Girl Scout's Cookies Are a Hit at West Hollywood Gay Bars February 16 2023 5:27 PM. #20. The neighborhoods smattering of Orthodox residents did little to manifest their observance publicly. The sidewalks teemed with alcoholic homeless Vietnam Vets haunted by their own nightmares and hopelessness. It was hardly an area to avoid. 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. the bar next to them. Our parents let us run around unsupervised from the time we were like, 8 or 9. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. 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 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. Locals knew to be inside their locked apartments by nightfall and you were safe. It no longer does. At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. 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. You'll be lead upstairs to a fancy little space with luxurious seats and bespoke cocktails. I loved that they were open 24 hrs. 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. a retired 31-year veteran NYC high school teacher. The UWS was terrible then. When we came outside onto west 81 street the person who was supposed to meet us and take us home had not shown up. It was a great neighborhoodbut you had to know which blocks you should avoid! 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. We were absolutely terrified. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. By Carter B. Horsley. 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. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. 114 tips and reviews. About fifty of us stood across the street and watched, as though we were attending a wake. Arts & Entertainment. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. The 24th Precinct has about the same racial and ethnic makeup it did when Lyford published his book in 1966. Es Bar is one of our go-to spots in the neighborhood, because they do so many things right. Not all of us move here for a few years. 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. How Biden Intends to Misuse the CHIPS Act, About that African-American Studies Course. (212) 861-2290. I remember The Jaunting Car Inn next to the Ritzs deli between 71 and 70th on Columbus. You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. I love being able to walk to Central Park and be greeted by many people I have met over the years. Despite an off-and-on economy, the 1980s was a decade in which Americans ate out more often than ever before. 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. You can see the dots on the map of Manhattan, and the peak is still in the 1980s in terms of the most bars. 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. 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. I live on W 71 myself. My favorite dart bar in 1982. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. I remember The Broadway Nut Shop, outside of which I shook hands with Bobby Kennedy while he was campaigning for Abe Beame in 1965, Steinbergs Dairy Restaurant, next to Irvings Candy store, the Pizza parlor and Serooties? 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. At about the size of a one-bedroom apartment, this bar is a great place to catch any game, especially the Super Bowl! 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. Every few years I will take my 20 block walk from my old apartment to 84th and Columbus. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. 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. An article on the front page of the New York Times on July 6, 1961, reported: Street fighting involving 400 Puerto Ricans and Negroes broke out in a West Side trouble block. Two women began arguing over a man, and a brawl erupted. Probably the first high-end shop on Amsterdam Ave. Upper West Sider here. 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. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. 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. The Upper West Side of Manhattan is sandwiched in between Riverside Park to the west & Central Park to the east. I also like to point it out when kvetchers say the area is too fancy now. Social workers divided the block into three play sectors, with adults playing volleyball, teenagers playing inside at a youth center, and younger children the east end. Six months later, the Times declared that the problem had been managed: Worst Is Over on West 84th Street. The solution was depopulation and destruction: The Department of Real Estate reported that 709 families had moved or been relocated from buildings due to give way for new schools. Only then it was called slum clearance and urban renewal. Meanwhile, the working poor found themselves menaced and increasingly overwhelmed by the burgeoning welfare underclass. Free or royalty-free photos and images. 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. Amsterdam Ale House plays sports on a few TVs, but it feels less like a sports bar and more like a casual neighborhood spot than any other place on this stretch of Amsterdam Ave. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. Hello. at least up until the 90s. That memory is itself almost certainly a conflation of two moments that occurred months apart, but in retrospect, they blend high exhilaration and low shame, an almost perfect distillation of the bipolarity of childhood feeling. 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. 7388 reviews. the 90s were considered pretty scary back then, but the 70s and 80s were lovely. I remember when the first Starbucks opened on 93rd and Broadway it was around 1996-1997 while I was in collegethats when we knew that the UWS of our time was never going to be the same again. If their children were found playing on the street unsupervised that would warrant a call to 311 or Child Protective Services. 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 am happy that they also identify with being true upper west siders! Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. One doesnt walk a block without seeing a yarmulke; the three conservative synagogues are alive and buzzing with congregants; the neighborhoods gans, day schools, and yeshivas are educating some 4,000 children; a dozen kosher restaurants and two kosher supermarkets profitably serve an increasingly observant community. They also have jello shots, so your night here can either be very tame or full of colorful, gelatinous alcohol. In the photo, the corner shop on 73rd was an upholstery shop, and aside from the (not so good) pizza shop, I cant remember any other store on that side of the street as being memorable. Heres the first paragraph. I live in a small city in the midst of a great city. My second date with him was at The Copper (? Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. I well remember the Woolworths on Amsterdam, but am at a loss to recall just when it was demolished. A Manhattan townhouse complete with a 33-foot lap pool has hit the market for $17.5 million. Around 1973. When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. Caledonia is, above all, a whiskey bar. Thanks for posting this article. I frankly dont recognize this overheated characterization of the 1970s-80s neighborhood. I remember Zabars being a nice little store to buy deli and grocery items. No more butcher, fish store, local drugstore, bakery, candy store, DVD rentals. I remember the shoe repair shop between 71st and 72nd on Columbus, and Books, Pictures, and Things, and then Betsey Johnson replacing it. The character of this area has changed dramatically as it has become an influx of new luxury and converted-to-luxury Mitchell-Lama buildings, over-priced coffee franchises and domestic employees. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. Funny that someone else just posted. The Upper West Side of my youth was in no way a fabled or especially notable area. 