1470 First Ave. (between 76th & 77th St.) North East Bank. Im trying to write it into a book, and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. The drug store on 74th and Broadway was Ritob. jeannine.j@gmail.com. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. East of Broadway was a tough old neighborhood. (Photo by Steven Siegel) Demolition began later that decade, which displaced the homeless who had by that point found shelter on the elevated roadway. Mostly, it just feels like a relatively calm pub that happens to have a lot of brown liquid in stock. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. 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. A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. Terrible, just terrible. 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. I live on 72nd and would guess off the top of my head that it contains around 50 small businesses just between Columbus & West End. Does anyone remember the trendy bar in 1981-84 at the corner of 74th and Amsterdam? We neighborhood kids came to call him, with the horrible bluntness of adolescent boys, Charlie Chop-off. Please enter your email address. 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. 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. 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 tacos are supplemented with other obvious sports bar snacks, including corn on the cob, guac and chips, flautas, plus burritos, quesadillas, and tortas. Hey, Scooter Stan, they are often a pain in the neck. Sarabeth was a friend and I too loved her pastries and coffee. What sets it apart is the fact that there are so many hard-to-find beers on tap. Eeyores bookstore, Woolworths, Greens, Morris Bros, Mancy pharmacy, Kandela pizzeria, Leroy pharmacy, The Library restaurant up our block, the movie theater on 89th and bway, Anchor savings bank, H & Hso many memories its crazy. 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. Which makes sense, seeing as the space is decorated like an 18th-century tavern, complete with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. I grew up on riverside drive at 104 street. 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. Columbia university kept the neighborhood more desirable. The entrance to this Upper West Side speakeasy is right inside Burke & Wills go to the back and open the green leather door. 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. I miss them! . There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. 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 murder, like cancer, was rarely preventable. Charlie Chop-off was never caught. Although the Upper East Side is generally considered the more expensive side, when it comes to renting in 2022, the Upper West Side takes the cake. I lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. Its hard to keep up now, tho! 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. Either way, it's there, and it's good. 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. However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. Some memories: There were prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. Thanks! 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. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. There was a pastry cafe with tables up in a little loft where the swatch store is now on 72 and Columbus. 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. So no matter what type of place youre looking for, use this guide the next time you go out on the Upper West Side. 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. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. Does anyone remember a clothing store on Amsterdam Avenue around 75th Street that was huge, with floor-to-ceiling windows, that catered mainly to gay men back in the 1980s? My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. I think my brother got his first ever job scooping ice cream there. It was known for its burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. And within those classes there was division as well. QE 2 Club 1980s Central Ave, Albany ny by AlbanyGroup Archive the Elbo Room 1963 Albany NY (1960s) by AlbanyGroup Archive 2 288 lark, albany, ny 1984 1980s by AlbanyGroup Archive 1 jb's theater albany ny by AlbanyGroup Archive ginos collage albany ny . You can walk down the street . Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. You couldnt walk down my side street without seeing at least one car window smashed. the block just south of where mc donalds is. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. never went in but loved that name was there til the 80s. the bar next to them. 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. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. Remember Winnefred Frocks on bway in the 70s. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. Outdoors at Noz Market. To read a similar account of growing up in the 30s and 40s, click here. 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. -CALL it what you wishneighborhood rebirth, urban renaissance, the latest emergence of city chicbut whatever you call it be sure to label it Columbus Avenue, the new Columbus Avenue. He didn't take studio photography or anything like that.". 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. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) A man wearing a placard on Times Square, around 1980. There were great clothes stores also on Columbus on the same street, Parachute was one. (The church had become a hangout for drug addicts.) I remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. It no longer does. They had several boutiques and I spent a lot of dough there over the years, The folded in the early 90s I think. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. By Carter B. Horsley. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. I think it and she was gone by 1975 or 76. I love all the varying opinions and experiences. Have a romantic date at the Arthouse Bar. I have lived on 111 street since 1975. Blondies Sports at 212 W. 79th St. earned a spot on Eater NY's recent list of the "15 . But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. I raised two daughters here. That said, it isnt a gimmicky spot where you pretend to be an early American settler. (There have been times when police had to be called around 3:30 PM.) Two of my favorite restaurants, The All State Cafe, also, on w. 72nd and Nikos at 76th & Broadway were, sadly, priced out of existence. I remember Charivari well. 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. 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. I dont think the email in the article works. . People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. 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. Upper West Side Geography. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. 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. and the Pyramid Club (101 Ave. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. 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 so miss living there and am trying to now come back from CT where I moved to be closer to Yale for medical purposes. 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. 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. I live in my apartment at 102 West 85 since 1986 but I was born on West End Ave in 1947. At about the size of a one-bedroom apartment, this bar is a great place to catch any game, especially the Super Bowl! 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. 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. I remember Mindys and the Japanese store and Francess Hats and the Chinese Restaurant and Jays Stationary and Cake Masters and Eclairs and the Chess Room and the pet store between Columbus and Broadway on 72nd street. I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. When? That one of NYC's best sushi restaurants would also be among its most expensive is mostly expected, but it was surprising when . So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. Meanwhile, the working poor found themselves menaced and increasingly overwhelmed by the burgeoning welfare underclass. i would love to hear some more stories. But not to know when a store closed? My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. It was 1990 on Manhattan's Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood . @Janet, I agree. 