2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. Jacobs Pickles is great if you need an Upper West Side brunch spot or dinner meetup with someone you know will embrace the heavy bar food. Terrible, just terrible. For an interesting look at our neighborhood,check out the Goodbye Girl on netflix. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. Further back, in the 50s and 60s there was food-o-Rama, Daitch Shopwell, Nedicks, Orange Julius, and so many mom and pop shops. Not how it was for me, my friends, and their families. I lost touch with them (Joe, the owner, and Mark the pharmacist) about 4-5 years ago. I bet your cute daughter will look back at this decade as the magical Upper West Side, like you remember. 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. 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. This was my dads favorite hangout, as they were a rival of Rizzolis in art books and such. 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. Eeyores bookstore, Woolworths, Greens, Morris Bros, Mancy pharmacy, Kandela pizzeria, Leroy pharmacy, The Library restaurant up our block, the movie theater on 89th and bway, Anchor savings bank, H & Hso many memories its crazy. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. I need a hot tip on a small apartment! And every effort to cure them through large-scale government action only made matters worse, in one of the most potent demonstrations of the law of unintended consequences. 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. I have lived on 111 street since 1975. Go to George Keeley. 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. 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. 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. I moved up here in 1977. 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 sure we all remember the coffee shop! Also if you remember what year the Woolworths on 79th and Broadway closed let me know. Around 1973. It was 1990 on Manhattan's Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood . 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. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. Jimmys penis had been cut off. 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. I miss the 88 Noodle House, Woolworths, and Sloans. 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. 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) Arts & Entertainment. Life is rough on everyone. I raised two daughters here. November 24, 2013 | 1:16 PM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:30 PM, Womens History: Augusta Stetson and the Church at 96th Street and Central Park West, WEST-PARK CHURCH LEADERS WIN VOTE, PLEDGE TO REVITALIZE BUILDING, WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN: COLD SHADOWS, ANCIENT OBELISKS, A MASSIVE MENORAH, & CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, A TRIO OF JUILLIARD PERFORMANCES ON MONDAY (SPONSORED). 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. Shakespeare and Co. followed suit a few years later due to the same pressure from Barnes and Noble. 4. I know Im not imagining it existed. 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. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. Ive lived as far north as 110th street and as south at 80th. 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. The Dead Poet is really just a solid neighborhood bar. Also The Golden Pan restaurant, Levy Bros Stationers, Universal Health Center, the New Yorker Theater and, upstairs, the New Yorker Bookshop. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. 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. My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. Living in the precincts of ones own past means that its fears and terrors are immediately accessible as well. 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. 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. the bar next to them. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). 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. Upper West Side Geography. Two of my favorite restaurants, The All State Cafe, also, on w. 72nd and Nikos at 76th & Broadway were, sadly, priced out of existence. The next time youre feeling nostalgic about your college days, you could build your own beer pong table and throw out your couch to make room for it - or you could go to Jakes Dilemma. Prohibition is an upscale bar and lounge with some of the best bar food in the Upper West Side. For the reclamation of the neighborhood proved to have a spiritual component as well. I remember The Red Baron and Food City and Victors Cafe A map was created of all gay bars and gay spaces from 1859 to now. (1982) 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. Neil Simon movie and yes a movie, but does show the charm and grit of the 70s. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. But I had to wear my old prescriptions and couldnt see very well. He lived on 75th Bet. 4) Someone else mentioned it, but Ill second a nod to Teachers and Teachers, Too. But not to know when a store closed? In a striking sentence reflective of the fatalistic attitude of the time, she writes, Crime prevention was, of course, the Police Departments first priority, as preventive medicine was the primary concern of health administrators. The Upper . You couldnt walk down my side street without seeing at least one car window smashed. 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. 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 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!! 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. Get there early (around 9:00 p.m.) to experience it because it gets a bit crowded near the stage later in the evening. He murdered and castrated four boys. I remember Charivari well. 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. Either way, it's there, and it's good. 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. The very idea that it might once have been considered the citys worst is very nearly science-fictional today, as it bustles with high-end baby strollers pushed by parents hurrying to homey restaurants on Amsterdam or Columbus or making their way to Central Park. The broken windows theory propounded by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in 1983 has entered into the realm of clichthe idea that if you dont replace a broken window on an abandoned building, more of the windows will be broken and the area around them will decay as well. I loved visiting the pet dept downstairs there and often dreamt of freeing all the fish and parakeets to Central Park down the block. I think its just human nature. 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. We also went to the park alone which kids nowadays hardly ever do. Is that what a Harvard education gets you these days? 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. A fine and forgotten 1975 book by Barbara Gelb called On the Track of Murder it reads like a nonfiction version of Ed McBain's 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 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. 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. The Ribbon has style and substance and does classic food right. 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. Although the Upper East Side is generally considered the more expensive side, when it comes to renting in 2022, the Upper West Side takes the cake. I live on W 71 myself. Doubtful. 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. Apologies for coming to this conversation rather late but felt compelled to share my experience of the UWS. What sets it apart is the fact that there are so many hard-to-find beers on tap. Are the changes to the neighborhood for the better or for the worse? Address: 322 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10023 Image Courtesy Da Capo #6. 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 . It might have been the most integrated area in the United States. If their children were found playing on the street unsupervised that would warrant a call to 311 or Child Protective Services. Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. Working there I was held up at gun point at the 85th street location and the 99th street location. 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. Outdoors at Noz Market. There is a scene played for laughs where Marsha Mason gets mugged in broad daylight on a tawdry looking Columbus Avenue yes a a movie, but it was absolutely blamable at the time. My car was broken into 3 times in my first year here. Imagine such a thing today. 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. Delicious, homey. It all started at Goddard Riverside and then onto West Side Montessori. They had delicious burgers. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. 