The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations : Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in Friends ) and Kirsten Dunst (in Spider-Man ) waitressed . . . Men in Black ’s Manhattan headquarters . . . The Godfather mansion on Staten Island…the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in As Good as It Gets . . . Ghostbusters ’ Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow’s A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of Friends . . . Will & Grace ’s Upper West Side building . . . The All in the Family block in Queens . . . The Sopranos ’ New Jersey mansion (and the real Bada Bing club) . . . Seinfeld’s favorite diner . . . Sex and the City’s sexiest haunts . . . and many more . . . Stars’ childhood homes : Lena Horne’s Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra’s Hoboken row house . . . Barbra Streisand’s Flatbush housing project . . . J.Lo’s Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart’s Upper West Side tenement . . . the Marx Brothers’ Upper East Side brownstone . . . Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen’s greatest legends : Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . . Plus: Superstar cemeteries . . . major film and TV studios . . . historic movie palaces and Broadway theaters . . . star-studded restaurants and legendary hotels . . . For movie-loving New Yorkers, travelers and armchair film buffs, New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide is the ultimate insider’s guide to the Big Apple’s reel attractions. The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including: Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe's infamous "Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in "When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in "Friends) and Kirsten Dunst (in "Spider-Man) waitressed . . . "Men in Black's Manhattan headquarters . . . "The Godfather mansion on Staten Island...the Greenwich Village apartment where Jack Nicholson terrorized Greg Kinnear in "As Good as It Gets . . . "Ghostbusters' Tribeca firehouse . . . Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow's "A Perfect Murder palazzo . . . the landmark West Side building that housed Tom Cruise in "Vanilla Sky and Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby . . . the Greenwich Village apartment of "Friends . . . "Will & Grace's Upper West Side building . . . The "All in the Family block in Queens . . . "The Sopranos' New Jersey mansion (and the real Bada Bing club) . . . Seinfeld's favorite diner . . . "Sex and the City's sexiest haunts . . . and many more . . ." Stars' childhood homes: Lena Horne's Bedford-Stuyvesant townhouse . . . Frank Sinatra's Hoboken row house . . . Barbra Streisand's Flatbush housing project . . . J.Lo's Bronx block . . . Humphrey Bogart's Upper West Side tenement . . . the Marx Brothers' Upper East Side brownstone . . . Apartments and townhouses of the silver screen's greatest legends: Joan Crawford . . . Marlene Dietrich . . . James Dean . . . Katharine Hepburn . . . Montgomery Clift . . . Rita Hayworth . . . Rock Hudson . . . and . . . Plus: Superstar cemeteries . . . major film and TV studios . . . historic movie palaces and Broadway theaters . .. star-studded restaurants and legendary hotels . . . For movie-loving New Yorkers, travelers and armchair film buffs, "New York: The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to the Big Apple's reel attractions. Richard Alleman , a longtime contributing editor at  Travel + Leisure  magazine, is a former travel editor of  Vogue , where he is still a frequent contributor on travel and entertainment. Currently living in New York City, he has carried on a love affair with Los Angeles, where he lived for several years as an actor and writer. 1 New Jersey: In the Beginning For all intents and purposes, the motion picture as we have come to know it was born in the late 1880s some sixteen miles due west of the island of Manhattan at the Edison laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey. Recognizing that fact, we begin our movie lover's odyssey there. It wasn't just the Edison Company, however, that made New Jersey a powerful force in the early motion picture industry, because, from the very beginning, the state was home to scores of other ?lm companies. These included long-forgotten studios with names like Centaur, Nestor, Champion, Eclair, Victor, Solax, and World—as well as many that are still familiar, like Fox, Metro, Selznick, Goldwyn, and Universal. All took advantage of New Jersey's then wide-open spaces an