And "Mambo Mouth" in the days before STOMP took over the Orpheum Theater on 2nd and 7th. Sure, it isnt the fanciest bar in the world, and if you order a sazerac here, you might get a weird look - but its a nice little place to hang out with a beer, and theres a sitting area in the back with a couch and some armchairs. Jimmys penis had been cut off. Is that what a Harvard education gets you these days? Why? 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. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. I finally made the right connection when I discovered several glass ampules and hypodermic needles. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. I need a hot tip on a small apartment! . 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. 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. But west end was great, and also 86th was great all the way over to the park. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. 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. 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. 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Very different West Side. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. 210 W 94th St, New . And The House of Games. a retired 31-year veteran NYC high school teacher. I am still amazed thinking how that now-pristine block was so different. Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. How Biden Intends to Misuse the CHIPS Act, About that African-American Studies Course. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. My high school boyfriend lived on 82nd and Broadway. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. The Continental Baths!!! Also if you remember what year the Woolworths on 79th and Broadway closed let me know. 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. 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 . I remember Marcys deli on Broadway, the barbershop next door with its old -fashioned spinning stripe pole. 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! My building is very family oriented. It was bummy but it was awesome. 1. At 254 West 54th Street, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager converted a former opera house into the most notorious nightclub of the disco era. 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. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. Bear Bar (west side) 2156 Broadway (between 74th & 75th St.) Beer Hall. Even 50 years ago, its leftism was a lived-in leftism, a legacy leftism, dull and humorless and orthodox, inherited from parents and grandparents and already growing threadbare around the elbows like an old tweed jacket whose patches were themselves worn out from use. St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. There are so many more as I have lived here since the early 70s. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. As first Columbus Avenue, then Broadway, and finally Amsterdam Avenue began to gentrify we were gratified to witness a steadily improving quality of life, but sidewalks teem[ing] with alcoholic homeless and residents knew to be inside their locked apartments by nightfall? I am offended by the tone in this article. jeannine.j@gmail.com. I also like to point it out when kvetchers say the area is too fancy now. Good luck with your project and I would be happy to talk if you like. 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. That memory is itself almost certainly a conflation of two moments that occurred months apart, but in retrospect, they blend high exhilaration and low shame, an almost perfect distillation of the bipolarity of childhood feeling. 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. 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. He murdered and castrated four boys. (I hope this continues . There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. That mugging was nothing unusual. Always had a good meal there. Columbus tween 70,71. I remember as a kids being able to walk and take buses alone and feeling very independent. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. 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 loved visiting the pet dept downstairs there and often dreamt of freeing all the fish and parakeets to Central Park down the block. So many more. On the northern end, it borders W.110th street down south to Columbus Circle at W.59th street. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. I lived on 79th street from 1976 to 2011 in the rent-stabilized apartment I grew up in, and over that time I have seen the neighborhood change drastically. 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! Email me if youd like to answer some more questions about life on the UWS. Youre on the Upper West Side, and you want to drink beer. I live in my apartment at 102 West 85 since 1986 but I was born on West End Ave in 1947. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. 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. 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. 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 the bar next to them. Prohibition is a 20sthemed bar with quality live music every night. At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. Upper West Side march protest, circa 1980. Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. 1. e's Bar 511 Amsterdam Ave., nr. 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. The Upper . Police flooded the area. I figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. My sister and I used to walk down the street and try to remember what was there before. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. He lived on 75th Bet. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. Editors note: Lifelong Upper West Side resident Jeannine Jones is writing her graduate thesis on how the neighborhood has changed since she was born in 1976. 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. I love being able to walk to Central Park and be greeted by many people I have met over the years. The UWS was terrible then. 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. 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. Thanks for posting this article. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? You'll be lead upstairs to a fancy little space with luxurious seats and bespoke cocktails. Indeed, everything suggested it would be. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. The building housed a playground on its roof, a respite for myself and many neighborhood kids. The cavalcade included. I grew up on riverside drive at 104 street. 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. I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. When I come to NYC now, I stay in the Endicott (on Columb and 81, around the corner from my old apartment). Located on Columbus b/n 81 and 82, it was beautiful inside (lots of wood), and I recall when it died out, roughly at same time of a branch of Shakespeare & Company on 81st and Bway, once the Barnes and Nobles opened (at 82nd), which of course still remains. I can just smell the place writing about it. 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 whole space is about the size of a subway car, though, so dont bring a big group. Rescued Estates, before the "Crazy Landlord" rented the place to The Bean coffee shop. As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. 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 worked from 1972-77 at various Cake Masters locations from 72nd Street to 99th Street. They had delicious burgers. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. The UWS is a friendly neighborhood if you get out there and meet people. I have been thinking about this since it was originally posted a couple of years ago. For more historic images of the Upper West Side, check out our piece on a photographer who took pictures of storefronts in 1982, and a home movie shot in 1971. There were loads of movie theaterstwo on one block between 96 & 97 street called Riverside and Riviera, and the Thalia, Symphony, Beacon (ALL local movie theaters), the Midtown, Loews 83rd street, the Edison, Nemo (both in the 100s) and of course, the New Yorker! A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. 