Upper West Side

The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River.

Landmarks and institutions

Corporate

• American Broadcasting Company - Headquarters located on Columbus Avenue, in Lincoln Square
• Central Savings Bank - a Florentine palazzo at Broadway and 73rd, with a magnificent Roman banking hall, one of New York's classic interior spaces, York & Sawyer, architects, ironwork by Samuel Yellin, 1928
• Time Warner Center - New headquarters located on Columbus Circle, at the site of the old New York Coliseum

Cultural

• American Museum of Natural History
• Hayden Planetarium
• Beacon Theater
• Children's Museum of Manhattan
• Lincoln Center
• Metropolitan Opera
• Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic
• New York State Theater, home of the New York City Opera and the New York City Ballet
• Juilliard School of Music
• A total of 12 performing arts companies hosted in a variety of theater and recital spaces
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• New-York Historical Society
• Symphony Space
• Thalia Theater

Education

• Columbia University - in Morningside Heights
• Bank Street College of Education and School for Children - in Morningside Heights
• Barnard College of Columbia University, in Morningside Heights
• The Collegiate School
• Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School
• Dwight School
• Fordham University Lincoln Center campus - Schools of Law, Business, Social Service and Education
• Jewish Theological Seminary - in Morningside Heights
• New York Institute of Technology - in the Columbus Circle proximity
• Manhattan School of Music - in Morningside Heights
• Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University
• St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School - in Morningside Heights
• Teachers College of Columbia University, in Morningside Heights
• Trinity School
• Union Theological Seminary - in Morningside Heights
• The Cathedral School of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine - in Morningside Heights
• PS 97

Food and gourmet

Amsterdam Avenue from 67th Street up to 96th Street is lined with retaurants and bars. Columbus Avenue is as well, to a slightly lesser extent. The following lists a few neighborhood institutions and famous places.

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• Ali Babba - Amsterdam Ave. south of 85th St. Authentic Yemenite/Israeli-style schwarma and falafel.
• Barney Greengrass the Sturgeon King - gourmet grocery, Amsterdam Ave. and 86th St., founded 1908
• Big Nick's - Broadway between 76th and 77th streets. Grubby all-night diner that has inspired widespread affection for its enormous menu and ridiculous collection of signed celebrity photographs.
• Café des Artistes - 67th St. at Central Park West, founded 1917
• Cafe Lalo - dessert cafe, 83rd St. at Amsterdam, seen in You've Got Mail
• Cafe Roma Pizzeria - Amsterdam Ave. at 91st St. Kosher pizza hangout.
• Citarella - gourmet grocery, Broadway and 75th St., founded 1912 at 164th St. and later moved to UWS
• Edgar's Cafe - dessert cafe, 84th St. at Broadway, so named because Edgar Allan Poe lived at this location during 1844-1845 while composing "The Raven"
• Fairway Market - market and grocery, Broadway and 74th St., founded c. 1950
• H&H Bagels - Broadway and 80th St., founded 1972
• Sing & Sing Market - Columbus Ave. at 96th St., affectionately known as Sing Sing, bakery/greenmarket/deli on the ground floor of The Westmont selling kosher food.
• Tom's Restaurant - Broadway and 112th St. in Morningside Heights, founded c. 1950
• Zabar's - gourmet grocery, Broadway and 80th St., founded 1934

Historical

• Grant's Tomb - in Morningside Heights
• Columbus Circle - statue of Christopher Columbus on 59th St. and the intersection of Broadway and Central Park West.
• Sailor's Monument - on 89th St. and Riverside Park.
• The former East River Savings Bank at Amsterdam and 96th Street (Walker and Gillette, 1927) is a classical temple now housing a drugstore, locally termed "The Aspirineum" and "The First National Bank of CVS"

Religious

• The Carlebach Shul
• Cathedral of Saint John the Divine - in Morningside Heights
• Congregation Ohab Zedek (OZ)
• Congregation Shearith Israel
• The Jewish Center
• Kehillath Orach Eliezer
• Congregation Habonim
• New York City's first Mormon Temple

Rabbi Besser's Shtiebel

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• Riverside Church - in Morningside Heights
• Society for Ethical Culture
• The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, (Carrère and Hastings, 1903); now housing the Crenshaw Christian Center
• The Westmont 5I Minyan

Residences

The apartment buildings along Central Park West, facing the park, are some of the most exclusive apartments in New York, if not the world. The Dakota at 72nd St. has been home to numerous celebrities including John Lennon. Other famous buildings on CPW include the Art Deco Century Apartments (Irwin Chanin, 1931) and the San Remo, Eldorado (highest sum of Democratic presidential campaign contributions by address in 2004), Beresford, all built by Emory Roth, and the Majestic by Irwin Chanin. Along Broadway are several Beaux-Arts apartment houses, the severe Apthorp (1908) and the voluptuous Ansonia Hotel and the Dorilton. Notable modern apartment buildings include The Westmont and its sister building the Key West, along upper Columbus Avenue, which serve as luxurious dormitories for the singles community of Modern Orthodox Judaism.

Related Topics:
The Dakota - John Lennon - Emory Roth - Beaux-Arts - Ansonia Hotel - The Westmont - Modern Orthodox Judaism

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