I have been unable to confirm the closing date in my research. I remember when the only Mexican restaurant anybody ever hear of was Taco Rico on 72nd. I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. UPPER WEST SIDE, NY An Upper West Side joint was just named among the best sports bars in New York City. Imagine such a thing today. Last Spring, a year ago this month, I watched as a staple of the neighborhood closed, Food City. 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). I grew up The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s. There are a few things that differentiate Bodega 88 from the other sports bars in the neighborhood. 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. Prohibition is a 20sthemed bar with quality live music every night. Does anyone remember a small bakery/kitchen on West 83rd between Columbus and Amsterdam. I lost the gold watch my father gave me for my college graduation. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. 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Ive ben on 76th since 1978. Upper West Side march protest, circa 1980. 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. 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. Had a nice truffle festival as I recall. A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. 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. I frankly dont recognize this overheated characterization of the 1970s-80s neighborhood. Shakespeare and Co. followed suit a few years later due to the same pressure from Barnes and Noble. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. but that would be the pot calling the kettle black. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. Heres the first paragraph. more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. 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. 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). The whole theater got kicked out of Lowes 84th on opening night for Friday The 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan, it was so rowdy, but Id been seeing movies there since it was the Lowes 83rd st, twin. Go to George Keeley. This street is the boulevard of the city, which shapes the central area of Rotterdam. Further back, in the 50s and 60s there was food-o-Rama, Daitch Shopwell, Nedicks, Orange Julius, and so many mom and pop shops. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. 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. 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. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. We also went on amazing trips with him, including the Rocky Horror Picture show on Broadway. Good luck with your project and I would be happy to talk if you like. I remember when Eeyores Children bookstore, around the corner from my apartment building, closed due to declining sales from competition with the newly opened Barnes and Noble megastore on 83rdand Broadway. 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). 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. (212) 861-2290. And The House of Games. My sister and I used to walk down the street and try to remember what was there before. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. 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. But this is the case in most major cities going through development and change. Have a romantic date at the Arthouse Bar. My friends lived in the 90s on Columbus and we used to skateboard and hang out all the time. People make the mistaken assumption that if you are new to a building and have children that means you are new to the UWS and probably a neo-con, yuppie, Wall Street-type, which isnt always the case. Does anyone remember, like i do, the little grocery store on the corner of 74th and Amsterdam, owned by Dom?wonderful man, full of stories and gossip about the neighborhoodwhen the subway fare went up in 74 or 75, he bought me a bag of tokens so that i wouldnt have to stand in line at the 72nd St. station that Monday morning when it went into effect and everyone had been caught unawareDom always looked out for his customersa real UWS personality. The Loft sounds right. People were afraid to ride the graffiti-streaked, crime soaked subways. My high school boyfriend lived on 82nd and Broadway. (I had mussels, he had short ribs). . They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. Please enter your email address. Things change. I came to NYC for the first time in 1979. An indifferent French restaurant occupies the space that once housed the record store where I bought my first 45 rpm disc of the Cowsills singing the title song from Hair, and standing in front of it I split into two, the 49-year-old in the present and the seven-year-old in the past crossing its portal with a little brown paper bag in hand, excited beyond measure to get its contents home to place the needle on the 45s ridge and watch it slide into the first groove, the sound of the scratches giving way to the opening blast of the Cowsills five-part harmony. a retired 31-year veteran NYC high school teacher. Les Routiers on 89th Raised on 104th. He struck on 104th and 103rd. 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. This is exactly what I am looking for. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. Explore the scintillating March 2023 issue of Commentary. 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. 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. You couldnt walk down my side street without seeing at least one car window smashed. We also went to the park alone which kids nowadays hardly ever do. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. That said, its equally good for a drink with a few coworkers, or a catch-up with a friend. Long gone is the divine Eclair Bakery on W. 72nd St. and the Royale. Yes, Jeannine, there have been major changes in the neighborhood mostly for the better but, alas, I truly miss some of the stores that have fallen by the wayside. 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. Worth a read. 1. The neighborhoods smattering of Orthodox residents did little to manifest their observance publicly. It's just happening. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. 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. The Upper West Side, or UWS as it is often abbreviated, is a large neighborhood or series of smaller adjacent neighborhoods in northern Manhattan, extending from 59 th Street northward to 110 th Street, with Central Park to the east and the Hudson River to the west. 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. Well, Mike Miller, Id like to inform you that starting a sentence with a preposition (as Historian did) and splitting infinitives (as you did when you said to never start) are both accepted by some of the widely used style manuals. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. Hanging out with kids from the projects as well as kids from riverside drive and Central Park westwas all one nice big mix. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). Upper East Side. 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. Best Bars & Pubs in Upper West Side (New York City): See 120 Tripadvisor traveler reviews of Bars & Pubs in Upper West Side New York City. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! I bought an expensive ($90) hoodie, which lasted about 20 years. I well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. Does anyone remember the trendy bar in 1981-84 at the corner of 74th and Amsterdam? To hell with nostalgia. Local artists sold their wares and the kids tried not to kill themselves in the slightly deflated Moon Bounce. 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. But I had to wear my old prescriptions and couldnt see very well. I would love more stories. Broadway has become one huge outdoor mall. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . Those rowdy kids are just young high school students who have just finished a full day of behaving properly in a boring, tedious, and often frustrating environment where their every move is monitored by unsmiling adults at least 10 or 20 years older (if not more) and most often NOT people of color like themselves. Loved growing up there. 