On Halloween Eve, teams of New York City architects will go “gourd-to-gourd” to create the most impressive work of pumpkin
Atlantic City’s coveted real estate properties of Boardwalk, Park Place, and Atlantic Ave featured in the classic MONOPOLY board
With peak foliage season soon approaching, it’s the perfect time to book a cruise up the Hudson River and
Releasing on Amazon Prime Video on Thursday October 18th is the new series Modern Love, based on the popular column in The New York Times that explores relationships of all kinds. The series, inspired by true stories from the column that “explore love in New York City in its many forms — Romantic, Universal, Familial, Platonic, and Self-Love,” features a large ensemble cast including Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Dev Patel, Julia Garner, Catherine Keener, John Slattery, and many more. In addition, a Museum of Modern Love opened at 632 Broadway this past weekend in tandem with the show with interactive exhibitions and even a custom flavor popcorn machine inspired by characters in the show.
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In the episode “Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am,” with Anne Hathaway and Gary Carr, Hathaway’s character Lexi meets Carr’s character Jeff inside the Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn (“I was in cold meats and cheese, he was in fruit and veg, we knew it was love.” A coordinated dance breaks out (as imagined by Lexi) in the brick building.
The warehouse, with those awesome real shutters, was once a warehouse for William Beard and part of the industrial activities connected to the Erie Basin (itself part of the Erie Canal). “If you can find love early morning in the supermarket, you know you can trust it,” Lexi, a lawyer struggling with bipolar disorder says. The person whose essay the episode was based on says in a recent interview with the New York Times, “With John, he mentioned wanting to do the manic episode like “La La Land,” and I thought that was brilliant because that’s the way it is. Everything’s so bright. You are Mary Tyler Moore in her opening sequence.”
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In the opening episode, “When Your Doorman Is Your Main Man,” Cristin Milioti’s character Maggie lives in a pre-war apartment at Copley Plaza at 41 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn across from the Brooklyn Public Library. Her doorman, Guzmin, stands guard, judging the dates she brings back, sometimes in advance summoning a yellow taxi to take them home before things get beyond the front door.
Maggie wants the approval of Guzmin, but also wants him to go easy on a new British guy she’s dating. The episode description has in her words, “Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, acting as gatekeepers, bodyguards, confidants and father figures.”
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Maggie arranges to meet with the British guy to break him the news that she’s pregnant and he’s the dad. They meet inside Gladys, a Caribbean food restaurant on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights. The restaurant recently redesigned its facade, so you won’t see the same entrance as in the show. But the food is still great! Gladys was also a film location in the Netflix show Luke Cage. You can read an interview with the woman the episode was based on in the New York Times.
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In “When Cupid is a Prying Journalist,” Dev Patel plays Joshua, the CEO of a dating app, who is interviewed by Catherine Keener, a journalist for the New York Times named Julie. They meet at second floor lounge of the the Arlo Nomad hotel.
Julie asks Joshua if he’s ever been in love, throwing him off. Still, this conversation will “change the course of both of their lives,” the episode description promises.
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Joshua and Julie continue their conversation, grabbing coffee, and heading to a bench in Washington Square Park where Joshua spills the story behind the scenes: he’s heartbroken over the infidelity of his ex-girlfriend, and hasn’t really recovered. Julie then shares her story about a man she never forgot about, but who didn’t show up to meet her at her Paris apartment.
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Julie recounts how she gave a book talk at the Riverrun bookstore in Hastings-on-Hudson and her old love shows up at the signing. He shows her the train ticket he took, and she realizes for the first time, he did try to come to Paris to see her. The book he had written her address on was stolen on the train. They spend the evening together (mostly platonically it seems) wondering what it might have been like had things turned out differently.
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In the episode “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive,” Tina Fey and John Slattery play Tina and John, a couple in therapy trying to figure their relationship out. They take in a movie at the Moorish-inspired Village East Cinema at 181-189 Second Avenue, which leads to deep questions about if there is any point in being together once their kids fly the coop.
“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting it to be over: not the summer, not our son’s childhood, not this game, ever,” the episode description reads.
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Tina and John go to a therapist played by Sarita Choudhury whose office is located at 333 Central Park West. They visit here repeatedly, without much result, and in a key moment, John runs into people he knows on the street.
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The therapist suggests that Tina and John do a hobby together and so they go to play tennis, sometimes the two of them, sometimes with their kids. Most of the tennis scenes are shot in the Central Park Tennis Center, just south of the 97th Street Transverse north of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir.
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In the “Race Grows Sweeter Near its Final Lap,” Jane Alexander and James Saito play Margo and Kenji, two New Yorkers in their twilight years. They meet in a running race that ends on the waterfront at Carl Schurz Park (where Gracie Mansion is). Margo wonders where Kenji is, joking “I’d be very disappointed if he died before I got the chance to ask him out!”
“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. The finish line was drawing closer.
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In “Hers Was a World of One,” Olivia Cooke (from Me, Earl and the Dying Girl) plays Karla, a homeless pregnant woman who is offering her baby to gay couple Tobin and Andy (played by Andrew Scott and Brandon Kyle Goodman). She ends up moving in with them in the living room of their apartment in the East Village at 37 East 7th Street down the street from McSorley’s Old Ale House and Streecha Ukrainian Kitchen, and you’ll see many scenes shot in the neighborhood and along the waterfront.
In the description, “There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.”
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“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen in the middle of a promising date is an especially bad time,” is the premise of “At the Hospital, An Interlude of Clarity” starring Sofia Boutella as Yasmine and John Gallagher Jr. as Rob, who ends up in an ambulance and at the hospital in a date gone wrong. Later the episode, they go to to the Elizabeth Street Garden, one of Nolita’s great gems, which is currently at high risk of being demolished and replaced by housing.
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In “So He Looked Like Dad. It was Just Dinner, Right?” Julia Garner plays Maddy, who develops a relationship with a “Genius” in her robotics company in the hopes that he’ll stand in for the dad she lost when she was eleven. They go to the Central Park Zoo on a weekend afternoon, which the Genius definitely thinks is a date.
Next, check out the NYC-area Filming Locations for Joker.
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