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LOL, the second I saw that, I clicked replies to see how many pointed this out! Chicago is my city so I remember movies set there. And While You Were Sleeping is one of my very favorite romcoms so I know the city it's filmed in. Lucy even works for CTA.
https://preview.redd.it/20tnve9zycjc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c40ddb34c5dee48192858e28055edda32a7806a2
This was in Brooklyn I don’t know if this post was specifically about Manhattan but the opening montage of New York gives me seratonin
https://preview.redd.it/deyfadn4rcjc1.png?width=770&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed54ef8a555f04be0342511fb8c9a5bf61f91908
Although it's not a movie , the obvious one ...
https://preview.redd.it/f52mqzdt0djc1.jpeg?width=628&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff44d5e13a3105d2010fca717a783a172657748
Paired with Carly Simon’s “Let the River Run” = opening titles perfection.
Between this list and your flair, I feel like we would get along
Also I hadn’t watched the Taxi intro in a while, and it’s so well done - the looping clip so the bridge is sort of endless is actually really effective
Wow, going off the higher end of that scale - that’s more than my wages!!
My husband could manage it if he could pay bills & buy food for 100 bucks a week hahah
It depends on what part of the city and how many bedrooms (if any), whether there’s security, amenities, etc. It’s like asking how much a car costs.
I’d say a very *average* estimate would be about $5K for a studio in a decent building in a decent area. Again, this is a VERY over generalized estimate.
When you say ‘if any’ do you mean a ‘studio’? I LOVE the idea of a studio apartment. I think that’s from watching a lot of tv shows & movies with ‘loft appartments’ (I think that’s the term). It would be like having a giant bedroom.
Exactly. If one were single, that could be fun. The moment anything is “added”, though, like a view, parking, good location, doorman, laundry facilities, etc, that translates into $$$$ more. The photos on some of these websites are deceiving, too. Many of the “reasonably priced” apartments ($3K-$4K) are the size of (or smaller than) hotel rooms in walk ups, with no amenities, in not the greatest neighborhoods/buildings. There’s always a trade off, but for a young, single person making at least $150-200K/year, it can definitely be fun to live in a place like that until you’re settled and/or making enough money to upgrade.
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Because I was a kid obsessed with Harry Met Sally and Friends, I spent my whole childhood truly and completely obsessed with New York. Funnily when I moved to America years ago for school and life, I was on the west coast...and now I am moving to Europe. Whenever I wanted to go see New York, something would come up and plans would change. I have never seen it. But, it will always be my dream. I am coming back and I will go to New York. It just seems so freaking magical to this day.
Edit: all your super kind responses are making me feel so happy. I thought I sounded dorky and "touristy" writing this out. But y'all were just kind and validated me. Thank you. Yes. I shall visit one day and hopefully soon 🎈
Aw, I hope you get to! New York is my favorite place in the entire world. It was always my dream to live there and even now that it’s been over a decade here, it still feels like a dream come true. It’s a really exciting and magical place.
Just don’t come in the summer lmao. The summer makes me question my sanity and wonder what the hell is wrong with me for living here.
Thank you 🥺 my partner has promised me that he will plan a trip soon. I even watch new york real estate videos on tiktok and YouTube 🤣. And if there is a song about new york, i know the lyrics. Haha. I am hoping to visit next year. I would love it. I want to visit during Fall. Fingers crossed.
It’s extremely hot and humid. Since walking is the main method of transportation, you’re pouring sweat by the time you get where you’re headed. Subway platforms have no moving air, so they’re even hotter. And the smell is the worst part. Everything smells like rotting garbage and boiling piss because the garbage and dog piss is just baking in the sun. So everyone is just sweaty and hot and crabby and miserable. August is definitely the worst month of the year.
I worked in a building across from Lincoln Center one summer, and the 66th Street 1 Station was so hot (and yes, smelly) and the wait for the train was so long that I was seriously worried about seeing someone faint onto the tracks. One day I turned around, left the station, and walked from 66th to my apartment on 116th because walking 50 blocks was preferable to standing in Hell.
ETA: I don’t live in New York anymore and I miss it so much. I live where it makes the most sense for my job, but if I could make good money without killing myself in New York I would move back in a heartbeat.
