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

Richard Alleman

Broadway Books, 2005 - Performing Arts - 512 pages

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.

What people are saying

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

User Review  - Alexis Fedor - Goodreads

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!

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

User Review  - R.Friend - Goodreads

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

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: New York: The Movie Lover's Guide : The Ultimate Insider Tour To Movie New York
• Author: Richard Alleman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Broadway Books, 2005
• ISBN: 0767916344, 9780767916349
• Length: 512 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Travel / United States / General