Where else could you get Spanish-Chinese food? RESERVE A TABLE. 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. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. You can walk down the street . It is an expensive place to live, but then it always was. Its hard to keep up now, tho! Yes, it was a wild an wooly time. The Gin Mill is owned by the same people as Jakes Dilemma, which is less than a block away, and it feels very similar. Restaurant 222 - on 79th St. The Nickel Bar all the pre-AIDS era gay bars that made the UWS a gay mecca to rival the Village, and that drew lots of interracial couples to move in and renovate buildings. I lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. (212) 861-2290. Several times a year the 79th Block Association shut down the street and organized a street fair. At about the size of a one-bedroom apartment, this bar is a great place to catch any game, especially the Super Bowl! In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. 1. (I had mussels, he had short ribs). I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. a kosher restauran Josephs, thats just a few. 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! 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. 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. 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. 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. My building is very family oriented. I remember the shoe repair shop between 71st and 72nd on Columbus, and Books, Pictures, and Things, and then Betsey Johnson replacing it. Local artists sold their wares and the kids tried not to kill themselves in the slightly deflated Moon Bounce. Chloe 81 Night Clubs Dance Clubs Bars 6.7 Website Amenities: (212) 677-0067 When I moved to West 83rd Street, pushers hid their crack vials in the planters outside the building I lived in. To hell with nostalgia. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Get there early (around 9:00 p.m.) to experience it because it gets a bit crowded near the stage later in the evening. 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. Go to George Keeley. Police flooded the area. Which makes sense, seeing as the space is decorated like an 18th-century tavern, complete with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. 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! Sadly, the older residents are slowly dying off and being replaced by younger couples who only stay two or three years. The bakery was Royale, there were others as well, Eclair, and Blooms. My high school boyfriend lived on 82nd and Broadway. 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. The cavalcade included. The circle of progress. 1470 First Ave. (between 76th & 77th St.) North East Bank. Upper West Side march protest, circa 1980. 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. 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 reclamation of New York City from the forces of criminal chaos and social decay is a familiar tale by now. The entrance to this Upper West Side speakeasy is right inside Burke & Wills go to the back and open the green leather door. Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. 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 . This article is so one-side. 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 I've always been a pretty good cook, and I could make these very good dinners in this tiny kitchen. I live in a small city in the midst of a great city. 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. A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. Left for dead, he lived, the only surviving victim of a serial killer who prowled the neighborhood for a year. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). Tuesday Trivia. The Ribbon has style and substance and does classic food right. You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. An asphalt crew came to repave. 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. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? While any such demolition of livable housing stock would be greeted with cries of horror today from poverty advocates and landmarking experts, the policy was stronglyadvocated by neighborhood clergy, who had high hopes that the struggling poor could make a better life in public housing. Always had a good meal there. Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. Lifelong UWSer, born 1970 and raised on 81st between CPW and Columbus. Was the place called Amsterdam. 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 how it was for me, my friends, and their families. 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. I think it and she was gone by 1975 or 76. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . It was 1990 on Manhattan's Upper East Side and, after the extravagant 1980s, the neighborhood . We neighborhood kids came to call him, with the horrible bluntness of adolescent boys, Charlie Chop-off. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? they had good sales. (I hope this continues . Tuesday's - you could get a rack of ribs, big salad with lots of fresh blue cheese, and a baked potato for $9.99. Homeless? It is the same one in which I grew up four decades ago, and its buildings and landmarks and topography are almost entirely unchanged. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. And Big Nicks. 133 E. 65th St, New York. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. If youre with a few friends near the northern end of the Upper West Side, and youre looking for a very normal bar where you can hang out for any length of time while you have some inexpensive drinks, go to Bobs Your Uncle. I lost touch with them (Joe, the owner, and Mark the pharmacist) about 4-5 years ago. 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. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. 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. There were prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. Things change. 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 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. 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From our award-winning Vine Burger to our Cobb Salad, Roasted Cornish Hen, Seafood and Steaks, Madison & Vine satisfies the cravings of the city's most discerning diners. 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. The infamous Upper East Side murder has yet to fade from public memory. 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. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. Secondly, the food is more exciting than what youll find at other spots nearby (the fries come with chimichurri and manchego cheese, and the fried calamari is glazed with Dominican honey). 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 grew up on riverside drive at 104 street. 