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"I love this dirty town": J.J. Hunsecker and the New York of Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success is one of the great and final dramatic noir films set and filmed in an alluringly dangerous New York. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick with a brilliant script by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, the 1957 classic, shot in glor...
American Cultural History on Walking Off the Big Apple: A Chronological Guide to a Selection of Posts From the Last Two Years
Over the course of the last two years writing Walking Off the Big Apple, and it's been two years this week, I realize that many posts situate themselves in a category that would best be described as American cultural history. While I spend most of my...
Sunday Excursion on the 5th of July: Bicycling Off the Big Apple
After a relentlessly long and rainy June in New York that seemed to literally dampen summertime spirits, during a time that has many questioning how they can personally manoeuvre this changing urban economy, following what must be an unusually dark, ...
New York's Theater District: The Legacy of the Golden Age, A Walk and a Map
Even without a ticket to a Broadway play, a walk around New York's theater district can reveal the story of the American theater. In this relatively small piece of real estate, landmark plays and musicals unfolded on the stage and enriched individual...
The Marx Brothers on Broadway, & Notes on New York Theatres in the 1920s
This post is the fourth in a series about the Marx Brothers in New York. After playing the Palace Theatre, the pinnacle of the big time, the Marx Brothers drifted about on the lower rungs of the vaudeville circuit following a series of contractual di...
The Long Road to The Big Time: The Marx Brothers Play The Palace
This is the second in a series about the Marx Brothers in New York. See the first post A Walk in the East 90s: At Home with the Marx Brothers and "the Brownstone People."Before their debut on Broadway and success in the movies and television, the Mar...
Welcome to Times Square. Please Have a Seat.
From Summer 2009This morning the crews put out lawn chairs for visitors to Times Square to sit back and enjoy themselves for this Memorial Day. On one block were these colorful chairs, the kind most associate with the backyard picnic, and on another ...
Into the Memorial Day Weekend
The time has come to start the summer, and a hot day today in New York serves as a sneak preview for coming attractions. Walking Off the Big Apple is taking the long Memorial Day weekend to see museum exhibitions, explore new vistas, and to map out e...
Walking Arcades of the Theater District: Minskoff Alley and Shubert Alley
Continuing a look at walking arcades, please find below a couple of images of two walking passages near Times Square - Minskoff Alley and the famous Shubert Alley. Not far from the arcades in Midtown in the fifties, these alley passages show off the ...
The Insane Wind: The Wind-Tunnel Effect in New York and Historical Wind Storms
Yesterday, strong and relentless winds blew through the streets and urban canyons of New York, with occasional gusts as high as 55 to 60 mph. I spent much of the morning and afternoon working at home, and watching and hearing the trees sway so violen...
Walking Broadway with Abraham Lincoln: The Visit to New York for the Cooper Union Speech
Anyone who has ever traveled to a large unfamiliar city for the purpose of an important job interview and who might be a little anxious about the big job talk itself and what to wear and meeting new people should be able to imagine themselves in Abra...
