Upper West Side (UWS) | New York Layout Explained (with Map)

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The Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC is one of the five major areas that I go over in my Manhattan series. In this video, we are going to talk about the streets and avenues, neighborhood districts, and other interesting facts of this area of New York City.
MAJOR NEIGHBORHOODS OF MANHATTAN:
Lower Manhattan / Downtown Manhattan = • Lower/Downtown Manhatt...
Midtown Manhattan = • Midtown Manhattan | Ne...
Upper East Side = • Upper East Side Explai...
Upper West Side = • Upper West Side (UWS) ...
Upper Manhattan = • Upper Manhattan - New ...
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The Metropolitan Opera → 4kclips / Shutterstock.com
The Metropolitan Museum of Art → Kamira / Shutterstock.com
The Majestic → Sean Pavone / Shutterstock.com
The Kenilworth → Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Beresford → EQRoy / Shutterstock.com
The El Dorado → Hu Totya, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
9th Ave Elevated Train (IRT) → John S. Johnston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Catherine Zeta-Jones & Michael Douglas → Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com
Conan O'Brien → lev radin / Shutterstock.com
Marc Jacobs → lev radin / Shutterstock.com
Frank Costello → Al Aumuller, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Stephen Spielberg → Blik Sergey / Shutterstock.com
Steve Jobs → Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com
Donna Karan → FashionStock.com / Shutterstock.com
Jerry Seinfeld → Ian Young Nounpusher.com / Shutterstock.com
Diana Ross → Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com
John Mcenroe → Photo Works / Shutterstock.com
Alec Baldwin → lev radin / Shutterstock.com
Bruce Willis → Andrea Raffin / Shutterstock.com
Carrie Fisher → Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com
Lincoln Center → Eileen_10 / Shutterstock.com
Juilliard School → IndustryAndTravel / Shutterstock.com
West Side Story → RightFramePhotoVideo / Shutterstock.com
Damrosch Park → Giorgio Galeotti, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
David H Koch Theater → Bumble Dee / Shutterstock.com
Lincoln Center Theater → Bumble Dee / Shutterstock.com
New York Public Library For the Performing Arts → Bumble Dee / Shutterstock.com
David Geffen Hall → Bumble Dee / Shutterstock.com
New York Historical Society → Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space (Hayden Planetarium) → eddtoro / Shutterstock.com
Neil deGrasse Tyson → Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com
New York City Ballet → stocklight / Shutterstock.com
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[@Shahrdad]

The Metropolitan Opera you're talking about was built at 1411 Broadway and opened in 1883 at the height of the Gilded Age. By the 1950s, it was showing its age, had no room to store sets, and had minimal rehearsal space and dressing rooms. The new Met was built to address the deficiencies of the old opera house. The old house was sadly demolished in 1967 and replaced by modern skyscrapers.

[@davidk.1089]

My cousins grew up on the upper west side, in the west 90's. They still live there. It's an excellent part of the city, a quieter part of the city, near Harlem and the north edge of central park. At the time in the 70's, they moved in, it was affordable for them. Good memories

[@CeceFamily]

Wow this is super interesting! I feel like you spend a lot of time and efforts into each of your video given how much information you are giving in each of these videos. You must have done a lot of research in order to do a video like this. Awesome editing as usual too! :)

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Yeah, research really does take a long time. I'll have to start doing some easier videos soon. 😅 But glad you like it!

[@UMAmherst1]

Thoroughly researched, well-written and great narration/production.

[@tadmarshall2739]

Your videos are so good! Very helpful for someone trying to get "the big picture" of NYC neighborhoods. Thank you!

[@sergiomg9671]

Thanks for the video for the newcomers to the city!

[@jennyhunt]

I learned so much! I appreciate the tidbits of info like bachelors and new wives thought to not cook and Carnegie recommendation. Love love!

[@letstalkeducation1708]

Outstanding. Very dynamic. Im impressed.

[@Jen18812]

I’m so happy I found your channel! I am from NYC and it’s so nice to hear you talk about it and teach me things about my own city. I also live on the upper west side now so this video is close to my heart. Had no idea about Thelonious Monk either - very interesting!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Welcome to my channel! I'm glad you found it too. And thank you for watching. 😊 It's timely that you mentioned Thelonious Monk as I'm currently doing some reading on the Harlem Renaissance.

