Apartment on River St.
I believe Andrea was in Hoboken (my hometown), if I remember correctly she was looking out through a telescope at Emily in her apartment across the river - it had to be Hoboken... Does anyone know?
shareI might be mistaken but here's my theory...
There IS a River Street in Hoboken. However, I thought Talia Shire's character moved from Manhattan to the Brooklyn Heights area (specifically the one that faces Hudson River & a stunning view of NYC skyline). This is the neighborhood where writer Norman Mailer lived and the 1977 horror movie THE SENTINEL, starring Ava Gardner, was shot. Although I couldn't find any River Street on the side of Manhattan that faces Brooklyn Heights, while I watched the scenes featuring Elizabeth Ashley's looking through her telescope, I figured that flat could've been somewhere around the South Street Seaport area, downtown east. Curiously enough, there is a River Street that goes all the way to the waterfront on the Brooklyn side, in the Williamsburg area.
By the way, I found it rather far-fetched & funny (IF Talia was on Brooklyn Heights and Liz Ashley was on the east edge of Manhattan) that she had a telescope SO powerful, that it afforded her a view as close & sharp of Talia's window - across the Hudson River, no less - and as good as Craig Wasson's voyeur to Melanie Griffith's sexy window dance in a MUCH CLOSER location in Brian De Palma's BODY DOUBLE.
And, if that wasn't another "off" element amongst many that make this film into the bad movie oddity that it became, the SIZE of that telescope was another phallic reference that had me rolling my eyes (after the sharp knife-in-mouth while-being-straddled prolongued opening, etc.).
The frozen cat falling off the freezer was another sublime moment.
Someone mentioned that Talia Shire reminded them of Shelley Duvall. I got reminded of a sterner version of Didi Conn.
The film's photography and period and Elizabeth Ashley's performance (particularly her perplexing, method-acting line delivery, anti-climactic yet oddly fascinating final close-up scene) make this film worth checking out.