New York: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York

by Richard Alleman

The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen,

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 . . .

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 The Movie Lover’s Guide is the ultimate insider’s guide to the Big Apple’s reel attractions.

Genres: New York, Nonfiction, Media Tie In, Travel

528 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2005

About the author

A longtime contributing editor at Travel + Leisure magazine, former travel editor of Vogue, where he is a regular contributor on travel and entertainment. Currently living in New York City, he has carried on a longtime love affair with Los Angeles, where he lived for several years as an actor and writer.

Reviews

[Tosh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Almost too much information regarding films that took place or shot in New York City. But nevertheless it's an important piece of knowledge and a great reference guide to New York itself.

I am a huge fan of how cities are portrayed in films. New York like Los Angeles is a great American city, and usually these pair of cities become characters in various films. I feel sometimes that New York or Los Angeles get top billing in films. For instance, Los Angeles and Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski's "Chinatown." Or New York City with Burt Landcaster and Tony Curtis in "Sweet Smell of Success."

Oh, and get the Los Angeles version of this book as well. Essential.

[Alexis Fedor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a wonderful account of New York's movie history. I live in NYC and am taking this book with me for my own personal tour of the city. If you love film, this book will help you merge your experience of NYC with the best movie stories and places. Beautiful!

[Scott Jamieson · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF so I can’t really say anything about it. As far in as I got, this book just wasn’t for me.

[R.Friend · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent reference to the countless films and scenes created in the city over the years, including many nice surprises.