Like anybody I guess, I assumed New York City began the second I walked
in, and would disappear the moment I left. Just now I walked by my
freight elevator, where a kid in his early 20's wearing a Yeah Yeah
Yeahs t-shirt was excitedly loading in boxes from what looked like his
parents' minivan. - XMASTIME
I walked across and back the Williamsburg Bridge many times; it was a perfect hour walk door to door round-trip from 100 Metro.
And it turns 111 today:
Even the MOVIES love you—you've been featured in
City for Conquest (1940), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Naked
City (1948), The French Connection (1971), Serpico and Live and Let Die
(both 1973), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Johnny Suede (1991),
Scent of a Woman (1992), American Gangster (2007), The Siege (1998),
Léon (1994), The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie (2005), and The Dark
Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man (both 2012).
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