2) Endicott Book Store. A map was created of all gay bars and gay spaces from 1859 to now. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. It did. She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. Kyle: When I moved here, the hotspot was 8 th Avenue between 14 th and 23rd. Retro what does it mean? 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. 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! 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. 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. 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. 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. This has always been a congenial neighborhood. We came to wonder if New York was a place that stunted human possibility instead of expanding it.. Think about it. The circle of progress. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. Like the other locations of Vin Sur Vingt around the city, this UWS outpost is a good spot for a quiet drink with one other person or a small group. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. Because The Smith is always there when you need it to be. 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. The Cozy Bar (The Dead Poet) Its a good spot to day drink with a big group, but theres no table service - youll be notified by a buzzer when your order is ready at the counter. The UWS was terrible then. 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 Arthouse Hotel is a bit of a hidden gem in the Upper West Side but not for long. 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. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. 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. In order to reduce traffic congestion in . Tags: Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint, East Village Eye, East Village in the 1980s, Lou Reed, New York City 1984, old pizza parlors New York City, Upper West Side in the 1980s, Velvet Underground 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. 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. Restaurant 222 - on 79th St. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. 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. I also went to IS 44 and was blessed with being part of the Lab School which was the vision of Mr. John Gatto. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. I came to NYC for the first time in 1979. I would love more stories. My father was the first tenant of the building and moved in in 1929. 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. I lived on 82 btw Columbus and CPW from 1976-2011. They took my empty wallet and the little folder containing the invaluable pass that afforded me free access that month to that bus line. Also, bagels at H & H! Things change. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. MacAliers Pub was across the avenue. There was a very nice gelato place in the late 1980s, but its name eludes me. (I had mussels, he had short ribs). For an interesting look at our neighborhood,check out the Goodbye Girl on netflix. 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. Retroclubnyc is New York City and Manhattan's best club to celebrate a birthday party, bachelor party, bachelorette party, anniversary party, or engagement party! Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? Caribbean Restaurants Restaurants. There are so many more as I have lived here since the early 70s. Twice a week I would go out back (after a few beer bottles whizzed past my head I wore my tin hat from World War II) and shovel up three or four days accumulation of chicken bones, pieces of rancid fowl, chop bones, half-empty cans of beans and other vegetables, eggshells, bags full of fat, condoms, and bloody bandages, which I at first mistakenly thought were battle dressings for the victims of fights I had been hearing. 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. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. 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. 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. 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. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. Worth a read. Not everyones experience is like mine. A couple of additions (please forgive any repetitions from other comments I havent read every single one.). Sometimes for the bathroom. From melees to muggings to serial killers to a spiritual revival. 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. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. Yellow Rose of Texas. I remember Gleasons, and ONealsand the Flower Shop next to ONeals. 1. e's Bar 511 Amsterdam Ave., nr. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles Open in Google Maps. It was bummy but it was awesome. Broadway and West End. Don't Miss A Drop. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Not a longtime UWS resident (only two years) but I would warn the author against making what appear to be major overstatements. 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. 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. #20. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! Locals knew to be inside their locked apartments by nightfall and you were safe. 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. I take issue with the notion that people tried to avoid living above 72nd street. He struck on 104th and 103rd. Is that what a Harvard education gets you these days? My building is very family oriented. 06/27/16. 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. It was a rich neighborhood at the turn of the last century and it has gone back to that. To the commentersemail me if you would like to answer a few questions for the thesis. 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. 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. Upper East Side. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. 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. 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.. . Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. You'll be lead upstairs to a fancy little space with luxurious seats and bespoke cocktails. This is a consistently crowded restaurant on the Upper East Side that works for everything from date nights to fun group dinners, but the separate bar area up front is also useful when you're just looking for drinks. I can remember later that the same group opened another trendy bar call Columbus? loved chariivari but those prices! 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. Now no reason was needed at all. I know Im not imagining it existed. 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 called my dad from a pay phone and he said to go into the coffee shop on the corner in the hotel and dont move! .) Use this guide to find all the best bars in the neighborhood. Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. Lets not forget about the orginal frozen cappuccinos on Columbus Avenue before Starbucks. Where else could you get Spanish-Chinese food? If you want to pay college prices for that pitcher of Shock Top, come during Happy Hour (until 8pm every day). I lived at 219 W 81st (corner of Broadway) from 1962 to 1967, when we moved to Queens because the neighborhood was becoming too dangerous! I bet your cute daughter will look back at this decade as the magical Upper West Side, like you remember. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . I well remember the Woolworths on Amsterdam, but am at a loss to recall just when it was demolished. Address: 322 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10023 Image Courtesy Da Capo #6. I moved onto W. 71st Street, from W. 113th St. in 1968, so I could walk to the NY State Theatre, where I was a singer with the NYC Opera. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. Amsterdam Ale House The corner of Amsterdam and W. 76th Street has been the site of numerous popular restaurants since the late 1930's. 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. The business I miss? 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