Every October, I try to do posts in honor of Halloween, one of the best holidays to celebrate in New York. I hope you enjoyed this year’s crop – below, some of my favorites from past years. And hey, picked out a costume yet? Halloween is less than a week away! See you at the parade…
Can you dig it?
I noticed the side of this house while scouting a neighborhood in Queens and was quite impressed. I see shingles, stone, concrete, brick, aluminum-siding, and two types of what I think is asphalt siding. Add some stucco and a few clapboards, and I think we have a Guinness record contender here. -SCOUT
After way too long, I’m finally getting ready to do a new installment of New York, You’ve Changed, in which I compare shooting locations in an older NY movie to the NYC of today (Ghostbusters, Taxi Driver, Rosemary’s Baby). This is one of my favorite features for the site, but unfortunately, researching the locations, taking…
The other day, I happened to be rewatching John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness. For whatever reason, I found myself sitting through the closing credits…and just before it ended, this came up: If you’ve ever worked on a movie from optimistic beginnings to the bitter end, I think you’d agree that this should be…
A few weeks ago, I was scouting a long defunct hospital when I noticed a whiteboard that still had doctors’ names written on it. It’s pretty common to find interesting bits and pieces like this in old hospitals, left over from when they were in operation. Then I looked at it a little closer –…
As many of you – but not all! – figured out, the pictures from my first trip to New York were actually taken at the NY, NY Casino in Las Vegas (apparently, the biggest give away was how clean the city looked). I wasn’t able to get out to Vegas to take the pictures myself,…
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Welp, there goes the next hour. Couple new gray hairs won’t hurt, eh?