When David Rivkin was growing up on the West Side of Manhattan during the early 1960s, it was a far sketchier place than the collection of elegant hotels and chic cafes that line its streets today.
Rivkin recalls his father taking him to see construction of “this new thing called Lincoln Center,” which became an anchor of the area’s redevelopment. “The first apartment where my wife Marilyn and I lived,” he said, “was on the Upper West Side in a building that was a welfare hotel when I was growing up.”
