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The filming locations for The Connection, French then and now.
There are a few years, I drove an art director around a scout when he asked me to take her to a gritty section of New York Not exactly what to do, I drove to a area with one of the highest rates of crime in the city he left the car, looked around and said, this is not the right is beautiful Where are the flaming barrels abandoned buildings gritty city New York.
The only place you will find gritty New York City is these days in films.
William Friedkin of French Connection represents the kind of New York, he sought Made in 1971, the city of Decay is central in almost all the images of abandoned buildings covered the dirt and cars abandoned with dilapidated warehouses and trash- many strewn and sometimes neglect is nothing tragic and New York beautification over the last 25 years came to a bygone prices are many conventional institutions of New York and the mom-and-pop stores of the past, REPLACES by blandness usually reserved for suburban shopping centers.
Let a look at what has changed in the last 43 years.
After a brief opening scene in Marseille soon be covered by Scouting France site, the action moves to Brooklyn, where we meet our hero, Jimmy Popeye Doyle in front of the Oasis Bar Grill Filmed at 914 Broadway in bed -Stuy Bushwick border bar is now a Chinese restaurant called China City.
Popeye and his partner friends Russo cloudy engaged in a drug stash at the Oasis.
Like Popeye, dressed in a Santa suit, entertains local children outside, chasing a suspect Cloudy bar Note the theater in the background, known in 1971 as the Rio Piedras, and the bathroom pool outside.
This was the origin of the Loew Broadway, built in 1904 with seating for 2000 Here is a photo taken at its peak, with permission.
The theater was demolished in 1988 and the site was a vacant lot since.
Popeye and Cloudy hunt PERP in an unusual entrance two buildings down.
Today, this facade is looking quite different as Bargain Bazaar Senior Loco.
Hunting passes near Bushwick Avenue and Arion place as the dealer leaking.
Then, passing a little wobbly with geography, continues hunting on Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Ellery Street.
Popeye and Cloudy eventually apprehend the suspect in a huge vacant lot.
What today is occupied by Woodhall Hospital, built about 10 years later in 1982.
Popeye and Cloudy drag the suspect to a vacant lot, and the magic of cinema, suddenly wind in East Harlem Someone recognizes this street These three buildings are surprisingly 4 separate stories, three large windows, an arched entry one of them Then again, they could all uprooted ve down there for decades, I did a lot of research but came up empty.
Later, while getting drinks at the Copacabana, Popeye and notice anything unusual clouds a young couple, Bocas, dining room with figures of the crowd noted this was not done shot at the Copa, and I was not able to identify the location figurante.
On a hunch, Popeye and Cloudy decide to tail the couple, through Times Square on Broadway Note the Cinema Circus on the left, the Trans-Lux Theater on the right to play the Italian film 1970 The wife of the priest, and restaurant with flame steak for 1. 59
Today we have a Sbarro's, the Hershey store and a gift shop.
They continue south in Times Square Note the famous Times Square Automat right, which opened in 1912 and offered the precooked food pieces windows.
Today it is a Radioshack but not much longer.
Detectives waiting outside the couple dines at Ratner's, a famous kosher dairy restaurant on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side.
Opened in 1918, Ratner's was known for its selection of meatless menu as gefilte fish, latkes and blintzes It closed in 2004.
As detectives Bocas waiting to leave, we get a nice picture of the Williamsburg Bridge lowest note the changes to the recast of the late 1990s.
Finishing breakfast, the Bocas off with Popeye and Cloudy in tow Curious to know that the construction was on the extreme right, now gone too, you can see a small ribbon of the awning at Delancey Theater Loew to left, now gutted but unfortunately we had a 7-11 store an AT T and Burger King.
As detectives drive through Little Italy, we get shots of the street, incredibly, more or less unchanged over 40 years later First, we cruise on Grand Street, passing the Alleva dairy, founded in 1892, and Piedmont ravioli co-founded in 1920 still there.
Further west on Grand Street, we see the Italian Food Center grocery store is now gone, replaced by an Italian restaurant via this name Note the restoration of adjacent buildings.
We get a passing shot final Cafe Roma street Broome, founded in 1891 and still active, with neon and ad painted wall.
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Great, great series Interruption of Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights arrived there about 10 years, an excessive height tractor-trailer on the BQE overpass struck with such force that it was impossible to restore the bridge with a specification that would support traffic the city closed the Middagh Street bridge and set up barriers and the green space is the advantage that the closure is that outbound traffic from the Brooklyn bridge could not use Brooklyn Heights as a shortcut to get to Columbia Heights and the BQE to the south; Now, all that traffic is down Cadman Plaza Old Fulton Street.
I can not remember every Middagh Street bridge is on solid ground, although the highway could be channeled underneath My understanding is that the road was closed for the express reason that you mentioned, which was relieve all the cut-through traffic in this area the best proof that there never was a bridge there is the film itself.
It's fantastic NYC 1970 still exists You have to look, of course, I saw, just take a trip to 191st in the train 1 and take the Broadway St Nicholas It is no tunnel, with the lighting of 1970, sends you Talking back to gritty squalor.
It is funny, James, but the corridor between Broadway Bed-Stuy and 58th Road in Maspeth is where much of the connection FRENCH was shot hunting Santa around Bushwick Ave in the sandwich Sal and Angie on Wyckoff Ave the party hunting on Palmetto and Onderdonk quoting you and finally the police garage in Queens.
Yes this hunting scene jumps around a bunch He even an avenue in one direction and then down the other way in a subsequent stage lol movie audience never even noticed that if you lived there but the beginning of a part of the hunt was Bensonhurst so I think a number of neighborhoods can claim a piece of the famous hunting He passed my two high school Lafayette right between Stillwell Avenue and 27th Avenue and the park I use to as a child hanging West 13th Street, Marlboro from the housing projects were Popeye I lived actually watched them filming that scene cameras were mounted on some vehicles specially rigged and they walked down West 13th Street filming the car through point view of the park while being between hunting jumped around in other neighborhoods and never came They also had a train N when it should have been the B line to that point at least pe nding the scene in this particular El as we call it in Brooklyn Great 70 Al film liked ways Hackman.
I happened to catch the American Gangster movie with Denzel Washington and recalled after the French connection streamed then I watched it again I find your site navigation to some of the original locations and realized that the new China City Restaurant formerly Oasis Bar TFC was used in a major scene in American Gangster which stops the character played by Washington to get food for himself and his wife, and an attempt is made on their lives is about 2 02 on the movie Gangster there are vast exterior shots and some of the restaurant's interior, so it.
This is so even though I recently became disenchanted with New York and it shows exactly why I liked the grain is no longer I agree with you on the custard shop in GCT, but I thought on gross way it is underground and what I really want to get some food probably unpackaged prepared not, haha also hate that there are no more drive piles under the bridge Brooklyn What a Gyp.
It seems to have been full of a kind of ovens The building, now gone, was next to another building connected with a large fireplace, the two existing facades of the oven or are not built like crematory retorts are built, nor do they seem to be efficiently loaded incinerators that does the construction seems to be that of they Might boilers were used as heaters in some sort of smithing or metallurgical operations I am always looking to find the answer if you find, let us know.
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