<p>I think it’s safe to say that the prior post was a highschooler’s view of social life, and a highschooler who apparently once lived in New York but hasn’t experienced it as a young adult. That said, I think it’s true that for my generation, the Upper West Side was a fairly hip, young place, but for millennials it’s just another neighborhood full of wealthy old people and the occasional conservative 20-something investment banker or lawyer.</p>
<p>Harvard.</p>
<p>LOL because you nailed it JHS. Don’t know how the high schooler got all those mis-impressions about the Upper West Side of the 21st Century.</p>
<p>For example, here’s a glaring mistake by Humanities2014; a whopper. ‘No express train service at Columbia.’ While that’s literally true, as a practical matter it is very much off the mark. The nearest express stop is three stations away at 96th Street, and the travel time to 96th Street on the ‘local’ train is probably 5 minutes or less. And from 96th Street you can be in Midtown in 10 minutes. As the venerable Casey Stengel, the loquacious manager of the old NY baseball Giants said, “You don’t have to believe me, you can look it up.”</p>
<p>By the way, these days Harlem is FULL of fancy bistros, cafes and restaurants. And not everyone is happy about that. So go back and re-read your NY tourist guidebook, Humanities2014.</p>
<p>There’s that, and last time I checked, Harlem is not west of 116th St & Broadway.</p>