Good luck with your project and I would be happy to talk if you like. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. 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. "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. 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. Let me correct myself for Sarabeths Kitchen was between 79th and 80th Streets on Amsterdam across from Macs. I finally made the right connection when I discovered several glass ampules and hypodermic needles. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. Lifelong UWSer, born 1970 and raised on 81st between CPW and Columbus. Raised on 104th. But in 1972 and 1973, Charlie Chop-off had so little resonance beyond the blocks near me that when I made mention of it in a short story I read to my eighth-grade classin a school on the Upper West Sidemy classmates hadnt heard of it. I live on 80th and Columbus, and 79th and Amsterdam was the most dangerous corner in the precinct. Working there I was held up at gun point at the 85th street location and the 99th street location. Always had a good meal there. What other stores or restaurants have closed that you miss? POWERED BY. 06/27/16. The circle of progress. 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 like to point it out when kvetchers say the area is too fancy now. From the outside, this place looks like a very normal pub - and on the inside it looks pretty normal, too. 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. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. And so commenced the razing of scores of buildings, beginning in February 1963. I think the owner of Trio Dinner lived in my building I thought it was called Joes?. I frankly dont recognize this overheated characterization of the 1970s-80s neighborhood. 4. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. 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. Today is tomorrow's yesterday . Terrible, just terrible. the block just south of where mc donalds is. The Upper . I grew up in. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. Some of that was due to the destruction of housing not only by the citys own slum-clearance policies but also by the ravages of rent controls that led to the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of apartments. A mural on 8th St. at 1st Ave., along the side of what was once the St. Mark's Bar & Grill. They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. Attended PS 9 and JHS 44. (There have been times when police had to be called around 3:30 PM.) When I moved to West 83rd Street, pushers hid their crack vials in the planters outside the building I lived in. On the other hand, nowadays, I stay away from the South West corner of W. 71st Street in the late afternoon, as rowdy teenagers hang around the corner in front of MacDonalds and create a nuisance. 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. 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. He murdered and castrated four boys. 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. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). These days, double-decker tourist buses travel the streets of the Upper West Side, and I cant imagine what narration the guides offer besides pointing out various spots at which the various incarnations of the Law and Order television series have been filmed on location. Vague memory of the window and lady on 83rd Street. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. 4.3. 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. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. The Dakota Bar - Upper West Side Romance is definitely in the air at the trendy Dakota Bar which is located on Manhattans' chic Upper West Side. Eventually the projects were built, but by this point the displaced residents of West 84th and others like them had been moved like chess pieces around the New York City board to other neighborhoods, worsening them. 1. 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. (Photo by Steven Siegel) Demolition began later that decade, which displaced the homeless who had by that point found shelter on the elevated roadway. And The New Yorker theater. In 1998, that number had dropped to 2,000; last year, in 2009, only 987 felonies were committed there. Sometimes for the bathroom. But I had to wear my old prescriptions and couldnt see very well. 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. Please enter your email address. 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. The Upper West Side of my youth was in no way a fabled or especially notable area. I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. 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. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. They have over 30 beers on tap, many of which are unusual options from relatively small domestic and international breweries, and the space tends to fill up with big groups drinking and sharing bar food. Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. 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. It is an expensive place to live, but then it always was. 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 live on W 71 myself. So pleaseif youre going to write something about this neighborhood that means so much to so many of us, please dont generalize and please check your facts! My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. Go to George Keeley. Either way, it's there, and it's good. Booked 152 times today. Barbara, that was Sarabeths Kitchen on Amsterdam between 82nd and 83rd. We came to wonder if New York was a place that stunted human possibility instead of expanding it.. That was true between broadway and central park west. It was bummy but it was awesome. #20. 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. But this is the case in most major cities going through development and change. so i guess we are 3 black kettles since i am being pretty snarky, too. May 6, 2009. I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. 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! 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. jeannine.j@gmail.com. Find next available. The Loft sounds right. 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 . My father was the first tenant of the building and moved in in 1929. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. 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. at least up until the 90s. Vin sur Vingt | Best Things to Do Upper West Side. I remember The Jaunting Car Inn next to the Ritzs deli between 71 and 70th on Columbus. Heres the first paragraph. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . Its about equal parts bar, restaurant, and lounge - and it looks sort of like a place where lawyers would hang out on a Friday night in a 90s sitcom. (The 20th, in which West 84th Street sits, has become somewhat more, as they say in the census, Caucasian.) And the bakery that was on 72nd between Bway and West End. I have lived on the UWS side (I rent) and I have no plans of moving to a big house in the burbs. .) 2 All-American Burger Kai L./Yelp 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. 133 E. 65th St, New York. Please. 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? By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. I was 14 in 1977 and went to see laser rock at the planetarium with a girlfriend. Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. 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. Bring a date or meet some friends here, and if anyone gets hungry, get a few small plates like meat, cheese, and oysters. 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. The free outdoor summer concerts at Lincoln Center were wonderful. 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. Of the 35 brownstones that lined the block, only seven remain today. I dont know what UWS Janet and Denton lived on, but it was dirty, dangerous and scary. There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. 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. 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. We neighborhood kids came to call him, with the horrible bluntness of adolescent boys, Charlie Chop-off. 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. Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? Now that the doormen from CPW no longer drink at the bar at Pizzeria Uno on Columbus & 81 (which had a cubby hole in the unfinished end where wed leave each other messages and little presents), thats one thing that Im finding difficult to nail in the neighborhood! I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. 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. Mostly, it just feels like a relatively calm pub that happens to have a lot of brown liquid in stock. 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