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. And Silk Road. A map was created of all gay bars and gay spaces from 1859 to now. i would love to hear some more stories. I lived on 82 btw Columbus and CPW from 1976-2011. Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. It did. After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. The SROS were filled with mentally ill people. 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. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. Another location of The Mermaid Inn, another perfect first date spot. The tacos are supplemented with other obvious sports bar snacks, including corn on the cob, guac and chips, flautas, plus burritos, quesadillas, and tortas. Arts & Entertainment. Neighborhood volunteers took turns watching out their windows, reporting any crimes to the well-meaning, over-worked and understaffed local police precinct. But in 1976, when my parents moved to Broadway and 79th street with their three small children, no one in Manhattan lived above 72nd street if they could avoid it. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. Start your risk free trial with unlimited access. 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). I also remember that the Upper West Side was a true neighborhood, and I remember the slow and then really fast gentrification of the neighborhood in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. .css-gdccrc{font-family:var(--chakra-fonts-condensed);font-weight:700;font-size:1rem;line-height:0.9;letter-spacing:0.08em;margin-top:var(--chakra-space-0);margin-left:var(--chakra-space-0);margin-right:var(--chakra-space-0);margin-bottom:var(--chakra-space-0);text-transform:uppercase;}@media screen and (min-width: 20rem){.css-gdccrc{line-height:0.9;}}@media screen and (min-width: 23.4375rem){.css-gdccrc{line-height:0.9;}}@media screen and (min-width: 37.5rem){.css-gdccrc{line-height:1;}}Bryan Kim & Matt Tervooren.css-1a7ccww{font-family:var(--chakra-fonts-body);font-weight:400;margin:var(--chakra-space-0);padding:var(--chakra-space-0);font-size:0.6875rem;letter-spacing:0.1em;line-height:1;text-transform:uppercase;}@media screen and (min-width: 37.5rem){.css-1a7ccww{font-size:0.75rem;letter-spacing:0.12em;}}October 4, 2018. 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. 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. 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. The Upper . Hanging out with kids from the projects as well as kids from riverside drive and Central Park westwas all one nice big mix. 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. One could argue either side, and that inspired me to write about it. 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. 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). Jimmys penis had been cut off. Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. It is the same one in which I grew up four decades ago, and its buildings and landmarks and topography are almost entirely unchanged. Since I live only a mile from where I was born and raised, with only slight changes to the visual landscape, I find myself constantly under nostalgias threat. @Janet, I agree. If you are a graduate student, you should know how to check municipal records for closing dates of stores. I only have one photo taken on the street in the1970s but I do remember alot of the old stores. I know Im not imagining it existed. 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. the block just south of where mc donalds is. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. Use them in commercial designs under lifetime, perpetual & worldwide rights. I dont understand the folks who insist the 70s werent terrible. I shopped at Red Apple Market on 100 st, which then became C Town and now is yet another bank. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. 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. There are a few things that differentiate Bodega 88 from the other sports bars in the neighborhood. In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. 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. 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. The Loft sounds right. I would love more stories. The 40,000 Jews who lived there in 1960 were primarily secular and in flight from their faith. Fast forward to 2013. Indeed, everything suggested it would be. On the northern end, it borders W.110th street down south to Columbus Circle at W.59th street. Get there early (around 9:00 p.m.) to experience it because it gets a bit crowded near the stage later in the evening. And within those classes there was division as well. Here are the nine places to get your fix: Dive Bar NYC. Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. 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. 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. 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. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . Outdoors at Noz Market. Now Im in the 90s. When we came outside onto west 81 street the person who was supposed to meet us and take us home had not shown up. 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 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. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. Its a great spot for a big group hang, and if you live in the area, youll probably wind up knowing at least one bartender by name. He struck on 106th between Broadway and Amsterdam, a block from my building. Email me if you want to answer some. The doormen were alert and ready to menace unwelcome visitors with a baseball bat. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. 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. Yes there was plenty of crime in the 80s, and the neighborhood has gone through change (for the better). Police flooded the area. 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! Located on the Upper West Side on West 70th Street, the residence is less than a block from. 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). They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. 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. Please enter your email address. 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. 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 frankly dont recognize this overheated characterization of the 1970s-80s neighborhood. Gone were the days when people indulged in a nice restaurant dinner only when traveling or celebrating a birthday or anniversary. What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? 