2) Endicott Book Store. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. Ive ben on 76th since 1978. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. Loved growing up there. I always saw it as culturally vital and architecturally beautiful. 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. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. Broadway has become one huge outdoor mall. I live on 80th and Columbus, and 79th and Amsterdam was the most dangerous corner in the precinct. Columbia university kept the neighborhood more desirable. This map of the Upper West Side shows its location relative to the rest of Manhattan. The tacos are supplemented with other obvious sports bar snacks, including corn on the cob, guac and chips, flautas, plus burritos, quesadillas, and tortas. I can just smell the place writing about it. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. 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. Plus, the long, all-French wine list has over 50 options available by the glass, and you can even try things in flights of three or five glasses. Also, there are many Duane Reades and banks, but the claim that almost every mom-and-pop business has been shuttered is simply false. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. 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. The Dead Poet is really just a solid neighborhood bar. 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!! @Janet, I agree. The business I miss? They also have jello shots, so your night here can either be very tame or full of colorful, gelatinous alcohol. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. Its the only nabe Ive lived in in Manhattan. It's China Fun now? Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . POWERED BY. I think its just human nature. The reclamation of New York City from the forces of criminal chaos and social decay is a familiar tale by now. 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. Upper West Side Geography. Raised on 104th. The SROS were filled with mentally ill people. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. Tuesday's - you could get a rack of ribs, big salad with lots of fresh blue cheese, and a baked potato for $9.99. My father was the first tenant of the building and moved in in 1929. 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. Yes there was plenty of crime in the 80s, and the neighborhood has gone through change (for the better). For the reclamation of the neighborhood proved to have a spiritual component as well. So many more. 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. 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. 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. If you dont feel like staring into pint glasses and wondering about fermentation processes, you can play darts or foosball instead. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? Some favorite places included Ruskays and Rouelles. Heres the first paragraph. It was known for its burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes. I know Im not imagining it existed. You'll be lead upstairs to a fancy little space with luxurious seats and bespoke cocktails. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. 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. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. 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. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. That is the ambiguous power of nostalgia, as the jagged recollection of hitting a tiny child with a bicycle still has the power to catch like a rusted nail four decades later and open a fresh wound. Booked 14 times today. Around 1973. 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 owner was bought out by the Love Store chain, then the pharmacist went to work at a Duane Reade. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. RESERVE A TABLE. Aside from the Museum of Natural History overlooking Central Park and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial overlooking Riverside Park, the area lacks notable monuments. I am still amazed thinking how that now-pristine block was so different. It went badly. 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. Monday's are all you can eat wings . Theres also a stretch of Amsterdam Avenue full of college bars, where youll find things like beer pong and people tapping on multiple car windows asking if this is their Uber. That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. 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. Great projecthope it went well or is going well. The Loft sounds right. Our parents let us run around unsupervised from the time we were like, 8 or 9. 114 tips and reviews. . 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. never went in but loved that name was there til the 80s. 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. Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. He lived on 75th Bet. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. When I go back (my mom still lives in her rent control spot on 72nd and WEA) I have a real cognitive dissonance. At 254 West 54th Street, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager converted a former opera house into the most notorious nightclub of the disco era. 4. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. 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. It was a great neighborhoodbut you had to know which blocks you should avoid! We would remember it now as we remember the Son of Sam, and the Washington snipers, and the Hillside Strangler. Good luck with your project and I would be happy to talk if you like. In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. i would love to hear some more stories. Life is rough on everyone. It is an expensive place to live, but then it always was. (Photo by Steven Siegel) Demolition began later that decade, which displaced the homeless who had by that point found shelter on the elevated roadway. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. DSNY 'Snow Alert' Runs From Monday at 4PM to Tuesday at 9AM; Here's What it Means Dog Slips From Collar and Runs 34 Blocks in Traffic; Wait Till You See Where She Ends Up Last Spring, a year ago this month, I watched as a staple of the neighborhood closed, Food City. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. Restaurant 222 - on 79th St. Working there I was held up at gun point at the 85th street location and the 99th street location. There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! To hell with nostalgia. The citys population shrank by nearly a million people between 1960 and 1980, with 300,000 gone from Manhattan over the course of those 20 years. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. Kelly Ramos: Favorite wings in the entire city. That room and the first-come first-served bar area both have lots of TVs playing games at high volume, but what really sets Blondies apart from other sports bars is the food. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. Not how it was for me, my friends, and their families. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. Why? The Cozy Bar (The Dead Poet) Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. 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. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. 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. Now its a zoo. The doormen were alert and ready to menace unwelcome visitors with a baseball bat. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. There was also Lamstons on 102 street. 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