"Autumn in New York": Locations from your favorite movie

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In the fall, you always want to watch your favorite films, hiding in the cozy warmth of your own home. For a good mood, it is not bad to watch a movie about autumn, but it is necessary that autumn there was not like outside the window - gloomy, cloudy and rainy, but solemn, beautiful and bright, like in the film "Autumn in New York" with Richard Gere and Winona Rider. A soulful movie, in the finale of which tears come in the eyes of sentimental persons, and the mesmerizing beauty of autumn New York awakens the desire to get out from under the blanket and go on a journey. Once in New York in the fall, you can take romantic walks around the filming locations of this love story.

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The film begins with a general shot of a man drowning in the orange-yellow-red foliage of Central Park. This park in New York has been a national landmark since 1963. The park contains several artificial lakes and reservoirs, two ice rinks, as well as a zoo, a garden, a wildlife sanctuary, an amphitheater, a theater, and jogging tracks. Central Park has everything to spend at least half a day there, enjoying the landscapes and views, just like the heroes of "Autumn in New York". This is the most visited park in the United States, and its landscapes can be seen in many films. Almost all guidebooks recommend visiting Central Park in the fall, when it is especially beautiful. If you've watched Autumn in New York, you don't need any additional arguments.

At the very beginning of the film, a pretty BowBridge, located in the same Central Park, appears in the frame. It is here that the ladies' man Will, the hero of Richard Gere, abandons another girlfriend and notices Charlotte, the heroine of Winona Ryder, sailing under the bridge in a boat. At this point, the film will end, thus looping the action, only Will will now be with his grandson and daughter, whom he found, having lost the only love of his life - Charlotte.

There are not many general plans of New York in the film, but, of course, it was not without enchanting views of the Big Apple from the side of New York Harbor. Liberty Island is located in New York Bay, where one of the most famous statues in the United States is located - the Statue of Liberty, installed on the island in 1886. You won't see her in the film, but no one will forbid you to go to her as part of an excursion group.

Now the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the main symbols of New York.

One cannot ignore the gorgeous panoramas of the suspension bridges that stretch over the strait. There are seven of them in New York. The Brooklyn Bridge shone most vividly in the film. The bridge is 1825 meters long and 84 meters high. It is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. It crosses the East River and connects Brooklyn and Manhattan. This bridge was built for thirteen long years, and the construction was accompanied by several deaths, which marked the beginning of all the legends and mystical stories associated with this bridge. Now the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the main symbols of New York.

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The fall holiday Halloween in the film is logically replaced by Christmas. Following the heroes of the film, you can go to Rockefeller Center. This is one of the main attractions of the city in the heart of Manhattan. Everyone who happens to be in New York strives to get to this “city within a city”. On nine hectares, a complex of 19 buildings is located, in which, in addition to offices and shops, there are television studios, restaurants and an excellent observation deck from where you can admire the Empire State Building and Central Park. Also, like Charlotte, in a wonderful romantic setting, you can ride the large ice rink that operates in Rockefeller Center from October to April. And it is also where New York's most famous Christmas tree is decorated.

This is a very prestigious and expensive housing, so one can only envy the success of the movie Will.

And finally, you can look at the same house where Will's apartment was located. The building where this apartment is located on the twenty-fourth floor is quite remarkable. To find out the address, you just need to take a closer look at the movie where it appears several times - 88 Greenwinch. This skyscraper is 130.5 meters high and 37 stories high. The building was built in 1929 and was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 2002, two years after filming. This is a very prestigious and expensive housing, so one can only envy the success of the cinematic Will.

It is always pleasant to walk around the city and learn places from your favorite movie, remember pleasant moments of your own life, or write a new script and “play” scenes, adding new shots to your life. The only thing that you will not see in modern New York and that can be seen in the film is the same twin towers of the WTC. Alas.

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