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. 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. 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. Email me if you want to answer a few questions. West of Broadway was less rough, but Broadway was Pay-A-Broadway after 9pm as if there was city-approved zoning for street walkers after 9. woolworths was on the high 60s on amsterdam just south of the jewish temple that is still there. Broadway and West End. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. It's just happening. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. Vanguard is one of the best first-date spots on the Upper West Side. 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. Tuesday's - you could get a rack of ribs, big salad with lots of fresh blue cheese, and a baked potato for $9.99. I would recommend the author talk to some parents at the local schools to get a sense for the community now. Sounds like Jeannine should take that route. Perhaps someone at the Synagogue would know as I believe it was about the same time the Synagogue was built (Prior to 1978.) View Website Earn 3X Points. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. They had several boutiques and I spent a lot of dough there over the years, The folded in the early 90s I think. They've generously opened up their lobby by transforming it into a cafe and bar inspired by the aesthetic of speakeasies of the 1920's. 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. We neighborhood kids came to call him, with the horrible bluntness of adolescent boys, Charlie Chop-off. 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. Also The Golden Pan restaurant, Levy Bros Stationers, Universal Health Center, the New Yorker Theater and, upstairs, the New Yorker Bookshop. So my small city is the same and yet it is not the same, because it is today, in almost every way, better. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. It would dominate news coverage in the country for weeks, if not months. Delicious, homey. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. And the biggest, most heartbreaking loss la fortuna, hangout of John and yoko. Worth a read. pulled from my face, and my sneakers removed outside the side exit to the Olympia movie theater on 107th between Broadway and Amsterdam, my parents called the police and two mammoth cops showed up and drove me around the neighborhood looking for my two assailants by checking out sneakers. 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. more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Hey, Scooter Stan, they are often a pain in the neck. and the Pyramid Club (101 Ave. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. 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. I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. 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. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. But this is the case in most major cities going through development and change. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. 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. Not a longtime UWS resident (only two years) but I would warn the author against making what appear to be major overstatements. Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. loved chariivari but those prices! 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. Not all of us move here for a few years. 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp Restaurants. 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. 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. Outdoors at Noz Market. The doormen were alert and ready to menace unwelcome visitors with a baseball bat. Nostalgia can be a treacherous mistress, because she glamorizes the past and downgrades the present in a way that threatens to make them both intolerable. From melees to muggings to serial killers to a spiritual revival. 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). So much history of the Upper West Side, resided in the strengths and ideas of its working class citizens. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. Yes there was plenty of crime in the 80s, and the neighborhood has gone through change (for the better). Doubtful. There were great clothes stores also on Columbus on the same street, Parachute was one. By Carter B. Horsley. Of course we remember Charivari. 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). Columbus and Amsterdam avenues were to be avoided though we had to cross them to hang out in Central Parkmostly by the fountain. Carmine's - 91st Street - NYC. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). Fast forward to 2013. I have lived on the UWS side (I rent) and I have no plans of moving to a big house in the burbs. #20. jeannine.j@gmail.com. Be the first to get expert restaurant recommendations for every situation right in your inbox. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. Madison & Vine, an American Bistro and International Wine Bar, has a menu that captures the diversity of America's culinary regions. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. But in 1976, when my parents moved to Broadway and 79th street with their three small children, no one in Manhattan lived above 72nd street if they could avoid it. As an 80s kid, the name cracked me up, it sounded so dated, and even then I could see they where from another time, and I appreciated that. I well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. 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. I take issue with the notion that people tried to avoid living above 72nd street. Ive lived as far north as 110th street and as south at 80th. Amazing roast chicken at Amsterdams. A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. For more photos of UWS storefronts in 1982, click here. 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. Amsterdam Ale House The corner of Amsterdam and W. 76th Street has been the site of numerous popular restaurants since the late 1930's. 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. 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. Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? 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. If you are a graduate student, you should know how to check municipal records for closing dates of stores. I've always been a pretty good cook, and I could make these very good dinners in this tiny kitchen. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. Life is rough on everyone. The entrance to this Upper West Side speakeasy is right inside Burke & Wills go to the back and open the green leather door. Explore the scintillating March 2023 issue of Commentary. When? This place gets packed during big weeknight games and all day on weekends, with the booths and tables in the dining room usually reserved days in advance. And in this case, I dont mean the universal fearsa closed closet door, a dark hallway, a school bullybut rather the very specific fears that came with growing up in my small city in the midst of the big city at a very specific moment. Usually the small cities in America that never change are the ones whose best days came half a century or more ago and are now literally rotting away before your eyes, their once-handsome houses mottling, their fences akimbo, their storefronts boarded, their grass untended, their gas stations abandoned on windblown corners. It was a rich neighborhood at the turn of the last century and it has gone back to that. 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. 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. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. And in part it was due to the difficulty the media had, even in the wake of the 1960s, reporting on the details of the crime (the New York Times, in every one of the fiveonly five!articles it published on the case, referred vaguely to sexual mutilation). 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