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On V-J Day in 1945, a massive celebration in a New York City nightclub is underway, music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.While there, selfish and smooth-talking saxophone player Jimmy Doyle (De Niro) meets small-time USO singer Francine Evans (Minnelli), who, although lonely, still wants nothing to do with Jimmy, who keeps pestering her for her phone number.
New York City subways were covered with graffiti until the concerted cleanup initiatives and broken windows enforcement of the 1980s. [1] Ed Koch won the 1977 New York City mayoral election at one of the lowest points in the city's history. NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell is a 2007 documentary directed by Henry Corra that originally aired on VH1 ...
New York City portal; 1970s portal; This category is for New York City in the year 1977. 1972; 1973; 1974; ... 1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards; T. 31st Tony ...
President Carter launched a high-stakes peace tour in the final days of 1977 that would bring him into the new year, but an interpreter's slip-up at the very first stop overshadowed his diplomatic ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
Looking at NY, NY, I was amazed to see that virtually every pictorial device invented by the old masters of non-representational art and reproduced ad nauseam by the academicians and mannerists of the school, for the last forty years or more, makes its appearance, alive, glowing, intensely significant, in the sequences of Mr. Thompson's film.
A 1973 photo of New York City skyscrapers in smog. From November 23 to 26, 1966, New York City was covered by a major smog episode, filling the city's air with damaging levels of several toxic pollutants. The smog was caused by a combination of factors, including the use of coal-burning power plants, the heavy traffic on the city's roads, and ...
The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977. [3] [4] The only unaffected neighborhoods in the city were in southern Queens (including neighborhoods of the Rockaways), which were part of the Long Island Lighting Company system, as well as the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, and a few other large apartment and ...