New York: The Movie Lovers Guide: The Ultimate Insider

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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.

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Average Customer Review

(4 customer reviews)

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

good armchair traveling, too, March 2, 2005

Karen Frerichs - See all my reviews

This review is from: New York: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York (Paperback)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

In depth details including industry history on the East Coast, March 3, 2010

J. Powell (Mid-Atlantic, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New York: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York (Paperback)

This is a great book that starts out with a detailed history of the birth of the film industry in New Jersey.

The book eases you from the history, right into specific sections of Manhattan, without you barely noticing.

It's comprehensive in so many ways, that even living in NYC, and being a NYC movie scene buff, I discovered many new things.

The book is broken down by sections of the city:

Midtown, Broadway, Uppers East side, etc.

So it'd be easy to put together a good walking tour that is filled with sites to enjoy.

This is a great travel companion when visiting NYC, or a nice desk reference for more info while watching your favorite movies.

I'm going to add this to my Amazon list of "Best guide books of NYC".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

WOW!! Awesome book!, May 16, 2008

Craig M. Wells (St. Marys, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New York: The Movie Lover's Guide: The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York (Paperback)

This is a terrific book for New York lovers like me! I highly recommend it to anyone!