Residents sold their used household goods at White Elephant tables, others grilled hotdogs and popped popcorn. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. I think its just human nature. more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. Girl Scout's Cookies Are a Hit at West Hollywood Gay Bars February 16 2023 5:27 PM. The bakery was Royale, there were others as well, Eclair, and Blooms. (The church had become a hangout for drug addicts.) I love all the varying opinions and experiences. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . Although, I usually shopped at the one on 109 street, I do remember the one on 79 street. Indeed, everything suggested it would be. The character of this area has changed dramatically as it has become an influx of new luxury and converted-to-luxury Mitchell-Lama buildings, over-priced coffee franchises and domestic employees. 2) Endicott Book Store. 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. 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). You'll be lead upstairs to a fancy little space with luxurious seats and bespoke cocktails. Also, there are many Duane Reades and banks, but the claim that almost every mom-and-pop business has been shuttered is simply false. they had good sales. It's China Fun now? Of course we remember Charivari. I worked from 1972-77 at various Cake Masters locations from 72nd Street to 99th Street. 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. Please enter your email address. the block just south of where mc donalds is. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. Learned how to ride my bike down there. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. Everybody got mugged. I know Im not imagining it existed. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. We came to wonder if New York was a place that stunted human possibility instead of expanding it.. When we came outside onto west 81 street the person who was supposed to meet us and take us home had not shown up. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbus Avenue in the 70's underwent an impressively upscale retail . Does anyone remember the trendy bar in 1981-84 at the corner of 74th and Amsterdam? And Silk Road. 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. I raised two daughters here. Tuesday Trivia. 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. Around 1973. By Carter B. Horsley. Cocktails are pricey ($12-16) but it's just too fun to miss. My small city could have been one of those static, increasingly impoverished, blighted places. .I could not get the police or the sanitation department to stop the airmail so I collected it. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. 114 tips and reviews. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! That said, its equally good for a drink with a few coworkers, or a catch-up with a friend. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). I lived on 82 btw Columbus and CPW from 1976-2011. Silly me. These days, double-decker tourist buses travel the streets of the Upper West Side, and I cant imagine what narration the guides offer besides pointing out various spots at which the various incarnations of the Law and Order television series have been filmed on location. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles Broadway and West End. I take issue with the notion that people tried to avoid living above 72nd street. 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. 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. Vague memory of the window and lady on 83rd Street. Things change. I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. Barbara, that was Sarabeths Kitchen on Amsterdam between 82nd and 83rd. She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. They had several boutiques and I spent a lot of dough there over the years, The folded in the early 90s I think. Today is tomorrow's yesterday . In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. 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. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. Free or royalty-free photos and images. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Meanwhile, the working poor found themselves menaced and increasingly overwhelmed by the burgeoning welfare underclass. 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 figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. Two of my favorite restaurants, The All State Cafe, also, on w. 72nd and Nikos at 76th & Broadway were, sadly, priced out of existence. However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. While I do not mourn the nabe of the 70s, and I miss the more diverse neighborhood, the mom-and-pop stores, the real neighborhood feeling that has changed. 133 E. 65th St, New York. I can just smell the place writing about it. The free outdoor summer concerts at Lincoln Center were wonderful. Go to George Keeley. 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. Huge packs of kids just playing in the park after school or even at lunch (with a letter you could leave 87 or 44 and go get a slice somewhere). If their children were found playing on the street unsupervised that would warrant a call to 311 or Child Protective Services. I moved up here in 1977. I remember The Jaunting Car Inn next to the Ritzs deli between 71 and 70th on Columbus. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . Featuring live music nightly, the jazz age is still present in this dimly lit bar, which is a great swanky alternative without the gouging prices. 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. There are cocktail bars with live music, lots and lots of sports bars, and wine bars with people on first, second, and fiftieth dates. 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 only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. 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. Despite an off-and-on economy, the 1980s was a decade in which Americans ate out more often than ever before. . McGlades, a tavern across from ABC, it's a Starbucks now. As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. Get there early (around 9:00 p.m.) to experience it because it gets a bit crowded near the stage later in the evening. When I go back (my mom still lives in her rent control spot on 72nd and WEA) I have a real cognitive dissonance. 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. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Im so please that Calle Ocho (once around the corner on Columbus) has become attached to the hotel; that Zingones , the terrific and friendly mom & pop grocery store on Columbus btw 82 & 83 is still in business and doing better than ever; that Rose Liquor still is thriving one block down with the flower shop next door now run by the daughter of the man I used to buy my flowers from, and that the newsstand at the corner of Columbus and 81 is till run by my friend from Pakistan, who used to call his family to find out when my eccentric English husband used to ask him Whats the weather today in Karachi? I still run into my neighbors on the street, and sure, a lot has changed, but the heart of the neighborhood and many of the characters are still there! Columbia university kept the neighborhood more desirable. 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. so i guess we are 3 black kettles since i am being pretty snarky, too. Hi Life Bar & Grill. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. May 6, 2009. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. Particularly the buffalo wings, which are some of the best in the city. 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. 