Upper West Side

Upper West Side is a district of New York, located at the North-West of the island of Manhattan, between Central Park and the Hudson River. Its southern limit is the 59e street, on the side of Midtown, and its northern limit the 110e, towards Morningside Heights and beyond Harlem. The edge of Hudson is entirely occupied by the Riverside Park.

History

At the beginning, the district of Bloomingdale (of the Dutch Bloemendal ) occupied all the west of Manhattan, of the 23e until the 125e street. One found pastoral farms and residences there belonging to the richest inhabitants of New York. The principal artery was Bloomingdale Road, which started where now Union Public garden is and crossed all the sector until Morningside Heights.

As from the 19th century, the large colonial residences, largely spaced along the avenue, were competed with by many modest constructions. Certain parts became truly popular districts. The creation of Central Park, on a zone occupied by a population living in home precarious, caused a migratory flux towards the west of the island, where one saw pushing in an anarchistic way of the huts in the middle of the boarding houses and of the noisy taverns.

As this tranformation took place, the old name of Bloomingdale Road left room to that of Broadway. In 1868, the town of New York started to level the road and to give him a rectilinear layout. One called it for a time “The Boulevard”, until the name of Broadway is essential definitively at the beginning of the 20th century.

The development of the district took delay during the construction of Central Park, and was then slowed down by the economic crisis of 1873. The things improved with the arrival of the train of urban service road and the removal of the Université Columbia in Morningside Heights in the Années 1890. The construction of the district packed then truly between 1885 and 1910.

In the Years 1900, the population living the part of Upper West Side in the south of the 67e street was mainly Afro-américain E. One supposes that the nickname of “San Juan Hill” was dedicated to them, in commemoration of the victory of San Juan Hill to Cuba in 1898, at the time of the Guerre Spanish-American, to which this community had largely contributed. At the beginning of the Years 1960, one turned West Side Story there, then the district was entirely shaven to build there the Lincoln Center and the residential buildings “Lincoln Towers”, between 1962 and 1968.

Another plan of urban refitting was worked out, in the south-west of Upper West Side, comprising the replacement of old ways of railroad by the residential complex of “Riverside South” and the extension towards the south of Riverside Park. After a project including/understanding a building of 152 stages was rejected by the poulation in 1985, a more modest realization started to be born in the years 1990 and it is almost completed in 2004.

Monuments

Commercial seats

American Broadcasting Company (ABC) located in Lincoln Center
Time Warner

Culture

American Museum off Natural History
Lincoln Center
Beacon Theater
Museum of the children of New York
New York Historical Society
Symphony Space

Teaching

University Columbia
an appendix of Fordham University of the Bronx
Trinity School

Residences

Along Central Park, on his western side, one finds the buildings smartest of New York. “The Dakota”, located in the 72e street, was the residence many famous artists, of which Lauren Bacall, Judy Garland and John Lennon. Other famous buildings are located near Central Park: San Remo, Eldorado, Beresford and Majestic, all built by Emory Roth. On Broadway, one finds Apthorp and Ansonia Hotel.

Others (in Morningside Heights)

the Cathédrale Saint John the Divine
falls It from Ulysses Grant

Along Amsterdam Which occurred, of Columbus Avenue and Broadway, one finds alignments of restaurants smart, living rooms of and delicatessen.

Cinema

Upper West Side was used as decoration for many film productions and televisual.

The Apartment (1960)
Sex Intentions ( Cruel Intentions ) (1999)
Cruel Intentions 3 (2004)
Die Hardware: With has Vengeance ( One day in hell ) (1995), comprises a scene at the subway station between the 72e street and Broadway
S.O.S. Phantoms ( Ghost Busters ) (1984), the beginning of film, when the library is occupied by the phantoms, was filmed with the University Columbia and the building where lives the character of Sigourney Weaver' S is located at 55 West Central Park, in the 66e street.
Keeping the Faith (In the name of Anna) (2000), happens in various churches from the district.
Kissing Jessica Stein (the Temptation of Jessica) (2002)
Rosemary' S Baby (1968), the apartment is located in the building “The Dakota”
Single White Female (J.F would divide apartment)
Vanilla Sky (2001), the car accident in the middle of film occurs in Riverside Park, close to the 96e street.
West Side Story (1961), filmed in dwellings which were replaced by Lincoln Center, towards the 66e street?
You' ve Got Email (You have a mess@ge) (1998).
Several films of Woody Allen, whose

the end of Annie Hall, a scene shows Thalia Theater.

For television, one can quote “How I Puts Your Mother”, “Law and Order”, “Seinfeld” and “Sex and the city”.

External bonds

NYCvisit chart of Upper West Side
NYSite Guides of Upper West Site
air Visite of “Upper West Side” in Photographs

References

Hopper Striker Mott, The New York off Yesterday: With Descriptive Narration off Old Bloomingdale , 1908.
Peter Salwen, Upper West Side Story 1989, ISBN 0896598942.
Steven Birmingham, Life At the Dakota: New York' S Most Unusual Address , 1996, ISBN 081560338X.

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