Here's What Opened On The UWS This September

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — The Upper West Side saw a busy start to the fall season in New York City, with several new businesses opening their doors in the neighborhood for the first time.

This month, new businesses in the neighborhood include a women-owned taproom, a photography exhibit space, a funky western bar and more.

Aperture Fund

Aperture, an influential photography nonprofit and publisher known for its quarterly magazine, opened on Sept. 18.

The new space spans two floors of a historic 1886 building located at 380 Columbus Ave. at West 78th Street.

Inside, the building includes exhibition areas, event spaces, offices, a bookstore, and a gallery. See Patch's coverage here.

Talea Beer

Talea, New York City's first woman-owned production brewery, has opened its sixth taproom location at 441 Amsterdam Ave. near West 81st Street.

Inside the taproom, Talea focuses on lower-alcohol, fruit-forward beers with familiar flavor profiles, aiming to appeal to people who may not consider themselves beer drinkers.

The new taproom opened on Sept. 25. See Patch's coverage here.

Velvet Cowboy

Velvet Cowboy is a new bar and restaurant from the team behind Jacob's Pickles, Maison Pickles, and Tiki Chick.

The space opened Sept. 28 in the original Jacob's Pickles location at 509 Amsterdam Ave. between West 84th and 85th streets.

The new concept features a dining room designed to emulate the psychedelic optimism of the 1970s, with the cowboy spirit of the American Southwest, Jacob Hadjigeorgis, the owner, said. See Patch's coverage here.

Wu's Dynasty

Wu's Dynasty, a new restaurant focusing on traditional Cantonese dim sum, opened on Sept. 10 at 210 West 70th St. near Amsterdam Avenue.

"They’re keeping things classic with traditional dim sum served from push carts, alongside Cantonese favorites like Alaskan king crab prepared three ways, Peking duck, and plenty more," Ben Hon, a food critic, wrote on Instagram.

Kine Musubi

A new shop that specializes in Hawaiian Musubi — often made with rice, grilled Spam, nori and other savory ingredients — has officially soft-opened on the Upper West Side at 128 West 72nd St. between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues on Sept. 24.

Its grand opening is on Oct. 7.

Know of a business opening or closing on the Upper West Side? Email Miranda.Levingston@Patch.com.