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. In a striking sentence reflective of the fatalistic attitude of the time, she writes, Crime prevention was, of course, the Police Departments first priority, as preventive medicine was the primary concern of health administrators. 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. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. 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. We arent quite sure what Dakota Bar is trying to be, but its a useful place to know about if you ever need to get a cocktail with some acquaintances near Lincoln Center. 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! 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. 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. For me, this building represented a huge part of not only the neighborhood history, but of my own personal history as well. RESERVE A TABLE. Mostly, its just a nice little bar with brick walls and a short menu of snacks, and its a good spot for a date or a low-key cocktail after work. An asphalt crew came to repave. Fancy. Yorkville, Manhattan photos from the 1980s. Booked 14 times today. There were great clothes stores also on Columbus on the same street, Parachute was one. . Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. I think my brother got his first ever job scooping ice cream there. Editors note: Lifelong Upper West Side resident Jeannine Jones is writing her graduate thesis on how the neighborhood has changed since she was born in 1976. 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. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. I remember when the only Mexican restaurant anybody ever hear of was Taco Rico on 72nd. Despite the name, Dive 75 isnt actually that divey. To the commentersemail me if you would like to answer a few questions for the thesis. You can get food here until 2am, so keep this place in mind for drinks and a bite after a show at the Beacon Theatre a block away. He murdered and castrated four boys. On the first morning after I arrived I saw a man murdered in broad daylight in the Village. Its the only nabe Ive lived in in Manhattan. 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. Is that what a Harvard education gets you these days? Very different West Side. 133 E. 65th St, New York. Coolsingel Street Cam, Rotterdam. Shakespeare and Co. followed suit a few years later due to the same pressure from Barnes and Noble. (1982) And the bakery that was on 72nd between Bway and West End. You should know to never start a sentence with but. "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. 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. The neighborhood has lost many small businesses such as delis, bodegas, pizzerias, barber shops, candy & stationery stores. Madison & Vine, an American Bistro and International Wine Bar, has a menu that captures the diversity of America's culinary regions. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! 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. 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. Sometimes for the food. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. 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. 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. 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. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. It's interesting to watch the shifts in neighborhoods. Over 25 years, we lived in 3 apartments, none more than 4 blocks from Fairway. Youre on the Upper West Side, and you want to drink beer. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. Left for dead, he lived, the only surviving victim of a serial killer who prowled the neighborhood for a year. There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! Hey, Scooter Stan, they are often a pain in the neck. By Carter B. Horsley. McGlades, a tavern across from ABC, it's a Starbucks now. Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. Does anyone remember the trendy bar in 1981-84 at the corner of 74th and Amsterdam? more proof that you dont have to be that old to look back on the past with rose colored glasses. Amsterdam Ale House The corner of Amsterdam and W. 76th Street has been the site of numerous popular restaurants since the late 1930's. 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! Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). the very chic chain that only was located on the UWS. The Gin Mill is owned by the same people as Jakes Dilemma, which is less than a block away, and it feels very similar. West of Broadway was less rough, but Broadway was Pay-A-Broadway after 9pm as if there was city-approved zoning for street walkers after 9. woolworths was on the high 60s on amsterdam just south of the jewish temple that is still there. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . if youre going to criticize Historian, maybe it would be for being snarky. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. Was the place called Amsterdam. When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. You want something obscure, because your horoscope recently told you to try new things. 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 grew up Retroclubnyc is New York City and Manhattan's best club to celebrate a birthday party, bachelor party, bachelorette party, anniversary party, or engagement party! Several times a year the 79th Block Association shut down the street and organized a street fair. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. Always had a good meal there. Contentsshow 1The Mermaid Inn 2Prohibition 3The Owl's Tail 4Bodega 88 5E's Bar 6Vin Sur Vingt 7Dive Bar 8Jacob's Pickles Imagine such a thing today. 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 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. 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 . Stephen Hanson's uptown "Chinese" fantasy, which he bravely launched on the un-trendy Upper West Side, was the big box that spawned all of the city's pan-Asian giants. 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. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. If you want anecdotes, thats one thing; Im happy to provide them. Also The Golden Pan restaurant, Levy Bros Stationers, Universal Health Center, the New Yorker Theater and, upstairs, the New Yorker Bookshop. 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. 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