Photo of storefronts on Columbus Avenue between 82d and 83rd streets in 1982 by Daniel Weeks. The Loft sounds right. One thing I have noticed of the UWS, which I find disturbing, is the influx of banks, financial storefront businesses and chain pharmacies on every street corner. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. I remember Charivari well. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. I am happy that they also identify with being true upper west siders! There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! Which makes sense, seeing as the space is decorated like an 18th-century tavern, complete with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. I frankly dont recognize this overheated characterization of the 1970s-80s neighborhood. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. Go on Mondays for live jazz. 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. 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. If you dont feel like staring into pint glasses and wondering about fermentation processes, you can play darts or foosball instead. Working there I was held up at gun point at the 85th street location and the 99th street location. 210 W 94th St, New . Bear Bar (east side) 1770 Second Ave. (between 92nd & 93rd St.) Manny's on Second. The hill going down to the park on West 91st. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. 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. It is the principal city of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical . Today the Upper West Side is cleaner with higher rents and upwardly mobile folk who seem to rent for a couple of years before buying big houses in Montclair or Maplewood. She was the only person that worked there and basically it was a counter that you ordered from and nothing more. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. Tuesday's - you could get a rack of ribs, big salad with lots of fresh blue cheese, and a baked potato for $9.99. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbus Avenue in the 70's underwent an impressively upscale retail . 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. 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. My small city could have been one of those static, increasingly impoverished, blighted places. Within 18 months, several more "singles bars" were opened on 1st Avenue. 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. St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. Gone were the days when people indulged in a nice restaurant dinner only when traveling or celebrating a birthday or anniversary. 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. 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. I lost touch with them (Joe, the owner, and Mark the pharmacist) about 4-5 years ago. Think about it. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. 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. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? Fast forward to 2013. He struck on 104th and 103rd. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. 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. (The 20th, in which West 84th Street sits, has become somewhat more, as they say in the census, Caucasian.) 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. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. My building is very family oriented. how times change! I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. The whole thing about the terrible 1970s (and even 1980s) is vastly over-rated. I miss them! 4.3. 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. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. 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. I also went to IS 44 and was blessed with being part of the Lab School which was the vision of Mr. John Gatto. It was a rich neighborhood at the turn of the last century and it has gone back to that. My wife and I had our first date there back in 85. Conservatives sometimes invoke the Upper West Side in their lists of petri-dish-like leftist enclaves along with Cambridge and Berkeley, but despite its homogeneous radicalism, it didnt then and doesnt now offer much in the way of interesting, unexpected, or comical ideological excess. Last Spring, a year ago this month, I watched as a staple of the neighborhood closed, Food City. It was a great neighborhoodbut you had to know which blocks you should avoid! (The church had become a hangout for drug addicts.) 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. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? 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. 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 well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. When I moved to West 83rd Street, pushers hid their crack vials in the planters outside the building I lived in. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. You can get food here until 2am, so keep this place in mind for drinks and a bite after a show at the Beacon Theatre a block away. The food was all American dishes, and I used to go there for dinner all the time. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. I lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. I was born in 1965 and moved away in 1977 (returned later). Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? 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. I remember the shoe repair shop between 71st and 72nd on Columbus, and Books, Pictures, and Things, and then Betsey Johnson replacing it. 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. 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 The Upper West Side of Manhattan is sandwiched in between Riverside Park to the west & Central Park to the east. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. To the commentersemail me if you would like to answer a few questions for the thesis. