Saturday, October 13, 2007

American Gangster

One night in October of last year - it was October 24th to be exact - I was driving the night shift and took a break at around 9 pm to get a Starbucks tall black coffee at their place on 6th Avenue and 24th Street. What I found when I got there was a movie set taking up the whole block on 24th between 5th and 6th.

The movie is called American Gangster and it's finally being released this week. All I know about it is that it stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe and it's set in 1969. I hung around for awhile (didn't see any stars), took these shots, and I've been waiting a whole year to post them because I thought it would be cool to show them just when the movie came out. So if you go to see this movie and you see this scene, remember - you saw it here first!

5 comments:

  1. Since the picture shows the nightclub as "Small's", I'm guessing it's supposed to be the legendary Small's Paradise, one of Harlem's greatest clubs for decades at 135th and Seventh. I believe by the late '60s it was owned by baskeball legend Wilt Chamberlain. It is now the Thurgood Marshall Academy, with--of all things--an IHOP at street level.

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  2. Thanks for that, rexlic. Very interesting!

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  3. really cool, I wonder why they didn't shoot this in Harlem? The second shot with the figure and the Rolls Royce is my favorite

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