>What part of the UES feels like old new york? seems like it's
>pretty much a revolving door of storefronts in the ground
>floor of slowly renovated buildings with doormen, with pockets
>of bars with average ages that raise incrementally with the
>street numbers

But there seem to be a lot of people raising families there. It's more transient than UWS, surely, but that's always been the case.