Manhattan Stories 1980s | The 57th Street Corner Store for Gaming & Where I Grew Up

Welcome to another historical look back. This is the Manhattan neighborhood I grew up in during the 1980s. Upper East Side Manhattan. The stores, the locations, what it used to be like between 1986 and 1990. Such as Bloomingdales and Alexander's Department Store. Two places in particular, which I'm going to talk about, are The 57th Street Corner Store (an old smoke shop-magazine store on First Avenue), and Ultimate Pizza. I used to hang out at The Corner Store with my childhood friends and play arcade games every single day after school, when "Arcade Machines" were the trend. We were there DAY ONE for the premier of such arcade machine hits as Alien Syndrome, Street Fighter 2, TMNT the Arcade Game (four player), and Raiden. We LIVED this era. Plus many more. And the BEST pizza shop in all of East Side Manhattan, known as Ultimate Pizza. Why? Because their slices were Ultimately the best in town!