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. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. I am still amazed thinking how that now-pristine block was so different. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. First founded in Ohio in 1980, the 1950s-style restaurant grew quickly, with about 100 locations at its peak. So much history of the Upper West Side, resided in the strengths and ideas of its working class citizens. The destruction and construction took years, leaving behind rubble that became at-hand weaponry for kids and gangsters and boarded-up tenements that became crime sites and drug dens. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. 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. Go on Mondays for live jazz. I bought an expensive ($90) hoodie, which lasted about 20 years. If you're heading to the Upper West Side to see a Humperdinck fairy tale opera at Lincoln Center, you might just need a drink beforehand. .I could not get the police or the sanitation department to stop the airmail so I collected it. @Janet, I agree. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. I was born in 1965 and moved away in 1977 (returned later). If you want to pay college prices for that pitcher of Shock Top, come during Happy Hour (until 8pm every day). Vanguard is one of the best first-date spots on the Upper West Side. 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. In part that was because the then-senescent New York Post hadnt brought new life to tabloid journalism and forced the fat and happy and rich New York Daily News to follow it, which is what happened in the summer of 1977, when the Son of Sam went on his rampage. My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. 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. 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. Around 1973. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). 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. Imagine such a thing today. Fancy. The UWS was terrible then. The bakery was Royale, there were others as well, Eclair, and Blooms. I grew up I have been thinking about this since it was originally posted a couple of years ago. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. And within those classes there was division as well. Its a little spot decorated like a living room in a very nice apartment, and they serve top-notch cocktails. Particularly the buffalo wings, which are some of the best in the city. Once, after I was punched, my wallet stolen, my glasses (!) 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. 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. The 24th Precinct has about the same racial and ethnic makeup it did when Lyford published his book in 1966. 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. . There are a few things that differentiate Bodega 88 from the other sports bars in the neighborhood. Home to such venerable New York landmarks as Lincoln Center, Columbia University, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Dakota Apartments, and Zabar's food emporium, the Upper West Side stretches from 59th Street to 125th Street, including Morningside Heights. 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. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. Since I live only a mile from where I was born and raised, with only slight changes to the visual landscape, I find myself constantly under nostalgias threat. Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. Email me if youd like to answer some more questions about life on the UWS. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. 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! Usually, when we talk about the differences in American life between past and present, there is a moment in which we feel compelled to denounce todays pathologies in comparison with the moral certainties of older times. 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. Re: I stay away from the South West corner of W. 71st Street as rowdy teenagers hang around in front of MacDonalds and create a nuisance.. The SROS were filled with mentally ill people. And "Mambo Mouth" in the days before STOMP took over the Orpheum Theater on 2nd and 7th. How Biden Intends to Misuse the CHIPS Act, About that African-American Studies Course. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. I would love more stories. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. 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. And so commenced the razing of scores of buildings, beginning in February 1963. So my small city is the same and yet it is not the same, because it is today, in almost every way, better. 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. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. You couldnt walk down my side street without seeing at least one car window smashed. 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). There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. My father was the first tenant of the building and moved in in 1929. I think this was the second time. Amazing roast chicken at Amsterdams. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. I think the owner of Trio Dinner lived in my building I thought it was called Joes?. My sister and I used to walk down the street and try to remember what was there before. So a volleyball net was erected. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. There were prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. 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. RESERVE A TABLE. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. I take issue with the notion that people tried to avoid living above 72nd street. 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. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. Living in the precincts of ones own past means that its fears and terrors are immediately accessible as well. Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. I never felt unsafe in this neighborhood, however. 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 Upper West Side of Manhattan is sandwiched in between Riverside Park to the west & Central Park to the east. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. The little space is long and narrow, with a bar up front and a few tables in back, and it works for anything from date night to a drink with your parents. Everybody got mugged. Loved growing up there. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. 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. 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. Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. Residents sold their used household goods at White Elephant tables, others grilled hotdogs and popped popcorn. 