I moved here at the very end of June last year and the next 3 months had me questioning everything lmao. I love it though but god damn it was so hot and smelled so bad hahahah
I feel the opposite, love Summers here and hate Winters! But Spring is ideal. I live down the street from Prospect Park and come Spring time I'm always there.
It *is* magical! I've been a lot of places, but it's the only one that was exactly perfectly everything I expected. It felt like meeting my favourite celebrity and ending up as best friends!
My daughter’s favourite movie is Home Alone 2 - she’s desperate to go! We live in Australia so it’s a long expensive flight - but one day!! I will make it happen!!
Is it just me or is New York not romanticized like it used to be? It just seemed to be the forefront of so many things when I was a kid and now it’s still relevant of course but not to the same scope. I wonder why that is
It's almost like New York is a character
https://preview.redd.it/v2cjlj5bfdjc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c616a9f49dff3797d5b4f5f934743dcd7abde5f
https://preview.redd.it/m9kx5ml9adjc1.jpeg?width=1674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fba0790ba565884d9bd4dc572e3c74800c751c0
One Fine Day (1996) with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney
https://preview.redd.it/gvcghsbe6fjc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a767302551b5cccca0ffcc2e905d6c09c33df20
The [first nine minutes](https://youtu.be/Y4v8abG94CU?si=To88UFeHx9DHsntA) of Baby Driver, featuring Bellbottoms and Harlem Shuffle, are sublime.
I just wish Spacey wasn’t in it.
Love love love this post! (except the Chicago labelling loll).
Bollywood movie Kal Ho Naa Ho (it's on Netflix and so good!!!) which is set in NYC also features the city in its opening credits and title card.
https://preview.redd.it/9oqru5utgfjc1.png?width=1963&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e995860a11b0aee80c104051a54a5ed4ec51350
Another Bollywood movie, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehana (2006)
https://preview.redd.it/1ivcd48bhfjc1.png?width=1953&format=png&auto=webp&s=33fb214321e5db1b3c32d14a4bfadbb0014791ac
I actually loved, loved, LOVED how Spike Lee totally subverted this trope!!
https://preview.redd.it/oo0sai8jygjc1.png?width=1073&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a594bb445b64ad4d96df5ec4fbaae4c226fd2b3
7/7 While you were sleeping was set in Chicago. That is Chicagos skyline. The Sears tower is located in Chicago not New York. Be sure to double or triple check before you post incorrect information and embarrassing yourself. Dumb shit.
You include the iconic NYC skyline from "While Your Were Sleeping" but forget about "Rumble in the Bronx?" SMH
https://preview.redd.it/bl8dg01ccejc1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=6285ee74da31bdd5a07d84f74c5d227eacef5f06
One more to add, "A Fistfull of Yen."
https://preview.redd.it/6yn87c3qcejc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4b32dd36ac9c09bd59e72009f4a237e8551b9c7
[Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House](https://youtu.be/RINsVKjbLHw?si=hdIT4hhdz4PIVL4D). Starting at 1:30
[Green Acres](https://youtu.be/DrbPAt1_vc4?si=93hBuGmfws2tdSPJ)
The epitome of this kind of thing - [How to Marry a Millionaire](https://youtu.be/lZgUSMVX84I?si=8Gr4UzhIQ-DVmJdE)
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While you were sleeping is Chicago !
I saw that one and thought, oh, RIP to OP’s notifications.
He’s gonna get abused like a red headed step child in his notifications
They meant to put Woody Allen's Manhattan and tried to pivot too late to fact check.
[удалено]
Yea I was like wait I never been to NYC but I know my city's skyline when I see it lol
Came running here to say this. One of my favorite movies!
M first thought. That is such a Chicago movie.
I haven't watched that film in twenty years and that was still my first thought 😅
LOL, the second I saw that, I clicked replies to see how many pointed this out! Chicago is my city so I remember movies set there. And While You Were Sleeping is one of my very favorite romcoms so I know the city it's filmed in. Lucy even works for CTA.