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 . Not a longtime UWS resident (only two years) but I would warn the author against making what appear to be major overstatements. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. 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. Retroclubnyc is NYC's top dance club and nightclub playing the best dance music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s thru today including classic disco, freestyle and house music. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. 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. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? "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. Now no reason was needed at all. 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. Madison & Vine, an American Bistro and International Wine Bar, has a menu that captures the diversity of America's culinary regions. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? 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 He didn't take studio photography or anything like that.". The Wildwood. This article is so one-side. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. So a volleyball net was erected. 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) I think this was the second time. 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. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. 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. Fast forward to 2013. For me, this building represented a huge part of not only the neighborhood history, but of my own personal history as well. Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. 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. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. Lost your password? Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. 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. Start your risk free trial with unlimited access. 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! 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 lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. 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. But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. After fire damage temporarily shut down the place earlier this year, e's Bar is back in business, boasting new banquettes and the . Neighbors watched out for each other, and most of the people who lived there stayed for generations, and most of the stores were family-owned businesses. A couple of additions (please forgive any repetitions from other comments I havent read every single one.). Yellow Rose of Texas. Despite the name, Dive 75 isnt actually that divey. Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. 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. She was the only person that worked there and basically it was a counter that you ordered from and nothing more. I remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. You should know to never start a sentence with but. From the outside, this place looks like a very normal pub - and on the inside it looks pretty normal, too. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. In Lyfords celebrated 1966 account of the Upper West Sides decline, The Airtight Cage, he writes of the airmail that landed in the backyard of his brownstone on 92nd between Columbus and Central Park West from the windows of the row of tenements on 93rd street: My first introduction to airmail was a bag of rotten food that landed in my back yard a week after I bought the house.. . Vanguard is one of the best first-date spots on the Upper West Side. 1. e's Bar 511 Amsterdam Ave., nr. Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. Terrible, just terrible. 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. 4) Someone else mentioned it, but Ill second a nod to Teachers and Teachers, Too. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? There are so many more as I have lived here since the early 70s. I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. Email me if you want to answer some. Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. I have lots of memories of specific shops, and just as many holes in my memory! was racking my brain trying to come up with the name of the pub/restaurant on west side of Columbus b/ 70th & 71st when I came upon your posting. 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. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. RESERVE A TABLE. I remember turning the corner on 71st street one day coming back from PS 89 and discovering that my whole street (71st between Columbus and CPW) had been transformed so that Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand could perform a scene from The Way We Were. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. .) I live on W 71 myself. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. 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. A fine and forgotten 1975 book by Barbara Gelb called On the Track of Murderit reads like a nonfiction version of Ed McBains glorious 49-year series of police procedurals about the 87thPrecinct, a lightly disguised version of the real-life 24th Precinct on the Upper West Sidetells the story of the homicide squad formed to catch Charlie Chop-off. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. I shopped at Red Apple Market on 100 st, which then became C Town and now is yet another bank. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. The drug store on 74th and Broadway was Ritob. 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. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. Several times a year the 79th Block Association shut down the street and organized a street fair. Theres solid bar food, you can get a good cocktail, and the space feels kind of like a long clubhouse with booths, darts, and board games. 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. Address: 322 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10023 Image Courtesy Da Capo #6. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. It is the principal city of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical . And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. The neighborhood has lost many small businesses such as delis, bodegas, pizzerias, barber shops, candy & stationery stores. Now Im in the 90s. There was a very nice gelato place in the late 1980s, but its name eludes me. (The church had become a hangout for drug addicts.) And Big Nicks. You dont even need to go to municipal archives. I remember the shoe repair shop between 71st and 72nd on Columbus, and Books, Pictures, and Things, and then Betsey Johnson replacing it. 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 have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. 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. Located on the Upper West Side on West 70th Street, the residence is less than a block from. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. I finally made the right connection when I discovered several glass ampules and hypodermic needles. At the same time, 86th & Amsterdam was notorious for being crime ridden. By Carter B. Horsley. Email me if youd like to answer some more questions about life on the UWS. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. And there was also the simple fact that the small city and the larger city had both grown pessimistic about the ability of authorities to do much of anything to prevent these horrors, so it seemed almost churlish to report on them. Back in the days prostitues freely roamed Broadway, drug addicts shot up in our basement, wed look out our living room window And see prostitues making their deals. The Cherry Restaurant on Columbus Ave. on the corner of 76th St., where the Chase Bank is now, was owned and staffed by Japanese people. You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. 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. Lets not forget about the orginal frozen cappuccinos on Columbus Avenue before Starbucks. 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. I worked at Sweet Asylum in the early 80s and have tons of memories about the old neighborhood: everything from the charred remains of Santeria rituals on the big rock ACROSS from the 79th st. RSD playground to routinely getting mugged. 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