Very different West Side. 1. e's Bar 511 Amsterdam Ave., nr. There was also Lamstons on 102 street. I do remember cake masters on 99 street, party cake on 110, teachers, the gold rail, the American restaurant on 85 & Broadway. Bars/clubs 1980's Show more . Correction: Not the Endicott Hotel but the EXCELSIOR! Now no reason was needed at all. Retroclubnyc is New York City and Manhattan's best club to celebrate a birthday party, bachelor party, bachelorette party, anniversary party, or engagement party! The little space is long and narrow, with a bar up front and a few tables in back, and it works for anything from date night to a drink with your parents. An asphalt crew came to repave. Find next available. 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. I live on W 71 myself. Despite an off-and-on economy, the 1980s was a decade in which Americans ate out more often than ever before. I would agree that the author should be careful not to stereotype new residents as unfriendly and uninterested in the neighborhood. But over the past 20 years in particular, the Upper West Side has turned into the most affluent shtetl the world has ever seen. I remember the shoe repair shop between 71st and 72nd on Columbus, and Books, Pictures, and Things, and then Betsey Johnson replacing it. 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. MacAliers Pub was across the avenue. And the bakery that was on 72nd between Bway and West End. 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 very chic chain that only was located on the UWS. Its the only nabe Ive lived in in Manhattan. The big open room is filled with tables, and the service is about as friendly as we imagine it would be in a neighborhood pub in Ireland. Arts & Entertainment. The Dakota Bar - Upper West Side Romance is definitely in the air at the trendy Dakota Bar which is located on Manhattans' chic Upper West Side. 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. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. Whether you have opinions on mosaic versus cascade hops or you dont know IBUs from IPAs, check out Gebhards. She shares some memories below, and asks for some of yours. I lost touch with them (Joe, the owner, and Mark the pharmacist) about 4-5 years ago. 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. May 6, 2009. 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. 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. 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. I have lived on the UWS side (I rent) and I have no plans of moving to a big house in the burbs. So many more. Thanks! 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. Based on the Canadian movie of the same name, this bar and grill has great food specials, a full bar, and laidback vibe. Some favorite places included Ruskays and Rouelles. Over 25 years, we lived in 3 apartments, none more than 4 blocks from Fairway. Open in Google Maps. "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. Rubell's maxim: "The key to a good party is filling a room . 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. People have bidding wars over apartments that cost millions of dollars. St. James Gate is very much an Irish pub, but not in a cheesy kind of way. Sadly, the older residents are slowly dying off and being replaced by younger couples who only stay two or three years. Both RSD and CPW were iffy bcs you never knew who would come out of the park. Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. Be the first to get expert restaurant recommendations for every situation right in your inbox. The block in question was 84th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. Ive lived as far north as 110th street and as south at 80th. Miss all of the mom and pop shops. In 1981, I lived on 79th and West End; it was tiny but very comfortable. 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! Despite the name, Dive 75 isnt actually that divey. The whole thing about the terrible 1970s (and even 1980s) is vastly over-rated. The rental apartment upstairs from my mother, with the same layout was recently listed for $9900.00 a month. Sarabeth was a friend and I too loved her pastries and coffee. To hell with nostalgia. 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. Yes, it was called Amsterdams and it had great chicken, pork, beef cooked on a wall-sized rotisserie. A Manhattan townhouse complete with a 33-foot lap pool has hit the market for $17.5 million. The menu features mini food items, perfect for bar munchies, as well as delightful dinner options. Please enter your email address. They have an enormous scotch selection, a large number of snifters, and plenty of Irish and American whiskey as well. When I come to NYC now, I stay in the Endicott (on Columb and 81, around the corner from my old apartment). 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. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. 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. So a volleyball net was erected. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. Dreamstime is the world`s largest stock photography community. 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. 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. 