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A bunch of CSI: Special Victims Unit were shot near my house. I'm in NJ but my town has to pretend it's Staten Island because they're New York cops on the show, not NJ cops. One episode used a house about four doors down, and one episode used a house one block over and a half a block down. They also used my DD's school bus stop (outside a doctor's office, with a red awning, it doesn't look like a bus stop) to play a children's school bus stop in an episode.
A lot of the Woody Allen movie Broadway Danny Rose was filmed in the apartment building where we used to live, both interiors and exteriors, but that was just before we lived there. Mia Farrow's character lives in an apartment just like ours (in fact it could have been ours). At one point she goes outside and crosses the street, carrying a tray of lasagne to a gypsy lady. The tray of lasagne was cooked by my friend Betty's mother--her parents owned an Italian deli about a block away.
My town was also very big in the silent-film era. In fact the word "cliffhanger" comes from a Perils of Pauline serial that was shot on the Palisades here--it comes from poor Pauline hanging off a cliff at the end of an episode.
A lot of the Woody Allen movie Broadway Danny Rose was filmed in the apartment building where we used to live, both interiors and exteriors, but that was just before we lived there. Mia Farrow's character lives in an apartment just like ours (in fact it could have been ours). At one point she goes outside and crosses the street, carrying a tray of lasagne to a gypsy lady. The tray of lasagne was cooked by my friend Betty's mother--her parents owned an Italian deli about a block away.
My town was also very big in the silent-film era. In fact the word "cliffhanger" comes from a Perils of Pauline serial that was shot on the Palisades here--it comes from poor Pauline hanging off a cliff at the end of an episode.
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