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is bounded by Central Park on the east and the . My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. Perhaps someone at the Synagogue would know as I believe it was about the same time the Synagogue was built (Prior to 1978.) Living in the precincts of ones own past means that its fears and terrors are immediately accessible as well. Remember Winnefred Frocks on bway in the 70s. I figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. Some similarities within 1970s and 2015 and much change.Miss Most: John Lennon and Yoko Ono walks and talksMick JaggerMiles Davis..Bruce Willistending barJoan Allenhostess at Shelterbunch of artists, actors, musicians at The Only Child on West 79. Also, bagels at H & H! 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. Some favorite places included Ruskays and Rouelles. Monday's are all you can eat wings . Caledonia is, above all, a whiskey bar. I have been unable to confirm the closing date in my research. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. and the Pyramid Club (101 Ave. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. That said, it isnt a gimmicky spot where you pretend to be an early American settler. On the northern end, it borders W.110th street down south to Columbus Circle at W.59th street. I also like to point it out when kvetchers say the area is too fancy now. 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) 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. 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. I recall the Woolworth on 98th st, with its food counter and spinning stools, their comfy turquoise cushions and steel bases bolted to the checkered tile floor. 06/27/16. The 24th Precinct has about the same racial and ethnic makeup it did when Lyford published his book in 1966. I need a hot tip on a small apartment! Lost your password? Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. Apologies for coming to this conversation rather late but felt compelled to share my experience of the UWS. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. I was just talking about Winnifred Frocks yesterday! I live in a small city in the midst of a great city. Around 1973. Neil Simon movie and yes a movie, but does show the charm and grit of the 70s. 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. Lets not forget about the orginal frozen cappuccinos on Columbus Avenue before Starbucks. RESERVE A TABLE. I remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. In their place, smaller clubs like Tunnel opened in Chelsea, and that's when Glam said the "club kids"young, outlandishly dressed people who partied several times a week . 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. 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. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. A least some or all of my family lived on the Upper West Side from the 1930s to the mid 1980s. I would love more stories. There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. .css-gdccrc{font-family:var(--chakra-fonts-condensed);font-weight:700;font-size:1rem;line-height:0.9;letter-spacing:0.08em;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-0);margin-left:var(--chakra-space-0);margin-right:var(--chakra-space-0);margin-bottom:var(--chakra-space-0);text-transform:uppercase;}@media screen and (min-width: 20rem){.css-gdccrc{line-height:0.9;}}@media screen and (min-width: 23.4375rem){.css-gdccrc{line-height:0.9;}}@media screen and (min-width: 37.5rem){.css-gdccrc{line-height:1;}}Bryan Kim & Matt Tervooren.css-1a7ccww{font-family:var(--chakra-fonts-body);font-weight:400;margin:var(--chakra-space-0);padding:var(--chakra-space-0);font-size:0.6875rem;letter-spacing:0.1em;line-height:1;text-transform:uppercase;}@media screen and (min-width: 37.5rem){.css-1a7ccww{font-size:0.75rem;letter-spacing:0.12em;}}October 4, 2018. I love being able to walk to Central Park and be greeted by many people I have met over the years. 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. On the spot across the street from a friends building, I freeze with the sensation of having, right there, been jumped nearly 40 years earlier by four kids as I got off the city bus from school. My father was the first tenant of the building and moved in in 1929. 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. What else. Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. Are the changes to the neighborhood for the better or for the worse? A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. On the positive side, however, W. 71st St is much safer since the church was torn down and replaced by a high rise apartment building, complete with doorman. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). You dont even need to go to municipal archives. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Broadway and West End. My high school boyfriend lived on 82nd and Broadway. Our parents let us run around unsupervised from the time we were like, 8 or 9. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110th Street to the north. I worked from 1972-77 at various Cake Masters locations from 72nd Street to 99th Street. Find next available. Hanging out with kids from the projects as well as kids from riverside drive and Central Park westwas all one nice big mix. When? Of course, I want to see my beloved neighborhood grow & flourish but why is there such a strong need to push out the very people, shops, & community that created the desirable neighborhood it became? She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. 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. Once, after I was punched, my wallet stolen, my glasses (!) The reclamation of New York City from the forces of criminal chaos and social decay is a familiar tale by now. If you are a graduate student, you should know how to check municipal records for closing dates of stores. 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 grew up on riverside drive at 104 street. I loved visiting the pet dept downstairs there and often dreamt of freeing all the fish and parakeets to Central Park down the block. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. I was mugged four times before I was 14. Imagine such a thing today. Delicious, homey. But murder, like cancer, was rarely preventable. Charlie Chop-off was never caught. