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Interesting to think this is the UN neighborhood now.

posted 12 years ago by mousalope
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The IMDB trivia gives the location of the neighborhood inspiring the story. Plugging that into google you see it's now only a couple blocks north of UN Plaza. High rent turf today but considering the realities of the UN, it was probably a classier crowd with Baby Face and the Bowery Boys.

As for the shootout, Thomas Jackson did pretty good. First he takes out Edward G Robinson in Little Caesar, and six years later he nails Bogie in this film. I don't think any other movie lawman matched that.

[–] montrossboc-1 8 years ago

I was a door man on 57th between First ave and Sutton Place from '67-'69, and lived on 39th St and 2nd Ave, 4 blocks from the UN from '76 until 2000.

Tudor City was built before the UN, and had no windows facing east because where the eventually built UN was occupied by slaughterhouses.

Short Cut, Draw Blood

[–] [email protected] 8 years ago

I used to live at 332 E 54 St in the 1970s and went to Art and Design High School in the 19602.J Which building did you work in? Jake LaMotta has lived at 400 E 57th street for many years. Marilyn Monroe used to live there as well.

[–] montrossboc-1 8 years ago

510 E. 57th St.

Short Cut, Draw Blood

[–] BourbonKing (5612) 4 years ago

A lot of places that are considered high-end/society neighborhoods use to be slums and/or crime-ridden cesspools.

San Francisco was like Deadwood on Acid back in the late 19th Century