[@Jen18812]

@@UrbanCaffeine Oh wow, that’s cool! Timely indeed. :)

[@supermodeljaz6829]

Awesome video, I've learned quite a bit! Thank you!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thank you for watching 😊 I appreciate the comment.

[@FionaEm]

Great video; I learned a few things I didn't know before. Thank you 😊

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.

[@eunicekwon7586]

I’ve been watching your videos as I’m planning to move to nyc! They’re so informative and helpful :) thanks so much for your hard work!!!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thanks for watching! I hope you have a great move. The first year in NY seems to be the most memorable one.

[@samanthalim8309]

I'll be heading to NYC next year and I'm binge-watching your videos. Thank you so much for making them!! 😊

[@UrbanCaffeine]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching 😊 I hope you have a great trip.

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[@UrbanCaffeine]

So happy to hear! Many thanks 😊

[@ebonibird7756]

This is sooo helpful

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thank you!

[@Conellossus]

Great video!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thanks for watching!

[@khandibaugh23]

Great video 👍

[@Belkissa]

Your videos are amazng for Internationals! great job

[@pekosCabinet]

thank you for the info!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thanks for watching!

[@phillipmcgough6282]

i'm a regular visitor [well, was] lovin your videos . right on about the lincoln centre local impact! more!!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thank you for watching!

[@blue9multimediagroup]

DiMaggio "Dih mah zhee (jhee) oh" But at least you admitted the mispronunciation. 💪🏾💪🏾

[@slycoke]

I caught several name mispronunciations as well. Geffen, not Griffin was another. But I really enjoyed the video regardless. I have noticed that sometimes when young people talk about famous people from a different era, they don’t know who they are so they don’t pronounce their names correctly. but I don’t see any older people making videos, so I’m happy for someone stepping up and doing it. A piece of unsolicited advice - next time maybe run the video by an older person so they can catch those pronunciation errors. I love videos about New York City history.

[@CaradhrasAiguo49]

Another comprehensive yet concise overview! I personally would recommend the Grand Bazaar as I've visited it on each of the last 3 NY trips I've made!

[@lupcokotevski2907]

The great Bronx singer/ songwriter Laura Nyro lived in the Beresford in the early 1970's. She was David Geffen's first artist under management and she made him an instant millionaire in 1969 when she sold her song publishing for $4.5M to Columbia aged 21 (she was a teenage prodigy). After she passed from cancer in 1997, a tribute concert for her was held at the Lincoln Centre. One of her most stunning songs is New York Tendaberry (1969).

[@Anvanho]

My mother and I attended an orchestra concert at the Lincoln Center back in the early 70's - Leningrad Philharmonic doing Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony. Whew boy! Can those guys pound out Tchaikovsky? You bet! LG was on a nationwide tour.

[@prickayeey8420]

I love your videos

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thank you for watching!

[@D...M...A...]

Thea , you are so creative , informative and cute ... The triple threat ... The " how do you doo's " are Oscar worthy... Eliza Doolittle ... ?

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Skittles of interesting facts.... ☠️☠️🤣

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[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

I walked around Manhattan valley coming in from the north. It’s significantly less affluent than the UWS south of it but it’s where you see it turning from poorer Harlem to affluent UES. There was a Whole Foods around 96th and shopping district around it. To the north I saw public housing and less affluent homes but to the south it was affluent

[@tigerpunch3336]

I live NYC upper west side, you did a pretty good job explaining it. Just you said the the upper east sideis famouse for its sculptures, when it is accutly popular for its food

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thanks for watching! Got any recommendations for food?

[@tigerpunch3336]

@@UrbanCaffeine One of the best places there is Tocqueville

[@UrbanCaffeine]

@@tigerpunch3336 Will have to check it out, thanks!

[@DeltaShadow-no9to]

Hi Thea, how do you do?

[@Patrick-fj4vz]

How do you talk about Central Park West, and not mention The Dakota?

[@jayp7936]

Grew up in the UWS…personally speaking anything below 72nd street is midtown lol

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Haha, I gotcha. These boundaries are never official. It's surprising how much some people nitpicked on the boundaries of Carnegie Hill in my UES video. But thanks for watching!

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Wait, there's an Academy of Music in NYC? We have one here in Philly as well.

