What can I say? I love the Upper West Side. There are so many great neighborhoods in NYC but the UWS is just so New York to me. The best I can determine this traces back to endless viewings of Woody Allen films. It is just classic New York in my head. Its Lincoln Center and Symphony Space; its Zabars and Fairway; its Broadway and Columbus; its the Natural History Museum and the Cloisters; its Columbia University and Brandeis; and Central Park West and Riverside Park; its Mia Farrow and Norah Ephron, Regis Philbin and Tina Fey and the list goes on and on. It is not hip or trendy. It is not reasonably priced. But I love it.

(top) Zabar's; (bottom) Greenmarket on Columbus Ave