River and New Jersey. Loved growing up there. Great projecthope it went well or is going well. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Barbara, that was Sarabeths Kitchen on Amsterdam between 82nd and 83rd. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . Explore the scintillating March 2023 issue of Commentary. I have lived on the UWS side (I rent) and I have no plans of moving to a big house in the burbs. I miss them! I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. That said, it isnt a gimmicky spot where you pretend to be an early American settler. 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) 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. 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. I dont think the email in the article works. The Upper West Side has plenty of drinking options. Go on Mondays for live jazz. Attended PS9 (I remembered a teacher who still smoked in class), and Brandeis. 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. Everybody got mugged. At 254 West 54th Street, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager converted a former opera house into the most notorious nightclub of the disco era. Youre on the Upper West Side, and you want to drink beer. 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. 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. I grew up in. Vague memory of the window and lady on 83rd Street. There was a pastry cafe with tables up in a little loft where the swatch store is now on 72 and Columbus. the block just south of where mc donalds is. Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. 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. Caledonia is, above all, a whiskey bar. Not all of us move here for a few years. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. For the reclamation of the neighborhood proved to have a spiritual component as well. From melees to muggings to serial killers to a spiritual revival. Its hard to keep up now, tho! 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. 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. Things change. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. 06/27/16. New York, in general became much safer when Rudy Guilliani became mayor, and even more so under Mayor Bloomberg. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. 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. Particularly the buffalo wings, which are some of the best in the city. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. At the time, I was going to high school a block away and walked every morning past the tenements from which the airmail had been dropped on Lyfords yard. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east, and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. POWERED BY. Lost your password? 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. 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. Not a longtime UWS resident (only two years) but I would warn the author against making what appear to be major overstatements. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. 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. Once, after I was punched, my wallet stolen, my glasses (!) Probably the first high-end shop on Amsterdam Ave. Upper West Sider here. The Cozy Bar (The Dead Poet) People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. 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! This map of the Upper West Side shows its location relative to the rest of Manhattan. 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. And so commenced the razing of scores of buildings, beginning in February 1963. Why? This was my dads favorite hangout, as they were a rival of Rizzolis in art books and such. more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Im trying to jog my memory about a pastry cafe that always had recorded opera music playing and photos of opera singers on the walls I believe it was below 74th and above 66th and between Columbus and CPW. Also if you remember what year the Woolworths on 79th and Broadway closed let me know. Not many of those in Kansas. Perhaps someone at the Synagogue would know as I believe it was about the same time the Synagogue was built (Prior to 1978.) They had several boutiques and I spent a lot of dough there over the years, The folded in the early 90s I think. Of course, I want to see my beloved neighborhood grow & flourish but why is there such a strong need to push out the very people, shops, & community that created the desirable neighborhood it became? Mostly, it just feels like a relatively calm pub that happens to have a lot of brown liquid in stock. Please enter your email address. I remember turning the corner on 71st street one day coming back from PS 89 and discovering that my whole street (71st between Columbus and CPW) had been transformed so that Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand could perform a scene from The Way We Were. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. I was born in 1965 and moved away in 1977 (returned later). 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. Imagine such a thing today. Jimmys penis had been cut off. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. We used to go to and from school on our own. 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. Not everyones experience is like mine. 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. Of course I have lived elsewhere, including the Adirondacks (for college), the Catskills (for work with Goddard-Riverside Community Center residential summer camps) and Dallas, TX for work. Best Bars in Upper West Side, Manhattan, NY - The Dead Poet, Arthouse Bar, The Owl's Tail, Amsterdam Ale House, Dive 75, The Upside, Pekarna NYC, Dublin House, George Keeley, The Milling Room There were great clothes stores also on Columbus on the same street, Parachute was one. I am happy that they also identify with being true upper west siders! Address: 322 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10023 Image Courtesy Da Capo #6. Cocktails are pricey ($12-16) but it's just too fun to miss. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. 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