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: [email protected]. Amsterdam Ale House The corner of Amsterdam and W. 76th Street has been the site of numerous popular restaurants since the late 1930's. From the outside, this place looks like a very normal pub - and on the inside it looks pretty normal, too. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. Amazing roast chicken at Amsterdams. Two of my favorite restaurants, The All State Cafe, also, on w. 72nd and Nikos at 76th & Broadway were, sadly, priced out of existence. My favorite dart bar in 1982. There was also Lamstons on 102 street. Les Routiers on 89th Indeed, the diseases afflicting the underclass surfaced on the Upper West Side perhaps earlier than anywhere else, leading to large-scale social experimentation of a sort that would not be practiced today. Either way, it's there, and it's good. Japanese. It was bummy but it was awesome. 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. Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. The Upper West Side of my youth was in no way a fabled or especially notable area. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. And within those classes there was division as well. Sarabeth was a friend and I too loved her pastries and coffee. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. . (1982) Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. Its a big French wine bar, and even on weeknights it gets pretty full of couples talking about their siblings and where they went to college. By signing up, I agree to the .css-bwwgd3{transition-property:var(--chakra-transition-property-common);transition-duration:var(--chakra-transition-duration-fast);transition-timing-function:var(--chakra-transition-easing-ease-out);cursor:pointer;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;outline:2px solid transparent;outline-offset:2px;color:currentColor;font-size:inherit;line-height:160%;}.css-bwwgd3:hover,.css-bwwgd3[data-hover]{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}.css-bwwgd3:focus,.css-bwwgd3[data-focus]{box-shadow:var(--chakra-shadows-outline);}Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. You can drink one at the L-shaped bar in the corner, or you can grab a little table along the wall. 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. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? (I had mussels, he had short ribs). Barbara, that was Sarabeths Kitchen on Amsterdam between 82nd and 83rd. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. Upper West Side march protest, circa 1980. Does anyone remember a small bakery/kitchen on West 83rd between Columbus and Amsterdam. Start your risk free trial with unlimited access. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! Today is tomorrow's yesterday . Be the first to get expert restaurant recommendations for every situation right in your inbox. An asphalt crew came to repave. I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. Only in Honolulu, wrote the journalist Joseph P. Lyford, is there a greater confusion of blood, ancestry, language, and culture in as small a space. But though there were racial and ethnic tensions aplenty, and these would grow exponentially as the years passed, the division in the neighborhood was primarily one of classa division between the middle class and the lower class. 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. I remember The Red Baron and Food City and Victors Cafe Thanks for posting this article. I lived on 82 btw Columbus and CPW from 1976-2011. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. When I go back (my mom still lives in her rent control spot on 72nd and WEA) I have a real cognitive dissonance. I moved up here in 1977. Kelly Ramos: Favorite wings in the entire city. 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. 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. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. 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. The sidewalks teemed with alcoholic homeless Vietnam Vets haunted by their own nightmares and hopelessness. Terrible, just terrible. And the bakery that was on 72nd between Bway and West End. But not to know when a store closed? so i guess we are 3 black kettles since i am being pretty snarky, too. Email me if you want to answer some. 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. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. So my small city is the same and yet it is not the same, because it is today, in almost every way, better. Please enter your email address. The Upper West Side has plenty of drinking options. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. Learned how to ride my bike down there. Always had a good meal there. I dont understand the folks who insist the 70s werent terrible. 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 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. 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. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. I also remember that the Upper West Side was a true neighborhood, and I remember the slow and then really fast gentrification of the neighborhood in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Mostly, it just feels like a relatively calm pub that happens to have a lot of brown liquid in stock. Ive lived as far north as 110th street and as south at 80th. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. 7388 reviews. This street is the boulevard of the city, which shapes the central area of Rotterdam. (I hope this continues . Raised on 104th. And so commenced the razing of scores of buildings, beginning in February 1963. 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. I think the owner of Trio Dinner lived in my building I thought it was called Joes?. 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. Living outside the neighborhood & city in recent years, I admit, has allowed me a greater perspective on the losses the UWS has undergone. [email protected]. There are a few things that differentiate Bodega 88 from the other sports bars in the neighborhood. I always saw it as culturally vital and architecturally beautiful. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. 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