The people in your neighborhood

I stopped into my local grocery store that's only one block from my apartment today, a very nice Morton Williams. Actually, when I'm in the city I find myself going there practically everyday. Anyway, today I was in the produce section I noticed an extremely tall person out of the corner of my eye dressed completely (and stylishly) in white. It was a head-to-toe vision of Summer Coolness. I was going about my shopping and saw the person again two aisles over and it turned out to be none other than the famous Broadway dancer/director/choreographer (and fellow Texan!) Tommy Tune. I must say he lives up to his reputation for being one tall drink of water. He was in white Crocs and he towered over me. I was able to snap this pic.




After I got home I did a little Googling and found out he lives in a penthouse apartment on East 52nd Street just off Beekman Place, just five block from me. I love seeing famous people in the 'hood doing ordinary things. Now if I can just spot Sigourney Weaver...

The port cochere: shambles again

So they have now started the re-demolition of the driveway in front of the revolving doors in the port cochere. As I detailed in my last post on this topic, the curb was too steep to access so they have broken it up in anticipation of pouring new concrete with a lower curb 'lip'. I was told this would take a week. Yeah, right. We'll see.





In a separate problem, the sidewalk in front of the building is getting re-done at a snail's pace. While the sidewalks on both side of the building have been fixed and the requisite concrete poured, the last remaining piece, the sidewalk on the corner is not done. Before the new concrete can be poured for this section, the traffic light on the corner must be repaired AS IT IS ON THE FRITZ. OY!

The broken street lamp on the corner

This is under the city's prevue as well as the sidewalk but who knows when this will happen. So...all that construction mess in front of the building will stay there until further notice.

This is a saga with no ending...

Hollywood on Sutton Place

Ever on the quest to spot Hollywood movies that have been shot or have taken place on Sutton Place, I was watching the old noir thriller "Sorry, Wrong Number" the other day and, lo and behold, I found out that the apartment of rich heiress Barbara Stanwyck in the film is on our favorite street.



She's bedridden throughout the whole movie on a hot summer night when she overhears a plot to murder her on a phone call party line.



There are a couple of angles where you see an open picture window...and through that window you see a bridge. This can only be the Queensboro bridge as it's the only bridge in view of Sutton Place.



Therefore, based on this, her apartment must be in 1 Sutton Place South, probably the swankiest building in the neighborhood. This would make sense given the story's plot.

1 Sutton Place South

I read somewhere once that if you can't live on Park Avenue then the next best thing is this address. That would put her bedroom on the Southern exposure of the building on a high floor (maybe the penthouse?) Here's a picture of the top of the building and the bridge in the distance.



Now, I'm sure this picture was made on a Hollywood soundstage and La Stanwyck came nowhere near Sutton Place and the view through the window is merely a filmed backdrop, but it does look like the production designers got it right.