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. My small city could have been one of those static, increasingly impoverished, blighted places. By the early 1970s, 20 to 25 percent of American couples had met at a bar, according to Stanford University research. 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. 5) There was a little magazine stand on the west side of street around Columbus and 83 or 84 was it called Johnnys? jeannine.j@gmail.com. Italian $$$$ Upper West Side. 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. I think it was Sylvis Kitchen but cant remember. Isnt the least bit fancy, but it also doesnt smell bad, and they even have some books you can read while you drink. 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. 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. Everybody got mugged. When I go back (my mom still lives in her rent control spot on 72nd and WEA) I have a real cognitive dissonance. Think about it. 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? What about doing a simple Lexis-Nexis search? 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. The Upper West Side, or UWS as it is often abbreviated, is a large neighborhood or series of smaller adjacent neighborhoods in northern Manhattan, extending from 59 th Street northward to 110 th Street, with Central Park to the east and the Hudson River to the west. We dont mean this as an insult to the land above 59th Street, but The Owls Tail is the sort of place you expect to find downtown. I remember when the only Mexican restaurant anybody ever hear of was Taco Rico on 72nd. I raised two daughters here. John was a amazing teacher and he taught me to love learning! 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. View Website Earn 3X Points. 2023 West Side Rag | All rights reserved. Email me if you want to answer some. 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. how times change! This article is so one-side. In Lyfords celebrated 1966 account of the Upper West Sides decline, The Airtight Cage, he writes of the airmail that landed in the backyard of his brownstone on 92nd between Columbus and Central Park West from the windows of the row of tenements on 93rd street: My first introduction to airmail was a bag of rotten food that landed in my back yard a week after I bought the house.. . After my second date, I knew I was going to marry him. I would love more stories. I think it and she was gone by 1975 or 76. I live on W 71 myself. 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. Pretty good ice cream place in the early 80s. Via (Photo credit: Steven Siegel) Store signage at New York Times Square, around 1985. 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. The circle of progress. He murdered and castrated four boys. And I briefly lived on 85 street in the early 70s , so I was there a lot. 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. Although, I usually shopped at the one on 109 street, I do remember the one on 79 street. UPPER WEST SIDE Upper West Siders have long known that if they want a good drink and a hopping nightlife scene free of college students and sports bars, they'd have to head below 59th. 133 E. 65th St, New York. Food City was also where I dreamt of having my first jobs first as bagger, then aspiring to cashier. Broadway and West End. Was the place called Amsterdam. Life is rough on everyone. Zabars was open until midnight. 85th St.; 212- 877-0961. Please enter your email address. Just be aware that the whole place might smell like truffles, since they serve various truffle- and non-truffle-related snacks. I have been unable to confirm the closing date in my research. So a volleyball net was erected. Today: About 90% of the mom and pop stores on Broadway between 91st and 85th St. have closed. Delicious, homey. Restaurant 222 - on 79th St. (There werent many rich people on the Upper West Side then, a situation much altered today.) Three conservative synagogues in a 15-block radius from 100th Street to 86th Street had fallen into decrepitude and near-dormancy. I think its just human nature. at least up until the 90s. Yorkville, Upper East Side Manhattan in the 1980's, all photos by Gary Lenhart. The space is about the size of a studio apartment, so we wouldnt recommend bringing a group, but its a decent place to watch sports alone or with a friend, especially before 7pm when drinks are half off. Now no reason was needed at all. Get the latest in beer, wine, and cocktail culture sent straight to your inbox. You want to watch sports with some friends, and maybe share a couple pitchers of beer - ideally something other than Hoegaarden or Goose Island. 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. 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. Meanwhile, the working poor found themselves menaced and increasingly overwhelmed by the burgeoning welfare underclass. It no longer does. 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 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. Because The Smith is always there when you need it to be. the very chic chain that only was located on the UWS. 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. Please. Girl Scout's Cookies Are a Hit at West Hollywood Gay Bars February 16 2023 5:27 PM. I live on 80th and Columbus, and 79th and Amsterdam was the most dangerous corner in the precinct. Neil Simon movie and yes a movie, but does show the charm and grit of the 70s. 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! 12 Lost Gay Bars of New York City Michael Ryan. Over 25 years, we lived in 3 apartments, none more than 4 blocks from Fairway. In order to reduce traffic congestion in . And every effort to cure them through large-scale government action only made matters worse, in one of the most potent demonstrations of the law of unintended consequences. 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. Bar in Upper West Side Add to myNY One of the smaller venues on our list is Bodega 88. This map of the Upper West Side shows its location relative to the rest of Manhattan. Its a small, brick-walled wine bar where you can also get some snacks, like tartines and shareable charcuterie plates. 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. -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 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. Correction: Not the Endicott Hotel but the EXCELSIOR! I was just talking about Winnifred Frocks yesterday! 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. 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 business I miss? 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. Im coming into this conversation very late but I have lived in this neighborhood all my life.since 1953. Back in the days prostitues freely roamed Broadway, drug addicts shot up in our basement, wed look out our living room window And see prostitues making their deals. Don't worry though there is a bar in the front and back of the house in case it gets too crowded. Here's a spindly, stand-alone piece of the High Line that has since vanished . I think this was the second time. Prohibition is a 20sthemed bar with quality live music every night. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. 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. Bodega 88 Night Clubs Bars Brew Pubs (19) 8.6 Website (212) 799-1602 573 Columbus Ave New York, NY 10024 CLOSED NOW 2. From the outside, this place looks like a very normal pub - and on the inside it looks pretty normal, too. Caledonia is, above all, a whiskey bar. 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. 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. Like Caledonia, the Hamilton has a very serious whiskey selection - although the focus here is more on American whiskey. 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. The Cozy Bar (The Dead Poet) Imagine such a thing today. 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