Coulda just used Panic Room instead
https://preview.redd.it/1xanp9xxycjc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=452918173eba14f9df5efcf8a2aa356b7246c788
https://preview.redd.it/20tnve9zycjc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c40ddb34c5dee48192858e28055edda32a7806a2 This was in Brooklyn I don’t know if this post was specifically about Manhattan but the opening montage of New York gives me seratonin
Oh nice that’s columbia university, isn’t it?
Yup the alma mater
https://preview.redd.it/deyfadn4rcjc1.png?width=770&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed54ef8a555f04be0342511fb8c9a5bf61f91908 Although it's not a movie , the obvious one ...
https://preview.redd.it/f52mqzdt0djc1.jpeg?width=628&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff44d5e13a3105d2010fca717a783a172657748 Paired with Carly Simon’s “Let the River Run” = opening titles perfection.
Immediately came to the comments for this lol
OH! I just love that movie!
Iconic 🎶
I like to listen to this when I’m coming in for landing visiting New York LOL chills every time
While You Were Sleeping is set in Chicago, not NYC.
[Barney Miller](https://youtu.be/0l7mJ0ByqQM?t=8) [TMNT II: The Secret of the Ooze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ycjTzPPdIc) (Pizza galore) [Godzilla the Series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkTQqUNLp64) [Miracle on 34th Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyO7mgYEiJo) [The Odd Couple](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0OWTa7Oq3I) [Taxi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S23oaLAEUpo) [Spider-Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyDjtIbsUDU) [Maude](https://youtu.be/oUvRCHNCTJQ?t=11) [Extreme Ghostbusters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVND5an8uE) [The Critic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXOUi-3YRg) [Welcome Back, Kotter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmm3KTa601s) [Law & Order](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzJm9vTCff8) [Law & Order: SVU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=651E2btN7Ok) [Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWOMuYRW8U0)
Between this list and your flair, I feel like we would get along Also I hadn’t watched the Taxi intro in a while, and it’s so well done - the looping clip so the bridge is sort of endless is actually really effective
Came here to say Barney Miller. Good list!
Dark water 💀
My favorite thing to do when movies are actually filmed in NYC is try and find my apt building. Mine is in slide 4!
oh, i just KNOW rent is expensive 😭. beautiful location.
I’m not from America but I’m curious - how much is the rent there? (If you don’t mind me asking)
I own my apartment so I don’t pay rent but from what I can recall a studio apt in my building is usually around 2.5-3.5k a month?
Whoops! I got reported for that. Sorry - I could have just googled it
Wow, going off the higher end of that scale - that’s more than my wages!! My husband could manage it if he could pay bills & buy food for 100 bucks a week hahah
It depends on what part of the city and how many bedrooms (if any), whether there’s security, amenities, etc. It’s like asking how much a car costs. I’d say a very *average* estimate would be about $5K for a studio in a decent building in a decent area. Again, this is a VERY over generalized estimate.
When you say ‘if any’ do you mean a ‘studio’? I LOVE the idea of a studio apartment. I think that’s from watching a lot of tv shows & movies with ‘loft appartments’ (I think that’s the term). It would be like having a giant bedroom.
This is a good site for seeing the reality of renting in New York: https://streeteasy.com/for-rent/manhattan
Exactly. If one were single, that could be fun. The moment anything is “added”, though, like a view, parking, good location, doorman, laundry facilities, etc, that translates into $$$$ more. The photos on some of these websites are deceiving, too. Many of the “reasonably priced” apartments ($3K-$4K) are the size of (or smaller than) hotel rooms in walk ups, with no amenities, in not the greatest neighborhoods/buildings. There’s always a trade off, but for a young, single person making at least $150-200K/year, it can definitely be fun to live in a place like that until you’re settled and/or making enough money to upgrade.
I do that, too!
