The port cochere: truly finished?

I was out of town for a couple of weeks and when I got back they were putting the finishing touches on the port cochere. I've written numerous postings about the painstakingly SLOOOOW process of re-doing this entrance to the front of the building and--I hope, I hope--this will be the last one.
By all accounts it looks to be finished...and it looks really good. The curb height issue has been rectified and they've even filled the triangular planter with shade plants, mostly large hosts, that look fine.
Here are a few snaps. Whew!!

The boys in the neighborhood

I've written several times about how my neighborhood has figured prominently in some famous Hollywood films.
Ever since I saw the film version of Mart Crowley's stage hit "The Boys in the Band" I've wondered about the location of the apartment where most of the movie's action takes place. It's indicated that it's on the Upper East Side and the exterior shots of the apartment building always looked very familiar. A lot of the early scenes take place on location in a roof terrace on top of a brownstone. The apartment used was owned by Broadway star Tammy Grimes who was friendly with people in the production. With some diligent internet sleuthing I discovered that the apartment in question is very near my building. It's on East 61st Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.

Here's a still of the movie and a closeup:





And here are some shots I took of the street today. Look at the building across the street from the scene.You can see the Baptist church that's still there and it's brick detailing on the left of the movie frame, there's no mistaking the shapes of the windows.



You can also see that the brownstones across the street haven't changed much, except for the colors!



Here's a shot of the apartment building from street level, you can still see the various aluminum vents off the side.





Compare them to the movie still:



In the movie the apartment belongs to the main character Michael. He's shown arriving and going through the street level front door. Here's a still of that scene:



This is NOT the building on East 61st Street. For this scene they used a different location, an exterior on East 65th street between 3rd Avenue and Lexington.
Here's how that building looks today, a lot has changed in almost 50 years. There's enough detailing here, especially around the windows, to see that it's the same location.



Coincidentally that East 61st Street block is also the street where the famous (and doomed) Hollywood star Montgomery Clift lived. You can read about that building here.