69 - Petite pub pour l'Upper West Side

Voici une petite pub pour le quartier Upper West Side:

Pour nous, le quartier le plus vivable de Manhattan par sa proximité avec le Park et l’Hudson River. Beaucoup de restos sympas et originaux, des commerces variés. L’UWS : un quartier qui monte ;-)

In downtown Manhattan, honking taxis slalom through traffic and swells of people plunge into the streets when the coast is clear. But on the Upper West Side, it's the baby strollers you have to watch out for. (…)

Clearly, this is a family-friendly neighborhood, but what's extraordinary is that in the fastest city in the world there's a place where people -- whole families, even - actually stroll.

The Upper West Side is densely populated, yet it seems quieter here. Brownstones face tree-lined streets, and even Broadway's surge is softened by a leafy median. Civic-minded residents have prevented their streets from becoming a blitzkrieg of blinking, flashing, mammoth advertisements (…)

While Central Park West is a star-packed Zip code -- Madonna, Michael J. Fox and Faye Dunaway have all hung hats here -- the Upper West Side is not the place to just see or be seen. It's a refuge in the city from the city. The area generally is defined as extending from Columbus Circle (59th Street) to 110th Street and beyond.

Visitors rarely come to Manhattan for the Upper West Side, but it would be wrong to leave without having visited this neighborhood of artists, intellectuals, up-and-comers and Seinfeld wannabes. And contrary to what the guidebooks tell you, there's more to discover than the fossil halls of the American Museum of Natural History and the medieval tapestries at the Cloisters.

The plight of Meg Ryan's character is one familiar to the Upper West Side. The bohemian neighborhood was once peppered with quirky mom-and-pop shops (…)

But Allan Pollack sees something positive through his purple-tinted sunglasses. A shock of teased blond hair, he stands in the doorway of his flamboyant retro fashion shop, Allan & Suzi, on Amsterdam Avenue, and says, "The Upper West Side is becoming the new downtown. The mall is bringing people here. My business has been great -- more than ever".