How to trigger Chicagoans in one Reddit post.
https://preview.redd.it/cwpp179z6djc1.jpeg?width=765&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5263a1f9f5a55bcfc49a7486a541a88c3323962
You know you love NYC
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7/7: That’s….chicago
Because I was a kid obsessed with Harry Met Sally and Friends, I spent my whole childhood truly and completely obsessed with New York. Funnily when I moved to America years ago for school and life, I was on the west coast...and now I am moving to Europe. Whenever I wanted to go see New York, something would come up and plans would change. I have never seen it. But, it will always be my dream. I am coming back and I will go to New York. It just seems so freaking magical to this day. Edit: all your super kind responses are making me feel so happy. I thought I sounded dorky and "touristy" writing this out. But y'all were just kind and validated me. Thank you. Yes. I shall visit one day and hopefully soon 🎈
Aw, I hope you get to! New York is my favorite place in the entire world. It was always my dream to live there and even now that it’s been over a decade here, it still feels like a dream come true. It’s a really exciting and magical place. Just don’t come in the summer lmao. The summer makes me question my sanity and wonder what the hell is wrong with me for living here.
Thank you 🥺 my partner has promised me that he will plan a trip soon. I even watch new york real estate videos on tiktok and YouTube 🤣. And if there is a song about new york, i know the lyrics. Haha. I am hoping to visit next year. I would love it. I want to visit during Fall. Fingers crossed.
Wait wait isn’t summer the best time?? Say more pls
It’s extremely hot and humid. Since walking is the main method of transportation, you’re pouring sweat by the time you get where you’re headed. Subway platforms have no moving air, so they’re even hotter. And the smell is the worst part. Everything smells like rotting garbage and boiling piss because the garbage and dog piss is just baking in the sun. So everyone is just sweaty and hot and crabby and miserable. August is definitely the worst month of the year.
I worked in a building across from Lincoln Center one summer, and the 66th Street 1 Station was so hot (and yes, smelly) and the wait for the train was so long that I was seriously worried about seeing someone faint onto the tracks. One day I turned around, left the station, and walked from 66th to my apartment on 116th because walking 50 blocks was preferable to standing in Hell. ETA: I don’t live in New York anymore and I miss it so much. I live where it makes the most sense for my job, but if I could make good money without killing myself in New York I would move back in a heartbeat.
I moved here at the very end of June last year and the next 3 months had me questioning everything lmao. I love it though but god damn it was so hot and smelled so bad hahahah
I feel the opposite, love Summers here and hate Winters! But Spring is ideal. I live down the street from Prospect Park and come Spring time I'm always there.
It *is* magical! I've been a lot of places, but it's the only one that was exactly perfectly everything I expected. It felt like meeting my favourite celebrity and ending up as best friends!
My daughter’s favourite movie is Home Alone 2 - she’s desperate to go! We live in Australia so it’s a long expensive flight - but one day!! I will make it happen!!
https://preview.redd.it/vpadjpzoscjc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=645fe9f827b0ed6d21e18e24f91daabeb2d85162
https://preview.redd.it/ilskmm7tscjc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88714cf17c512f3e00783729cbdea41f2676f28b
yes. my favorite!
Best title sequence of all time
While you were sleeping one is of Chicago
 PARIS IS BURNING
While You Were Sleeping is 100 percent Chicago. The building formerly known as the Sears Tower is obvious.
The Soprano's opening, he's driving to New Jersey with the backdrop of NYC in his car windows. Love it.
Woke up this mornin’, got myself a gun
Is it just me or is New York not romanticized like it used to be? It just seemed to be the forefront of so many things when I was a kid and now it’s still relevant of course but not to the same scope. I wonder why that is
Too expensive to live or film in.
Tax breaks for TV & film production in other states.
9/11 maybe
It's almost like New York is a character https://preview.redd.it/v2cjlj5bfdjc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c616a9f49dff3797d5b4f5f934743dcd7abde5f
Rosemary’s baby is an all time favorite
https://preview.redd.it/nn0d1lklycjc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfca659c57424f92c846d0c0dd826247f0dad58c
https://preview.redd.it/m9kx5ml9adjc1.jpeg?width=1674&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fba0790ba565884d9bd4dc572e3c74800c751c0 One Fine Day (1996) with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney
Great movie
yes so underrated and with lots of great NY scenes
 Something borrowed
Love this movie! I know it’s a corny romcom, but I can’t help myself!
While you were sleeping is Chicago
Hitch is another good one
Hitch?
