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Carnegie Deli (Restaurant) Movie: Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen) In a Broadway restaurant a group of comedians exchange old stories about the world of showbiz. As the conversation progresses, they recall Danny Rose, an agent who took on some of the most disastrous artists in the trade and whom on one occasion even risked his life to relaunch the career of an outmoded singer. |
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55 Central Park West (Firefighters Ladder) Movie: Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman) Fired from their university research jobs, Drs. Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler promptly set up shop as parapsychologists specializing in psychic phenomena and soon they’re ridding Manhattan of bizarre apparitions. But the talents of these spirit exterminators–Ghostbusters–are severely tested when beautiful Dana Barrett and her nerdy neighbor become possessed by demons living in their building. |
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Katz’s Delicatessen (Restaurant) Movie: When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) Does sex make it impossible for men and women to be true friends? The film chronicles this dilemma through the eleven year relationship between Harry Burns (Billy Cristal) and Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) who meet in college, then pursue their own lives until they reconnect ten years later. |
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Tiffany & Co. (Jewelry) Movie: Breakfast at Tiffany’s Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is New York call girl, whose allure captivates her upstairs neighbour Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who pays the rent with the help of his own wealthy “sponsor” (Patricia Neal). |
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Grand Ferry Park (Park) Movie: Radio Days These are the 40s, the golden age of radio, when the peculiar members of a working-class New York family live with the set on all day long. The music, tear-jerking dramas, stories about super-heroes, competitions, reports on high society and sports legends make them feel a bit less unhappy while they create a nostalgic collection of anecdotes about an unrepeatable period. |
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P. J. Clarke’s (Restaurant) Movie: The Lost Weekend Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a would-be writer, is a long time alcoholic who is dissatisfied with his life. His brother Wick (Phillip Terry) and girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) manage to keep him sober for 10 days, but he arranges to get away from them and goes on a self-destructive three-day binge. |
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Fanelli Cafe (Restaurant) Movie: State of Grace Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) returns to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen after twelve years to find that his old neighborhood of seedy bars and Irish-American mobsters has been taken over by Yuppies hell-bent on gentrification. Terry’s childhood buddies, ruthless gang leader Frankie Flannery (Ed Harris) and his psychotic brother Jackie (Gary Oldman), are determined to keep the neighborhood’s tradition of organized — and extremely violent — crime alive. Terry joins Frankie’s gang and gets back together with his former love, Frankie’s sister Kathleen (Robin Wright). But as the cops crack down on the Flannery crime ring, it becomes clear that Terry’s loyalties are dangerously divided. |
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Grand Central Terminal (Building) Movie: The Fisher King Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese’s mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his listeners. One fan in particular takes Jack’s rants to heart and goes to a fancy restaurant with a gun, murdering innocent diners. Jack is so distraught at what his on-air suggestion wrought that he sinks into a three-year depression, drinking himself to sleep and mooching off of his girlfriend Anne Napolitano (Mercedes Ruehl, in an Oscar-winning performance), an attractive owner of a video store. Hitting bottom, Jack slumps to the river, prepared to commit suicide. To his rescue comes a crazed but witty homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams), who tells Jack he’s destined for great things — all his has to do is find the Holy Grail (conveniently located in mid-town Manhattan) and save Parry’s soul. He also wants Jack to help him out with the woman of his dreams, Lydia Sinclair (Amanda Plummer), a shy type who works at a publishing company. Parry was once a university professor became unglued by a tragic event in his past; Jack soon realizes that to save himself, he first must save Parry. |
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The Actor’s Studio (Building) Movie: Fame At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia. |
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Dakota Apartment Building Movie: Rosemary’s Baby Actor Guy Woodhouse and his wife Rosemary move into a new apartment. In no time they befriend their neighbours, the aging Castevets. Rosemary soon becomes pregnant. But when her obstetrician prescribes herbal medicines, which the Castevets provide, Rosemary becomes increasingly sicker. She becomes suspicious of the strange coincidences that start to occur around her and comes to believe that the Castevets, her obstetrician and even Guy are a conspiring coven of Satanists and that the child she is carrying may have been fathered by the Devil. |
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Metro Lexington Ave & E 52nd St (Metro Station) Movie: The Seven Year Itch In summertime in Manhattan, the plain and average Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) sends his wife and son for vacation in the country. Sherman is the key man of a publishing firm, Brady & Company, which publishes cheap pocket books. The faithful Sherman has a routine life with his family and dreams on being successful with women. When a beautiful and sexy blonde (Marilyn Monroe) lodges the upstairs apartment of his small building, Sherman first opens the front door for her and then he invites her to have a drink with him after the fall of her tomato vase on his chair… |
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Hotel 17 New York (Building) Movie: Manhattan Murder Mistery Carol Lipton (Diane Keaton) suspects that her aged neighbour Paul House (Jerry Adler) has murdered his wife, found dead seemingly due to a heart attack. Her husband Larry (Woody Allen), thinks she’s paranoid and tries to get the idea out of her head; but Carol is determined to find out more about her neighbour and decides to follow him with the help of Ted (Alan Alda), a friend of the couple who’s always fancied her. |
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Park Slope (Park) Movie: Smoke (Wayne Wang) In 1990, novelist Paul Auster was asked to contribute a Christmas story to the New York Times. The resulting piece, “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story,” forms the basis for his screenplay for SMOKE. Directed by Wayne Wang and set in a Brooklyn cigar store, Auster expanded the story to include four other characters whose lives intertwine with Auggie Wren’s. As Auggie, the manager of the store that serves as a neighborhood meeting place, Harvey Keitel gives a restrained, mellow performance. The other characters, Paul (William Hurt), a blocked writer; Rashid (Harold Perrineau Jr.), a troubled youth; Ruby (Stockard Channing), Auggie’s former lover; and Cyrus (Forest Whitaker), Rashid’s long-lost father, form a web of relationships over a few summer days. Auster, who had previously adapted his novel THE MUSIC OF CHANCE into a taut script, here exhibits a loose, almost improvisational style as he lets his characters simply talk about their lives. Wang eschews the big, somewhat melodramatic style he used in THE JOY LUCK CLUB for relaxed, natural direction that allows the actors, who are all terrific, to project an everyday realism seldom seen in American movies. The actual Christmas story appears at the end in a beautiful black-and-white montage, accompanied by a bittersweet Tom Waits song. |
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USS Intrepid Movie: I Am Legend Year 2012. Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable…and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City…and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by “the infected”–victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings that can only exist in the dark and that will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path. For three years, Neville has spent his days scavenging for food and supplies and faithfully sending out radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. All the while, the infected lurk in the shadows, watching Neville’s every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But his blood is also what the infected hunt, and Neville knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time. |
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Daily Planet (Building) Movie: Superman (Richard Donner) Chronicles the origins of Superman – rocketed from the dying planet Krypton by his scientist father Jor-El, Kal-El arrives on Earth and is taken in by the Kents. After his adopted father dies, Kal-El (named Clark) discovers his origins and takes on the role of Superman. Travelling to Metropolis, Superman meets love interest Lois Lane and soon finds himself struggling against Lex Luthor, a criminal genius who plans to drop the California coastline into the Pacific Ocean using a nuclear missile and cash in on the desert (now beachfront) real estate property he has bought up. |
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Nathan’s Famous (Restaurant) Movie: He got game (Spike Lee) Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus’ mother. |
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