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! While I do not mourn the nabe of the 70s, and I miss the more diverse neighborhood, the mom-and-pop stores, the real neighborhood feeling that has changed. A map was created of all gay bars and gay spaces from 1859 to now. 1. Located on the Upper West Side on West 70th Street, the residence is less than a block from. 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 think my brother got his first ever job scooping ice cream there. 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. Citerellas always had their fun fish display in the window. He lived on 75th Bet. You couldnt walk down my side street without seeing at least one car window smashed. Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. It's China Fun now? I have been unable to confirm the closing date in my research. The food was all American dishes, and I used to go there for dinner all the time. 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. It was a rich neighborhood at the turn of the last century and it has gone back to that. And The House of Games. Despite the name, Dive 75 isnt actually that divey. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. For an interesting look at our neighborhood,check out the Goodbye Girl on netflix. 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. That was true between broadway and central park west. That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. I remember Marcys deli on Broadway, the barbershop next door with its old -fashioned spinning stripe pole. Also, bagels at H & H! I bet your cute daughter will look back at this decade as the magical Upper West Side, like you remember. I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. Retro what does it mean? A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Does anyone remember the trendy bar in 1981-84 at the corner of 74th and Amsterdam? Apologies for coming to this conversation rather late but felt compelled to share my experience of the UWS. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. Remember Winnefred Frocks on bway in the 70s. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. 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 need a hot tip on a small apartment! I bought an expensive ($90) hoodie, which lasted about 20 years. 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. Because The Smith is always there when you need it to be. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. 226 W 79th St, New York, NY 10024. 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. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. 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. Sounds like Jeannine should take that route. 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. 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. And it was where I chose to live when I moved to Manhattan from Canarsie in 1972. Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. The circle of progress. Its the only nabe Ive lived in in Manhattan. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . There were prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. Columbus and Amsterdam avenues were to be avoided though we had to cross them to hang out in Central Parkmostly by the fountain. I was born in 1965 and moved away in 1977 (returned later). 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. (I had mussels, he had short ribs). . POWERED BY. 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. I love all the varying opinions and experiences. The bakery was Royale, there were others as well, Eclair, and Blooms. 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. 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They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. The cavalcade included. -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. Best Bars & Pubs in Upper West Side (New York City): See 120 Tripadvisor traveler reviews of Bars & Pubs in Upper West Side New York City. Don't Miss A Drop. Im trying to write it into a book, and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. I raised two daughters here. Some memories: Japanese. Blondies Sports at 212 W. 79th St. earned a spot on Eater NY's recent list of the "15 . 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. But I had to wear my old prescriptions and couldnt see very well. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. But not to know when a store closed? Long gone is the divine Eclair Bakery on W. 72nd St. and the Royale. Prohibition is an upscale bar and lounge with some of the best bar food in the Upper West Side. My father was the first tenant of the building and moved in in 1929. Perhaps someone at the Synagogue would know as I believe it was about the same time the Synagogue was built (Prior to 1978.) how times change! There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. Attended PS 9 and JHS 44. 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. if youre going to criticize Historian, maybe it would be for being snarky. 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. Williamsburg is like New York in the 70s. 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? Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. There was a really cool restaurant on NW corner of 94th st, whose name escapes me but the name was carved out of the building itself. Huge packs of kids just playing in the park after school or even at lunch (with a letter you could leave 87 or 44 and go get a slice somewhere). And within those classes there was division as well. Madison & Vine, an American Bistro and International Wine Bar, has a menu that captures the diversity of America's culinary regions. 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. (There werent many rich people on the Upper West Side then, a situation much altered today.) 2) Endicott Book Store. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. 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 remember when the only Mexican restaurant anybody ever hear of was Taco Rico on 72nd. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . The Upper . 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. So no matter what type of place youre looking for, use this guide the next time you go out on the Upper West Side. Tuesday Trivia. 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 am currently working on my graduate school thesis and have decided to write about how the Upper West Side has changed in my lifetime. Another location of The Mermaid Inn, another perfect first date spot. 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. Of course, I want to see my beloved neighborhood grow & flourish but why is there such a strong need to push out the very people, shops, & community that created the desirable neighborhood it became? "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. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. Broadway has become one huge outdoor mall. Sometimes for the food. I think its just human nature. Police flooded the area. loved chariivari but those prices! I was born (1976) and raised on 92nd St. Btwn Broadway and West End and lived in the same apartment until I was 23 years old. Theres solid bar food, you can get a good cocktail, and the space feels kind of like a long clubhouse with booths, darts, and board games. 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. Yellow Rose of Texas. But on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, my small city, social pathologies began to run rampant half a century ago, long before they broke into the wider culture. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. I remember Fowad with its racks on the corner of 96th st and a Mexican restaurant across the street with Spanish tile decorating its exterior. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. They might have called it the airmail theory. Use this guide to find all the best bars in the neighborhood. And Big Nicks. Vin sur Vingt | Best Things to Do Upper West Side. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. 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. Wish my kids could have a similar space to grow up, warts and all. 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