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. QE 2 Club 1980s Central Ave, Albany ny by AlbanyGroup Archive the Elbo Room 1963 Albany NY (1960s) by AlbanyGroup Archive 2 288 lark, albany, ny 1984 1980s by AlbanyGroup Archive 1 jb's theater albany ny by AlbanyGroup Archive ginos collage albany ny . Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles 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 . Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. Bear Bar (west side) 2156 Broadway (between 74th & 75th St.) Beer Hall. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. 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. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. 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. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. Wish my kids could have a similar space to grow up, warts and all. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. 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. On the northern end, it borders W.110th street down south to Columbus Circle at W.59th street. I dont think the email in the article works. I now live on the upper east side, but will always remain true to my rootsthe West side is the best side! Use this guide to find all the best bars in the neighborhood. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. 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. The 24th Precinct has about the same racial and ethnic makeup it did when Lyford published his book in 1966. @Janet, I agree. 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. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. That said, it isnt a gimmicky spot where you pretend to be an early American settler. 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. Social workers divided the block into three play sectors, with adults playing volleyball, teenagers playing inside at a youth center, and younger children the east end. Six months later, the Times declared that the problem had been managed: Worst Is Over on West 84th Street. The solution was depopulation and destruction: The Department of Real Estate reported that 709 families had moved or been relocated from buildings due to give way for new schools. Only then it was called slum clearance and urban renewal. Be the first to get expert restaurant recommendations for every situation right in your inbox. -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. jeannine.j@gmail.com. the very chic chain that only was located on the UWS. Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. Carmine's - 91st Street - NYC. 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. Retro what does it mean? Think about 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. By Carter B. Horsley. And The House of Games. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. We were absolutely terrified. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is sandwiched in between Riverside Park to the west & Central Park to the east. 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 map of the Upper West Side shows its location relative to the rest of Manhattan. Madison & Vine, an American Bistro and International Wine Bar, has a menu that captures the diversity of America's culinary regions. 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. Please. 1) Frusen Gldj. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. 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. Because The Smith is always there when you need it to be. That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. 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. gallery. Kelly Ramos: Favorite wings in the entire city. We came to wonder if New York was a place that stunted human possibility instead of expanding it.. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. I well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. Hello. I remember Gleasons, and ONealsand the Flower Shop next to ONeals. RESERVE A TABLE. So much history of the Upper West Side, resided in the strengths and ideas of its working class citizens. My friends lived in the 90s on Columbus and we used to skateboard and hang out all the time. It's China Fun now? Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. 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. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. I grew up they had good sales. Heres the first paragraph. I would love more stories. Does anyone remember a small bakery/kitchen on West 83rd between Columbus and Amsterdam. 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. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. A least some or all of my family lived on the Upper West Side from the 1930s to the mid 1980s. That mugging was nothing unusual. Homeless? Silly me. Its hard to keep up now, tho! For me, this building represented a huge part of not only the neighborhood history, but of my own personal history as well. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! When we came outside onto west 81 street the person who was supposed to meet us and take us home had not shown up. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. The UWS is a friendly neighborhood if you get out there and meet people. The Gin Mill is owned by the same people as Jakes Dilemma, which is less than a block away, and it feels very similar. Get some house cocktails at the bar, and if you end up wanting a break from the music (or you come before the music starts), hang out at one of the sidewalk tables out front. West Side Story restaurant on 95th If you want to pay college prices for that pitcher of Shock Top, come during Happy Hour (until 8pm every day). 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. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Every few years I will take my 20 block walk from my old apartment to 84th and Columbus. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. Email me if youd like to answer some more questions about life on the UWS. Columbus and Amsterdam avenues were to be avoided though we had to cross them to hang out in Central Parkmostly by the fountain. 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. My small city could have been one of those static, increasingly impoverished, blighted places. I can remember later that the same group opened another trendy bar call Columbus? jeannine.j@gmail.com. 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. 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. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. I shopped at Red Apple Market on 100 st, which then became C Town and now is yet another bank. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. 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 take issue with the notion that people tried to avoid living above 72nd street. "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. Go on Mondays for live jazz. Its a good spot to eat some bangers and mash, and its perfect for when you want to sit on a barstool and watch sports with a Guinness. When I come to NYC now, I stay in the Endicott (on Columb and 81, around the corner from my old apartment). I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. It's interesting to watch the shifts in neighborhoods. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? This live HD webcam overlooks the cityscape and Coolsingel, a major street in the city centre of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, as shown on the map further down the page. 210 W 94th St, New . I lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. Rescued Estates, before the "Crazy Landlord" rented the place to The Bean coffee shop. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. I dont recognize the neighborhood at all. Fast forward to 2013. 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. They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. I have been unable to confirm the closing date in my research. The doormen were alert and ready to menace unwelcome visitors with a baseball bat. 1980s-1990s: Boy Bar (15 St. Marks Pl.) Lost your password? Columbia university kept the neighborhood more desirable. I always saw it as culturally vital and architecturally beautiful. So a volleyball net was erected. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. My building is very family oriented. However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. Hi Life Bar & Grill. Zabars was open until midnight. Vin sur Vingt | Best Things to Do Upper West Side. 7388 reviews. It is bounded by Central Park on the east and the . The building housed a playground on its roof, a respite for myself and many neighborhood kids. Grew up in Lincoln Towers in the 70s and 80s. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. 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. That said, its equally good for a drink with a few coworkers, or a catch-up with a friend. By Craig Horowitz. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. I have lived on the UWS side (I rent) and I have no plans of moving to a big house in the burbs. 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