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Still Photos Of The Filming Of Naked City: Summer 1947

Naked City Stills-mcny
I look at some of these photos, especially the ones near Delancey and Suffolk and Clinton, searching to possibly see my parents. They were living at 76 Suffolk at the time. They come from the mcny collection
and they were taken by Stanley Kubrick, who was working then as a still photographer
About the movie:

The Naked City (1948) Directed by Jules Dassin. Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Don Taylor (96 min.)
There are 8 million stories in The Naked City! As a hot summer night works its way towards dawn, a murder is discovered; a girl whose crime was "wanting too much--that's why she went wrong. Bright lights, theaters, furs and nightclubs. That's why she's dead now. Dear God, why wasn't she born ugly!" A narrow apartment kitchen, rush-hour subways, the Williamsburg Bridge and Lower East Side streets swarming with passers-by are among the 107 riveting locations around NYC. No other film had ever conveyed the immensity of police work in the teeming metropolis.
Feature films had not been shot on location in NYC since the silent era, when Mark Hellinger, a former columnist, screenwriter and veteran of the Army Air Force's Motion Picture Unit proposed that a fiction film made with the urgency of a documentary would be a fresh approach to the crime film. There were plenty of films set in New York, of course, in the fantasy New York of the Hollywood backlots and soundstages, created by writers and directors nostalgic for the cultural rush and urban beauty of the East Coast. Second unit crews shot background shots in the city, and newsreels were still made there. But, feature film making in NYC was only a memory. A few films had attempted something more ambitious, notably a sequence shot with hidden cameras on Third Avenue in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend.
The script was originally called Homicide, but was renamed The Naked City, a title purchased from the still photographer WeeGee, notorious for his unadorned, sometimes ghastly flashes of New York after dark. In the summer of 1947 a full crew commanded by director (and former New Yorker) Jules Dassin descended on the city. The onlookers created countless problems for the police assigned to protect the filmmakers. Perhaps as many as 200,000 spectators watched the filming around town at different times, and others kept up with the production schedule in the daily newspapers.

Dover and Water Street: 1951

from the mcny collection

PS 177: Built In 1899

Somewhere in this blog I have it as 1903. Other KVers recall seeing a marker on the building to that effect. Maybe it was begun in 1899. from the mcny collection

Catherine Street: 1941

The view from approximately 60 Catherine Street looking SE towards Monroe Street.
from the mcny collection

Mariner's Church 1915: Close Up View 2

from the mcny collection

Mariner's Church 1915: Close Up View 1

Looks like a motorized bike. A sign saying, "Reading Room," is visible on the church.

Mariner's Church 1915, Another View

This time we're looking west from Madison towards Catherine. from the mcny collection

Mariner's Church 1915

The view is from Madison Street looking towards Catherine. from the mcny collection

Images Of Cliff Street In Ward 2

Cliff Street
from the mcny collection

Hamilton House: Dedication Of New Site, 1953

above, Marie Embarratto is mentioned. I wonder if it's any relation to?
below from the mcny collection

46 Market Street, 1939: C.R. Scruton's Pharmacy

from the mcny collection
below a close-up of the display

We posted previously on this pharmacy
and also with a close up view

41-43 Market Street: 1953

from the mcny collection
with two close ups below

The KV Pits: 1950

from the mcny collection
below I tried to magnify the image to make out what the plaque says, but I can't figure it out for sure. It might say west court, buildings GHIJKL ?

90 Madison Street: 1942

from the mcny collection

85 Madison Street: Then and Closer

from the mcny collection

The close up shows the campaign poster for John Lamula

77 Madison Street: Then And Now

above from the mcny collection

it's hard to figure if the current address was the same building as the location of the original King's Daughters and Sons' home. Often the grid numbers are shifted.

106 Madison Street: Then And Now

The pic above from the mcny collection gives no address , but I figured it out by the unique building entrance

110 Madison Street: Then And Now

the image from the mcny collection

I remember Nunzio and his wife. The seating arrangements in the place were unique. Tables lined on a ledge approx three feet elevated from the floor of the most of the place. And a bar separating the table areas from the floor so you couldn't slide off your seat and kerplunk. The pizza has never been equaled. Forget about fancy schmancy anything. Brick oven, with each brick dismantled from equal parts of Canaan, Zion, Shangri-la and Arcadia. Not to mention Elysium and Utopia.
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Riis' Gotham Court From The Museum Of The City Of New York

Mcny Gotham Court
from the museum of the city of new york's digital collection..
I alternated many of the images with close ups of certain parts of interest. Notice the advertisement for a 1889 event at Jones Wood on page 9 of the document.It looks like it was sponsored by a Edward Lennon. That must have been a world apart from the horrors of life in the Fourth Ward at that time