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This part of the street feels like somewhere in France or Germany. There is stunning contemporary architecture, public art, lovely sidewalks and street intersections, and a proliferation of boutique stores selling furniture and all sorts of beautiful things from Europe. … Continue reading
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This is quite literally, the most fabulous and fashionable square in NYC. You got the Plaza Hotel. You got Bergdorf Goodman. You got 5th Avenue. You even got Apple and its transparent cube! Naturally, the imaginary movie here is conceived … Continue reading
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This is the location for an opulent period costume drama, set at the turn of the 19th century. Titled Park Place it revolves around the lives and intrigues of one wealthy merchant family. Inspired by the novels of Henry James … Continue reading
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Columbus Circle is a circle of power. It is the perfect setting for the next imaginary movie, named after the location it is set in. This one’s about a man who is at the very pinnacle of his career in … Continue reading
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This area is no-man’s land, falling between Hell’s Kitchen and the Upper East Side. Here, there is a kind of nondescript industrial landscape – all stark angles and diminishing sightlines. Here, terror is about to strike. A timebomb has been … Continue reading
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58th Street is a cinematic street. Walking down this street I think of only one thing – the MOVIES. I think The Godfather, I think Woody Allen, I think Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, Robert de Niro. I think Moonstruck, I … Continue reading
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Emerging from Central Park and a stroll round the Reservoir, we arrive at the Upper West Side, where things are a little less buttoned-up and formal. The foliage here, too, appears in slightly more whimsical and unexpected forms, framing buildings … Continue reading
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At the very heart of 92nd Street is the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, in Central Park. The street itself would cut across the water, but those who walk on it may not pass. Instead, we take the winding path along … Continue reading
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Past 3rd Avenue, the Upper East Side begins in earnest. Here, the landscape changes abruptly, with stately mansions and colonial-era porticoed houses standing in the shadow of slightly more recent tenements and apartments. There is a period, provincial feel that … Continue reading
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Yorkville has a surfeit of towering condominium buildings, flanked by turn-of-the-century tenements and framed by tree-lined streets. Being the height of summer, the trees here had full, leafy canopies, making the entire neighborhood feel a bit like a park or … Continue reading
Dream Of A City 