There are a few things that differentiate Bodega 88 from the other sports bars in the neighborhood. By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. What else. 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. Kelly Ramos: Favorite wings in the entire city. #20. Columbus tween 70,71. 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. And The New Yorker theater. Either way, it's there, and it's good. 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. 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. It would dominate news coverage in the country for weeks, if not months. 2) Endicott Book Store. My children, who are very young, will know, as my sisters and I did, the oddity of being both entirely privileged and yet significantly poorer than most of their classmates and friends. There are so many more as I have lived here since the early 70s. I loved visiting the pet dept downstairs there and often dreamt of freeing all the fish and parakeets to Central Park down the block. If you want to pay college prices for that pitcher of Shock Top, come during Happy Hour (until 8pm every day). Its hard to keep up now, tho! The UWS is a friendly neighborhood if you get out there and meet people. Finally, the kind of restaurant the Upper West Side has long been starved for. 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 remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. Gone were the days when people indulged in a nice restaurant dinner only when traveling or celebrating a birthday or anniversary. Where else could you get Spanish-Chinese food? 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 The building housed a playground on its roof, a respite for myself and many neighborhood kids. My building is very family oriented. MacAliers Pub was across the avenue. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. I remember as a kids being able to walk and take buses alone and feeling very independent. 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. Not all of us move here for a few years. Columbus and Amsterdam avenues were to be avoided though we had to cross them to hang out in Central Parkmostly by the fountain. In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. These are the moments, large and small, recounted by 36 writers, artists, fashion designers, musicians and more who. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. Located on Columbus b/n 81 and 82, it was beautiful inside (lots of wood), and I recall when it died out, roughly at same time of a branch of Shakespeare & Company on 81st and Bway, once the Barnes and Nobles opened (at 82nd), which of course still remains. Sometimes for the bathroom. Everybody got mugged. Its a good spot to eat some bangers and mash, and its perfect for when you want to sit on a barstool and watch sports with a Guinness. Upper West Side Perfect For: First/Early in the Game Dates $$$$ 424 Amsterdam Avenue, New York Earn 3X Points Caledonia is, above all, a whiskey bar. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. I shopped at Red Apple Market on 100 st, which then became C Town and now is yet another bank. 133 E. 65th St, New York. What they will not have to learn, as my sisters and I and our wealthier friends did, is how to accommodate and make normal an ever-present sense of everyday menace. 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 was my dads favorite hangout, as they were a rival of Rizzolis in art books and such. And Silk Road. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. Particularly the buffalo wings, which are some of the best in the city. The cavalcade included. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. How Biden Intends to Misuse the CHIPS Act, About that African-American Studies Course. He struck on 106th between Broadway and Amsterdam, a block from my building. And Silk Road. 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. Sure there were some muggings (mostly stealing our bus passes) but nothing serious. My grandparents used to call the UWS a slum and would never sleep over instead theyd sleep in a room at the Greystone on 91st and Bwayha! I have been thinking about this since it was originally posted a couple of years ago. As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. 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. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. Zabars was open until midnight. Last Spring, a year ago this month, I watched as a staple of the neighborhood closed, Food City. Japanese. Attended PS 9 and JHS 44. A mural on 8th St. at 1st Ave., along the side of what was once the St. Mark's Bar & Grill. She was the only person that worked there and basically it was a counter that you ordered from and nothing more. 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. loved chariivari but those prices! The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. But this is the case in most major cities going through development and change. The whole space is about the size of a subway car, though, so dont bring a big group. The Upper West Side has plenty of drinking options. 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. Email me if youd like to answer some more questions about life on the UWS. A rush hour scene at the New York City subway. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. If you visit Hi-Life Bar and Grill on your birthday, you get the usual complimentary dessert and a t-shirt with "NY" set in a martini glass graphic. 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. On the northern end, it borders W.110th street down south to Columbus Circle at W.59th street. Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. Remember Winnefred Frocks on bway in the 70s. That said, its equally good for a drink with a few coworkers, or a catch-up with a friend. 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. 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. My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. 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. Find next available. 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. He murdered and castrated four boys. 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 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. Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. 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. When I come to NYC now, I stay in the Endicott (on Columb and 81, around the corner from my old apartment). Another location of The Mermaid Inn, another perfect first date spot. Loved growing up there. Although, I usually shopped at the one on 109 street, I do remember the one on 79 street. 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.. . You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. UPPER WEST SIDE Upper West Siders have long known that if they want a good drink and a hopping nightlife scene free of college students and sports bars, they'd have to head below 59th. My favorite dart bar in 1982. 