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!! 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. 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. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. Also, there are many Duane Reades and banks, but the claim that almost every mom-and-pop business has been shuttered is simply false. Upper East Side. Rescued Estates, before the "Crazy Landlord" rented the place to The Bean coffee shop. 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. It all started at Goddard Riverside and then onto West Side Montessori. 7388 reviews. I remember Marcys deli on Broadway, the barbershop next door with its old -fashioned spinning stripe pole. I frankly dont recognize this overheated characterization of the 1970s-80s neighborhood. 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. For more photos of UWS storefronts in 1982, click here. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. My wife and I had our first date there back in 85. I worked at Sweet Asylum in the early 80s and have tons of memories about the old neighborhood: everything from the charred remains of Santeria rituals on the big rock ACROSS from the 79th st. RSD playground to routinely getting mugged. Hi Life Bar & Grill. The Upper West Side of my youth was in no way a fabled or especially notable area. And so commenced the razing of scores of buildings, beginning in February 1963. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. This street is the boulevard of the city, which shapes the central area of Rotterdam. But not to know when a store closed? Barbara, that was Sarabeths Kitchen on Amsterdam between 82nd and 83rd. 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. 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. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. 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. loved chariivari but those prices! 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. 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. 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? It is bounded by Central Park on the east and the . Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. Es Bar is one of our go-to spots in the neighborhood, because they do so many things right. 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. Booked 152 times today. Around 1973. 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. If you're heading to the Upper West Side to see a Humperdinck fairy tale opera at Lincoln Center, you might just need a drink beforehand. There was also Lamstons on 102 street. Apologies for coming to this conversation rather late but felt compelled to share my experience of the UWS. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. 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. You can see the dots on the map of Manhattan, and the peak is still in the 1980s in terms of the most bars. 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. Maybe before you retired you might have offered a no-credit seminar on at-large behavior and minding ones own business. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. I have been thinking about this since it was originally posted a couple of years ago. MacAliers Pub was across the avenue. Les Routiers on 89th So many more. Be the first to get expert restaurant recommendations for every situation right in your inbox. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. I remember when only the neighbors came out to see the Thanksgiving parade. Now Im in the 90s. It was known for its burgers, hot dogs, and milkshakes. The Dead Poet is really just a solid neighborhood bar. 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. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) Store signage at New York Times Square, around 1985. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? Find next available. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. 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. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. Lets not forget about the orginal frozen cappuccinos on Columbus Avenue before Starbucks. That said, it isnt the sort of place where you have to whisper and swirl your glass before you take a drink. Madison & Vine, an American Bistro and International Wine Bar, has a menu that captures the diversity of America's culinary regions. 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. i would love to hear some more stories. A Manhattan townhouse complete with a 33-foot lap pool has hit the market for $17.5 million. 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. 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. 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. 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. (The 20th, in which West 84th Street sits, has become somewhat more, as they say in the census, Caucasian.) 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! People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. Good luck with your project and I would be happy to talk if you like. I remember The Red Baron and Food City and Victors Cafe Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. So a volleyball net was erected. Fancy. There was a very nice gelato place in the late 1980s, but its name eludes me. They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. Arts & Entertainment. 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. It was hardly an area to avoid. You couldnt walk down my side street without seeing at least one car window smashed. If you dont feel like staring into pint glasses and wondering about fermentation processes, you can play darts or foosball instead. Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. 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. This has always been a congenial neighborhood. 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. 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. 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. 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. Im trying to jog my memory about a pastry cafe that always had recorded opera music playing and photos of opera singers on the walls I believe it was below 74th and above 66th and between Columbus and CPW. gallery. Outside the Apthorp there were streetwalking prostitutes. Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. He didn't take studio photography or anything like that.". A map was created of all gay bars and gay spaces from 1859 to now. Please enter your email address. The business I miss? 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. He lived on 75th Bet. They had several boutiques and I spent a lot of dough there over the years, The folded in the early 90s I think.
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