upper west side bars 1980s

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. By 1968, there were a whopping 85 bars on the Upper East Side, most of them singles bars. I miss them! In their place, smaller clubs like Tunnel opened in Chelsea, and that's when Glam said the "club kids"young, outlandishly dressed people who partied several times a week . Not a longtime UWS resident (only two years) but I would warn the author against making what appear to be major overstatements. Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. Terrible, just terrible. The statistics for the 24th Precinct offer the most dramatic portrait of the vertiginous rise of crime and its exhilarating plunge. 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 At the same time, 86th & Amsterdam was notorious for being crime ridden. 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. Kelly Ramos: Favorite wings in the entire city. Japanese. They've generously opened up their lobby by transforming it into a cafe and bar inspired by the aesthetic of speakeasies of the 1920's. I have lived on 111 street since 1975. Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? And Silk Road. if youre going to criticize Historian, maybe it would be for being snarky. 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. 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. Please enter your email address. There was a pastry cafe with tables up in a little loft where the swatch store is now on 72 and Columbus. (I had mussels, he had short ribs). And Silk Road. 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! I live in a small city in the midst of a great city. 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. You should know to never start a sentence with but. My friends lived in the 90s on Columbus and we used to skateboard and hang out all the time. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. So my small city is the same and yet it is not the same, because it is today, in almost every way, better. Think about it. 226 W 79th St, New York, NY 10024. 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. Aside from the Museum of Natural History overlooking Central Park and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial overlooking Riverside Park, the area lacks notable monuments. 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. 210 W 94th St, New . 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. That said, its equally good for a drink with a few coworkers, or a catch-up with a friend. Friday's location on the Upper East Side. (There werent many rich people on the Upper West Side then, a situation much altered today.) I lived on 82 btw Columbus and CPW from 1976-2011. To hell with nostalgia. As we mentioned, the UWS has no shortage of sports bars - but Blondies is our favorite. Im so please that Calle Ocho (once around the corner on Columbus) has become attached to the hotel; that Zingones , the terrific and friendly mom & pop grocery store on Columbus btw 82 & 83 is still in business and doing better than ever; that Rose Liquor still is thriving one block down with the flower shop next door now run by the daughter of the man I used to buy my flowers from, and that the newsstand at the corner of Columbus and 81 is till run by my friend from Pakistan, who used to call his family to find out when my eccentric English husband used to ask him Whats the weather today in Karachi? I still run into my neighbors on the street, and sure, a lot has changed, but the heart of the neighborhood and many of the characters are still there! Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. There was also one above 100th Street that closed in the mid 90s. There was a reason Verdi park was called Needle Park. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. As first Columbus Avenue, then Broadway, and finally Amsterdam Avenue began to gentrify we were gratified to witness a steadily improving quality of life, but sidewalks teem[ing] with alcoholic homeless and residents knew to be inside their locked apartments by nightfall? At least when talking about fairly genteel nabes as we are here. My current UWS apartment still has the footings in the floor where a Police Lock fit between the door and the floor. I dont think the email in the article works. The Dead Poet is really just a solid neighborhood bar. .) Big Nick's Burger and Pizza Joint at Broadway and 77th Street. 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. jeannine.j@gmail.com. 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. They might have called it the airmail theory. Ernies, and the best pizza parlor in the city, Vinnys on Amsterdam between 73 and 74th. 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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. When? 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. 2) Endicott Book Store. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. The free outdoor summer concerts at Lincoln Center were wonderful. 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. Also, bagels at H & H! 4) Someone else mentioned it, but Ill second a nod to Teachers and Teachers, Too. So many more. 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. 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. 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. Another one had South American clothes but the name has vanished from mind. A) become playgrounds for East Village New Wavers. Although the company liquidated in 1991, there are a handful of independently owned stores left around the United States. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz. Theres a bar in the middle of the room, some banquette seating, and a few tables - plus floor-to-ceiling windows looking out on 72nd Street. Heres the first paragraph. 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. the very chic chain that only was located on the UWS. 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. It was a great neighborhoodbut you had to know which blocks you should avoid! -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. I well remember when the wrecking ball destroyed the beautiful and historic Episcopal Church on W. 71st Street at the corner of Broadway. I am also looking for people who have recently moved here and what prompted their decision to move to the neighborhood. Not the Hollywood stars with a party pad in some flashy glass tower downtown, but the ones who really live here. Vinnys! I now live on the upper east side, but will always remain true to my rootsthe West side is the best side! Life is rough on everyone. 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. I remember as a kids being able to walk and take buses alone and feeling very independent. I am still amazed thinking how that now-pristine block was so different. The cavalcade included. 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? Its a little spot decorated like a living room in a very nice apartment, and they serve top-notch cocktails. Tiny place, sweet lady from down south. The Loft sounds right. Bars & Music Mama's Bar. That's right, another Infatuation review for yet another location of The Smith. Cocktails are pricey ($12-16) but it's just too fun to miss. The circle of progress. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. Upper West Side seen from Top of the Rock. We would remember it now as we remember the Son of Sam, and the Washington snipers, and the Hillside Strangler. 