4. In 1964, the year the national crime spiral began, 3,228 felonies were committed. Learn how your comment data is processed. (The church had become a hangout for drug addicts.) Dinner on the Upper East Side with a former president of the United States. This live HD webcam overlooks the cityscape and Coolsingel, a major street in the city centre of Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, as shown on the map further down the page. The neighborhood has lost many small businesses such as delis, bodegas, pizzerias, barber shops, candy & stationery stores. That mugging was nothing unusual. It is an expensive place to live, but then it always was. Another location of The Mermaid Inn, another perfect first date spot. 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. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and West 110th Street to the north. He murdered and castrated four boys. Today the Upper West Side is considered one of the richest, cleanest, and most expensive places to live in New York City. It might have been the most integrated area in the United States. Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. Either way, it's there, and it's good. Where Fairway is there was DAgostinos, and a really good drug store, was it buy right or loves? For example, claiming that people dont talk with their neighbors seems like little more than an assumption Im actually friends with several people in my building, to say nothing of those I merely talk with now and then. Great projecthope it went well or is going well. Explore the scintillating March 2023 issue of Commentary. I miss the 88 Noodle House, Woolworths, and Sloans. The Ribbon has style and substance and does classic food right. I never felt unsafe in this neighborhood, however. Email me if you want to answer some. Left for dead, he lived, the only surviving victim of a serial killer who prowled the neighborhood for a year. They took my empty wallet and the little folder containing the invaluable pass that afforded me free access that month to that bus line. 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. If you are a graduate student, you should know how to check municipal records for closing dates of stores. And "Mambo Mouth" in the days before STOMP took over the Orpheum Theater on 2nd and 7th. 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. (Photo by Steven Siegel) Demolition began later that decade, which displaced the homeless who had by that point found shelter on the elevated roadway. Its a little spot decorated like a living room in a very nice apartment, and they serve top-notch cocktails. The Arthouse Hotel is a bit of a hidden gem in the Upper West Side but not for long. The reclamation of New York City from the forces of criminal chaos and social decay is a familiar tale by now. Silly me. Once, after I was punched, my wallet stolen, my glasses (!) 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!! Why should people be made to feel uncomfortable/unwelcome in a neighborhood they created over decades, with their hard work & fortitude? At about the size of a one-bedroom apartment, this bar is a great place to catch any game, especially the Super Bowl! Via. However, the Upper West Side has a higher percentage of housing that falls between $500 and $6000 per month, while the Upper East Side has more housing above $9000. Im pretty sure that Woolworths closed before 1990. Get a table or some bar seats at Dive Bar, a dimly-lit spot with over 30 beers on tap (most of which are available by the glass, growler, and pitcher). We had so much fun we all agreed it's one of the best bars in the Upper West Side. 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! In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Columbus Avenue in the 70's underwent an impressively upscale retail . It was hardly an area to avoid. A neighborhood in which people think nothing of tossing their garbage out the window is a neighborhood both literally and spiritually diseased. I think my brother got his first ever job scooping ice cream there. Lost your password? Heres the first paragraph. 1980s-1990s: Boy Bar (15 St. Marks Pl.) You dont even need to go to municipal archives. Meanwhile, the working poor found themselves menaced and increasingly overwhelmed by the burgeoning welfare underclass. 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. I remember Zabars being a nice little store to buy deli and grocery items. Residents sold their used household goods at White Elephant tables, others grilled hotdogs and popped popcorn. A couple of additions (please forgive any repetitions from other comments I havent read every single one.). 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. Hello. When I moved to West 83rd Street, pushers hid their crack vials in the planters outside the building I lived in. Last Spring, a year ago this month, I watched as a staple of the neighborhood closed, Food City. A little more than a decade later, my sisters shared an apartment in a midrise next door to what had been Lyfords brownstone. the block just south of where mc donalds is. Columbus and Amsterdam avenues were to be avoided though we had to cross them to hang out in Central Parkmostly by the fountain. When the mental institutions disgorged their populations, the UWS got more than our share. We also went to the park alone which kids nowadays hardly ever do. However, it was still very nice and middle/ upper-middle class between broadway and riverside drive, at least up to about 90th street. Here is a nice trip down memory lane of the 1980's! I dont think the email in the article works. For more photos of UWS storefronts in 1982, click here. In the late 1980s, many of New York's megaclubs closed down as a result of the economic crash of 1987. 