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Used to be, not there anymore. The place where it used to be is now a dorm and gym for NYU students.

[@russellmancillas4464]

My. son lives at 72nd and Amsterdams, which is near the subway line.

[@kira.in.a.nutshell]

I live on the Upper West Side :)

[@Peterthomas30]

Excellent! Your videos are so informative. As a professional narrator, I have one suggestion. For me, the vocal fry makes it hard to listen. It would be so much more appealing. Besides this, your videos are wonderful.

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Thanks! Vocal fry is hard to overcome, but it gets better in my later videos.

[@saltycrunch]

Just a quick note, it's not "The Lincoln Center", it's just "Lincoln Center".

[@BAMikeyD]

I would maybe not include Carrie Fischer and Steve Jobs as they are no longer with us... but that's me just being a nitpicking little dweeb. ;)

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Haha, yeah I debated about that too.

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[@blue9multimediagroup]

Julliard "Joo lee ard" Not nitpicking. Just tryna help, if that makes sense.

[@blue9multimediagroup]

Koch "Kaa ch"

[@UrbanCaffeine]

haha. nah, all good.

[@stepawayful]

*JOHN McEnroe

[@ethelarbon6628]

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[@9thStreetRumble]

Interesting. Lots of nice facts but so much glossed over. As someone who was born in the neighborhood in the 1960s and whose parents preformed at Lincoln Center in the 1970s your narration was simplistic and tossed off the negative side of gentrification with simple one line generalizations. The tragedy of thousands of families is replaced by mentions of the mega rich. The most offensive was the flippant acceptance of Robert Moses' denigration of San Juan Hill. The history of the neighborhood is so much deeper than simply the "lives of the rich and famous." But it's the simplest, most commercial approach so I understand. The story goes way back to when Seneca Village, the African-American village was displaced by Central Park. The neighborhood was always a mix of smaller neighborhoods, rich and poor next door to each other, "red lining" next to SROs, the new projects and lower/middle-income housing next to commercial and upper class Riverside and CPW. I'm not claiming authority or any degree of "correctness" on the subject but here I present my own personal take on the subject from my song-cycle which is about to be premiered this Spring (and hopefully in NYC this Fall). It was commissioned by Chamber Music America and features an all-star cast of Jazz musicians. There are 16 songs - semi-autobiographical and documenting some of the amazing jazz musicians and cultural life that existed "back in the day." Life and cities change constantly. One can't change that but one can strive to tell the story with more depth and subtlety so the history is not presented in only one dimension. LINK: Lyrics, notes, etc... upperwestsidelovestory.com/ Be well, Freddie

[@WolfA4]

This video is an example of how NYC has two worlds. There's the world of people who see the UWS and only see the museum and concert halls, the other world knows what A4 means, the Amsterdam projects and 92nd street. They walk by us like we're invisible.

[@dathx]

Steve Jobs?

[@blue9multimediagroup]

The Dakota is also unfortunately where John Lennon was killed by Mark Chapman in 1980.

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Yeah, I read that too which was really interesting. Sadly, it was too late to include. I think Yoko Ono still lives there.

[@alittlebitgone]

Say it ain't so, Joe

[@ethelarbon6628]

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[@robertmorrison3140]

Frank Costello died in 1973

[@DM-tp3pm]

Joe Dee-Mag-e-oh? Tell me you don’t know what you’re talking about without telling me

[@pineyforkpress]

It is not "The Lincoln Center", it is "Lincoln Center". Please get it right.

[@alexare7948]

Donna Karen. Pronounced like Karen lmao.

[@UrbanCaffeine]

Haha.😂 Don't mind the accent.

[@alexare7948]

@@UrbanCaffeine omg no worries your accent makes it fun just trying to help :) you seem really sweet!

[@UrbanCaffeine]

👍 Thanks for watching!

[@alexare7948]

@@UrbanCaffeine absolutely keep up the good NYC content!

[@nldmaster]

Just so you know, Carrie Fischer and Steve Jobs are dead.

[@Ann-ne1fu]

The accent is an inappropriate act.

[@brendapayne6603]

Don't use any more fillers like you drinking tea or coffee or holding a beer stein or whatever. They don't add anything of value and just make the video longer.. They are pointless.