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. Fancy. We also went to the park alone which kids nowadays hardly ever do. How Biden Intends to Misuse the CHIPS Act, About that African-American Studies Course. I think it and she was gone by 1975 or 76. Citerellas always had their fun fish display in the window. Upper West Side Geography. 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. I dont agree with the statement that no one went above 72nd if they could help it. 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. My building paid for our own doorman out of our own pockets to try to secure our building. Vague memory of the window and lady on 83rd Street. @Janet, I agree. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! 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 church had become a hangout for drug addicts.) Learn more about historic floods. My building was surrounded by SROs; one on 92nd btwn Riverside and West End, one directly across the street from us and one on 92nd btwn Broadway and Amsterdam. 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. Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. 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? I would recommend the author talk to some parents at the local schools to get a sense for the community now. 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. I see this constantly in the rude & dismissive behavior of folks on the street, in the new stores, especially towards the older folks. The Times described it as a block of decaying tenements packed with poor Puerto Rican and Negro families and the gathering place of drunks, narcotics addicts and sexual perverts. It soon became known as the worst block in the city. Mayor Robert Wagner announced a shock attack, an all-out war on the forces of crime, slum blight and poverty on the West 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. 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. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! Neighborhood volunteers took turns watching out their windows, reporting any crimes to the well-meaning, over-worked and understaffed local police precinct. 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. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) Store signage at New York Times Square, around 1985. Neil Simon movie and yes a movie, but does show the charm and grit of the 70s. I bet your cute daughter will look back at this decade as the magical Upper West Side, like you remember. I went to PS 84 and IS44 (before there were flea markets and before there was a Benetton on every corner). We neighborhood kids came to call him, with the horrible bluntness of adolescent boys, Charlie Chop-off. Attended PS 9 and JHS 44. Learned how to ride my bike down there. Bear Bar (east side) 1770 Second Ave. (between 92nd & 93rd St.) Manny's on Second. With a drink in one hand, a cigar in the other, and various critical parts of his body glued to a dark-haired woman with whom he is ostensibly dancing, Michael Barrett looks . However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. Sarabeth was a friend and I too loved her pastries and coffee. The broken windows theory propounded by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in 1983 has entered into the realm of clichthe idea that if you dont replace a broken window on an abandoned building, more of the windows will be broken and the area around them will decay as well. They are socializing, flirting, establishing their creds in a nice middle-class neighborhood BEFORE they have to get on that subway once again and go home to a neighborhood which may or may not be as sparkly-shiny as the UWS and, for anyone between 12 and 25, very possibly gang-ridden and dangerous. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . Over the course of the next four years, 20 houses on the block would be demolished and replaced with a high school named for Louis Brandeis and a relocated elementary school. She opened a restaurant on Madison Ave and 84th a few years later.It might still be there. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. She was the only person that worked there and basically it was a counter that you ordered from and nothing more. A pair of cops who had been permanently assigned to the block because of previous incidents fired eight shots into the air in an effort to still the melee but were engulfed by the crowd.. I finally made the right connection when I discovered several glass ampules and hypodermic needles. The destruction and construction took years, leaving behind rubble that became at-hand weaponry for kids and gangsters and boarded-up tenements that became crime sites and drug dens. 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. I too went to PS 166 and JHS 44 and remember John Gatto, despite graduating in the 60s Just wanted to drop some UWS names from then: Pick & Pay 87th and Bway- TipToe Inn Davega Sports Hermans Toys- and Sam Graham Hardware Mitchells Wines & Spirits Lichtman Pastries or Cake Masters were the places surrounding the Belnord Apts. 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 . Kyle: When I moved here, the hotspot was 8 th Avenue between 14 th and 23rd. By 1990, there were 5,641 felonies. 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. The business I miss? I do remember cake masters on 99 street, party cake on 110, teachers, the gold rail, the American restaurant on 85 & Broadway. And "Mambo Mouth" in the days before STOMP took over the Orpheum Theater on 2nd and 7th. 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. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. To the commentersemail me if you would like to answer a few questions for the thesis. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. I lost the gold watch my father gave me for my college graduation. Retro what does it mean? So a volleyball net was erected. Im trying to write it into a book, and I cannot find anything about it anywhere. Grew up in Lincoln Towers in the 70s and 80s. My father, and then my mother ran the Thalia Theatre from the 1930s to the 1970s, so I guess I would qualify as someone who know what the Upper West Side was like before 1976, when no one would live above 72nd street if they could avoid it. I remember way before Charivari when the drugstore was on the corner of 72nd and Columbus, across the street from Merit Farms. On the positive side, however, W. 71st St is much safer since the church was torn down and replaced by a high rise apartment building, complete with doorman. Bring a few relatives you havent seen in a while. By Carter B. Horsley. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Come here when you want to watch college or NFL football, and bet pitchers of light beer on the outcomes of beer pong games with friends. You can walk down the street . Things change. Always had a good meal there. Not everyones experience is like mine. Rescued Estates, before the "Crazy Landlord" rented the place to The Bean coffee shop. 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. Nestled on the Upper West Side, Bodega 88 features many big screens behind the bar and smaller individual screens at every booth. (1982) I can just smell the place writing about it. I know Im not imagining it existed. 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. I was born and raised on same block, in same building since 1969. Living outside the neighborhood & city in recent years, I admit, has allowed me a greater perspective on the losses the UWS has undergone. That said, it isnt a gimmicky spot where you pretend to be an early American settler. 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