Sightseeing New York With a Film-Buff Boyfriend

seeing New York with your boyfriend in tow can beStreet near Elmhurst Avenue. This is the address of
difficult. After all if you were with your girlfriends youBetty Sanchez from Ugly Betty and the mint-green,
wouldn’t have any qualms about spending ancolonial house that she lives in is a popular attraction
afternoon in Bloomingdale’s or dragging themfor those sightseeing New York.
halfway around East Village so that you can haveRelive Karen’s Disastrous Double Date at
your picture taken standing on the steps next toSalernos
Carrie’s apartment. When it’s yourAnother movie filmed around Queens is
boyfriend however, something’s got to give. SoGoodfella’s, and the Italian restaurant
if you’re planning on watching a fashion showSalerno’s, based at Hillside Avenue on
at Macy’s or checking out the Gossip Girl Hotel,Richmond Hill, Queens, is remembered for being the
make sure that you indulge your boyfriend’splace that Hill took Karen on their first disastrous
passion by ordering a pizza from the restaurant useddouble date. Of course, Hill managed to impress Karen
in Men in Black II, or checking out thelater by whisking her through the kitchen at the old
Ghostbuster’s fire station.Copacabana Nightclub, based at 10 East 60th Street
Grab a Bite with the Men in Blackat Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The nightclub may have
Your boyfriend is bound to tell you that sightseeingsince closed but you can still see the entrance used
New York and an empty stomach just don’tfor the electrifying tracking shot.
mix. So before he, or his stomach, get the chance toWho You Going To Call?
grumble, whisk him away to Ben’s Pizza, whichThe small firestation that serves as the Ghostbusters
is probably the most famous pizza joint in the whole ofHeadquarters is, in fact, a real building and can be seen
New York City. Sadly, Rosario Dawson won’twhen sightseeing New York’s Tribeca area.
be serving you, but that doesn’t mean that youThe 8 Hook and Ladder is based at 14 North Moore
shouldn’t stop by 177 Spring Street for a sliceStreet and is still a working firehouse. However, a
of the restaurant’s greasy pepperoni pizza,decommissioned building in Los Angeles was used in
with possibly the best crust you’re ever likely tothe Ghostbusters film for the interiors.
sample.Norman Osborn’s Apartment in Spiderman
Visit Spiderman’s HouseBack in Manhattan you can visit the apartment of
From New York’s best pizza, to hanging outNorman Osborn, Spidey’s arch-nemesis.
with New York’s most famous pizza deliveryNorman’s apartment at 5 Tudor City Place at
boy! Most of the Spiderman trilogy was shot aroundEast 41st Street scores a hat-trick for your film-buff
Los Angeles, but if you take the subway to Queensboyfriend, as it was home to no less than three iconic
you can still see the childhood home where Spidermanmovies. Tom Hanks’ character lived here in
lived with his Aunt Dorothy. Spiderman’s road isSplash, Norman Osborn in Spiderman and most
69th Street between Metropolitan Avenue and Sybillafamously it was the home of the intended bomb victim
Street in Forest Hills. Whilst you’re in Queensin that cult-movie classic Scarface.
you may be tempted to wander uptown to 92nd