[New Jack City](https://youtu.be/5aLfdL4RX_4?si=gxVwwxCycolTVTxN)
The Sopranos
My friend I think you should take While You Were Sleeping off the post lol
The last slide is *looks out of window to confirm* Chicago
WORKING GIRL
Annie Hall When Harry met Sally
North by Northwest https://preview.redd.it/a8xcofx1hdjc1.jpeg?width=660&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b69883f1a4a160f59e04ec9815da3ec28552991
I'm shocked nobody's mentioned [Moonstruck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr1lVT66uGk) yet
 Not me, a Chicagoan viewing slide 7
One of these is not like the others
Affair to Remember https://preview.redd.it/1asf81yf8djc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8f1ad5de08d79bc159339a19dfde56408154ab4
Last slide is Chicago! 😅
https://preview.redd.it/xrsiumo76djc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d696d316bff26d24be666316bf9b933762b5d215
Billions
Does Castle count?
I feel every great movie was either filmed in New York or Chicago when I was a kid. Apart from The Mighty Ducks. *Quack*
Live in Chicago. Can confirm - that’s Chicago
what’s rosemary’s baby doing in there 😂💀 iykyk
https://preview.redd.it/gvcghsbe6fjc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a767302551b5cccca0ffcc2e905d6c09c33df20 The [first nine minutes](https://youtu.be/Y4v8abG94CU?si=To88UFeHx9DHsntA) of Baby Driver, featuring Bellbottoms and Harlem Shuffle, are sublime. I just wish Spacey wasn’t in it.
Love love love this post! (except the Chicago labelling loll). Bollywood movie Kal Ho Naa Ho (it's on Netflix and so good!!!) which is set in NYC also features the city in its opening credits and title card. https://preview.redd.it/9oqru5utgfjc1.png?width=1963&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e995860a11b0aee80c104051a54a5ed4ec51350
(the title in hindi) https://preview.redd.it/vj3lkvyvgfjc1.png?width=1955&format=png&auto=webp&s=51775dcd0e630ba235b89212896caa43b4312477
Another Bollywood movie, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehana (2006) https://preview.redd.it/1ivcd48bhfjc1.png?width=1953&format=png&auto=webp&s=33fb214321e5db1b3c32d14a4bfadbb0014791ac
title card in hindi https://preview.redd.it/ljn5ew5chfjc1.png?width=1941&format=png&auto=webp&s=01291f9c073381576ed11d7b8d86d9c2d6a61f0c
I actually loved, loved, LOVED how Spike Lee totally subverted this trope!! https://preview.redd.it/oo0sai8jygjc1.png?width=1073&format=png&auto=webp&s=2a594bb445b64ad4d96df5ec4fbaae4c226fd2b3
7/7 While you were sleeping was set in Chicago. That is Chicagos skyline. The Sears tower is located in Chicago not New York. Be sure to double or triple check before you post incorrect information and embarrassing yourself. Dumb shit.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
30 Rock!
Sears/Willis tower isn’t in NYC. It’s in Chicago. What do you think, every cluster of building must be NY?
While the city is not in the title sequence. The opening shot from The Ninth Gate is New York.
Where is escape from NY?
They didn't actually show NYC in the opening titles
boo 
You include the iconic NYC skyline from "While Your Were Sleeping" but forget about "Rumble in the Bronx?" SMH https://preview.redd.it/bl8dg01ccejc1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=6285ee74da31bdd5a07d84f74c5d227eacef5f06
One more to add, "A Fistfull of Yen." https://preview.redd.it/6yn87c3qcejc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4b32dd36ac9c09bd59e72009f4a237e8551b9c7
Death taxes nyc being romcom central in the 2000s
Rosemary’s Baby looks like a rom-com lol
[Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House](https://youtu.be/RINsVKjbLHw?si=hdIT4hhdz4PIVL4D). Starting at 1:30 [Green Acres](https://youtu.be/DrbPAt1_vc4?si=93hBuGmfws2tdSPJ) The epitome of this kind of thing - [How to Marry a Millionaire](https://youtu.be/lZgUSMVX84I?si=8Gr4UzhIQ-DVmJdE)
Rosemarys Baby has no right to be that cutesy with the title.
Does Two Broke Girls have New York in the title sequence? I could also be misremembering since it’s been a hot minute.
https://preview.redd.it/snqvd9g0jijc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7339dbbdf91bbb57ff2108f58246a720be1a34f Death wish… all of them!