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 Upper . Several times a year the 79th Block Association shut down the street and organized a street fair. Hey, Scooter Stan, they are often a pain in the neck. Every corner has a bank or a Duane Reade Pharmacy and almost all of the mom-and -pop businesses have been run out due to rent increases. Tuesday Trivia. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! 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. Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. 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. I think the owner of Trio Dinner lived in my building I thought it was called Joes?. It is the principal city of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical . He struck on 104th and 103rd. Broadway has become one huge outdoor mall. 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. My car was broken into 3 times in my first year here. I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. Awesome to read all the comments and Tnx to all my neighbors for taking time to reminisce West 72nd here from early 70s to 2012 Forgot so many places but this jogged a great deal to share nostalgically with my family I miss Eclaires, La Fortuna and laser rock of the early 80s and the many times I saw John and Yoko walking in the park as a kid .. Or the 72nd st Kung fu magazine store on the 2nd Memories are all we ever truly have. Would it be meaningful to a visitor in 2010 to know that Isaac Bashevis Singer lived in the Belnord on 86th and Broadway; that Singers brother Israel Joshua set the final section of his magnificent novel of German Jewry, The Family Carnovsky, at 94th and West End; that the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff spent his final years at 84th and West End? 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. There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. I remember The Jaunting Car Inn next to the Ritzs deli between 71 and 70th on Columbus. Funny that someone else just posted. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. 210 W 94th St, New . 29 Second Ave. (between 1st & 2nd St.) Further back, in the 50s and 60s there was food-o-Rama, Daitch Shopwell, Nedicks, Orange Julius, and so many mom and pop shops. To read a similar account of growing up in the 30s and 40s, click here. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. I figured I was unemployed at the time, had nothing to be stolen. I would recommend the author talk to some parents at the local schools to get a sense for the community now. 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. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. In the early '80s, Mimi Sheraton rhapsodized over the apps: " [The] possibilities are extraordinary, whether you choose the puffy, crisp-crusted Alsatian onion tart, the fine juniper-perfumed duck. Located on the Upper West Side on West 70th Street, the residence is less than a block from. Jacobs Pickles is great if you need an Upper West Side brunch spot or dinner meetup with someone you know will embrace the heavy bar food. I am happy that they also identify with being true upper west siders! 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. Have a romantic date at the Arthouse Bar. From melees to muggings to serial killers to a spiritual revival. 1. e's Bar 511 Amsterdam Ave., nr. Let me correct myself for Sarabeths Kitchen was between 79th and 80th Streets on Amsterdam across from Macs. Sadly, the older residents are slowly dying off and being replaced by younger couples who only stay two or three years. Of course we remember Charivari. A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. 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. Was the place called Amsterdam. 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. Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. Restaurants. It was a rich neighborhood at the turn of the last century and it has gone back to that. They dont linger and they dont talk to their neighbors or bother to know the names of the doormen in the lobby. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. The streets of my childhood were dirtier, and the people who lived there were poorer but I played on the street all day unsupervised by adults and we were safe. 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. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. I lived on W 73rd b/ Columbus & CPW from 1974-1987 and saw SO many changes the gentrification got to be too much, so I moved up to 108th Street. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. We used to go to and from school on our own. 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. Upper East Side. What sets it apart is the fact that there are so many hard-to-find beers on tap. Finding a place to grab a drink on the Upper West Side is not a difficult task, however, there are some bars worth visiting more than others especially if you're looking for a specific vibe or ambiance. It is the same one in which I grew up four decades ago, and its buildings and landmarks and topography are almost entirely unchanged. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. In order to reduce traffic congestion in . 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. 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! It did. Citerellas always had their fun fish display in the window. Had a nice truffle festival as I recall. Apple Upper West Side Opens at 9:00 a.m. Shop by drop-in available Shop by appointment Reserve a shopping session Order pickup in store Learn more Genius Bar by appointment Make a reservation Today at Apple in store Find a session See all in-store and online services Address 1981 Broadway New York, NY 10023 (212) 209-3400 See map and directions I live on W 71 myself. 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). Residents sold their used household goods at White Elephant tables, others grilled hotdogs and popped popcorn. There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp From the outside, this place looks like a very normal pub - and on the inside it looks pretty normal, too. Booked 14 times today. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. If their children were found playing on the street unsupervised that would warrant a call to 311 or Child Protective Services. 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. I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) A man wearing a placard on Times Square, around 1980. 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. Fast forward to 2013. 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. 06/27/16. 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