Waterfront scene

I love film locations and have been very interested in the topic of Henry Orient film locations for some years. By the way I live in NYC.

The park by the east river where the papers get blown around and the 2 girls have their first big conversation in the film- I think but am not sure that this is at east 72nd street, 1 block east of 1st avenue. There are some black buildings at the river end of this street that look a lot like in the film. The park overlooks the east river and then Roosevelt Island and you can get an idea in the film of where the girls are in relation to this island, which runs parallel to about e. 96th st. down to about e. 50th st. in manhattan. They are visibly well down river of the uptown (northern) tip of roos isl in the film. If I'm correct about 72nd st., the park now looks very different from in the film, unfortunately. By the way there is an episode available commercially on dvd using seemingly the same park in the 60's tv series the naked city, an episode with james coburn, where they verbally give an avenue address very close to 72nd street, which first made me think this was around where the park was. By the way this is apparently right around where the most recent Bourne film with matt damon has its climax ("415 e. 71st street" and diving into the east river).

A really useful tool for finding and comparing the locations to the film, is a portable dvd player with its own screen which you can buy on ebay for about $50 to $70 inc. shipping. If you bring the dvd and play it "in the field", even in case 72nd st is not right, you can look what part of roos island is visible across the river compared to the film and know how far away the park is from 72nd street roughly.

The film begins by looking at the U.N., from around 48th st and 1st ave, I think the school bus goes west to 3rd avenue and then goes uptown. One of the places I recognize on its trip is 72nd st + 3rd ave.

Henry Orient's address as verbally given in the film, I think is actually where it was shot, I went and looked a few years ago. If I'm right, his bldng is still there but looks somewhat different, and there is not a big staircase across the street anymore where the girls sat. When all the cop cars come, the camera looks west toward lexington avenue i think.

The restaurant where Henry meets angela lansbury (unless I'm mixing it up with the paula prentiss restaurant)- anyway, one of the restaurant scenes, henry is outside it with a woman and you can see (I only know this cause someone told me) the women's house of detention (prison), a big brick building down the street in the shot, torn down in the late 60's?, which means camera is looking toward 6th avenue and about 8th street (where the prison was, just north of the still-standing jefferson market public library, think it's an empty lot now). I think camera is looking west in that shot, but am not sure. So the restaurant is slightly east of 6th ave or slightly west of it.

Have also wondered about the rock in central park. Cant help much there but it's by the lake in central park, isnt it?, it would take about an hour or 90 minutes to walk around that lake and to look hard. By the way, the scene where it's snowing and Val goes into the park, she's entering it on central park west, possibly in the 60's or 70's.

I havent seen the whole movie for some years. In the beginning they go to one of the girls' homes. That is in the west village, on barrow street?, there is a book that gives the exact address, the movie lovers guide to new york city, which is out of print but can buy on the internet second hand or maybe it's scanned into google books or something. This is walkable from the restaurant location above (about 10 minutes away).

When the film was shown at walter reade thtr in nyc about 3 or 4 yrs ago, merrie spaeth was there and i asked her if the scenes where the girls are making a huge spectacle of themselves at night and pretending 1 of them is very sick, was shot on location or not- she assured me it was. So this should probably be near Henrys apt. By the way even tho Merrie was partly in charge of the swift boat-anti-Kerry stuff and is a top republican p.r. strategist, she seemed like an incredibly and genuinely nice person. In the movie, she seems like the absolute epitome of squirrely, passionately liberal women I knew at sarah lawrence college.

Of course there is Carnegie Hall for his concert, including the inside of it.

One of the places where the girls are jumping in the air in slo mo is in washington square park by the arch there.

If I think of anything else that ccould be helpful or if there is a question, I will post again.