Do you know the location of the new NYC Paul Boray apartment?

I watched ‘Humoresque’ last night then came here for background information. I ended up reading everything about Humoresque, all User Reviews and all Board's Messages too, so I just had to watch the movie all over again this morning. I didn’t mind, it’s a wonderful film that I hadn’t seen in years.

Now: Filming locations for Humoresque are given as Warner Brothers Burbank Studios, California. Could it be possible some of the filming was done in New York City?

At 1:22:16 into the movie, we are inside Paul’ new apartment; Sid is playing ‘Malaguena’ and we see men working in the apartment and on a canopied balcony, outside of a large curved window. Paul is stashing books on a shelf to the left of the piano.

During the five minute scene, we see through the bow window what looks like NYC’s Triborough Bridge as it spans the East River. For some reason, the bridge appears rather spindly.

In Manhattan’s Sutton Place neighborhood, there’s a 4-story red brick building standing just south of the Sutton Square and Riverview Terrace intersection. That building has large, white trimmed bow windows on four floors that look over the East River and Roosevelt Island, very close to Triborough Bridge.

Could the scene described above have been shot from the upper floor of that Sutton Square building? The view of the bridge through the apartment’s bow window would seem to be similar to the view of the bridge seen in Google Maps’ Street View (while traveling east on Sutton Square from Sutton Place.)

If the scene was shot in Burbank, kudos to the studios. They certainly went to a lot of trouble to reproduce a view of New York City as faithfully as possible!


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