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. A short-lived club in the 1980s East Village. 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. Coolsingel Street Cam, Rotterdam. 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. 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. 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. The area continues to be among the nations most integrated. Not everyones experience is like mine. 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. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. Unfortunately, mom and pop stores have closed. 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 . I was even blessed to attend LaGuardia high school on 135th & Convent Avenue in its glorious Gothic, castle-like home before it moved to its prison-like building at Lincoln Center. They also have jello shots, so your night here can either be very tame or full of colorful, gelatinous alcohol. I was born in 1965 and moved away in 1977 (returned later). I lived on W 73rd b/ Columbus & CPW from 1974-1987 and saw SO many changes the gentrification got to be too much, so I moved up to 108th Street. Best upper east side bars 80\\\'s in New York, NY. Bring a date or meet some friends here, and if anyone gets hungry, get a few small plates like meat, cheese, and oysters. so i guess we are 3 black kettles since i am being pretty snarky, too. Everybody got mugged. This article is so one-side. By Craig Horowitz. On the first morning after I arrived I saw a man murdered in broad daylight in the Village. Shakespeare and Co. followed suit a few years later due to the same pressure from Barnes and Noble. My small city could have been one of those static, increasingly impoverished, blighted places. I won a Halloween story writing contest at Eeyores ($25 gift certificate) and was a delivery boy for Video Connection. 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? Was the place called Amsterdam. The streets were full of prostitutes and Johns cruising for them. 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. So they are finally free of their daily captors and, like all kids, act out without thinking of who or what is around. As an 80s kid, the name cracked me up, it sounded so dated, and even then I could see they where from another time, and I appreciated that. My wife and I had our first date there back in 85. A fellow life-long UWSer and Harvard doctoral student. 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. (The 20th, in which West 84th Street sits, has become somewhat more, as they say in the census, Caucasian.) 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. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. 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. POWERED BY. She made awesome cookies with whole wheat flour. Start your risk free trial with unlimited access. 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. There is not a day that goes by when I dont miss woolworths! Today is tomorrow's yesterday . I miss them! He struck on 106th between Broadway and Amsterdam, a block from my building. I walked home alone from Lincoln Center many, many times and still do without being bothered. 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. Amazing roast chicken at Amsterdams. It would dominate news coverage in the country for weeks, if not months. I think this was the second time. They dont linger and they dont talk to their neighbors or bother to know the names of the doormen in the lobby. Now Im in the 90s. If you are interested in answering a few questions email me at: jeannine.j@gmail.com. My friends lived in the 90s on Columbus and we used to skateboard and hang out all the time. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . He struck on 104th and 103rd. 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. 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. View Website Earn 3X Points. Zabars was open until midnight. 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. 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. Always had a good meal there. At the same time, community groups planted trees on every block and strove to make it all look nice. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) A man wearing a placard on Times Square, around 1980. I remember Marcys deli on Broadway, the barbershop next door with its old -fashioned spinning stripe pole. I lost the gold watch my father gave me for my college graduation. My second date with him was at The Copper (? Vin sur Vingt | Best Things to Do Upper West Side. Some of that was due to the destruction of housing not only by the citys own slum-clearance policies but also by the ravages of rent controls that led to the abandonment of hundreds of thousands of apartments. @Janet, I agree. 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. He lived on 75th Bet. Funny that someone else just posted. But it was also due to middle-class flight, to people who chose to live free of the menace. Also The Golden Pan restaurant, Levy Bros Stationers, Universal Health Center, the New Yorker Theater and, upstairs, the New Yorker Bookshop. But not a beer that all your friends have heard of. Imagine such a thing today. 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