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. They dont linger and they dont talk to their neighbors or bother to know the names of the doormen in the lobby. I remember The Red Baron and Food City and Victors Cafe 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. Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. 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. Go to George Keeley. I walked home alone from Lincoln Center many, many times and still do without being bothered. Have a romantic date at the Arthouse Bar. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. I dont know what UWS Janet and Denton lived on, but it was dirty, dangerous and scary. 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. Hello. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. 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. 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. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. This has always been a congenial neighborhood. Use this guide to find all the best bars in the neighborhood. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. 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. From melees to muggings to serial killers to a spiritual revival. Let me correct myself for Sarabeths Kitchen was between 79th and 80th Streets on Amsterdam across from Macs. Sounds like Jeannine should take that route. Always had a good meal there. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. 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 love that my beloved UWS is a desirable place to live but NOT at the expense of those who came before, struggled, survived and created this complicated, beautiful neighborhood. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Prohibition has live music every night, so its a good option for all kinds of situations, from first dates when you want to avoid awkward small talk to quick solo drinks when youre killing time. The whole thing about the terrible 1970s (and even 1980s) is vastly over-rated. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbus Avenue in the 70's underwent an impressively upscale retail . 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!! 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. I can remember later that the same group opened another trendy bar call Columbus? He struck on 104th and 103rd. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. Some memories: I remember The Broadway Nut Shop, outside of which I shook hands with Bobby Kennedy while he was campaigning for Abe Beame in 1965, Steinbergs Dairy Restaurant, next to Irvings Candy store, the Pizza parlor and Serooties? Learn more about historic floods. McGlades, a tavern across from ABC, it's a Starbucks now. There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! 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! Shakespeare and Co. followed suit a few years later due to the same pressure from Barnes and Noble. 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. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . The sidewalks teemed with alcoholic homeless Vietnam Vets haunted by their own nightmares and hopelessness. a retired 31-year veteran NYC high school teacher. In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. 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. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . 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 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 well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. Yes, it was a wild an wooly time. He struck on 106th between Broadway and Amsterdam, a block from my building. The Gin Mill is owned by the same people as Jakes Dilemma, which is less than a block away, and it feels very similar. 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. And Silk Road. 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. A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. 4) Someone else mentioned it, but Ill second a nod to Teachers and Teachers, Too. Open in Google Maps. (I hope this continues . Others would doubtless claim that because the victims were black and Hispanic, there was less interest than there would have been had the victims been white; more likely, there was newsroom concern about stigmatizing thesebeaten-down povertystricken populations. My second date with him was at The Copper (? The Upper West Side is a great place to live: beautiful prewar buildings, Central Park to one side and Riverside Park to the other, Zabar's.It's one of the most popular residential areas of Manhattan and it's also a hotbed for celebrities. Every few years I will take my 20 block walk from my old apartment to 84th and Columbus. There were great clothes stores also on Columbus on the same street, Parachute was one. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. Monday's are all you can eat wings . They have a bunch of beers on tap that you definitely wont find on the shelves at Whole Foods, and the dark space works well for a low-key drink with a couple friends. 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. By Craig Horowitz. I worked from 1972-77 at various Cake Masters locations from 72nd Street to 99th Street. I now live on the upper east side, but will always remain true to my rootsthe West side is the best side! Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. An asphalt crew came to repave. I know Im not imagining it existed. 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. Remember Winnefred Frocks on bway in the 70s. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. Free or royalty-free photos and images. To read a similar account of growing up in the 30s and 40s, click here. Local artists sold their wares and the kids tried not to kill themselves in the slightly deflated Moon Bounce. Prohibition is an upscale bar and lounge with some of the best bar food in the Upper West Side. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. . The neighborhood has lost many small businesses such as delis, bodegas, pizzerias, barber shops, candy & stationery stores. 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. New York, in general became much safer when Rudy Guilliani became mayor, and even more so under Mayor Bloomberg. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. The Wildwood. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. Address: 322 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10023 Image Courtesy Da Capo #6. Great projecthope it went well or is going well. 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. I came to NYC for the first time in 1979. 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. Learned how to ride my bike down there. East of Broadway was a tough old neighborhood. Think about it. The Upper . UPPER WEST SIDE, NY An Upper West Side joint was just named among the best sports bars in New York City. 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