What about New York's longstanding self-image as a landscape of mean streets filled with mean people?
New York used to accommodate these projects, but, as the city's mean streets filled with Starbucks, baby carriages, and bankers, producers began heading north on 95.
And so, on a recent crisp morning, Professor Chandler climbed into his compact Chevy Aveo ("I couldn't park in the spots I do with anything else," he said) and prepared to put his claim to the test along the mean streets, starting with his home turf.
That too found its way into the fiction, with its mean streets and restless people with murky pasts.
Mean Streets, 1973 Struggles with loan sharks, loyalty and religious guilt are all explored in this Martin Scorsese drama, set on the "mean streets" of Little Italy.
In particular, he got to know Scorsese well ("Marty mailed me screenplays titled 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem' and 'Season of the Witch,' which was later to become 'Mean Streets'") along with Kael ("One night during the New York Film Festival he and I and Pauline Kael ended up in my hotel room, drinking and talking, and his passion was equaled by hers").
You made eight films with Martin Scorsese, starting with Mean Streets in 1973, but you haven't worked together since Casino in 1995.
London is a strange multiverse of extreme wealth in enclaves cheek-by-jowl with mean streets and tat; a thing of monotone heft intercut with 'hidden' pocket gardens and squares, and threaded through by the ebb and flow of the serpentine river.
Carl Davies, in charge of the music, spoke of his childhood on "the mean streets of Brooklyn", obsessed with Gilbert and Sullivan.
