Location trip to New York, September-October 2003 - part 2

by Nándor Bokor

The pictures on the left are frames from Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (1945), "The Wrong Man" (1957) and "Topaz" (1969). My corresponding photos from September-October 2003 are on the right.

Spellbound

Grand Central Station, New York:

The Wrong Man

Location of the Stork Club at 3 East 53rd Street, New York. As seen on my photos, the building has been demolished. Today there is a plaza between 1 East 53rd and 7 East 53rd, called the Samuel Paley Plaza.

East 53rd Street:

East 53rd Street, towards Fifth Avenue. Note the subway station in the foreground and St Thomas Church in the background:

The subway station at the corner of 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue:

The subway station at Roosevelt Avenue, Queens. (The staircases in the two pictures are not necessarily identical, since there are many such staircases in the station.)

The corner of Roosevelt Avenue and Broadway in the Jackson Heights district of Queens:

The 7 train of the New York subway on Roosevelt Avenue, photographed from 78th Street:

78th Street, with Roosevelt Avenue in the background:

The house next to Manny's:

Manny's house at 4024 78th Street, Jackson Heights, Queens:

The house opposite Manny's:

The 110th Precinct Police Station in Elmhurst, at 43rd Avenue and 94th Street, where Manny is taken. (I didn't get permission to photograph even the exterior - security regulations are very strict after September 11, 2001 -, that's why I couldn't match the camera angles in my photos.)

Queensboro Bridge:

The prison on Court Square, Queens:

Manny's house at 4024 78th Street, Jackson Heights, Queens:

The house opposite Manny's:

The corner of Fort Washington Avenue and West 178th Street in Washington Heights, New York (with the George Washington Bridge in the background):

A closer view of the same building:

The courthouse on Court Square, Queens. The courtroom shown in the film is courtroom #233 today. (I needed special permit from the Administrative Judge at the Jamaica Courthouse in order to photograph inside the courtroom.) My 4th photo shows the shop of a modern-day "Manny", visible from the courtroom window, and my last photo shows the courthouse from the outside.

The courtroom again. Note that the jury was moved to the other side of the room (see my courtroom photos above). A glass window (shown on my photo below) now separates the judge from the defendant (several previous cases when an angry defendant spat on the judge necessitated this change):

Topaz

St Regis Hotel.

The former Hotel Theresa (now Theresa Towers) in Harlem.

The buildings across the street from Hotel Theresa (I suspect that the street shown in the film was built at Universal studios).