The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including- Classic film and TV locations - Marilyn Monroe's infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends ) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man ) waitressed . . . Men in Black 's Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island...the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters ' Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow's A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace 's Upper West Side building . . . The All in the Family block in Queens . . . The Sopranos ' New Jersey mansion (and the real Bada Bing club) . . . Seinfeld's favorite diner . . . Sex and the City's sexiest haunts . . . and many more . . . Stars' childhood homes - Lena Horne's Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra's Hoboken row house . . . Barbra Streisand's Flatbush housing project . . . J.Lo's Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart's Upper West Side tenement . . . the Marx Brothers' Upper East Side brownstone . . . Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen's greatest legends - Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . . Plus- Superstar cemeteries . . . major film and TV studios . . . historic movie palaces and Broadway theaters . . . star-studded restaurants and legendary hotels . . . For movie-loving New Yorkers, travelers and armchair film buffs, New York- The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to the Big Apple's reel attractions.
This is a terrific book for New York lovers like me! I highly recommend it to anyone!
good armchair traveling, too
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I used to live in NYC, and still visit often...but not often enough. This well-researched book will be great for my next trip, as a walking tour guide; in the meantime, I'm having a lot of fun reading and remembering the movies and their locales. I recommend this book to all travelers to NY!
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