The Bloomingdale Mom & Pop History Project
A Memory Project of Broadway's Past Small Businesses in the Bloomingdale Neighborhood from West 96th to West 106th Streets
By Caitlin Hawke
Remember The Movie Place? The Abbey Pub, Abalafia’s flowers, Positively 104th Street, Oppenheimer Meats, RCI, Green Farm, Tacita d'Oro, La Casita? Or maybe you go further back to the days of Hudes Deli, the Horn & Hardart Automat or so many others.
This page captures the start of a crowd-sourced memory project of small businesses that have graced our stretch of Broadway. Initiated in 2026 by a long-time neighbor, Caitlin Hawke, the project combines historical research and oral history. Caitlin is currently pursuing her masters of oral history at Columbia University. She is the newest columnist to take on the "On Broadway" column in our quarterly newsletter. A recipient of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group's Jim Torain Award, for many years, Caitlin blogged about local history which led to a fascination with local entrepreneurs and the role played by Mom & Pops in our sense of community and connectedness to our neighborhood.
You are warmly invited to contribute your memories, additions and corrections to the list below. Please click here to share your memories. If you find errors below or want to share your additions by email, please write to Caitlin at: [email protected].
Acknowledgments: While a lot of the history below had been crowd-sourced from neighbors, without the Block Association's newsletter and "On Broadway" column, it would be significantly less rich. A huge word of thanks to columnists who reported "On Broadway" and most especially to David Reich whose tenure was characterized by his eagle eye and swiss-watch precision! Special mention, too, of Avery Hudson's motherlode; his index for our Block Association newsletters was a wealth of information. And a hat tip to Columbia's Spectator archives.
Remember The Movie Place? The Abbey Pub, Abalafia’s flowers, Positively 104th Street, Oppenheimer Meats, RCI, Green Farm, Tacita d'Oro, La Casita? Or maybe you go further back to the days of Hudes Deli, the Horn & Hardart Automat or so many others.
This page captures the start of a crowd-sourced memory project of small businesses that have graced our stretch of Broadway. Initiated in 2026 by a long-time neighbor, Caitlin Hawke, the project combines historical research and oral history. Caitlin is currently pursuing her masters of oral history at Columbia University. She is the newest columnist to take on the "On Broadway" column in our quarterly newsletter. A recipient of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group's Jim Torain Award, for many years, Caitlin blogged about local history which led to a fascination with local entrepreneurs and the role played by Mom & Pops in our sense of community and connectedness to our neighborhood.
You are warmly invited to contribute your memories, additions and corrections to the list below. Please click here to share your memories. If you find errors below or want to share your additions by email, please write to Caitlin at: [email protected].
Acknowledgments: While a lot of the history below had been crowd-sourced from neighbors, without the Block Association's newsletter and "On Broadway" column, it would be significantly less rich. A huge word of thanks to columnists who reported "On Broadway" and most especially to David Reich whose tenure was characterized by his eagle eye and swiss-watch precision! Special mention, too, of Avery Hudson's motherlode; his index for our Block Association newsletters was a wealth of information. And a hat tip to Columbia's Spectator archives.
Methodological notes: Below you will find a north to south and block-by-block list of current businesses and their predecessors. The predecessors are listed in reverse chronological order (when order could be determined), but there are certainly gaps between some of the businesses listed. Further, this exercise is imprecise because occasionally storefronts share the same street number or a building is demolished and rebuilt with a new street number, eliminating old numbers.
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West 106th Street
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2755 - Six Corners Marketplace
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2758 - Slavik's VIP Fitness
Sidestreets - North side of 105th and south side of 106th 237 W. 105th St - (EMPTY)
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West 105th Street
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2737 - Serafina
2729 - Lady Q Nails
2725 - Friendly Valet Cleaners
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2736 - Gothic Cabinet Craft
2726 2nd & 3rd Fls - Bridge for Dance
2722a? - (EMPTY)
Sidestreets - North side of 104th and south side of 105th |
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West 104th Street
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2717 - Boost Mobile
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2710 - City MD
Sidestreets - North side of 103rd and south side of 104th 201 W. 103rd St - Bosino
104th Side Street - south 224 W. 104th St - Consuelo
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West 103rd Street
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2699 - Purple Circle
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2690 - CVS
2686 - demolished
Sidestreets - North side of 102nd and south side of 103rd ?? Liquor store b/w Amst. and Bway |
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West 102nd Street
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2675c - Grape Collective
2675a - Adobo Mexican Grill
2661a - Cool Fresh Juice Bar 2661 - Zelma’s Cafe
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2672 - Telio
2668 - (EMPTY)
2660 - (EMPTY)
Sidestreets - North side of 101st and south side of 102nd 216 W. 102nd St - Taiji Body Work/Peng's Spa and Taiji Body Work |
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West 101st Street
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2657 - Verizon
2647 - (EMPTY)
2641 - Metro Diner
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2658 - Broadway Bagel
2656 - Just Pho You
2644 - Oxford Cleaners & Tailor 2644 - 101 Barber Shop
2642 - Moon Kee Restaurant
Sidestreets - North side of 100th and south side of 101st 219 W. 100th
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West 100th Street
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2637 - Manhattan Valley Pediatrics
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2636a -Manhattan Valley Indian Cafe
Sidestreets - North side of 99th and south side of 100th 243 W. 99th - Pingpod
250 W. 100th - Wang Chen's Table Tennis |
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West 99th Street
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2617 - Max Pro Hardware
2601 - (EMPTY)
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2618 - Cohen’s Fashion Optical
2602 - 99¢ Planet 2600 - Dunkin’ and Baskin Robbins
Sidestreets - North side of 98th and south side of 99th 230 W. 99th -Daniel's Barbershop 233 W. 98th - Westside Floral |
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West 98th Street
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2599 - The Dermatology Specialists
2589 - Westside Market
2581 - (EMPTY)
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2596 - Dim Sum Bloom
2578 - Eyelash Studio
2578 - Ardona Beauty Salon
Sidestreets - North side of 98th and south side of 99th 200 W. 98th - 98 Street Potters |
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West 97th Street
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2575 - Chipotle
2571 - Super Variety
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2574 - Bank of America
2568 - Paris Baguette
Sidestreets - North side of 96th and south side of 97th 209 W. 96th
208 W. 96th (south side of 96th)
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West 96th Street
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For information about this project, please contact Caitlin Hawke: [email protected]. If the buttons above don't take you to the survey, click here.
