Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. 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 company liquidated in 1991, there are a handful of independently owned stores left around the United States. Amsterdam Ale House The corner of Amsterdam and W. 76th Street has been the site of numerous popular restaurants since the late 1930's. Delicious, homey. The reason I love my neighborhood is I can walk up my street and say hello to my neighbors. Memories of the old days. My first date with my husband was in November 1984, at Teachers, on Broadway in the mid-80s. 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. 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. Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. Living outside the neighborhood & city in recent years, I admit, has allowed me a greater perspective on the losses the UWS has undergone. The tacos are supplemented with other obvious sports bar snacks, including corn on the cob, guac and chips, flautas, plus burritos, quesadillas, and tortas. Tuesday Trivia. You dont even need to go to municipal archives. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. Theres a NY Times article published on June 8, 1979 call Discovering the Pleasures of Columbus Avenue Published a couple of months before I moved to Columbus and 74th where I am now. When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. There was also Lamstons on 102 street. Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? 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. 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. 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! 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. Not all of us move here for a few years. Don't Miss A Drop. 1) Frusen Gldj. All the small stores have had to vacate once their leases were up and the rents were jacked up to unaffordable rents. Also The Golden Pan restaurant, Levy Bros Stationers, Universal Health Center, the New Yorker Theater and, upstairs, the New Yorker Bookshop. This was my dads favorite hangout, as they were a rival of Rizzolis in art books and such. The middle class was split between the professionals of the New York intelligentsiamedia and intellectuals and academics and psychoanalystsand more down-to-earth educated folk, public school teachers and union officials and social workers. 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. At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. By Carter B. Horsley. So a volleyball net was erected. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. 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. Sometimes for the food. I was 14 in 1977 and went to see laser rock at the planetarium with a girlfriend. 1470 First Ave. (between 76th & 77th St.) North East Bank. 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). They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. #20. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. 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. Its a good spot to day drink with a big group, but theres no table service - youll be notified by a buzzer when your order is ready at the counter. Citerellas always had their fun fish display in the window. Does anyone remember the trendy bar in 1981-84 at the corner of 74th and Amsterdam? Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. I lived on 79th street from 1976 to 2011 in the rent-stabilized apartment I grew up in, and over that time I have seen the neighborhood change drastically. 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! I lost touch with them (Joe, the owner, and Mark the pharmacist) about 4-5 years ago. 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. 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. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. "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. Named after the famous landmark apartment building nearby, The Dakota Bar possesses a vibrant energy all of its' own. Usually, when we talk about the differences in American life between past and present, there is a moment in which we feel compelled to denounce todays pathologies in comparison with the moral certainties of older times. November 24, 2013 | 1:16 PM - Updated on June 5, 2022 | 11:30 PM, Womens History: Augusta Stetson and the Church at 96th Street and Central Park West, WEST-PARK CHURCH LEADERS WIN VOTE, PLEDGE TO REVITALIZE BUILDING, WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN: COLD SHADOWS, ANCIENT OBELISKS, A MASSIVE MENORAH, & CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, A TRIO OF JUILLIARD PERFORMANCES ON MONDAY (SPONSORED). 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! 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. Yes there was plenty of crime in the 80s, and the neighborhood has gone through change (for the better). Now no reason was needed at all. 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. Very different West Side. Bring a date or meet some friends here, and if anyone gets hungry, get a few small plates like meat, cheese, and oysters. pulled from my face, and my sneakers removed outside the side exit to the Olympia movie theater on 107th between Broadway and Amsterdam, my parents called the police and two mammoth cops showed up and drove me around the neighborhood looking for my two assailants by checking out sneakers. In the 60s, it was only open to the high class and the rich, like authors up on the Upper East Side. Vinnys! Ive ben on 76th since 1978. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. 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. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Vin sur Vingt | Best Things to Do Upper West Side. I also remember the food of the neighborhood . I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. I do remember cake masters on 99 street, party cake on 110, teachers, the gold rail, the American restaurant on 85 & Broadway. You will receive a link to create a new password via email. the bar next to them. It is the same one in which I grew up four decades ago, and its buildings and landmarks and topography are almost entirely unchanged. Its a little spot decorated like a living room in a very nice apartment, and they serve top-notch cocktails. My wife and I had our first date there back in 85. The Upper West Side ( UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. I am happy that they also identify with being true upper west siders! 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. 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. A least some or all of my family lived on the Upper West Side from the 1930s to the mid 1980s. 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. 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. Im sure we all remember the coffee shop! My friends lived in the 90s on Columbus and we used to skateboard and hang out all the time. So my small city is the same and yet it is not the same, because it is today, in almost every way, better. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. I think my brother got his first ever job scooping ice cream there. They were mugged in the lobby one night after taking a taxi home from our apartment 15 blocks away. But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. . There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! Had a nice truffle festival as I recall. Like the other locations of Vin Sur Vingt around the city, this UWS outpost is a good spot for a quiet drink with one other person or a small group. We neighborhood kids came to call him, with the horrible bluntness of adolescent boys, Charlie Chop-off. This is exactly what I am looking for. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. )Lantern (78th and Amsterdam, where Planet Sushi is now). 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. There were prostitutes and drug dealers on the street. The drug store on 74th and Broadway was Ritob. I also went to IS 44 and was blessed with being part of the Lab School which was the vision of Mr. John Gatto. 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. 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. I was also hailed from second story windows in Times Square by topless prostitutes. People know me from getting out, and introducing myself, instead of planting my face in my smartphone. Go on Mondays for live jazz. The neighborhoods smattering of Orthodox residents did little to manifest their observance publicly. 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. Locals knew to be inside their locked apartments by nightfall and you were safe. This has always been a congenial neighborhood. Photo of storefronts on Columbus Avenue between 82d and 83rd streets in 1982 by Daniel Weeks. . Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . Prohibition is an upscale bar and lounge with some of the best bar food in the Upper West Side. 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. I dont think the email in the article works. I lived on the UWS from 1972-1994: 85/WEA, 79/Columbus, 82/Amsterdam, several other addresses. Gone were the days when people indulged in a nice restaurant dinner only when traveling or celebrating a birthday or anniversary. POWERED BY. 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. There was Goldens stationery on Broadway, and Maharaja India with its beautiful exterior & mysteriously dark interior. Now Im in the 90s. but that would be the pot calling the kettle black. Rescued Estates, before the "Crazy Landlord" rented the place to The Bean coffee shop. Lost your password? 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. Theres one long room with a couple of TVs for watching sports, and youll also find both daytime and late-night Happy Hours. I live on 72nd and would guess off the top of my head that it contains around 50 small businesses just between Columbus & West End. The Ribbon has style and substance and does classic food right. My favorite dart bar in 1982. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. 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. That mugging was nothing unusual. It went badly. We used to go to and from school on our own. 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. Not everyones experience is like mine. Get there early (around 9:00 p.m.) to experience it because it gets a bit crowded near the stage later in the evening. Email me if you want to answer a few questions. This seasonal (May-October) outdoor bar has a bunch of umbrella-covered tables that might make you think youre in Madison Square Park, except for the fact that you can see the Hudson River and New Jersey. And within those classes there was division as well. I live in a small city in the midst of a great city. 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. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. Monday's are all you can eat wings . McGlades, a tavern across from ABC, it's a Starbucks now. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . The whole space is about the size of a subway car, though, so dont bring a big group. 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