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp Had a nice truffle festival as I recall. We were absolutely terrified. New Yorkers and Their '80s Routines Block by Block As told to Kate Guadagnino , Elizabeth Gumport, Merrell Hambleton and Erin Sheehy April 17, 2018 The era might have been old New York's last. The Arthouse Hotel is a bit of a hidden gem in the Upper West Side but not for long. And Silk Road. I am still amazed thinking how that now-pristine block was so different. I also like to point it out when kvetchers say the area is too fancy now. Not all of us move here for a few years. 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. There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. Find next available. 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. Neighborhood volunteers took turns watching out their windows, reporting any crimes to the well-meaning, over-worked and understaffed local police precinct. This article is so one-side. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. 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). The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland [nedrlnt] ()), informally Holland, is a country located in northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.It is the largest of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Think about it. . But I had to wear my old prescriptions and couldnt see very well. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. 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. Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. 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 tacos are supplemented with other obvious sports bar snacks, including corn on the cob, guac and chips, flautas, plus burritos, quesadillas, and tortas. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. Good luck with your project and I would be happy to talk if you like. 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. 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. Long gone is the divine Eclair Bakery on W. 72nd St. and the Royale. I am offended by the tone in this article. Email me if you want to answer a few questions. St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. View Website Earn 3X Points. For more photos of UWS storefronts in 1982, click here. But in 1961, 84th Street was a nightmare, and something had to be done. 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. Our parents let us run around unsupervised from the time we were like, 8 or 9. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. The cavalcade included. 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. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. They also have jello shots, so your night here can either be very tame or full of colorful, gelatinous alcohol. About fifty of us stood across the street and watched, as though we were attending a wake. The whole thing about the terrible 1970s (and even 1980s) is vastly over-rated. The hill going down to the park on West 91st. 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. The reclamation of New York City from the forces of criminal chaos and social decay is a familiar tale by now. 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. My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. 1. Sadly, the older residents are slowly dying off and being replaced by younger couples who only stay two or three years. 1. Vanguard is one of the best first-date spots on the Upper West Side. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. We also went on amazing trips with him, including the Rocky Horror Picture show on Broadway. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. 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. . 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. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? Awesome to read all the comments and Tnx to all my neighbors for taking time to reminisce West 72nd here from early 70s to 2012 Forgot so many places but this jogged a great deal to share nostalgically with my family I miss Eclaires, La Fortuna and laser rock of the early 80s and the many times I saw John and Yoko walking in the park as a kid .. Or the 72nd st Kung fu magazine store on the 2nd Memories are all we ever truly have. Either way, it's there, and it's good. Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. 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. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. I grew up on riverside drive at 104 street. Finally, the kind of restaurant the Upper West Side has long been starved for. For the reclamation of the neighborhood proved to have a spiritual component as well. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. 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. I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. Thanks for posting this article. They might have called it the airmail theory. 1470 First Ave. (between 76th & 77th St.) North East Bank. New York, in general became much safer when Rudy Guilliani became mayor, and even more so under Mayor Bloomberg. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. I walked home alone from Lincoln Center many, many times and still do without being bothered. Some memories: Raised on 104th. 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. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. To read a similar account of growing up in the 30s and 40s, click here. 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. 1) Frusen Gldj. She was the only person that worked there and basically it was a counter that you ordered from and nothing more. 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. This street is the boulevard of the city, which shapes the central area of Rotterdam. Where else could you get Spanish-Chinese food? At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. We would remember it now as we remember the Son of Sam, and the Washington snipers, and the Hillside Strangler. 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 drug store on 74th and Broadway was Ritob. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. That was true between broadway and central park west. 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. 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. My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. The Dead Poet is really just a solid neighborhood bar. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. Delicious, homey. Sarabeth was a friend and I too loved her pastries and coffee. Now Im in the 90s. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. 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. 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. It was bummy but it was awesome. I remember Marcys deli on Broadway, the barbershop next door with its old -fashioned spinning stripe pole. 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. Although the company liquidated in 1991, there are a handful of independently owned stores left around the United States. Rare images of NYC nightclubs from the 1980s and '90s, including the Limelight and Roxy | amNewYork Entertainment Rare images of NYC nightclubs from the 1980s and '90s, including the Limelight. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. The middle class was split between the professionals of the New York intelligentsiamedia and intellectuals and academics and psychoanalystsand more down-to-earth educated folk, public school teachers and union officials and social workers. The sidewalks teemed with alcoholic homeless Vietnam Vets haunted by their own nightmares and hopelessness. 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